I pay attention to a lot of the chat that came out of the Conservative meetings after the election, and there is a ground movement to try to make sure via the Party Rules, that another Mitt Romney does not happen next time.
The error in the Party is that it is so open to people getting into the race.
This allowed a liberal like Mitt to simply be the only guy left standing in a race that bhad way more interest from Conservatives that it had from Mitt supporters on the Left.
But due to the manner that the Conservatives split their votes amoung 8 different people at the start of this primary season, it left Mitt with the largest share of votes.....
and with no support among core conservatives, Mitt had to run the say style of election that doomed McCain and Bob Dole.
All 3 guys now have tried to not be strongly connected to the core Conservative part of the Party, and all 3 of them lost doing this.
The fact is that appealing to Conservatives is the only way to get elected as a republican....
You need a strong pro-Life person to lead the ticket....Strong church-goer....and with a great history of supporting Conservative issues.
In other words.....No More Mitt Romneys!