The Republican party was a huge part of the problem in 2008. Instead of running a dynamic candidate, they picked another one we had to hold our noses and gag when we voted. McCain was mushy and pathetic at debating Obama or raising the true issues America needed to deal with. Plus, when Obama picked Biden that choice alone should have him on the losing end of the race with Joe’s gaffs!
Possibly had we had Romney/Ryan in 2008 we might have changed the tide as Obama was really no match for a businessman/governor. And, Ryan was much more sane than Biden in every way....but sad his OWN state didn’t support him!
Santa Claus might as well run ‘R’ in the next campaign and maybe will not win. Anyway, VDH, another great column.
Romney was the problem that killed 2008 and 2012, the Reagan hating, most radical liberal that has ever been a major player in GOP presidential politics had only won a single election in his life, and had only returned to the GOP in October of 1993, after supporting democrats, and fundraising and voting as a democrat, and fund raising for Planned Parenthood.
Since his own polling showed he wasn’t going to win reelection as governor, an office he left with 34% approval, he set out to become president and announced that he was the 800 pound gorilla with all the money, which kept out any substantive challengers and left us with nobodies, as it was, Romney spent 50 million dollars of his own money, had all the big donors, a massive organization, and still lost to two guys without campaign funds, or organization.
The proof of Romney was in 2012, in an election that republicans couldn’t lose, Romney/Ryan, somehow pulled it off, that far trumps losing in the 2008 election that was almost impossible for the GOP to win in a perfect storm of recession, 8 years of Bush, and the first black president.