Because the nation isn't 'crying out for Conservatives'. If they were, there would be one running for POTUS that was leading the pack by 30% by now.
There has been one (1) Conservative President in the past 80 years.
I wish that wasn't the case. But it is the case, the historical fact that cannot be spun.
And the simple truth is voters are far more terrified of losing their job if they have one, or home, or retirement, than they are interested in a political debate featuring Liberalism v Conservativism. They HATE POLITICS right now. Because they associate it, right or wrong, with ineffective governing at the Federal level, while they are losing their collective butts.
Thing is, the economy is being driven precisely by the liberalism v conservativism distinction, and those who are too blind to see that are going to regret their choice of candidates.
A more efficient manager - a governmental "janitor" to use Victor Volsky's term - is not going to do buttkus for the economy, period, end of sentence, because a more efficient manager does not have the imagination to think outside of the pre-existing conceptual framework he is handed. That means that if we get nothing more than a more efficient manager, we will be permanently locked into a conceptual framework on the relationship between the government and private enterprise that is killing private enterprise, and thereby the economy and everyone's jobs.
In other words, if we don't have a conceptual view of things, if we don't act at the level of politics, of liberalism v. conservativism, then we simply permanently cement into place Obamaism and the ersatz crony-capitalist socialism the democrats have "bestowed" on this country for at least one to two generations.
This go around, Economics IS Politics, and anyone who thinks they can be isolated and separated from each other is, at best, deluding himself.