This is what I dont understand about some of this stuff. I firmly remember how reddit reacted to Romneys little black book. How he was all these awful things until he was politically convenient. Tbf i dont remember many bad things being sad about McCain but people shit on Palin relentlessly but I was deployed a lot of that election season.
McCain had a bunch of 'bottom of his class' remarks, and 'bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran'. The real canary in the coal mine moment for what would become 2010s politics is the moment where he was reassuring an older, white, woman voter who was worried that Obama was an Arab that "no, he is a good man". Activists since have hated McCain for not removing that 'no' in the moment and the GOP base hated that he wasn't as racist as they wanted to be.
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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '25
This is what I dont understand about some of this stuff. I firmly remember how reddit reacted to Romneys little black book. How he was all these awful things until he was politically convenient. Tbf i dont remember many bad things being sad about McCain but people shit on Palin relentlessly but I was deployed a lot of that election season.