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Originally Posted by Willravel
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Actually, I think she was the only thing they did right. She was a breath of fresh air into a base that felt hopeless.
To answer the OP, I think they abandoned the far right wing, and even more so abandoned their conservative base. They nominated the most liberal Republican possible. It was funny to see conservative sites practically begging the libertarians and Ron Paul crowd to suck it up and vote Mccain. I bet more Ron Paul people voted for Obama than Mccain, but that's just a guess.
The conservative politicians followed in the footsteps of Bush far too long to jump ship 8 years later. I don't think voters forgot it even as the candidates tried to distance themselves from him. That was by far their biggest failure.