The analysis of the election is very simple.
1] Mitt Romney was a poor candidate, who could never settle on one policy without contradicting himself two seconds afterwards.
2] The frothing at the mouth brigade lost them the senate with ease.
3] But for the redistricting they would have had real problems in the House.
4] Republicans from top to bottom failed to realize that it was also that their policies that were rejected no matter how delicately they phrase them.
Until they get those 4 points sorted in their minds there is no point continuing their circular firing squad.
From my point of view they did very well to get the votes they did; because their policies actually suck, big time. The daily deluge from talk radio and the injection of vast amounts of money for advertising nearly managed to hide the truth.
Talk radio has isolated its listeners from even a grain of truth, rather than libertarian live at let live it is who can we hate next, what minority can we disdain. The only reason for the popularity of this that I can come with is; that their lives must be so awful that they have to make others lives even more miserable.
The Republican leaders lost the opportunity in 2009 to stand up to radicals within their mist by quietly watching the "birther" fiasco gain momentum and not speak out about the obvious racism contained therein.
The Republican leadership didn't quash the backlash against women's rights and even in the Republican controlled House they doubled down on trying to remove established rights.
Worse still in the Republican controlled state legislature the war on women got totally out of hand. Even they cannot say that this didn't represent the majority of their own party because not one of them had the courage to speak out against these laws.
The Republican leadership actively refused to govern responsibly, it was all about winning. Many in Republicans DC actively encouraged the hatred, they saw it as a winning formula. Now that they have found out that no matter how much money they throw away, it was not a winning strategy. They want to turn back the clock and that can't happen.
The base lead by their talk radio and Fox pundits want more blood in the water, some are screaming even now that the election was stolen. The walls of reality have come tumbling down within the base, they criticize their leaders for not speaking out about every popular conspiracy they can devise.
I'm more worried about why they did as well as they did, than them trying to hide the crazy.
Their major goal of their has always been to give as much of the nations wealth to the elite as they can get away with.
The major goal of talk radio and Fox Noise has been to stir up as much resentment as possible.
Wedding these two groups has been part of their success and they will not change the recipe anytime soon, no matter how much some of their more intelligent members beg them to.
Just a note the way the parties are viewed from this side of the pond.
Democratic party: Christian Democrat Union [Germany, Merkel], UMP [France, Chirac, Sarkozy], Conservative Party [UK, Cameron] in other words pretty conservative.
Republican Party: Nationalist right wing parties, FN [France, M.LePen], UKIP [UK, Farage], pretending not to be racist at all, but you know, let's get rid of the foreigners anyway.
Tea party. English Defense league, Golden Dawn [Greece], FN [France some of its more loony members LePen the elder], Party for Freedom [Netherlands, Gert Wilder], the crazy.
I still say the US is a center right country.
Now if the Republican Party was to take that on board, everyone would be a whole lot happier.
Some Democratic Party members make it into the center left of European politics, but not as many as I would like.