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My candidate is the GOP nominee because third party candidates elect Democrats and this cannot happen this year. Period.
Let’s get through more than 2 contests before you wave the white flag.
By all means, do whatever you can to assure the reelection of Obama. It is clear that those who want a third party candidacy are really trying to get Obama reelected, because THAT IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESULT FROM A THIRD PARTY RUN. There will be NO third party candidate elected to the presidency. It will not happen.
I agree with this reply (you should too....unless you WANT another four years of Obama):
“My candidate is the GOP nominee because third party candidates elect Democrats and this cannot happen this year. Period.”
THIS year is CRITICAL for the USA.
I’ve said for several years now that we are in a 100 year economic/social storm. There is no human or political solution. My risk mitigation is to become a prepper, not to vote in someone from the current crop to fix this. None of them can.
The train has gone off the tracks and changing engineers will not help. All you can do is find a good place to ride it out. It’s what I’ve done. It doesn’t bring any guarantees, but at least I feel more in control of my own destiny.
If Romney is nominated, then I will vote for whatever nonentity the Constitution Party serves up. The Constitution Party candidate will lose. Either R0mney or 0bama will be in the White House, and America will be under the bootheel of a committed socialist.
I hope that will be "all the way to the White House".
If you don't have a horse in the race, then at least hang on until the nominee selects a running mate. Can you remember back to the weeks before McCain chose his VP? Good God, there was almost a suicide watch on Free Republic members. We disliked McCain as much or more than we do Romney today. But McCain chooses Palin, and us same McCain bashers on FR are breaking out our check books or asking how we can volunteer.
What happens if Obozo fails to qualify for key primaries?
With no visible democrat opposition, democrats could easily be left in the cold with no viable candidate, and no time left to raise one.
I know it’s a stretch, but if that were to happen, a third party candidate could have a chance.
As for me, it has become clear that the republican nominee will have been chosen long before I have a chance to vote.
I’m pretty much done with the whole load of crap.
I will vote, but I no longer have any horse in the race.
My horse tucked his tail between his legs and ran like a little girl.
I’m a man without a party.
Obama is a communist. I will do whatever I have to do in this next election to prevent a communist from remaining in power.
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mcromeny has 12 delegates, 1144 are needed to get the nomination (this means he has less than 1% of what is needed, for the mathematically challenged )....nothing is inevitable yet, hell it is too early to even begin thinking about who will win... gotta wait till super tuesday at the earliest..
There will be.
Dude we are not even through SC yet. Give peace a chance.
The last 2 presidential elections, I looked at The Constitution Party website. Ron Paul would be their ideal candidate, it seems. They are very conservative on domestic issues. They, like Ron Paul, are completely out of touch with reality on foreign affairs.
Pat Buchanan effectively destroyed the last real viable attempt to develop a third party, and that was when he took over Ross Perot’s Reform Party. Buchanan managed to bankrupt it and put it out of business.
A third party cannot just rise up around an individual or around a single issue. That is doomed to failure. Developing a third party into a viable force takes time and money.
As one thread indicated yesterday, some 40% of voters consider themselves conservatives. That 40% is greater than the numbers of either current major party. That 40%, however, just doesn’t know how to utilize their numbers. The Tea Party movement was a viable force, but it proclaimed that it would not develop into a political party. A viable third party needs that kind of movement, however, to at least get it started. Such a developing party may need a decade to evolve into a political force.
Conservatives don’t have a dog in this fight. Sigh....
NOBODY is going to run 3rd party. Not Paul, not Gingrich, not Sarah, NOBODY.
The silly game of guess who is not even worth answering except for this. We have a president to remove, in case you don’t know.
If the conservative candidates don’t unite, and Romney gets the nomination, who you gonna vote for?