The entire country going bankrupt is a very small price to pay for not undergoing the indignity of voting for a candidate that isn't 100% up to your standards on every single issue.

Romney won the nomination, and while he was few people's first choice, he was essentially the compromise candidate for the Republicans. Some Republicans decided to take their ball and stay home, and thus Obama became the compromise Republican candidate.

Good game.

Keep in mind how much things have changed since Reagan's days. I'm not making excuses for people not taking time to understand actual arguments and concepts, but maybe they have actual evidence that voters tune out everything after the first couple of sentences, and the only way to get through to them is with very short sentences with easy words.

Maybe over the next four years, it will dawn on those "unsophisticated" voters that there was a big difference between the two. If energy prices continue to skyrocket, if employers cut back due the piling on of more regulation and mandates, if churches are required to do things that violate their faith, they will probably notice. And if they are somehow surprised, then "stupid" isn't too harsh of a term, because these items were all part of Obama's platform.

The fact that Obama's overt hostility to rural and suburban whites didn't get them out to vote is sad, and somehow I think that they will soon come to regret staying home, even though Romney wasn't their dreamboat candidate.

That is a great idea. But the party that EVERY SINGLE YEAR lets leftist MSM types "moderate" the presidential debates is unlikely to go for it.