Republicans trying to decide why they lost so badly in 2012 have come up with the wrong answer.
Instead of examining their idiotic right-wing ideology that favors only the rich and punishes the middle-class, they've decided they're just not good at persuading voters to vote against their own interests.
The answer is simply that Democrats are better at marketing than Republicans.
http://www.redstate.com/...
The Jordan Playboy Ad - often cited as the one that introduced "sexy" marketing
Now there's no question 2012 Republicans failed Marketing 101.
Consider the Republican's inflexible and extreme position on abortion.
Rape? Doesn't matter.
Incest? Doesn't matter.
Doesn't even matter if bearing the child will kill the mother.
The hypocrites are trying to sell 1870 Victorian morality, though of course they don't practice what they preach. Which is one reason the Petraeus - Broadwell story is so fascinating.
But that's just the tip of the iceberg into which the SS Grand Old Party sailed at full steam in support of "pro-life."
By turning the Republican Party's platform into Evangelical and Roman Catholic dogma, and by attacking Planned Parenthood, they go far beyond attacking abortion to attacking contraception.
Putting the Republican Party at war with sex . . . .
And isn't Marketing 101 making your product sexy?