Romney despised Reagan and has smeared him for years, he left the GOP because of Reagan and became a democrat supporter and fundraiser, and voter, not returning to the GOP until Bill Clinton was safely in the White House.
Romney was the problem that killed 2008 and 2012, the Reagan hating, most radical liberal that has ever been a major player in GOP presidential politics had only won a single election in his life, and had only returned to the GOP in October of 1993, after supporting democrats, and fundraising and voting as a democrat, and fund raising for Planned Parenthood.
Since his own polling showed he wasn’t going to win reelection as governor, an office he left with 34% approval, he set out to become president and announced that he was the 800 pound gorilla with all the money, which kept out any substantive challengers and left us with nobodies, as it was, Romney spent 50 million dollars of his own money, had all the big donors, a massive organization, and still lost to two guys without campaign funds, or organization.
The proof of Romney was in 2012, in an election that republicans couldn’t lose, Romney/Ryan, somehow pulled it off, that far trumps losing in the 2008 election that was almost impossible for the GOP to win in a perfect storm of recession, 8 years of Bush, and the first black president.
The big issue was ACA, and what do the Republicans do? Nominate the Father of ACA. Nice move...
All I can say is wow. I specifically say that I am not endorsing Romney, that Romney was on the wrong side of some issues, but that he would not have put us as a country in the messes we are now in to the same degree, and the Romney haters come out of the woodwork. This is just amazing - really a sore point for some.
I don’t have time nor inclination to defend Romney on any of the points raised - but to say that Romney/Ryan “lost to two guys without campaign funds, or organization” simply tells a lot about your perceptions and biases.