Posted on 07/24/2015 7:11:59 AM PDT by HarleyLady27
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump opened the door to a third-party run for the White House if he does not win the GOP nomination.
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There isn't a perfect candidate, there isn't a perfect POTUS....some will disappoint you during the running of a candidate, and the man that is given our vote as POTUS will disappoint you....the only perfect people on earth are not ON earth anymore, they are in Heaven...so don't be disappointed if the person your choosing as the next POTUS isn't perfect, we are not perfect humans....
In an interview with The Hill Wednesday, Trump bemoaned his current relationship with the Republican National Committee. “The RNC has not been supportive. They were always supportive when I was a contributor. I was their fair-haired boy,” Trump said from his Manhattan office at Trump Tower. “The RNC has been, I think, very foolish.” Trump was asked directly if he would run on a third-party ticket and did not rule it out, noting that “so many people want me to, if I don’t win.”
I’ll have to see how I’m being treated by the Republicans … Absolutely, if they’re not fair, that would be a factor. The comments come only a few weeks after Trump revealed the details of a call during which RNC chairman Reince Priebus advised the real estate mogul to “keep it down a little bit” with regard to his rhetoric.
More recently, Trump, who has been leading recent polls, drew fire from several of his fellow GOP presidential candidates for asserting at a forum in Iowa Saturday that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was “not a war hero” in the Vietnam War. “I like people that weren’t captured,” Trump said at the time.
One of said candidates was Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who called Trump a “jackass” for his comments. At a rally in Graham’s home state of South Carolina Tuesday, Trump responded by calling the senator an “idiot” and releasing his personal cell phone number.
He is not perfect- but I like what I am hearing so far.
Maybe he will ignite a firestorm of “throw the bums out” anger that will get RINO’s primaried all over the country, and maybe some democrats oustered too. ALL INCUMBANTS should go, especially any that have been in office for the last 3 decades.
DONT FORGET !!!
Only about 10% of voters vote in primaries. So your vote goes much much farther in a primary 9to remove a RINO) than at any other time.
In my polling place last mid-term there was 16 voters ALL DAY. If I had gotten a dozen friends to join me we would have dominated that entire district or precint or whatever you call it.
We need to do that in every single district
No matter—Trump’s been talking to the GOPe/RNC and came out this morning with the proper pro-amnesty position.
They’re not really afraid of him anymore: he has the right position, they play nice, and he won’t go third party.
I don’t think they’re that scared. They’re just fine being minority as long as they get their payoffs.
He did not come out pro-amnesty. He said to build the fence and then throw out the criminals immediately then deal with the 30 million illegals.
Build the fence and then worry about the illegals.
Pray America is waking
What I care about is he's shaking up the racket the GOP and democrats had going.
What he needs to do now is not only continue to nail them on the illegal immigration issue, but reduce other issues to simple sound bites he can hit in interviews and rallies -
1) Obama's side deals with Iran protecting the no. 1 sponsor of Islamic int'l terrorism from attack, even from Israel
2) Congress exempting itself from provisions of the ACA
3) Obama's race database including personal information on every American citizen.
4) Planned Parenthood peddling baby parts for profit.
And on and on. People will go nuts.
No, there certainly aren’t perfect candidates. But I’d like to add this. Although I’ve not been a supporter of Trump in the vein of being a candidate for whom I’d vote, he is performing an extremely valuable function in forcing out the true mien of the rest of the candidate slate and the appeasing “concern monkeys” in the establishment GOP - notably, our so-called Republican Leaders.
The GOPe in abusing and marginalizing Trump do so at their peril. If they do force him out of bounds because of “their” rules and fear of not upsetting every victim group who aims to destroy this country, then they will reap the whirlwind. They will lose their precious chance at an appeasing triumvirate (which they are probably scared of anyway).
I’ll flat out say it: There is absolutely no way I’d vote for a Jeb Bush, or any of the other establishment GOP hacks - ever. If they force him to go third party, they’ll have sealed the fate on that win they wanted. And, I’ll go ahead and go third party, because I’m not going to hold my nose anymore and I want to send them a message they cannot ignore. For those out there who will say “you’re electing Hillary, then”....no, I won’t - the GOPe did that even before I got a chance to vote.
As I’ve said before: “the only perfect candidate is Jesus and he’s not on the ballot.”
That’s what he said in Laredo.
This morning he said throw out the criminals and then for the outstanding and hardworking ones who have been suffering in the shadows, work something out for them.
That’s amnesty.
Ted Cruz is the only authentic conservative candidate. Donald Trump is not always conservative, but at least he recognizes the corrupt, rotten GOPe for what it is and at least he has the fortitude to call out the GOPe.
If the GOPe is successful in kneecapping Ted out of the nomination, then Trump should run third-party to destroy the corrupt GOPe for once and for all. Smash it into the dustbin of history.
No problem. If thats true then Cruz will pick up where Trump left off.
Like I said earlier:
I don’t think we have seen a sliver of the things that Mr. Trump has planned...
He has all of the House of Representatives....
He has all of the Senate...
He has all of Home Land Security...
He has the IRS...
He has the VA Committee...
He has Social Security...
He’s got a long ways to go and I think before next Nov he will have it all done and sewn up for us to look back on how corrupt this government has gotten and the people who have made it that way....
He has just started with McCain, Graham, Perry and Bush....and he has told us how he stands on obamacare, and illegal immigration and the Veterans...
I’m 50 years old and have seen enough of Trump to know better than to turn my back on him.
If he doesn’t get the GOP nomination, by then it will be too late to run as an Independent in every state. There are deadlines for filing and laws that prevent a candidate from running 3rd party if s/he loses a primary in another party.
Yeah, except Cruz is for “legalization” himself.
I don’t believe this was the correct quote. GOPe were attempting to exclude the current front runner (Trump) from the debate. He demanded that he be treated fairly, or he would go third party.
Let the crooks like McCain, Graham, Perry, Bush worry about how they are going to be dodging bullets, cause that is what they are doing....
I’m 60 years old and have seen enough duplicity from the Uniparty for most of my adult life to know better than to turn my back on it.
If nothing else, Trump is illustrating for the thinking voter that there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between establishment DemocRATS and establishment Republicans.
So Trump has threatened to go third party, and that supposedly has the GOPgirlys running scared. That is laughable. Trump in a third party gives the presidency to the dems, and eliminates Trump from the White House. How does any of that scare the GOPGIRLYS?
Trump would not have to be on the ballot in every state in order to scre* the GOPe - only one state could be enough to sink their golden-haired, “electable” candidate whoever that turns out to be.
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