It remains baffling how the GOP once thought the Bushes, McCain and then Romney were our best candidates!
“It remains baffling how the GOP once thought the Bushes, McCain and then Romney were our best candidates!....”
MaCain was never a good candidate. GWB and Mitt were at least qualified through successful governoships &/or business experience.
The conservative ideology of any candidate is still the best measure of a candidate’s worth. We need to insist on a candidate who not only believes in conservatism but who is willing to go out and promote good old fashioned American priciples: liberty & justice for all; justice is blind; Big government must be tamed and reduced; taxes must be fair; wealth belongs first to the worker who earned it. First and second amendments are not debatable; religious liberty and free speech go together under the First Amendment; The right to own and bear arms pertains to individual liberty and not to any government militia. The economy must be free to practice capitalism, promoting excellence and entrepreneurs, etc.
I could go on, but you get my point.
We seem to have a media-driven system of selecting presidential candidates that seems designed to winnow out any really qualified person.
By the same token, when you consider those Republicans who ran in the primaries, and lost, it’s not so baffling after all.
Not when they weren't "our" choices to begin with. Toss Bob Dole into that steaming pile of Vichy "Republicans" and patsies.
It's beyond time to expose and indict the RNC-GOPe as Trojan Horse traitors and collaborators to the Republican Party AND America.