We dodged a bullet. As bad as Obama was, at least it brought about Trump. The deep state made a potentially fatal flaw in pushing Obama over Romney. In 2008 they pushed Romney out in favor of McCain so that Obama would prevail. It seems they pushed their agenda about 4 years too early.
No, Romney wasn’t pushed out he suddenly left in Feb and gave a campaign speech before he went...we knew he would be back in 2012...
Romney cut the throat of any Conservatives who were running that year...
He was the one doing the pushing...