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Trump again won’t rule out a third-party run
Washington Post ^

Posted on 11/22/2015 8:30:24 AM PST by springwater13

Edited on 11/22/2015 9:43:35 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Trump was responding to a Wall Street Journal report that Republican operatives are considering banding together donors from the other GOP campaigns in a bid to knock Trump off the top spot.

Their efforts are taking on increased urgency as the first-in-the-nation Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses near and Trump leads the crowded GOP field for the fourth consecutive month, according to a new national Washington Post-ABC News poll. Some candidates, including Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida governor Jeb Bush, also are showing more willingness lately to directly attack Trump.


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To: ScottinVA

Rubio, Kasich, or Bush. I vote 3rd party so fast your head will spin. I already did it in 2012, not an empty threat. Get your head out of the GOPe rear.


41 posted on 11/22/2015 9:34:05 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: ScottinVA

Apparently, no one can explain this silly expression.


42 posted on 11/22/2015 9:34:48 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: Psalm 144

Actually, to imply Trump’s handing the election to Hillary (because you know damned well that’d be the result) is somehow a good thing is a perversion in itself.


43 posted on 11/22/2015 9:34:57 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: Crazieman

Get your head out of the clouds of wistful fantasy if voting for Trump as a 3rd party candidate won’t deliver the election to Hillary.


44 posted on 11/22/2015 9:36:23 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: ScottinVA

Get your head out of the clouds of wistful fantasy if you’re thinking voting for Trump as a 3rd party candidate won’t deliver the election to Hillary.


45 posted on 11/22/2015 9:37:16 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: ScottinVA

If it results in the final oblivion of the Geriatric Old Plotters, it would be worth it. What the Geriatric Old Plotters need to do is go back to their usual drinking, grifting, men’s room romances and fantasies of waging war against the whole world on borrowed money. That is all that leper colony and false front operation has been good for since 1989.


46 posted on 11/22/2015 9:39:19 AM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: Psalm 144
Why do you think the dems would win? Bill Clinton hasn't been President for almost 16 years. Voters under age 30 or so have no positive memories from that time or positive vibes about hillary. Law-abiding hard working dems have suffered under Obama. We've had constant war since 911, and Trump is the only one offering a "get tough" approach.

I subject that Jeb's 6% or so in the polls, added to Kasich, gives just about 10%. That's about all the backstabbers represent in the Republican Party as far as voter count is concerned.

Think about all the good a third party Trump could do in getting rid of elements in the 'pub leadership who treat conservatives as the enemy, except when pandering for our votes.

47 posted on 11/22/2015 9:39:39 AM PST by grania
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To: Moonman62

I never heard Trump say he would go third party.

When asked he said “ let’s see what happens.” That can mean anything. He never ever confirmed he would run third party.

Here is the interview!

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-isnt-ruling-independent-run/story?id=35335721


48 posted on 11/22/2015 9:43:24 AM PST by GilGil
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To: springwater13
"When I did this, I said I have to be treated fairly," Trump told Stephanopoulos. "If I'm treated fairly, I'm fine. All I want to do is [have] a level playing field."

Yes, well, life's not fair. What's more, politics is a blood sport. Not being treated "fair" ought to be a given, and frankly, you have no right to a "level playing field" (who is going to level it for you and how?).

49 posted on 11/22/2015 9:43:25 AM PST by Irish Rose (Will work for chocolate.)
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To: jpsb
It is too late for Trump to go third party, that ship sailed when he signed "the pledge". But just for grins say he goes third party

It's too late, but if he does?

Do yourself a favor, and don't get involved in political consulting.

50 posted on 11/22/2015 9:44:10 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: grania

Because enough senescent party lickspittles and serfs would vote GOP that it would overwhelm the amount of crossovers Trump could pull, also BOTH parties (criminal racketeering gangs IMO) would work together on vote fraud.

If the election were honest, I could see Trump coming in ahead of the GOP, but I don’t see him winning a plurality. I would -LOVE- to be wrong, and both criminal gangs humiliated, but I don’t see it.

We have to put the fear of God in the Geriatric Old Plotters NOW, or I see a three way split with a Dem victory or forgery of one.


51 posted on 11/22/2015 9:46:00 AM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: grania

In the interview I ever heard him say he would run third party. He just said “let’s see what happens” when asked and that to me means anything. He could have 10 fallback plans.

Here is the interview. Judge for yourself.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-isnt-ruling-independent-run/story?id=35335721


52 posted on 11/22/2015 9:46:01 AM PST by GilGil
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To: GilGil

“He could have 10 fallback plans.”

I hope he has compromising material. Whatever, he doesn’t seem to worried.


53 posted on 11/22/2015 9:47:47 AM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: Psalm 144

Let’s cut to the chase.. How is the insanity of handing the election to Hillary Clinton somehow of benefit to this country’s future?

And please.. let’s cast aside silly notions Trump would win a three-way, because that’s not going to come close to happening.


54 posted on 11/22/2015 9:48:43 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: Psalm 144

So... knowing Hillary, in an eight-year administration, would be replacing a minimum of 3 SCOTUS justices, that’s somehow worth it to stick it to the GOP?


55 posted on 11/22/2015 9:51:50 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: springwater13

The uni-party always likes to set up a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose contest. Would it not be awesome for Cruz or Trump to spoil this rotten system!


56 posted on 11/22/2015 9:52:23 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Calpublican

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. The forces that drive McConnell would vastly prefer President Hillary than President Trump. If Cruz looks like he’s going to win it all, they have SCOTUS declare him ineligible.

I don’t think Trump is a Conservative lightbender perfect hero antiObama sent to save us, but he’s the only alternative to the crooks we have running the show now.


57 posted on 11/22/2015 9:53:34 AM PST by M1911A1 (My red line is Jeb Bush.)
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To: springwater13
But WILL JEB La Raza BUSH run as a candidate for a TURD Party ?
58 posted on 11/22/2015 9:55:02 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Psalm 144

If you view Trump through the prism of negotiations you understand what he is doing. Throwing out this vague statement on what he plans to do if he is not treated fairly is a negotiations ploy.

He has now refocused the attention on himself and no one knows what he will do next.

Hasn’t Trump said that many around him say they never know what he will do next? He is unpredictable.

It really is true politicians have no idea how to negotiate and Trump is just playing them like the suckers they are. Negotiating is really an art and you have to be talented at it. Trump is hugely talented at it. His competitors are total failures at it. Trump has said this many times.

That is why they call Trump the happy warrior. He is doing things where he knows what will happen even before he does it and the media, the candidates are being led by the nose.

Even in his latest interview on ABC it is almost like he is talking to a 10 year old George Steppenalloverus. George does not even seem to know how to deal with Trump.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-isnt-ruling-independent-run/story?id=35335721

Everyone is reacting to Trump which means he is solidly in charge. He is negotiating the terms of the establishment’s surrender to him and they do not realize it!!!

That is why he is having such a great time.


59 posted on 11/22/2015 9:57:00 AM PST by GilGil
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To: ScottinVA

I already told you.

The ultimate destruction of the GOP would make the exercise worthwhile should it become necessary.

The GOP is a false front. A bucket of Quislings. The enemy within.

I wish them ill, and would rejoice to the see the PC-GOP’s corpse thrown on top of the Whigs moldering bones. The simpering, sensitive, PC-GOP’s brazen sabotage of the primary and coming in third in a three way race might just accomplish that task. Trump is the only one who might beat Hillary. The others are too uninspiring or are the same sellouts we’ve been burdened with for a quarter century.

I’m done talking to you since you are willfully obtuse and a party hack.

So buzz off and quit altering my posts.


60 posted on 11/22/2015 9:57:09 AM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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