It helped immensely that the GOP nominee in both 2008 and 2012 served as the campaign managers for Zero, their alleged “opponent.”
Imagine if we had had ex-OK Gov. Frank Keating as the nominee in 2008, the very FBI agent who pursued Zero’s domestic terrorist mentors, the Ayers’s.
Wasn't that around the time of Fred Thompson? He was the only genuine American of the bunch, the GOP heir apparent, and should have been the nominee.
But he didn't want it. You could tell. turns out Fred's wife berated him into running against his will.
We had to wait for 2016 for the Real Deal to appear.