Huckabee is a populist but he was clearly better than the other two, and I would argue even McCain was better than Romney.
2. There was no Obamacare yet, so no one really paid much mind to Romneycare in Mass. I don’t think it ever even came up as an issue in the campaign.
Of course it came up. But you're right, some people didn't pay attention to the signature 'achievement' of their candidate or are willing to buy into it as conservative reform, just as people rush to defend Newt's more egregious statements because he's their chosen one.
3. Romney ran as a conservative.
There's a sucker born every minute.
We knew he’d flipped on abortion, but at the time I guess I thought that was his only real conservative transgression.
The info was plastered all over the interwebs, especially on FR.
We all make mistakes in endorsements, but the late rush of short-sighted conservatives to get behind Romney gave him enough of a boost to set him up as the candidate to beat in 2012. Truly an unfortunate, though forseeable, result.
“We all make mistakes in endorsements, but the late rush of short-sighted conservatives to get behind Romney gave him enough of a boost to set him up as the candidate to beat in 2012. Truly an unfortunate, though forseeable, result.”
I’ll take partial responsibility for that. I should have done more homework on the guy. I guess McCain was so much better known and disliked by conservatives, and Huckster just appeared to me petty and mostly just running interference for McCain and sabotaging Romney, so I never really took his candidacy too seriously.
I just hope we can atone for our past mistakes and help stop him this time around.