In my short 40 years I’ve never seen the Republicans blow such a wonderful opportunity to contrast themselves against the radical anti-Semitic race baiting communist who is now the standard of the Democrat party. They blew it before it even started, all for Thomas Dewey II. (And I’m being rude to Dewey because he had twice the charisma of Romney.)
I’m beginning to think that the republican party blew it with open primaries and state control of ballot access.
Since the party is a private organization, they would do much better with an in-house system.
Virginia, for example, never should have been a race between only Romney and Paul. Folks have a bitter taste in their mouths over stuff like that.
When your own people can’t get on the ballot but outsiders can vote in your primary, that just screams irrationality.
“They blew it before it even started, all for Thomas Dewey II. (And I’m being rude to Dewey because he had twice the charisma of Romney.)”
He still does. And yes, I know he is a moldering corpse.