What went wrong?

What went wrong?

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cuck and schmuck

First black celebrity in chief

one is a collaborator and the other wears magic underwear

In 08 Bush Jr. has poisoned the Republican Brand. In 2012, people were fed up with Bush-in-Blackface but fortunately enough people resisted voting for a crazy cultist.

In 2016 America rejected a crime boss and god God Emperor Trump!

They're globalists with the same goal.

>rejected a crime boss and god God Emperor Trump

It's over Donald. Just wait for the recounts

>McCain
He lost because Bush sucked and because people were sick of conservatives. Also he's old and muh first black president.

>Romney
He's basically Hillary with a dick.

They were weak and timid when it came to actually arguing with Obama. They had multiple chances to grill Obama on his past and radical ties, but didn't.

Makes me think that they were trying to throw the election on purpose, as part of the establishment.

Cucks and no charisma.

Absolutely this. Romney is more conservative though.

GOP reputation was ruined in 2008 by Dubya so no GOP really had a chance of winning. Mitt Romney signed Obamacare as law in MA when he was governor, GOP trying to use him as their candidate in 2012 and trying to run against Obamacare when he had supported the same thing was possibly the stupidest political decision in decades.

Not that either of them should have won, both of them are cucks.

>and because people were sick of conservatives
I would say less that than they were tired of neocons.

They both liked to have their wives bred by BBCs

Nothing
They went exactly as planned.
You don't think McCain picked that stupid bimbo by accident do you?

>MUHHH FRRIIENNNDSSSSS, HONORABLE CAMPAIGN!
mccain's problem
>mccain 2.0, lipstick on a pig
romney's problem

both had no backbone and didn't believe in going on the offensive. they sat there and accepted the blows the democrats and the media hurled at them. they rarely attacked and never tried to swivel the attacks back. like mccain regarding the defense of palin. palin might be an idiot but one famous quote tarnished her the most.
>HURR I CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM MUH HOUSE
so many people believed palin actually said that and mccain camp just let it flow freely without rebuttal. in reality disgusting tina fey said it on SNL. she parody a quote from palin which palin actually said:
>certain locations in Alaska, on a clear day, you can see glimpse of the russian coast line.

>McCain

John McCain was going to lose regardless of who John McCain actually was. Bush was seen by many as a horrible President, he was even abandoned by some of the more hardline GOP partisans. Regardless, he really didn't try to differentiate himself from George W. Bush or the Republican Party at the time, rather, he embraced Bush's legacy wanted to "double down" and see things through. Mind you, he did this at a time when the Iraq War had lost any glamour it had had, and as the economy was taking a dive, which many blamed Bush for.

He was also running against a competent Democrat. Say what you will about Obama as a President, he was a good campaigner. He read the American public well, and tailored his campaign around "righting the wrongs of the Bush administration" (Guantanamo, Iraq, Government Surveillance, etc.) He also benefitted from both identity politics, and the very early stages of distaste for the political establishment. Him being black obviously got minorities on board (more than just the blacks), and appealed to the youth. His race taken in conjunction with his campaign promises branded him as a sort of safe-but-non-establishment figure.

>Romney

Despite my distaste for McCain, he was doomed regardless of how well he waged his campaign. Romney doesn't receive as much of a benefit.

While it's true that typically, especially in modern times, incumbent Presidents have an advantage, and Obama did have fairly good credibility in the eyes of the American public, earned or not, Romney still made major mistakes and could have potentially won.

His first problem was not reimagining the Republican Party. Romney's platform for most of the campaign, was an amalgamation of Bush/McCain-type policies, and milquetoast Less-Obama-than-Obama policies. Many correctly identified that Romney wasn't exciting as a candidate, and really wasn't going to bring about massive political change. A lot of traditionally GOP voting blocks stayed home because of this.

BOTH are literally too busy raising their wife's black sons (in McCain's case, it's a black daughter but still).

Both stole the nomination from paul

if you look at the exiting polling, romney actually won the independent vote.
>ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/how-groups-voted-2012/
sadly the extra weight added by the independents didn't make up for the higher percentage of democrats that voted over republicans thanks to the higher democrat turnout. its true that democrats had a lower turnout in 2012 than 2008 but still outnumbered republicans. romney had a similar amount of republicans who went out to vote in 2008 which was already low as is. lowest in history of the republican party.
>ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/how-groups-voted-2008/
2008 gave the democrats a plus 1% (39%) in weight over 2012 (38%). while republicans till maintained 32% weight in both elections. independent weight stayed the same as well. 29%.

mccain and romney didn't motivate the base. they were horrible candidates and i don't understand why romney, or any senior republican thought romney had a chance. he was number two to mccain. he couldn't defeat mccain in 2008. who thought he had a chance against obama who mccain lost to? especially riding a similar platform and campaign strategy as mccain which failed miserably.

the lower republican turnout was the reason why many, and many democrats, thought it was the end of republican party. trump realized this and that's why trump based his strategy on getting republicans out to vote in those key states. which mccain and romney failed to do because they thought they were "lost causes." which is baffling considering YOU NEED those states to win. only reason why hillary won the popular vote was predominantly because of california. that state is unusual in its insane democrat vs republican weight. if you remove california out of the equation trump won the popular vote. hell if you reduce the democrat vote in half, hillary still wins the state, but trump wins the popular vote.

>2008 which was already low as is. lowest in history of the republican party.
well, recent history. goldwater takes that cake.

DESU the GOP didn't learn much, if anything since they wanted to run such "exciting" candidates as Jeb Bush and even proposed running Romney again. Trump should be seen as a third party candidate who jumped on the GOP ticket.

McCain is the archetypal RINO. That guy couldn't convince an evangelical to go to church and lost fucking Indiana.

The GOP could have run a proper old boy and he would have done much better, instead they ran someone who's message was basically indistinguishable from Hillary's 8 years later.

>bomb Russia
>we need to continue intervention in the ME
>immigration is cool n' shit
>Muslims are our friends

McCain: his VP pick and health concerns
Romney: drank the mormon koolaid

Low energy.

They had to lose, so Trump could win. It actually went right. Plus- old goiter man is a cuck for ISIS and Mittens is a fag. Fuck them.

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MAN HAVE TIMES CHANGED! WEW.


>but hey democrats still believe its the republicans that are the warmongers and hillary shits rainbows out of her ass.

McCain better be gone, fucking traitorous piece of gook shit.

Palin & Mormon.

They were spineless RINOs.

Trump isn't necessarily more conservative, but at least the man has a fucking backbone.

That's the kinda Aha moment from it all. They would have done a shit job too. And Obama set Trump up to win unwittingly and almost effortlessly. It was divine.

Yes he should be seen as usurper of GOP wishes. Rush Limbaugh has for years talked about putting it out there and bashing liberal ideas and institutions, Trump did it and he won. Fuck McCain. Fuck Romney. Was kind of nice Trump cucked Romney by dangling Sec of State.

They both ran weak campaigns where they let the media shit all over them.

Thank fuck neither of these neocon shits won.

They're retards

McCain was on some news show the other day and he is looking pretty old now and seemed to have slowed a little from how he was in 2008. But then he is like 80.

>neocons
Not even once.

Ho Chi McCain and Rmoney.

McCain ran on "hurr I saw the horrors of war, vote for me and I'll make sure your kids have the same opportunity to be tortured to the brink of insanity by filthy insurgents I did".

Romney is a Mormon, which turned off both social conservatives and liberals. Also, strangely enough, no one wanted a billionaire businessman for president.

I think it's more what he does though. Romney bought off companies, sold everything anyone would buy then closed them down and laid off all the employees. People were saying that was his plan for America.

Whereas Trump was already a household name and all his products are tangible items.

McCains old ass is senile.

It's funny because seeing how those slimey fucks tried to sabotage trump, I'm almost glad Obama kicked their asses. Anyone else think the same?

Anyone think they did it because they were bitter that trump would actually win unlike these cucks?