Posted on 08/10/2015 6:54:04 AM PDT by tellw
Donald Trump may soon do what Republican leaders have been asking the billionaire candidate to do -- pledge not to run as an independent candidate for president, a senior Trump adviser told ABC News.
Trump refused to take that pledge at the start of Thursday's GOP debate but is now seriously considering promising not to run as an independent if he does not win the Republican nomination, the adviser said.
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tRump might promise to not run as a third party candidate.
Fortunately for tRump, he could make that pledge and run as a democrat.
tRump could use the positions he held a couple of weeks ago too (pro-abortion, pro-Kelo, pro-Obamacare, etc)
Trump should have thrown the ? back at the other candidates! “Will all of you support me if I win the nomination?”
Would any of them raised their hands?
That should be the first question of the next debate.
If he’s considering said pledge, it’s because the GOPe has caved. This dovetails with the talk of Trump speaking with Ailes about appearing on Fox tonight.
A lot of folks really don’t care if Trump ran in the Man-in-the-Moon party, he is the loudest voice in favor of what they want.
The American system of electing presidents is what has destined it to this oligarchy of parties. In a lot of European countries they do coalitions and runoffs so as to resolve situations where all parties polled less than a majority. Not so our present Constitution.
Anecdotally, I see posters on this forum and others who are so sick of the GOP they actually want them to lose the election so that the GOP will stop taking their votes for granted. They harken back to the Perot days, but think that Trump is a much better candidate than Perot. It’s just become such a comedy that the Democrats are just sitting by and allowing us to eat each other for lunch. With friends like this...
He’d have to do a little explaining to Democrats, however, why he came out so loudly in favor of goring their sacred ox.
Not that they are so slow to forgive if you are going to suddenly prove a huge advantage to them.
But, then, we all know Trump would never say one thing & do another when it becomes convenient....
As for the idea of a third party non-politician? First of all, how do you just assume it will be a non-politician. It could well be a disenchanted Democrat or Republican. But with the general and growing contempt for the Washington crowd, a non-politician might well have the advantage.
Ross Perot, of course, was what you describe, and even with his inability to use the television address, correctly, was on the verge of making it a roughly equal three way race in 1992, before he had a paranoid incident, pulled out, and then reentered. He still got 19% of the vote, however.
Someone who understands how to use the TV address, as FDR--forget for the moment the wrong-headed policies--used the radio fire-side address--might win by a landslide.
Trump shouldn’t be trusted, regardless. The guy is out for number #1 and that is himself. He needs to be defeated quickly.
A Jeb Bush win is not a victory. The open tide Bush border and mass amnesty would end the country just as much as a Rat victory.
Every effort to defeat him seems to blow up in the face of those who mount it.
America won’t be denied.
Which is sad, as he is a liberal. He will start to decline. Little by little.
The fascist media wants to keep the lie going that there is a substantive difference between the GOPe and the Dims. For them, ideally, the Dims would be in control with the GOPe as the fake foil/useful idiots. A 3rd party run would expose this charade and would most likely destroy the GOPe.
Even if Trump declines to run, we need a 3rd party candidate if we get someone like fatso, jebbush, or rino rubio.
If we are not willing to welcome intelligent & vocal people, who are/and have been waking up, into the Conservative ranks, we have become as Lemmings hurling ourselves over the cliff to our destruction.
I have been fighting as a hard-nosed Conservative since High School, and I give thanks to God every day for men like Trump & Cruz, who are stepping into the breach for America in her greatest time of need, since the victory at Yorktown. Stop misrepresenting the evidence.
“Please explain how that will help yourself or teach Fox some kind of lesson.”
I will. There are these things called “ratings”. They’re done by counting the numbers of people who watch a given program or network and they seem to be very important to the organizations that sponsor the airtime. Each number is an individual household. Every household who clicks on a certain network or program is helping boost the ratings of said network or program. Every household that does not click on said network or program is doing nothing to further the agenda, ratings or perception of them. It’s very like what voting in an election used to be. Some people find that gratifying, especially since said network or program might offend their most valued principles.
Refusing to watch Fox helps me in many ways. It makes me feel good to deprive them of my support in any small way that I can. It also prevents blood from coming out of my “whatever” from watching the scum pat themselves on the back and skew the politics of an American election.
My one opinion and refusal to watch, however small, is joined by thousands and thousands of others who will make the same decision. This, hopefully, will teach Fox some kind of lesson. If it doesn’t, then the Devil and Liberals can take them.
Maybe Ross Perot is available!
They are trying to come up with some way they can control Trump. Since, they are unable to get him to step out of the race or smear him in order to make his numbers drop.
Trump doesn’t need them. Except, irronically IN NAME ONLY..:)
Some people are actually WISHING he would not realize that he has come across a mother lode of empowerment, and respect it. You sound like you are among them.
“Great. Enjoy Hillary or Bernie. You’ll have yourself to thank for it. This is big boy politics, not some rebellious teen acting out.”
Why not Cruz? You think if Trump backs out the election is over?
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