The failure of the Republican "modernizers."

After the 2012 defeat of Romney, the RNC commissioned a report on how to win Presidential elections. Basically, it called for the GOP to abandon its principles. It had been updated by a guy named Ford O'Connell. He wrote a book book entitled "Hail Mary: The 10-Step Playbook for Republican Recovery."

Here are some of his pointers: "Hug the Gays; embrace them and make them part of the political base. Reform the GOP primary process to make it a little more like the Lincoln Douglass debates and less like a deathmatch version of 'survivor.'
"Reach out to nontraditional and Leftist media. End the Reagan fetish. Come to terms with the fact that Ronald Reagan and the Reagan coalition are dead and not coming back."

Basically, the "modernizers" call for the GOP to become like the Democrats with their agenda. To be sure, this is nothing new. We called these guys "95 cent Republicans" "moderate Republicans" or "moderately Republican" people. They want to jettison Conservatives and conservatism itself. Jeb Bush, for example, wanted to win the nomination without the 'base.'

The "modernizers" are in a panic. Both Trump and Cruz campaign as Conservatives and they left everyone behind. So, the "modernizers" are saying that it is preferable for the GOP to lose this year if Trump or Cruz are the nominee. They believe that a win by a Conservative would doom the Party.

There is a difference between Trump and Cruz though. Trump is an instinctive Conservative. To some people he does not even appear Conservative. He merely knows what happened in the past and what worked. "Make America great again" means to return to the Conservative principles that guided our country and made it great.  Cruz can tell you what those principles are, how they came to be and what mechanisms assure good results. The modernizers failed again. Let's hope that they do not dictate candidate selection again.