What has been the worst decision/action on the GOP primary side this year?

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Of what was provided:

i. Not calling out/defining Trump early. Cruz and Rubio literally ignored (or sometimes mildly supported) Trump on the debate stage

ii. Not coalescing. To be fair, there was no clear person to collapse upon. Rubio was too much of a greenhorn, Kasich is too weird (despite LOLfric's obession of him), Cruz too factional, Carson a clear con artist, Bush emasculated, etc. etc.

If Rubio hadn't been a moron and you know, actually developed a ground game and made a clear effort to win a state (Iowa or South Carolina) and executed upon it, he would've had a glide path to the nomination.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

If Rubio hadn't been a moron and you know, actually developed a ground game and made a clear effort to win a state (Iowa or South Carolina) and executed upon it, he would've had a glide path to the nomination.

People keep saying Rubio had a path. Since when?

Rubios campaign was a cross between a David Lynch film and a socially inept robot.

Interesting in his own mind, yet incapable of atracting people on a scale necessary to win the nomination.

This is my point. His campaign never even attempted to define a path to the nomination; he was hoping it would all just fall into place. A Rubio who actually built a ground game in the first 4 states had a significantly higher chance of winning Iowa and South Carolina.

I agree that he was (and still is, to some degree) an overhyped candidate. Republicans wanted their Obama, but the best they could  find a lazier, less intelligent, and less charismatic legislative lightweight.