RE Twice:
Only made it to “The Show” once. McCain was there first time, he didn’t want it bad enough either.
Mittens had a golden opportunity - the previous four years example - and he did nothing with it.
Even at the debates, when the moderators were clearly helping O; he should have taken their heads off.
Wasn’t in him. RINOs only know how to attack Conservatives.
And by “The Show” I mean the one-on-one phase; I know he was running in 08, but he wasn’t “there” like 2012.
He was on stage with the clown three times, and did nothing with it.
I kept waiting, hoping and praying for the Reagan question: are you better now than you were 4 years ago?
Common sense says that that one question should have been the theme of the entire campaign.
Ryan should have been asking: You said that if you did not have the deficit cut in half that this would be a one term proposition, why are you running again? We are 4.4 trillion deeper in debt.
Sadly Ryan is now tainted by his association with this well polished turd.
I see it a little different,
Early on I really expected both to lose and I predicted it in comments here.
Both were the wrong people at the time, and add that any R would have had a hell of a time winning 2008 (a lost reality inside the talk radio bubble)
In 2008 running a candidate whose sole experience was being a war hawk (neocon) was exactly what America would reject in 2008.
Similarly MR money-bags who makes enormous $$$ on investments and ridicules nearly half the voters to his rich donors was exactly what America would reject in 2012.
They were the wrong candidates at those times,
And them being phony about their real positions didnt help them either, same with Paul Ryan the goofy grin robot.