No it is not what you have been saying.

It helps if you actually HAVE a coherent fiscally conservative economic policy, makes it a lot easier to communicate it.

I know, you know, and he knows... but he ain't going to it admit it.

No one is pining for Mike Huckabee.

If the GOP doesn't want to continue losing it has to drift back to the right.  Much of its staunchest supporters are socially right.  If the GOP decides to give then the finger, then it will be forever the loser party.

Huck had no chance nationally.  McCain would have had little chance nationally save for the open primaries, and lack of conservative competition.

No, thats what everyone assumes I've been saying because I dare question the consensus around here.

Go ahead, show me where I've said anything approaching "drop all that religious stuff."  Please, with bated breath I shall wait.

Not in those specific words, of course.  But you keep posting articles about how the GOP needs to abandon its conservative social positions.  From what I've read in similar articles for the past two decades that means give the Religious Right the finger and dropping the opposition to abortion.

If the GOP goes pro-choice it will cease to exist as a viable political party.

Then allow me to clarifiy:
My point has been, since day one, that the party's only platform left is social conservatism. Fiscal conservatism has been completely forgotten. If you'll look back in this very thread, you'll see me talking about the "Reagan Coalition." Thats what the party needs to strive for. If you'll look back in older threads, you'll see me bitching and moaning that Bush completely forgot to cut spending while President, but managed to continue to push the social issues. All of this is in every single thread that I've ever started. Just because I post an article critical of the social conservative side of the house doesn't mean I want to see them disappear.

The opposite is true. Republicans can't win without the social right. And the social right can't win without fiscal conservatives.

Yes, it will (or pro-weed or pro-gay marriage).  To the OP - you are early 20's correct?  How many Republican (or any) campaigns have you worked on (volunteer or paid)?

If you have been involved in many then you know the "religious right" that you and the other "libertarians" here so loathe provide the foot soldiers for the party.  When they stay home Republicans (on a national basis) do poorly.  

If that is your opinion, then I agree.

Besides the stock market meltdown, the main reason the Republicans lost is that they stopped acting like Republicans and tried to outspend the Democrats.

I agree completely.

+1 Someone needs to put the crack pipe down and give it the next two years until the 2010 elections to see how the congressional votes go before calling the 2012 election for someone that hasn't served day 1 yet.