Posted on 05/14/2016 11:33:03 AM PDT by jazusamo
Mitt Romney, the GOP’s 2012 nominee, is among those courting prospects for a possible third-party bid to keep Donald Trump from the White House, according to a Washington Post report .
Among those prospects are Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), one of Trump’s most vocal Republican critics, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who suspended his presidential campaign in early May.
Kasich’s chief strategist John Weaver said the governor isn’t interested in running an an independent.
A Sasse spokesman declined to comment.
But it’s not looking to good for a late in the game third-party bid, according to the report.
Deadlines have passed to get on the ballot in big states like Texas, though organizers argue a legal challenge there would be successful.
SAD......Mitt Romny has destroyed whatever honor and creditablility he had left, He now resides fully in line with the Bushies as turncoats & traitors!!! Kasich & Sasse, better jump aboard the “TRUMP” train very fast, or they will in the same filthy cesspool as the bushies & Romney are!!! End of story!!!
btt
I think all these GOPe types admire Hillary. They don't have the gonads to do all the things she has done to collect money and power but they wish they did.
The GOPe has no love or loyalty for the USA. They actually think they are better than us and want to make us their slaves. Their egos have made them evil.
Yes, and the real danger Trump represents is that he has provided a road map on how a candidate wins in a new Republican Party.
I’ve no idea what the basis of a challenge could be. At this late date even if a challenge was successful by the time it would be allowed would be getting awfully close to the election.
“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
Mr. Romney "Disses" Amateur Radio In Televised Town Meeting
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
Well doug, I suppose that’s true but who knows what crap
the democrats might have pushed through and then been
able to say it was bi-paritsan.
Any way, he and the #neverturnips will spend a lot
of useless money and end up with the same result.
In fact they might even pull in some Hillary voters.
I BELIEVE Romney is trying to find a way to put LYIN RYAN on as 3rd party!!! This 3rd party run would be the most epic loss Romney and his bunch have EVER SEEN!!!! They STILL don’t get it!!!! HEY ROMNEY we CAN’T STAND YOU or the GOPe DO YOU GET IT NOW!!!!! DO YOU HEAR US NOW you BASTARD!!!!
Another humiliation in store for Romney.
Any “republican” who votes third party is just foolish.
I hope Trump destroys Willard and Hillard in a single election.
He will campaign for Hillary. Unless she begs him not to.
One would think a Republican would only consider a third party run to keep Hillary from office.
Probably depends how his meds are on any particular day...
Yes. Romney has a LOOSE SCREW!! You said it!
Linda won’t run he now likes Trump sense his buddies Mc Cain and Kelly Ayotte are in losing races
Bingo !
Globalist Romeny is outing himself, along with his Globalist cohorts.
America Awakens.
I realize my error... Long ago.
Romney, no one wanted you before and that goes doubly now. Go away.
He’ll never see them. His FB page is run by a guy hired by a guy hired by a guy hired by a guy hired by Mittens.
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