Two Opposing Views of the Election

Two opposing views from Ann Coulter and John Hawkins on why Republican’s lost the election.  Ann Coulter, writing “Romney was not the problem” on Human Events seems to believe incumbency, too bold a contrast with Obama, and a long hard primary were the reasons Romney lost.  John Hawkins writing “4 Reasons The GOP Would Be Foolish To Dump Social Issues” on Townhall, claims the GOP should not abandon social issues.   

Hawkins makes good points, his best point being how will the GOP replace all the votes lost from abandoning Social issues? 

I have to agree with Hawkins, because it will be hard to replace the quantity of Christian votes lost by Republicans when and if they abandon social issues.  Liberal social policies and Conservative fiscal policies do not seem to have caught on for Libertarians, who have had 40 years to make that case.   

Ann Coulter seems to suggest that Ronald Reagan ran his 1980 campaign as a moderate, whose main themes included not cutting taxes too much.  I remember the 1980 campaign much differently.  I recall the campaign as one where Reagan presented a contrasting vision of a stronger, freer America who was going to unleash the American people to pursue their dreams.  I am pretty sure if Reagan’s major campaign theme was “not to cut taxes too much” as Ann seems to imply by one of Reagan’s debate responses, he would have lost to the “second-worst president in U.S. history” just like Mitt Romney lost to the “the worst President in U.S. history”, as Ann Coulter describes Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama respectively.

John Hawkins seems to have the correct view in my opinion.  Read both and see for yourself.