Sahil Kapur

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

IMHO, under-appreciated element of the ‘12 retrospectives is how much the Ryan agenda hindered Romney. That blend of tax cuts, free trade and safety net cuts is not popular outside the GOP donor base. It created an opening for Obama team to caricature him as a corporate predator. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

100% true. Also: The Obama-Romney race was pretty normal on both ends in terms of attacks and ugliness, and the 2012 version of Romney (47%, self-deportation) is not exactly the renegade 2020 Romney. There’s a lot of missing context in the current debate about that moment. — PolitiTweet.org

The idea that Romney "normalized" Trump and birtherism by taking his endorsement in 2012 is so funny. Trump was get… https://t.co/K4b20bUnpI

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That isn’t to criticize his VP selection. Ryan’s agenda was the flavor of the party and if Romney was going to run on it, may as well pick its best salesman as his running mate. There was a logic. But again, the platform had deep vulnerabilities that his opponent exploited. ~fin~ — PolitiTweet.org

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