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Conservative magazine begs Romney to run for president
The Hill's Ballot Box Blog ^ | June 8, 2016 | Caitlin Yilek

Posted on 06/08/2016 11:57:59 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Weekly Standard published “An Open Letter to Mitt Romney” on Tuesday night, begging the former Republican presidential nominee to launch a third-party bid.

“[T]hese are extraordinary times, and your nation still has need of your service. I respectfully implore you to run for president as an independent candidate in 2016,” Jay Cost wrote.

Cost slams presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s “Nixonian paranoia” of “enemies” and calls her Republican counterpart, Donald Trump, “a sympathizer with the nativist ‘alt-right.’ ”

“They do not see Americans as Americans,” the letter continues. “They see each of us as potential allies or foes, depending upon their small-minded political calculations.”

It ends by pleading Romney to run.

“Governor Romney, there is nobody else but you who is capable of such a bid," Cost writes. “Only you possess the experience, the political network, the good health, and the time to dedicate to this great endeavor [of launching a third-party bid].”

The Weekly Standard was founded by Bill Kristol, a prominent “Never Trump” conservative who has been trying to recruit a third-party candidate.


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To: BigEdLB
except that he had a mice suit.

I tried to find a graphic for that but couldn't come up with one quickly.

61 posted on 06/08/2016 2:16:10 PM PDT by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i lThese are not "law enforcementiberalsoli o feccia.)
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To: BigEdLB
except that he had a mice suit.

I tried to find a graphic for that but couldn't come up with one quickly.

62 posted on 06/08/2016 2:16:18 PM PDT by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i lThese are not "law enforcementiberalsoli o feccia.)
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To: Resettozero
How can we better express who we are politically?

I am a constitutionalist. I believe that government at all levels should be strictly limited to the authority and power specifically granted to it in the United States and relevant State constitutions. Nothing more, and perhaps much less.

Very few politicians and political candidates agree with me.

63 posted on 06/08/2016 2:22:37 PM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: All

Putt your Mitt in the mitt of the man who

couldn’t beat Obama,

putt your mitt in the mitt of the man

who will lose to Hill.

Put your mitt in the mitt of the man whose underwear

is a magic brand

putt your mitt in the mitt of the man who will finish third.


64 posted on 06/08/2016 2:29:32 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (I've crossed the Rubicon -- God speed Donald Trump (just remember these are two different persons))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"They do not see Americans as Americans"

Wow I thought the writer must be talking about Hillary and the Demagogues. It is the liberal-left that Balkanizes our country, that treats every racial, ethnic, and sexual variation as a division to exploit for political purposes. As for the "wise Latino" (sic) judge, it is the Demonrats who have for years been insisting that every ethnic group is an interest group with its own outlooks which must be pandered to. Trump has merely been calling out the left on its own biases and assumptions.
65 posted on 06/08/2016 2:32:27 PM PDT by Enchante (#NeverSHRILLARY)
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To: utahagen
"I don’t blame Romney for losing the election"

HA! Well I sure do blame Romneykins! He proved he was incapable of fighting to defend conservative values and our very country. He allowed Obama to walk all over him, terrified of being attacked for "racism" if he actually dared to stand up to the Obamanation. Oh, there is definitely a ton of blame to fall upon Romney for HOW he lost......
66 posted on 06/08/2016 2:36:15 PM PDT by Enchante (#NeverSHRILLARY)
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To: Enchante

My point was that you can have a high opinion of Romney, yet believe it is time for Romney to give up the ghost.


67 posted on 06/08/2016 3:19:32 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: NorthMountain

I described myself as a Christian Constitutional conservative for several years on FR posts. A kinduv cumbersome title and it still doesn’t convey what I want precisely. So, I’ve mostly dropped it primarily because of the current media misuse and subsequent learned misapplication by others what I mean by “Christian, Constitutional, and/or conservative”.


68 posted on 06/08/2016 3:56:57 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: ExTexasRedhead
“[T]hese are extraordinary times, and your nation still has need of your service. I respectfully implore you to run for president as an independent candidate in 2016,” Jay Cost wrote.

Jay Cost wants Romney. Conservative elites riding the gravy train in DC WANT Romney. The rest of us have already told Romney we don't want him... we don't want Jeb... we don't want Lindsey ...

We told them with our VOTES. We voted NO. NO. NO.

These 'conservative' elites think voters don't matter? Is that their problem?

Jay Cost and his NEVER Trump friends should pack up and move to a third world hellhole where THAT idea rules - the idea that elites should get THEIR WAY OVER THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE... It's a commonly accepted idea in North Korea... Cuba... most of South America all the the ME except Israel... Evey hellhole on the planet feels 'their elites' should rule.

Our 'elites' don't want to move to a third world hellhole where OTHER elites make the calls? Ahhh yes, THEY want to be the thugs... THEY think they're smarter and better equipped for power than 'the people'. Same story in every hellhole guys...never works. Not there - not here.

Trusting the people is what made the Untied States great...

69 posted on 06/09/2016 8:20:27 AM PDT by GOPJ ("DHS Quietly Moving, Releasing Vanloads of Illegal Aliens Away from Border"-where's ABC, CBS, CNN???)
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