You are clueless if you think the GOP made a path for Trump. Anything else you have to say is worthless.
Trump in no way fits the Romney mold. Romney should have won, but he backed off and went soft, letting Obama win because that was his objective...as dictated by the GOPe, just like Jeb was chosen to lose this time. Trump is not a willing loser. He has been a fighter ALL his life. I’ll go with an intelligent, imperfect human being who puts America First, rather than another lawyer-politician who has already shown his Achilles Heel.
I’ll go with an intelligent, imperfect human being who puts America First, rather than another lawyer-politician who has already shown his Achilles Heel.
Just curious why your imperfect candidates Achilles Heel issues are any less offensive than another candidates Achilles Heel issues? Just so there’s no misunderstanding i’m a Cruz supporter with Trump as my second choice.
I’m talking Romney’s campaign in the primary, not the general.
People around the GOP have admitted they accidentally made a path for Trump. The path was mapped out so the candidate with the most money would win easier. They thought it would be Bush.
Social conservatives have soured on Trump to some extent, and they were the Achilles’ heel for Romney as well in the primary. They ended up going to Gingrich and Santorum because they didn’t trust Romney’s stances on abortion and same-sex marriage. Trump his similarly flip-flopped and is seen as more untrustworthy than most candidates. Romney had an advantage of having Mormon support though which Trump doesn’t have.
Trump and Romney are also northeastern Republicans. So culturally they were unbeatable in NH and the northeastern states. The GOP also set up the primary to have more winner-take-all contests in those blue states vs. the southern states, so that will help Trump fend off an upstart from a more reliably conservative challenger like Cruz.
The major battle might be for the South. Cruz absolutely needs to win those to have a chance. If Trump does well in Southern states there might be no stopping him. Obviously Iowa is not enough and was not enough for Huckabee and Santorum.