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Kristol on Hugh Hewitt...
the radio ^ | 05/20/2016 | taildragger

Posted on 05/20/2016 3:38:42 AM PDT by taildragger

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To: Jim Noble

That’s an interesting take on this year. Of course, there are always declared candidates of minor parties, but this year I’d be surprised if this doesn’t devastate what’s left of the Demagogic Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1860#Constitutional_Union_Party_Nomination

http://www.270towin.com/1860_Election/

http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.asp


61 posted on 05/31/2016 11:05:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: euram

“to name a specific potential SCOTUS pick and have this man/woman tell us what they believe and why.”

So, Hewitt wants Trump to act like Cruz, naming a vp running mate before having the nomination.

These people have truly lost all sense of...sense.


62 posted on 05/31/2016 11:11:06 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: SunkenCiv
What happened in 1860 was that one party could not come to consensus, and their convention split, reforming as two conventions later (the Democrats). The Republicans nominated a candidate who (almost) everybody know meant war, so in a last ditch attempt to prevent catastrophe, two "elder statesmen", former Whigs, put forward an "independent" ticket whose only platform was, "Can't we all just get along?" (we couldn't).

This led to a four-way election, the winner got 39% of the vote, 600 000 dead, 800 000 wounded or missing, and 1/3 of the nation in ruins.

We may be luckier this time.

63 posted on 05/31/2016 1:32:45 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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To: taildragger

I would ask Kristol what life is like on Planet Xenon?


64 posted on 05/31/2016 1:34:55 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: taildragger

I think this nut case has had a stroke.


65 posted on 05/31/2016 1:37:47 PM PDT by 1217Chic
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To: taildragger

Seriously?! This is the big game changer that Kristol was teasing about all weekend?!


66 posted on 05/31/2016 1:40:42 PM PDT by uncitizen (Gloves OFF! Go Trump!)
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To: taildragger
Jon Llewellyn Kyl (/ˈkaɪl/; born April 25, 1942) is a former United States Senator from Arizona, where he served as Senate Minority Whip, the second-highest position in the Republican Senate leadership. He currently works in the lobbying group at the law firm Covington & Burling.

The son of U.S. Representative John Henry Kyl, he was born and raised in Nebraska and lived for some time in Iowa. He received his bachelor's degree and law degree from the University of Arizona. He worked in Phoenix, Arizona as a lawyer and lobbyist before winning election to the United States House of Representatives, where he served from 1987 to 1995. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994 and continued to be re-elected by large margins until his retirement. -- Wikipedia

A true man of the people.

Plus, like the other remaining major party candidates -- he's already well above retirement age.

Kyl's father, the Congressman, sounds like a decent fellow, except he's even older (and deader).

67 posted on 05/31/2016 1:48:11 PM PDT by x
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Nice try, but responsibility for the war was entirely on the shoulders of the jackoffs who fired on federal installations.

68 posted on 05/31/2016 3:17:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: SunkenCiv

No disagreement about responsibility for the war.

My point was that the election of 1860 happened the way it did because the political consensus had already broken down.

Like now.


69 posted on 05/31/2016 5:54:28 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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To: taildragger; RaginRak; Ann Archy; Diogenesis; Velvet_Jones; Jim Noble; Vendome; silverleaf; ...

Bill Kristol:“I look forward to Obama’s inauguration with a surprising degree of hope and good cheer.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3435323/posts


70 posted on 05/31/2016 8:22:34 PM PDT by GOPJ (Clinton was impeached for LYING UNDER OATH in a SEXUAL HARASSMENT case NOT for an affair.)
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