Republicans can easily sabotage their own interests----part of the problem with coalition politics. Romney would have defeated Obama in 2008, I have no doubts. But evangelicals objected to his Mormon affiliation. Romney may not have been the 'perfect' candidate but look what we have ended up with!

Evangelicals are novices at US politics----since most of them were Democrats prior to 1980 anyway. They could actually ruin the 2016 election by not showing up as dependable voters. Hope not. In our state we got ruined in the governors race because 3rd party 'conservatives' did not vote for the R candidate. Result was huge disaster.