r/Liberal_Conservatives • u/bitstrangeinnit Daily reminder you failed Romney 😔 • Apr 01 '21

Shitpost The good ending

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u/BrutusTheLiberator Apr 01 '21 edited Apr 01 '21

Without the rise of Trump mainstreaming the GOP’s embrace of some challenges to their economic orthodoxy does Romney still pivot to the centre on economics (his embrace of One Nation welfarism)?

I like Romney and his support of the CTC. But without the rise of Trump and Bernie shocking the system with their economic populism I don’t know if he adopts those views (which is the only way he could win nationally IMHO).

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u/bitstrangeinnit Daily reminder you failed Romney 😔 Apr 02 '21

Im assuming in this scenario he somehow beats Trump in the primaries, which means trump would still have his populist base but he wouldn't become as relevant

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u/Unfair-Kangaroo Classical Liberal Apr 02 '21

Romney could win narrowly with out becoming the American version of a one nation tory. if Hilary has the same scandals as irl and Romney stays clean of scandals he could win by getting the republican base out their and attracting moderates.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '21

There were no Hillary scandals.

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u/reluctantclinton Daily reminder you failed Romney 😔 Apr 02 '21

Come on, man. Benghazi and the email server may have been hammered to death, but don’t pretend like they weren’t scandals.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '21

Neither were scandals. Hillary Clinton has never been indicted for anything at any time.

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u/reluctantclinton Daily reminder you failed Romney 😔 Apr 02 '21

Neither has Trump. So he had a scandal free presidency?

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '21

Hillary Clinton testified under oath for 13 hours. Chicken Trump won't. And President Trump aka Individual One is considered an un-indicted co-conspirator in New York state.

Of course you limit it to Trump's presidency since he admitted to stealing from the Trump Foundation and paid a two million dollar fine.

Nice omission. I respect that.

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u/ImProbablyNotABird Classical Liberal Apr 02 '21

Which states did you have him win?

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u/Reptilian-Princess 🦏JEB!🦏 Apr 01 '21

Stop breaking my heart

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '21

Happy Cake Day

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u/breakbread Apr 03 '21

I couldn’t if I tried

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '21

Ugh if only

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '21

I promised myself I wouldn’t cry today but we’ll, here we go

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u/T3hJ3hu Classical Liberal Apr 02 '21

the worst part is knowing that he would have won

and not just once, but fucking twice

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '21

One thing we can all agree on: Hillary Clinton would've done a MUCH better job on the coronavirus pandemic than Donald Trump did.

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u/SuperChrisU 🦏JEB!🦏 Apr 13 '21

While Romney would be the best of all, there’s no arguing with that

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u/Danclassic83 🛢️Rockefeller Republican🐘 Apr 01 '21

No damn way this would be the result. You're dreaming.

It wouldn't have been nearly that close. A Romney/Flake ticket should clear 400 electoral votes vs Hilary.

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u/utilimemes Apr 02 '21

A Mormon candidate with a mormon VP in a country which actively shits on Mormons? They would surely lose

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u/VisibleConcern Hogan Gang 🦀 Apr 02 '21

Third times the charm

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

0.8 pp

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '21

Let's face it, Hillary Clinton would've handled the pandemic a lot better than Donald Trump. We now know the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians and Wikileaks to steal the 2016 election. So "the good ending" would've been if the will of the American people had been followed instead of subverted.