I looked up a January 2012 GOP debate for reasons, and the stage was: Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Tim Pawlenty, and Mitt Romney. And then people ask how the GOP ended up with Trump in 2016.
See I was told it was because the media was so unfair to Mitt Romney by talking about what his private equity company did
I forgot about Tim Pawlenty!
When you are out of ideas, you soon run out of normal people willing to carry on the same old, non-working ideas. It’s like concentrating a substance: it’s just getting worse and worse the longer it cooks.
A thought: At the time, the only people doing the Trump brand of lunacy that the base so cherishes were Herman Cain and Michelle Bachman. If either of them had been a white man, they probably would have gone the distance. The party loves that shit, but only when a white man does it.
I spent a year working a full time job with the Obama campaign not because I loved him but because the thought of any of the Republican candidates winning so disgusting
And Santorum became immortalized... As an urban dictionary word. People will remember the word, and what it means. And why it got its origin...
This was not sudden. It's been decades in the making.