While these may be the biggest mistakes, it could be said they were the best the Republicans had. I have always despised McCain, and I could not believe he won in 2008, but who else was there? Rick Santorum, Mr I Came in Second was like a light year behind in second. I came from his district in Pennsylvania, and he was as big a phony as ever existed.
Santorum beat Doug Walgren with an ad he ran the two weeks before the election, where he exposed Walgren for living in northern Virginia with his family, and not really living in the Pennsylvania district. Well, when he ran for his 3rd term as senator, it was revealed that he too was living in northern Virginia and not in Pennsylvania. He lost to Casey, one of the laziest members ever in the Senate.
Flake was inconsequential, he just never knew it.
Romney, well he is in the same position as his dog once was going down the highway of life. He is on the outside, he doesn't like it, and there is nothing he can do about it. If Trump wanted to label him, I would vote Nuisance Man. Fits him perfectly.
2013 failure to recognize the crisis at the border...really? The invasion of illegal invading aliens has been going on for decades. Both parties have ignored it because it served both party's desires.
The Republican Party has not had a leader since Reagan. With the emergence of Trump, it was the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow his getting elected. No one thought he could do it, perhaps not even him. Slowly, the Republicans are realizing he is better than anything they have had for decades. He is obnoxious, yes, but he does get things done. Republicans are just not accustomed to doing that.
At the top of my list is eight years while Obama was POTUS, the Republicans did token efforts to address the criminal and negligent activities of those in the Obama Administration. And now that it is revealed the extent of the coup against Trump, the 2nd greatest mistake of the Republicans is doing nothing about that criminal activity. If anyone thinks anything of consequence will emerge from the investigations going on with Durham, don't hold your breath!!!
There is no doubt in my mind with what I have heard to date that sedition and treason were committed from Obama on down in regard to this coup. The penalties should be the most severe we have for any crime, but nothing will be done, or some grunt will have his hand slapped, and that will be the end of it. Our nation will be subject to a similar coup again, and I suspect soon. I fear we are losing our republic, losing our sovereignty to the globalists, to the politically correct, and to a generation that should be called the Entitled Generation rather than Gen E.