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Oh yes: Jon Huntsman kinda sorta maybe open to an independent run
Hot Air ^ | December 21, 2015 | Allahpundit

Posted on 12/21/2015 9:21:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe I’m overselling it a tiny bit in the headline. Watch the clip below, from 3:05 to 5:00, and tell me what he’s saying. When he’s asked who he’d vote for in a Trump/Hillary election, he emphasizes that he’s a Republican but he won’t give a straight answer about supporting Trump. He wants to see if Trump, as nominee, blossoms into a “problem-solver” during the general election campaign, in which case then, it seems, he’ll support him. But what if Trump doesn’t become that guy? Huntsman says no when asked about an independent run but then adds, “I’m not ready for a third-party run until we have a complete collapse of the Republican Party that I can still believe in.” Er, isn’t that exactly how Trump’s critics on the right describe the prospect of him as nominee? If he goes on being his Trumpy self rather than the imaginary Serious Trump that Huntsman suggests he might become, would Huntsman get in then? He’s right that a third-party run would be a “suicide mission,” but some segment of the GOP base would be up for that rather than see Trump win. Who’s going to be their figurehead?

Jeff Greenfield imagined exactly this sort of scenario, in which Trump wins the nomination and then the Republican establishment goes third-party against him, this weekend:

Dan Schnur spent a lifetime in the vineyards of the Republican Party, working in the Reagan and Bush presidential campaigns and serving as communications director for the California Republican Party. He’s now an independent and heads the Unruh Institute of Politics at USC. He argues “a Trump nomination would virtually guarantee a third-party campaign from a more traditional Republican candidate.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Utah; Campaign News; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; gaykkk; homosexualagenda; huntsman; jonhuntsman; libertarians; medicalmarijuana; trump; utah
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who?


21 posted on 12/22/2015 12:54:18 PM PST by fwdude
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Actually, by the GOPE’s own rules, passed recently when the TEA Party started looking like a threat (with cooperation from the DEMs), make a third party run almost impossible, especially when organized at the last moment. The candidate needs significant percentages of the votes, and none of the GOPe champions are getting close to even 8 pct. Even if they run only one name who takes ALL of the GOPe vote, they may not top 10 pct of likely voters.


22 posted on 12/22/2015 12:59:02 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Slyfox

So, who are the fools who are going to cough up the money for Huntsman to mount any sort of campaign?

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Jon Huntsman’s father is “Donald Trumpish wealthy”.


23 posted on 12/25/2015 1:16:06 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: Graybeard58
As if he had any hope of winning.

If we could figure out a way to get on his campaign staff.

The pay probably wouldn't be too shabby.

24 posted on 12/27/2015 7:52:37 AM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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