Originally Posted by spazlabz

that is absolutely untrue. Middle America has what can be called conservative values but in the post you are replying to arock was specifically speaking about the primaries. Republican primaries in many areas have been taken over by self described 'Tea Party' activist. As such any republican running has to kiss their asses or they don't get delegates from that district. So what we see is candidates moving to the 'extreme right' in most of their primaries and then having to skip, jump and slide to the middle gradually to have a prayer in the general election. That is why the new Mitt came out in the debates, being an 'extremely conservative' candidate wont fly to the majority of Americans so he moved to the center... about as gracefully as a bull in a china shop.

The biggest problem I had with Mitt was that he was... really he was a truly moderate guy...not as bipartisan as he wanted the country to think he was but he certainly was not a tea party freak. He was so desperate to get the job he sold out any core beliefs he may have had at one time. I mean there is flexible and then there are noodles and Mitt Romney. Had he shown his convictions, stood firm on his values and truly expressed them he would have lost the primaries but if he could have done it immediately after the primaries then he might have won the general election.

primaries are the problem in this case and how could that be fixed? Open primaries that's how