Posted on 11/24/2015 10:08:12 AM PST by Michael van der Galien
After news broke that a SuperPAC supporting John Kasich is preparing to launch a $2.5 million assault on Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman once again said he's seriously considering a third party bid if he fails to win the Republican nomination.
[TRUMP TWEET]
Earlier this year, the RNC and Trump signed a pledge: Trump promised not to run as an independent candidate if he lost the nomination. In return the Republican National Committee pledged not to launch attacks against him. All he wanted, Trump said, was a level playing field.
And he got one. The RNC hasn't done anything to bring down his poll numbers nor does it plan to do so.
Why then does Trump threaten a third party ticket? SuperPAC's have absolutely nothing to do with the RNC. They are completely independent organizations that can't even coordinate their actions with the Republican Party or individual candidates. The RNC literally has no authority over them. Everything they do, they do on their own accord.
Either Trump isn't familiar with how SuperPAC's operate or he simply doesn't care. His repeated threats to run as an independent candidate prove that he wasn't looking for a level playing field after all, but for an easy, obstacle-free path to the nomination.
That is not what the RNC promised him - nor is it something the RNC can promise. Every candidate can be attacked by SuperPAC's supporting their opponents, and by their rivals themselves. That's par for the course in politics, and Trump knows it.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Let’s call it ‘Tea Party’.... if the GOPe screws him over I’m ready to switch.
Any way, the election’s over already - Trump gets mad and runs third party or eventually his ceiling support of thirty percent gets outvoted by the other seventy percent of primary voters who chose an alternate candidate, his thirty percent are angered by the Kasich-Bush PAC’s and “establishment” GOP and revert to their macho, go out in the back yard and eat worms mentality and refuse to vote for the final candidate, and we will have President Hillary and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Eric Holder......
That's true. A real Republican toes the party line to the detriment of his constituents and the US Constitution.
We need statesmen that don't kowtow to establishment politicos and monied interests,
We don't need "real Republicans".
If the GOPe continues this stupid fratricide to take out Trump it deserves to die when Trump packs up and runs third.
It is horrible that we even have to consider foul and corrupt actions by our “leaders.”
>> As bad as ALL the Bush’s turned out to be, I seriously doubt HW would have had a Monica-gate <<
GHWB gave us Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice David Souter. Batting average = .500
WJBC gave us Justicette Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Justice Stephen Breyer. Batting average = .000
‘Nuff said.
Either way this guarantees a Hillary win, maybe that is the plan from the start. Hope not
That's the difference.
Thanks for not thinking 4th-dimensionally. GHWB would have further enabled the GOPe Rockefeller Republicans and killed any future chances of resurrecting Reagan's legacy. At least with Bubba we got Gingrich's revolution in the mid-term elections - as temporary a victory that was.
We got a whole bunch of immoral activity and........wait for it....wait for it....
And look where we are now in 2016.
I'll stick with my 2 dimensional thinking.
I would have preferred the GHWB legacy rather than the WJBC legacy, one that still haunts America.
But you know what?
It only makes for great discussion and debate.
no, he’s not....he did not have a contract with the John Kasich Super PAC or campaign.
The “don’t you know Reince Preibus runs Kasich’s Super PAC” ping??????
Gee effen WHIZ.
The writer of this piece is lying. We know better.
Trump did, actually:
Asked again if he was open to an independent run, he repeated, "Well, I'm going to have to see what happens. I will see what happens. I have to be treated fairly. You know, when I did this, I said I have to be treated fairly. If I'm treated fairly, I'm fine. All I want to do is a level playing field."
Although in this Fox news story covering the signing, I saw no mention of him talking about having to be treated fairly "when I did this." And the pledge he signed reads:
"I, ________, affirm that if I do not win the 2016 Republican nomination for President of the United States I will endorse the 2016 Republican presidential nominee regardless of who it is. I further pledge that I will not seek to run as an independent or write-in candidate nor will I seek or accept the nomination for president of any other party."
And according to this Breitbart story, "Trump said he would not rip up the pledge at a later date."
The pledge was a sham, it seems to me -- both the GOP that put it forth and any who agreed to sign it, participating in a sham publicity stunt.
Well, either that or he pulls out before it is clear that he didn't "win" the nomination, but only looking like he might lose it.
a deal is a deal.
Trump has kept his end and run under the republican rules.
It takes two to tango.
Jeb! failed
Rubio is failing.
the kiddie table kandiedates were useless
Cruz they establishment hates
That is all the establishments problem and has nothing to do with the primary.
HW gave us 8 years of Clinton.
Perot gave us a PLURALITY which weakened Clinton so much both times he ran -- both times the majority of Americans rejected Clinton at the ballot box, or as some would say, voted "against" him -- that he was creamed by the Republican Revolution and then impeached. Them's the facts.
If not for Perot, either H.W. Bush or Dole (or both) would have won with a majority mandate. The Republican revolution would never have happened under those gentle "moderates." OR Clinton would have won with a majority mandate and the Republican revolution would never have happened and Clinton would never have been impeached.
Conservative Republicans, as far as I'm concerned, were helped by Perot and so was America, in that a president rejected by the majority goes into office weak and vulnerable -- and that's a good thing when that president, regardless of party, is a left-leaning big-government "moderate."
At the time, however, I was madder than hell at Perot voters. I voted for Bush and then Dole, even though I didn't like them much. It was before I realized the truth of my tagline.
super pac “independence” is a joke.
an intermediary and presto coordination via non coordination.
the old order changeth, yielding place to the new
Still... John Kasich is NOT the GOP, and no-one promised him he wouldn’t have to survive competition.
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