Least favorite GOP presidential nominee, 2008-2020

[TDAS04]

Trump by far.

Among the other two, Romney is more annoying than McCain.

[SWE]

It started out very bad and yet somehow each was worse than the last, by a considerable order of magnitude

[darklordoftech]

McCain >>>> Romney >>>>>>>>>>> Trump

[😥]

Donald Trump, by far. I actually respect both, McCain and Romney

[Lechasseur]

Trump

[Grumpier Than Thou]

The fascist < the fascist enabler who pretends that there's simply nothing he can do about the fascist while working in the United States Senate < the guy who still sucked but at least stuck it to the fascist when it mattered

[West_Midlander]

Least favorite:

Romney

<infinity>

Trump

<quite a bit gap>

McCain

[Schiff for Senate]

Why'd you lock the poll already?

Anyway:

Least favorite:

Romney

<infinity>

Trump

<quite a bit gap>

McCain

This, except, of course, I'd swap Romney and Trump. I'm not big on election lies, narcissism, sexism, racism and Islamaphobia, literal bragging about sexual assault, attempted insurrection, posing a massive security risk by keeping classified documents at home, sipping for Russia/Putin, etcetera.

And, though I admire his opposition to Trump, Romney's no saint, either. He's got plenty of reprehensible views and bad positions, and he's flip-flopped way too much. IN CONTRAST, McCain opposed Trump just as vocally, but was also a principled man who always voted as he thought right, never afraid to buck the party line, etcetera. Among other things, I admire his saving Obamacare, his consistent support for campaign finance reform, his military service to his country (I don't just "like people who weren't captured" - unlike Trump, McCain had the courage to serve his country in the military), his opposition to torture, and more. And he respected his political opponents - don't forget what he told that woman at that town hall who called Obama a Muslim radical. That's a comment Trump and his supporters would've applauded and Romney would probably have tried to finesse, but which McCain called out. He was truly a good man.

[Mr. Smith]

Trump manages to be both my favorite and least favorite. Highs and lows.

Romney is just all bad as nominee, and "job creators" nonsense when Obama's "you didn't build that" was just awful.

McCain is mildest, but somehow the least honest and most abashed of these.

[courts]

romney

[dw93]

Trump by a landslide. McCain was the least bad of the bunch, I would take him and even Romney over George W. Bush.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Romney >> McCain >>>>>>>>> Trump

[Suburbia]

Trump, McCain and Romney in that order

[Property Representative of the Harold Holt Swimming Centre]

All three, interestingly, were preferable circa 2000 (and Romney even more in his 1994 Senate bid) than at the points when they were the nominees.

[BloJo94]

All three, interestingly, were preferable circa 2000 (and Romney even more in his 1994 Senate bid) than at the points when they were the nominees.

I get it for Trump and Romney, but how was McCain different in 2008 than in 2000? He was the neocon choice compared to Bush who wanted “limited strategic interventionism”

[Agonized-Statism]

McCain. That man would have ended the world if given the chance. Trump is a bumbler and Romney is about as close as someone could come to a generic cartoon politician.

[OSR stands with Israel]

McCain. That man would have ended the world if given the chance. Trump is a bumbler and Romney is about as close as someone could come to a generic cartoon politician.

While McCain's rhetoric on Foreign Policy may have been extremely hawkish and bombastic, I think in practice he may have been less so than W as he would have had way more trust with the generals and our intelligence community than W did for example

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Trump, I was walking down Chicago and it had Trump skyscraper he is a walking Banker just like DESANTIS is that believes in 20% Corporate Tax cuts, Tax reform and Entitlement were supposed to accomplished by closing the loopholes of Bankers like Trump not just Tax reform that Trump pushed thru a party line vote, we are headed for a shortfall of SSA and we need to raise taxes, the cap because are gonna live a Century or more just like Queen Elizabeth and the current SSA was supposed to only last a few short yrs after 65

Also we need campaign finance reform, end to Gerrymandering and ending the Electoral College once and for all, all these systems including tax codes are outdated

As soon as they go against Biden we have the tape from 2012 we need tax reform closing the loopholes on the wealthy not a 20% rate cut on Corporate taxes and that's why all Rs are gonna lose to Biden with 4% unemployment I don't even know a Prez that lost with low unemployment

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

[Rat]

Trump easily. Romney and McCain were both respectable candidates. Even before Jan 6th, they are both ahead of him on character and competence, but after Jan 6th and his behavior since then, it isn't even close.

[MABA 2020]

Trump by a mile

[Archon]

Mitt Romney got to be the worst. What a RINO.

[Goldwater]

Trump, obviously.

[Santander]

Trump is a far better human being than Mittens or St John the Murderer.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Romney, as nominee, had neither the meme energy of Trump nor the "honor" of McCain (yes, I'm aware that a lot of it was manufactured by the media and he was not an honest player at all).