Why did the Republicans run a worse version of Obama? They crushed the 2010 midterms and were expected to win bigly in 2011. How did Romney fuck up the momentum so badly?

yeah man i cant believe hogan jobbed against the undertaker

>>508751815 (OP)
Republicans knew Obama was getting a second term. Economy was recovering from the 08 crash, all the socialist gloom and doom they predicted didn't come to pass. They didn't want to waste any real talent on a lost cause. He was a placeholder candidate.

>>508751815 (OP)
>Tfw this guy still thinks the elections have not been rigged for 20 years.

>>508752363
real talent like jeb?

>>508751815 (OP)
they did the same thing to ron paul then that the democrats did to bernie in 2016
no regular people wanted rmoney

>>508751815 (OP)
Trump ran in 2012 on the birf ceritfctwe

>>508751815 (OP)
If it was Ron Paul he would've massacred Obama. Arnold Schwarzenegger would've destroyed Obama too, but he wasn't legally allowed to run.

>>508751815 (OP)
Binders of women...

He officially announced he was just like the left in order to win votes and it turned people off. His VP is now an openly leftist faggot.

Job growth picked up and the recovery kicked into gear around late February/March
The GOP couldve run anyone, they would have lost
Almost a century of poli sci research shows that US Presidential elections are basically only decided on the basis of how voters perceive the party in the WH is doing on the economy
All the nonsense that regular people believes changes election outcomes doesnt
Gaffs, speeches, stuff campaign surrogates do, TV and radio ads
Complete waste of money
If the GOP had run Mitt Romney again in 2016 he would have destroyed Hillary Clinton
Literally Romney and the exact same campaign he ran in 2012
The electoral college and the popular vote

>>508751815 (OP)
I remember reading an article during his campaign that he was flying to jewland as part of his campaign funding tour and thinking what the fuck? how is that legal? I was a naive cunt then that began noticing.

>>508751815 (OP)
Romney sabotaged his own campaign when it looked like he was going to win and everyone gave up on the neocon GOP as a fake and gay unserious party that were happy to be the whipping boys of the neolib democrats.

>>508753792
Arnold was caught cheating or something, I forget. Ron probably loses too but outperforms expectations.

>>508752363
tea party unironically splitting the vote during the end of the wealthy WASP GOP era. that's exactly what put obammy into office.

nobody wanted that nigger, but the people demanded the GOP stand up to their financial masters. looking back I miss the era of the rich white man sneering at the poors in politics, now they're literally all kikes. every last one of them. shilling for hoards of orc invaders.

>>508751815 (OP)
They needed to block Ron Paul.

>>508751815 (OP)

>>508754617
can't have richfag sneering if there is no path to richfaggotry

>>508754668
yes that was exactly another factor, you are correct saar

>>508751815 (OP)
The internet was still very pozzed. There was no alt-right. The alt-right literally saved this piece of shit Republican party and the GOP hasn't forgiven White people since.

>>508754850
that door kept creeping shut decade by decade thanks to kiked out central banking. I had it bad, but i made it as a millennial.


gen Z and alpha have it even worse, i genuinely would stand by that decision if they just said "fuck this rigged horse shit" and instead went for the rifles

>>508751815 (OP)
Obama was a made man Henry Kissinger pipelined him for a leadership role in the party straight out of college. And just it was thanks to 7 of 9 that we all got 8 years of gay communism Manchurian onto us and the fucking left niggers still think he was a saint.

>>508751815 (OP)
He rightfully mentioned that 45% of Americans don't even pay taxes and that made the 45% of Americans that don't pay taxes mad.

>>508754580
If the Access Hollywood tapes didn't destroy Trump's campaign in 2016 then a cheating scandal wouldn't done anything to a Schwarzenegger campaign. Also, Ron Paul would easily sweep the south and win Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia. Iowa, Ohio, and even Nevada and Colorado are plausible grabs too. Trust me, Ron Paul would've won.

>>508755172
Well the real problem is they had no means to fight back against the Jon Liebowitz's of the world. It was the millenial alt-right vigor that breathed life back into this shitty dead party and burnt the liberal establishment to the ground using fucking memes. Lol. And the GOP repaid us by giving us absolutely nothing. I'm telling you they were dead in the fucking water before /pol/ decided to adopt Trump as /our guy/. Then Trump and the GOP backstabbed us and spent the last 10 years sucking Jew dick.

>>508751815 (OP)
'12 was my first vote. Embarrassed to say I thought Romney was legit. Started me paying attention I guess

>>508755157
i still remember the media chugging his ballsack on his way out, calling it a "historic scandal free presidency." covering for all his administrations criminal activities. suddenly bombing muh poor brown children isnt a problem anymore after gwb left.

their press corp questions were always a bunch of softball nothings, asking when he would like another hand job or if he wanted the questions they ask emailed in advance

>>508755172
People act as if the 47% comment destroyed his campaign and avility to win. But honestly Trump's attitude and the Access Hollywood tapes failed to stop him from getting elected, so I feel the 47% comment actually may have helped him, but he became a coward and went back on it unlike Trump.

>>508751815 (OP)
>run a mormon against a literal communist nigger named barack in the most racist country on the planet
>lose
gee. I wonder why he lost?!!

>>508753792
>Arnold Schwarzenegger would've destroyed Obama too, but he wasn't legally allowed to run.
the absolute irony of all this, especially considering that flaming homosexual kenyan nigger here.

>>508755976
>most racist country on the planet

don't get my hopes up like that, man.

>>508756390
well, I mean. allegedly.

>>508754869
I'm not indian, cunt.

>>508752363
first post 100% correct post. they knew the other team had a royal flush so they played junk. there's a case to be made that they did the same thing in 2008.

I remember stopping at a rest area in 2013 and the graffiti in the bathroom said, in spiky letters, "Shit Romney and Lyin' Ryan.". Spent about ten minutes kekkin

>>508751815 (OP)
Pure fuckin (((neo-con))) establishment control that’s what.
People forget why people went for Trump in the first place but the level to which a fucking nigger and a fucking Mormon manifestly DID NOT represent America in any way shape or for is a testament to just how fucking arrogant these fucks were a decade ago

>>508755486
Trump also did COVID

>>508756510
you are the bloody benchod. you are fucking of the entire austria saar

>>508756300
Unfortunately, Schwarzenegger is a libtard, but I do admit a Schwarzenegger presidency would've been pretty entertaining, especially if he defeated Obama in 2012.

>>508751815 (OP)
>Why was every republican that ran against Barry a rino

>>508755592
The media significantly overplayed Obama's popularity, he only got elected and re-elected because the other guys in those elections were worse.

>>508754182
>Almost a century of poli sci research shows that US Presidential elections are basically only decided on the basis of how voters perceive the party in the WH is doing on the economy
Which is fucking retarded because Trump won twice on the anti woke sentiment. That's all there is to it. Nothing to do with the economy.

>>508757270
yeah he was my governor. i noticed zero difference between him and the impeached scumbag grey davis, other than him repealing the tripling of my car registration fees. that universally pissed everyone off

i was making like $10 bucks an hour and i got a $400-something bill to renew the annual registration on my 4 year old fukn Mitsubishi. this was 20ish years ago

can you imagine one of you getting a bill from the dmv and your regular ass car annual registration stickers cost you like $1,000

>>508757105
>People forget why people went for Trump in the first place
Because the anti-woke sentiment was at it's peak in 2016 due to all of the right winger youtubers that spawned the years prior as a reaction to the Left's crazy woke nonsense during Obama

>>508752363
Yeah I was 19 during this election and man does it feel like a whole other country. Obama was obviously going to win. The Republicans were a joke and boring. The Tea party was viewed as dumbass extremists and they were as mocked and scorned as the Westboro Baptist church.
It's crazy how far things have unraveled since then.

>>508752349
FPBP
iykyk

bump

>>508757838
That's true, a Trump victory was something no one could've predicted back in 2012.

>>508759200

>>508760326
>mup da doo didda
holy fuck

>>508757838
the strange thing about the tea party is that they were grassroots. it was a movement of the people

they weren't some zoomer kids sent by an NGO to go act like a bunch of assholes in public for shekels, they had legitimate complaints about their representation

the media was largely responsible for highlighting as much idiocy as they could find and publishing it. if you ask a random on the street all they would say is exactly what you said. same perception

>>508760326
>>508760508
4 or 5 yesrs ago the EBT system crashed and people were registering accounts and pretending to be niggers asking where dey food stanp at on the government site

oh my god it was hilarious. basically all of them were /pol/ trolls

the worst was one of you idiots made this jiggaboo with the last name Bicksnood non stop trashing the place with niggerspeak. i hadn't laughed that hard in a long while

>>508757914
pls explain

>>508760733
Lol fuck. I forgot about that. So much has happened. Time is fucking flying dude.

>>508757639
Trump also only won when he ran against women and I think most people subconsciously understand that a woman as president would be a terrible fucking idea.

>>508761075
you remember what year that was around? shit, maybe 2018 or 19

glad someone else remembers

>>508757747
It’s like that in Washington state today. We also pay like $1.50/gallon of taxes on gasoline

>>508760326
kek

>>508761166
>most people subconsciously understand that a woman as president would be a terrible fucking idea
It's this. Running women more or less handed the presidency to Trump.