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Trump's impending nomination means it's time for a third candidate
Washington Post ^ | May 3, 2016 | Eliot A. Cohen

Posted on 05/03/2016 7:43:44 PM PDT by kevcol

Eliot A. Cohen served in the Defense and State departments in the George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush administrations, respectively.

It's over. Donald Trump, a man utterly unfit for the position by temperament, values and policy preferences, will be the Republican nominee for president. He will run against Hillary Clinton, who is easily the lesser evil but is trailed by clouds of scandal and misconduct and whose party's left wing poses its own threats to liberties of speech, religion, enterprise and association.

It is time for a third candidate, and probably for a third party.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
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To: livius

OK.

Who are these good/younger potential GOP candidates you speak of? Why didn’t they run when they had the chance?


41 posted on 05/03/2016 7:56:11 PM PDT by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State)
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To: kevcol

He an Ediot.


42 posted on 05/03/2016 7:57:05 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: kevcol

Third Party advocate? Pick up your dollies and go home you asshole, commie bastard.

Strong letter to follow.


43 posted on 05/03/2016 7:57:27 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: kevcol
Hilarious article, and thanks for posting. The Establishment is squealing like a stuck pig. I love it.

No, I do not think that the "answer" is to be found in a third party unless the question is an exceedingly stupid one. Despite Cohen's opium dream the polity is not crying out for Mitt Romney to come save us, and in any case it isn't us that Cohen wants to be saved, but himself and the entire uniparty infrastructure that has infested the body politic like a swarm of bloodthirsty ticks. Time for a bath, and if it turns out to be a bloodbath, he'd better start running now.

44 posted on 05/03/2016 7:58:07 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: kevcol

What it’s really time for is, it’s time for the old Bush hands from both Bushes to retire and disappear from the political scene. The polices they pursued for twelve years have mostly left the nation worse off and their advice is no longer needed, or wanted by most.


45 posted on 05/03/2016 7:58:16 PM PDT by Will88
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To: kevcol

I hope when Trump wins he goes McCarthy on any “conservative” that believes.....”...Hillary Clinton, who is easily the lesser evil....”


46 posted on 05/03/2016 7:58:20 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: kevcol

Yes the long suffering voice of globalism, endless war, endless debt cries out!


47 posted on 05/03/2016 7:58:44 PM PDT by major-pelham
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To: kevcol

Eliot Cohen. I saw his picture before in the dictionary, under the ‘F’s for ‘f—kwit’.


48 posted on 05/03/2016 7:59:46 PM PDT by mkjessup (Either get on the Trump train, or be left at the station. The only other train is Hillary. CHOOSE.)
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To: kevcol

Yeah, Yeah!!! I hope Bernie Sanders runs third party!


49 posted on 05/03/2016 7:59:47 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: kevcol

John Anderson!


50 posted on 05/03/2016 8:00:29 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: ConservativeMind

They can go ahead and run a libertarian, he would take votes from both candidates, it would be a wash.


51 posted on 05/03/2016 8:01:33 PM PDT by bigtoona (The media, GOPe, dems, commie Pope, hate Trump. He is the destroyer we've been waiting for!)
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To: livius

Have fun with that; have fun with Her Thighness.


52 posted on 05/03/2016 8:01:53 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: kevcol

Sorry, that gravy train is leaving the station.


53 posted on 05/03/2016 8:02:06 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: BenLurkin

It has also revealed its impotence.


54 posted on 05/03/2016 8:03:39 PM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016)
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To: kevcol

I urge Bernie to run 3rd party.


55 posted on 05/03/2016 8:04:59 PM PDT by doug from upland
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To: DoughtyOne

Fruck them. Hang em high!!!!!


56 posted on 05/03/2016 8:05:16 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose
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To: kevcol

Oh, the editorialists of the Washington Post (and the New York Times and Boston Globe, etc.) really are scum, aren’t they?

Go Trump, go!!!! PHOOEY to the nay-sayers!!!!


57 posted on 05/03/2016 8:05:34 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: kevcol

Our own party has sold us out. They helped loot 20 billion dollars. We’ve been invaded. 30 million easy. Its every man for himself at this point.


58 posted on 05/03/2016 8:05:53 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: kevcol
This diatribe by a Washington insider exemplifies exactly why an outsider was/is required. Even from the democrat side. Alhough Sanders is not exactly an ‘outsider’, he is the closest thing to that the democrats have running in this primary season, and he is putting on a heck of a show. People are tired of candidates who have no special qualifications other than having attended some overrated college/university and/or coming from a wealthy or politically connected family. Take off the bow tie and realize that God didn't give you ‘special’ knowledge that allows you to dismiss the opinions of every who doesn't agree with you.
59 posted on 05/03/2016 8:06:13 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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If the GOP tries to run a third party candidate you had better start practicing to say President Hillary Clinton without gagging.

Trump is definitely the lesser of two evils. (and I do mean EVILS!)


60 posted on 05/03/2016 8:06:40 PM PDT by lrdg
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