[Hobbes3259]

Originally Posted by Br4dw4y5ux

Why do the Republicans keep nominating people who do not fit well in the party to run for President?

John McCain was a somewhat respected conservative on fiscal issues but frequently way off message on social ones. He was seen as a loose cannon by the party elites and frankly as an outsider by the social values voters.

Mitt Romney really had no respect anywhere in the party on either fiscal or social issues. He was kind of a chameleon that nobody trusted fully but nobody could pin down on exactly why they disliked him.

Why do guys like this keep getting the nomination? Was there nobody on the bench but Jeb Bush going into 2006? Did the W presidency just take out too much of the professional political class in the GOP?

I just keep looking back at the two guys that ran against Obama and thinking that they had a snowball's chance in hell of winning although it might have looked a bit cooler than that at times.

Be ause Gary Johnson is not butch enough. If you could take Rick Perry's attitude, and meld OT with Johnson...loud get somewhere

[21stAmendment]

What's so moderate about Chris Christie? He's a a pro-life social conservative who vetoed gay marriage in my state after it passed through the legislator

[Br4dw4y5ux]

Originally Posted by 21stAmendment

What's so moderate about Chris Christie? He's a a pro-life social conservative who vetoed gay marriage in my state after it passed through the legislator

He supports public services funded by taxation. In the GOP right now that is a flaming liberal.

The thing that the GOP does not fully understand at this point is that they are creating impressions of the party for a new generation of voters that are absolutely toxic. Reagan Republicans were Republican voters for life because of Ronald Reagan. Young voters that might well have looked askance at the Democrats have instead turned into reliable voters for them because the alternative was chickens for checkups and legitimate rape. The Republicans are going to be suffering for the sins of the far right for decades.

[VanderbiltJets]

(This isn't political and don't make this political.) I assume most people have seen this picture, I can't stop laughing at the thought of Romney "having fun" at an amusement park