“Yeah, I’m thinking that taking advice from a loser is not a good idea.”
Nixon won his 2nd try. Reagan gained the nomination, on his 3rd try.
Think either of them listened to good advice?
I know Reagan did not listen to the GOPe as he was NOT their candidate. Ford was the GOPe favorite and only narrowly defeated Reagan. And what happened then? The GOPe candidate Ford lost to peanut farmer Carter.
The GOPe has a long history of losing.
Yeah, but this is Romney’s third try and he just got soundly defeated as the nominee.
(And he’s a grasping, GOPe milquetoast.)
Don’t be so silly, as to compare Romney to Nixon and Reagan, that really shows incredible ignorance of them all.
Here is more on those three.
Navy Lt. Commander Richard Nixon came out of WWII and became a two term Congressman.
Congressman Nixon later won office as a United States Senator, and then served as a two term Vice President of the United States, as veep, he ran for and lost that 1960 presidential election by only thousands of votes.
In 1968 Reagan, as California Governor and already identified as a leader of the conservative wing of the GOP, ran against Eisenhower’s two term vice-president, who was on his 2nd presidential run, and who had so many winning campaigns under his belt (Reagan did beat him in popular votes).
In 1976 Governor Reagan was only months out of his second term as Governor of California, and he almost knocked off a SITTING GOP president as the counting went on after midnight “Ford prevailed with 1,187 delegates to Reagan’s 1,070”. In 1980 he did defeat a sitting president.
It was during Reagan’s 1980 campaign that Romney left the GOP, eventually to become a democrat supporter, fund raiser, and even voter, and not returning to the GOP until October of 1993, as a very left, Planned Parenthood fundraising, gays in the military, and gay scout leaders, and anti-gun republican.
Romney has won a single election that he won with less than 50%, in his more than 20 year career, and he served that single term as a failure and had to give up his goal of reelection, leaving office with 34% approval and turning the seat over to the democrats.
Romney ran against nobodies for 2008 and lost to two guys with no money or organization after he broke spending records and spent 50 million dollars of his own money, then in 2012 he squeaked it out as America kept desperately rotating among his nobody challengers for someone besides Mitt, then he lost the election against Jimmy Carter’s second term, an election that was almost impossible to lose, and it wasn’t even close.