The Republicans had better find a way to compete in the blue states or they're not winning anything anytime soon on a national level. When the democrats cleaned up in 06/08, they won everywhere, except the deep south.
The GOP has no clue how to compete. Rather, they try to shove round pegs into square holes like idiots with candidates that are incongruent to the social, political and economic environments of the states they're in.
It's retarded.
How are we not "competative"?
What is your definition of competative?
We are competative in over 40 states if you look at Governors and Senators.
We are ahead in both WI, ILL Senate seats, We are prepared to sweep both the upper midwest and Southwest Governorships (save CO), OR is toss-up, ME is a toss-up. MA is going back and forth between polling.
There has never been an instance where all 50 states were routinely competative. Were it so, then 2006, and 2008 would have been far worse. You also learned the wrong lesson from 2006. 50%-60% of the reason for the loss in 2006 was Iraq, another 30% was corruption. Picking bad, or unappealing candidates was less then 10% of the cause. In 2008, you had the war which was still unpopular but not as much a drag as it was in 2006, lingering anger at the GOP over scandals and a bad economy, and a "transformative" Dem candidate and yet McCain still got 46%-47% of the popular vote, and was ahead prior to the economic crisis.
There is no widespread issue of Republicans being unelectable or unappealing. Any such instances are in specific races like Delaware and Colorado where a poor candidate was nominated. There is a problem with the Republican brand but moderation won't solve that problem as it is primarly because the base of the GOP despises the party for being so incompetent and for betraying them on so many issues at all one under the Bush administration. You can't ignore or deny this problem. And you can't just scream "nominate better candidates" you have to understand why it occurs. Untill moderates can learn to understand, accept, and deal with this problem they will get thrashed in primaries and quite frankly considering they are so out of touch with reality, they frankly deserve it. Why has there been no attempt by Social moderates to take advantage of the Tea Party making spending the dominant issue and putting abortion, gays, guns on the back burner? This was the moderate GOPer's last opportunity to appeal to the base, and frankly they blew it.