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Originally Posted by New Era
How quickly people forget the recent history of the last Republican primary cycles. Go back to 2008 and think about the specter of Rudi Gulliani or Fred Thompson. How about Mike Huckabee? And this was all before the kookiness of the Tea Party causing people to go the crazy edge of the right. Then think back to 2012. Remember when it was going to Rick Santorum to be the nominee, when he won Iowa? Or Newt Gingrich when he took South Carolina? Or how about when Rick Perry and Herman Cain were the answers? There is all sorts of crazy, but there are only so many viable candidates. The crazy always gets washed out at some point in the race.
@peter12. When was the last time a populist candidate actually made it through the primary process and won his party's nomination? Was that person so devoid of a platform like Trump?
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I don't forget, the pubs have been bad (very bad) for a long time, how else can you explain Obama winning?
As for your question to peter12? Don't want to step on his shoes but I would guess his answer to be Reagan, his first 6 months he couldn't spell "platform" and actually joked about it.