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CrabCake
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« on: April 26, 2015, 03:00:04 PM » |
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Romney was a terrible candidate, but it wasn't really because of his idealogy. It was because his campaign had no real purpose or drive, and ended up losing all identity. Even though I followed the election pretty closely, I barely registered a single actual policy from the guy. Although his misfit opponents were severely flawed enough to be bad candidates in their own way, they at least brought something to the table (moon bases! 999! Closing down three five all executive agencies!). Romney, like many 'moderates' of both stripes made a common fallacy: that being wishy-washy and 'pragmatic' and opinionless is good enough. No! You need to actually lead people. A candidates idealogy does not matter at the end of the day. America would just as happily elect a guy as right-wing as Cruz as they would elect a Sanders socialist (as long as he didn't use the 's' word).
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