Trump made the Twitter comment today, and I sat and reflected upon it.
The 2012 election cycle was one of the more comical episodes in Republican history.
You basically had Mitt Romney (who marginally had public appeal), Ron Paul (for the oddball Republicans), Buddy Roemer (for southern Republicans), Jon Huntsman (for the intellectual Republicans), Rick Santorum (for the church-going Republicans), Rick Perry (for Texas Republicans), Herman Cain (for the Republicans just wanting a wild card in the election, and Michele Bachmann (for northern crowd who just want something really crazy to happen).
I think most Republicans out of the south just laughed over the convention win by Romney, and marginally felt compelled to vote for the guy. He was for all purposes, the convenient 'loser'.
Could Mitt have won? He would have had to go aggressive and really say a lot of criticism over President Obama. It wasn't going to happen. Trump? He didn't hesitate President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and just about anyone who dumped on him (include some Republicans). He pushes back....something that you haven't seen a Republican do in fifty years.
'Nice guy' status for Romney? Well....that's the odd thing. He was always cut-throat on buying cheap companies and cutting them up to resell later, with no heart for the employees. But he couldn't bring that same cut-throat attitude to the political scene.
On this, Trump is right.
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