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Former CIA Officer Evan McMullin to Launch Independent Presidential Bid
ABC News ^ | August 8, 2016 | SHUSHANNAH WALSHE

Posted on 08/08/2016 6:59:37 AM PDT by maggief

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To: virginia9000

GOOD Catch!


41 posted on 08/08/2016 7:25:41 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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To: HarleyLady27
This has Kristol’s & Romney’s fingerprints all over it. Ex-BYU, Ex-CIA, Lots of time in the M.E. (time to be “influenced”), Ex-Goldman Sachs. Everything you DON’T want in a politician. Everything that is WRONG in DC.

Absolutely, they could have picked a more evil and treacherous candidate. This is DISGUSTING!

42 posted on 08/08/2016 7:28:18 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: maggief

This guy is not in it to win it’s all about perception against trump! get real three months away from the major election and he wants to enter the race ...what’s wrong with this picture? This is pure fabrication plain and simple ludicrous really! This sounds like a Soros stooge! !Yesterday my husband showed me an article that was posted on Facebook which said Hilary had hired thousands of operative to scout and dispute any anti-Hitlery discussions talk on forums or article posted on the web! They might even be here disguised as Debbie downers! Her team is evil they are straight from the pit of hell!! This really sounds like she is the antichrist! They’re out there folks she’s got over $1 billion to play with and they are putting all the stops against trump! The news media is out there to destroy trump at every turn which includes his family, his business and if possible destroy his grandchildren! These people are evil evil evil! the establishment and the mediawhores literally want to put a stake in the heart of Trump!


43 posted on 08/08/2016 7:29:34 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: maggief

McMullin may be a long shot, but will have a legitimate organization behind him.

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He’s not a long shot. He’s there to get Hillary elected so the Washington, DC crime wave can continue for the Uniparty.


44 posted on 08/08/2016 7:31:02 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: maggief

There sure are a lot of “Republicans” who are “with her”.


45 posted on 08/08/2016 7:31:41 AM PDT by Angels27
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To: HarleyLady27; maggief

Make that...Romney, Kristol AND Mike Lee’s dirty fingerprints, all over it.

Desperados, have lost all of their senses (if they ever had any).


46 posted on 08/08/2016 7:33:07 AM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: RoseofTexas

I visit a variety of sites...political, sports, technology, mensa, firearm...over the last week or so almost all have been hit with identical “Trump to announce he’s dropping out within the hour” posts. It’s obvious Team Hillary is desperate and trying their Alinsky tactics online.


47 posted on 08/08/2016 7:36:00 AM PDT by Mjreagan
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To: maggief

https://www.aei.org/publication/its-not-too-late-how-to-give-americans-a-choice-for-president-they-really-want/

James K. Glassman

(wiki: James Kenneth Glassman (born January 1, 1947) is the founding executive director of the George W. Bush Institute, a public policy development institution focused on creating independent, non-partisan solutions to America’s most pressing public policy problems through the principles that guided President George W. Bush and his wife Laura in public life.[1] )

July 15, 2016 | Washington Examiner

It’s not too late: How to give Americans a choice for president they really want

EXCERPT

A coalition which I advise, Better for America, has embarked on a ballot-access campaign under the belief that, with a viable pathway built, a strong candidate will step up to use it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/us/politics/third-party-candidate.html?_r=0

JUNE 14, 2016

A conservative donor who has been scouring Republican ranks for a third-party candidate is pressing ahead with a group to get on the ballot in dozens of states. The candidate will come once the group sees that the ballot access is possible.

The donor, John Kingston, a bundler and ally of Mitt Romney, said he will bankroll a ballot-access project to create a path for someone to run as another option. The effort is being called Better for America.

The idea is “to do a proof of concept for everybody,” Mr. Kingston said. “It exists, there is a pathway, there is a road that you can be going down.”

The Massachusetts man was heavily involved in efforts led by the Weekly Standard editor William Kristol to find a challenger to both Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump for a third-party line. His approach is similar to one used by a group, Americans Elect, in 2012, when it tried creating a ballot line unattached to a major party.

Better for America has Mr. Kingston working with the pollster Joel Searby as the chief strategist, as well as the lawyers Mohammad Jazil and Matthew Sawyer. Mr. Sawyer was the general counsel for the Texas business magnate H. Ross Perot’s Reform Party presidential run in 1996. Anne MacDonald, who was the chief of staff to the first lady Laura Bush, is also advising the group.

http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/07/gov_whitman_neither_trump_nor_clinton_-_time_for_3rd_party_candidate_opinion.html

Gov. Whitman: Neither Trump, nor Clinton - let’s find 3rd party candidate | Opinion

July 13, 2016

That’s why I am supporting Better for America (BFA), which is actively working to build a pathway for a credible candidate to launch an independent run for president by establishing a ballot line in all viable states and engaging a variety of legal paths to gain ballot access in those states whose deadlines pass.

http://time.com/4436805/lawrence-lessig-randy-barnett/

So far, these challenges have not paid off well enough for a viable independent to run for president. But now a nonpartisan group called Better for America is taking up the fight aggressively.

BFA’s organizers believe there is still time for someone with integrity, honor, and trustworthiness to compete against the two major party candidates. The group is currently engaged in signature drives to gain access to the ballot in enough states to account for substantially all 538 votes in the Electoral College. However, in several key states like Illinois (with 20 electoral votes), Texas (30), and North Carolina (15), the deadlines have already passed. So, to get on the ballot in all 50 states, the organization is launching a massive legal challenge to state laws that, they contend, are overly burdensome, byzantine and anachronistic.


48 posted on 08/08/2016 7:37:26 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Jane Long

And, Bush ... see also post #48.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436273/david-french-2016-never-trump-candidacy-inside-story

June 6, 2016

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436273/david-french-2016-never-trump-candidacy-inside-story

On Sunday, hours before he publicly passed on a run, French attended a meeting in New York City with a wider group of anti-Trumpites, including Kristol, Kingston, former Jeb Bush aide John Noonan, and former Carly Fiorina aide Sarah Isgur Flores, among others. When he told those assembled in the room that he would not run, they once again found themselves grappling with how to lay the foundation for an anti-Trump movement either inside or outside of the Republican party — in essence, with how to keep the conservative movement alive.


49 posted on 08/08/2016 7:44:26 AM PDT by maggief
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To: nhwingut

Trump supporters have to take a deep breath and relax.

Think about this. Anyone who votes for the fake ‘conservative’ would have voted for Hillary otherwise.

So it’s better that they vote third party than give the communist bitch more votes.

This is a good thing. It will take votes away from the evil witch.


50 posted on 08/08/2016 7:50:50 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: maggief

Good grief.....these globalist butthurts never stop, do they? Romney, Kristol, FioRINO, Bush.....the list of Hellary supporters goes on and on.

Speaking of W Bush....you remember him...the guy who’s NEVER had an unkind word to say about commie 0bama....has this to say, now....

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/03/george-w-bush-slams-isolationism-nativism-and-protectionism-in-apparent-trump-critique.html


51 posted on 08/08/2016 7:51:04 AM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: maggief

CIA, Goldman Sachs.

What a winning combo. /sarc


52 posted on 08/08/2016 7:53:10 AM PDT by dforest
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To: HarleyLady27

Thanks for the list, HarleyLady27.

August 15th is filing deadline for Presidential ballot access in Utah.
August 25 for Montana and Idaho.
August 29th for Wyoming.
August 30 for Oregon.
October 10th for AZ.

Too late for Nevada, New Mexico and Washington.


53 posted on 08/08/2016 7:59:53 AM PDT by Sal (It's time to flush the 'PEE away!)
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To: maggief

It was the CIAs screwup on Iraq WMDs that started this whole mess...


54 posted on 08/08/2016 8:09:27 AM PDT by Homer1
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To: maggief

Trump must be doing well or they wouldn’t be so terrified of him.


55 posted on 08/08/2016 8:11:51 AM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

I hope you’re right and that is a much more positive take. The only thing I worry about is Willard going around and getting a significant number of Mormons to change their Trump vote... Hopefully enough of them will be smart enough to think for themselves and care enough for their kids to vote Trump.


56 posted on 08/08/2016 8:14:26 AM PDT by Sal (It's time to flush the 'PEE away!)
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To: maggief

And he will take all three votes. What a waste of money.


57 posted on 08/08/2016 8:22:29 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: HarleyLady27

Good grief. He is horrible. Thanks for posting.


58 posted on 08/08/2016 10:06:17 AM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~First woman nominated to be Prez, Valerie Jarrett, not Hillary.)
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To: maggief

That idiot absolutely wants the election get handed over to Hillary Rotten Clinton.


59 posted on 08/08/2016 11:02:03 AM PDT by Kaslin (He neededAwesomeOf the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: dp0622
These mother #####ers are really pressing their luck.

When the above comment was picked up and singled out by this article in another publication, the readers could not tell whether that publication had hashed out the naughty language or whether FR allows naughty language.

Someplace in the annals of FR is a warning not to use substitute marks to indicate a cussword. This is a good example of why that is.

Just sayin'.

60 posted on 08/08/2016 6:36:41 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. --Donald Trump)
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