Posted on 08/10/2015 5:04:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Columnist and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan said that “a significant slice of the Republican Party would take a walk” on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump “and you could have a Goldwater situation,” and questioned the general election viability of other candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ben Carson on Monday’s “Sean Hannity Show.”
Buchanan was asked whether Trump should pledge not to run as a third-party candidate. He answered that while this is “a political decision” for Trump, it would be “hard” for the Republicans to win if he runs third-party. Buchanan added, “I think it would be the right thing for him to do, to take that pledge, because I think it would enhance his strength inside the Republican Party. It would remove a problem a lot of Republicans have with him, and I think if he runs third-party, he is not going to win the election. He’s going to be blamed for electing Hillary Rodham Clinton. And having run third-party, Sean, and taken four states away from George Bush, if I were him, I would take the pledge.”
Buchanan also stated that if he were advising Trump, he would have told him to “get some substance in there” before the debate. He specifically talked about Trump’s plan to make Mexico pay for a border fence, and said Trump needed to explain his plan to do so.
Earlier, Buchanan said that Trump, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, and Carly Fiorina are outsider candidates, and that “there’s a real disgust with the political establishment, a hostility to the political establishment, and I think the Republican Party does not want the establishment candidates who are being put on offer right now....
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Of course Cruz will inherit the Trumpers.
Problem is, he has no idea what to do with them.
What bothers me most about the GOPe is that they do not comprehend how outraged the voters have become over illegal aliens being preferred to U.S. citizens who vote!
What part of illegal don’t the GOPe understand?
Works for me, Trump goes Cruz stays.
Goldwater slogan: In your heart, you know he's right!
LBJ Response: In your guts, you know he's nuts.
Buchanan is retarded.
It's the Yebster who is in serious trouble of creating a Goldwater magnitude loss. There is no way to drag his lard butt across the Nov., 2016 finish line.
Pat Buchanan, a loser, offering advice to Donald Trump a winner.
As to any thought of things falling to Cruz should Trump pull out, that’s fantasy. The GOPe hate Cruz with a passion.
A much more plausible scenario would be Ted Cruz joining Donald Trump should Trump go 3rd party.
What in the world does that even mean?
I’m thinking the same thing on Trump and Cruz. But disagree on Fiorina. She’ll slip into the GOPe mold easy as pie.
Go, Trump, GO!!
Go, Cruz, GO!!
Let’s face it, Trump didn’t have much new to say. He does need to articulate things better. For example, I would say Huckabee was light years better in that regard, as was Cruz.
So the blue bloods won’t hold their noses for Trump, huh?
My concern is that Jeb! is sinking too fast. They still have enough time to run Mitt Romney.
So? Goldwater eventually led to Reagan.
Send them to bed without dessert.
I was told that if I voted for Goldwater, we’d have riots in the streets and get into a long, unwinnable war. Well I voted for him, and darned if they weren’t right.
Well, a significant number of Trump supporters will walk if the GOPe screws him out of the nomination. That is, if he has a plurality of delegates and votes, and they collude to give it to someone else.
GOP = RATS
It’s all one party.
LOL
They still have Chris Christie in the wings if Jeb gives it up.
Well duh! That’s the plan people!
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