Posted on 04/30/2012 3:44:52 PM PDT by knarf
..and do we have the numbers and the clout to pull it off?
Actually, the only scenario I can see in which a third party push on the right would not simply throw the election to Obama would be if the Libertarian Party nominated Ron Paul. He’d pull a hefty youth vote, mostly drawn from Obama’s 2008 vote plus a don’t-nominate-RINOs protest vote, presumably at Romney’s expense, and the usual 1-3% who vote Liberterian anyway. Even on that, the devil is in the details: Would the youth vote defection form Obama to Paul throw some states into Romney’s column? Or would the anti-RINO protest vote push some states from the Romney column to Obama? Could Paul win any states (or pick up an EV in Maine or Nebraska?) enough to toss the election to the House of Representatives? And in that case (which would end up realistically being Romney vs. Obama) which party controls a majority of the delegations?
So did Ralph Nader. Just like Ron Paul, the guy could get large numbers of naive college kids to turn out for his rallies - unfortunately those kids are not so good at actually voting. They like to do the fun stuff, not so much the actual trudging to the primary sites and casting a ballot.
Ron Paul is a non factor. He simply holds too many wacky positions to attract mainstream conservative support.
All is not lost. This dude is still running...
I also hear he has $150 dollars in his war chest and is very rested for the upcoming battle against Obummer.
Probably too soon to say. I’ve been hoping that some good conservatives are working behind the scenes, and will come up with a candidate that we can get behind.
Sarah Palin is an obvious name, either as organizer or as candidate, but she certainly won’t say anything at this stage. She did speak up once, when she threw her support behind Newt, but unfortunately Newt just couldn’t seem to cut it, after some initial success.
The difficulty is that, as we’ve seen on numerous threads for the past month, conservatives are divided on what they want, and the media have been pretty successful at playing on those divisions. This won’t work unless the conservatives can be united behind one candidate.
But I don’t see much choice. The Republican party has been getting worse and worse for the past 50 years, with the exception of Reagan, who pushed his way in against the wishes of the party establishment. Romney is by far the worst choice they have ever made. He is very little better than the Communist Muslim illegal Obama.
Romney wrecked Massachusetts worse than any Democrat governors had been able to do, putting through both gay marriage and Romneycare which his Dem predecessors had failed to do. And he did zero to fix the Mass. economy, while appointing flaming liberal judges to the courts.
We just can’t afford to go through this corrupt GOP mess yet again, whether Romney wins or loses. It’s not that they are really the stupid party. They have become the corrupt party. They would far rather lose than let someone into the White House who might try to straighten things out.
>>I don’t think our country will make it through 4 more years of BO. If BO wins this will probably be the last election we ever have for President.<<
>>I don’t think our country will make it through 4 more years of BO. If BO wins this will probably be the last election we ever have for President.<<
>>I don’t think our country will make it through 4 more years of BO. If BO wins this will probably be the last election we ever have for President.<<
Bears repeating.
All the big talk of teaching the GOP a lesson and all that will be worth squat if we have no Constitutional Republic. If Obama wins we are totally gone.
ABO.
Obama.
..and do we have the numbers and the clout to pull it off?
No.
My God, you're right! There are so many times in this country when an election was the last one!
The folks who say that the RNC is identical to the DNC claim that 2004 or earlier was the last election we had.
To which I say horse hockey too.
ABO/ABR
Oh for heaven’s sakes.
One thing the communists know is how to bring down a country. Whats funny is they do the same thing, and ‘conservatives’ do the same thing time after time. The communists win and the conservatives can’t figure out what happened.
If you want a different result out of the GOP you have to control the GOP.
That's a good thought. I can't see a scenario where anyone other than Romney or Obama will be President, so let's hope Romney makes an acceptable choice for VP.
Sadly... I agree.
There is no choice.
Who on FR is saying to vote for BHO?
Name names.....
People said that about Clinton, and also Bush. Looking to history, the hysterical little girls who said that were retarded.
And can we even agree about who that third party would be?
That’s what we get for falling for McCain’s Palin trick last time.
We can’t keep doing the same thing over and over.
Easy for me. I will cast my vote “against Obama”. If that vote happens to have Romney next to the box, so be it.
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