Sent from his Iphone......
Posted on 10/20/2011 11:40:57 AM PDT by broken_arrow1
The GOP could face a revolt from within its tea party grassroots base if it nominates an establishment candidate without true conservative, anti-big government values, one of America’s leading conservative pundits tells Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview.
Specifically, columnist and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan told Newsmax that the nomination of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the architect of a state insurance plan that many say inspired Obamacare, could prompt the tea party movement to form a third party.
“It’s a real possibility because the tea party folks and the Republican conservatives and social conservatives and others are very apprehensive of Mitt Romney and they don’t feel he is really one of us,” Buchanan told Newsmax.
“They’ve got reason for that feeling and that sentiment but if they do that, if, for example … they persuaded Ron Paul to run on a third party ticket, Barack Obama would be easily re-elected,” he added.
Buchanan would certainly know. A former aide to President Ronald Reagan, he was one of the first conservative commentators to hold a prominent job as a TV commentator and syndicated columnist in the mainstream media.
From 1966 through 1974, Buchanan was an assistant to Richard Nixon, and from 1985 to 1987, White House Director of Communications for Reagan.
Buchanan ran twice for the Republican nomination for president and then in 2000 ran for the White House on the Reform Party ticket. He said he can see a third party candidate emerging in 2012 if Mitt Romney gets the GOP nod.
Of the current Republican candidates he said, “Certainly Michele Bachmann is one of us. I think Rick Perry is. I think Herman Cain is. If you are talking about a more traditional conservative certainly I would put Santorum in there.
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Once Elder Scrolls 5 is out and I get my PS3 fixed, I forsee even more ancient wisdom being worked into ‘the mood’ ;)
*invokes decoder ring*
Due to my bestowed psychic powers, I knew you were gonna use the decoder ring...
I'm making records my fans they can't wait
They write me letters tell me I'm great
So I got me an office gold records on the wall
Just leave a message maybe I'll call
/decoder messaging........wait. wait.......
LoL :)
I Finally tired out of Oblivion (after playing every pixel) last year :p
(Aren’t we too old to be playing games?!
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naw.. ;))
Just keep the doors locked for safety and keep the mouth harp handy at all times. ;)
Well, get thee to supporting! What the *ell do you think Free Republic is if not the premier conservative news network?
My tagline isn't new and I don't change it. I really believe in what it says. All the conservative news one could ever want, commercial free, 24/7/365, all at the click of a finger. Not just a half dozen talking heads giving their opinion, FR has thousands of them!
HELL NO!
I grew up on them and it’s far more entertaining than watching TV. Why the heck not?
My daughter has my copy of Oblivion now and is as hooked as I was. I had over 240 hours in it and maxed everything. (And no, I DON’T have a life thank you ;)
For the detractors out there...if you are a fantasy (book) fan, it’s not really any different is it?
Lucky I'm sane after all I've been through
(Everybody sing) I'm cool (He's cool)
I can't complain but sometimes I still do
Life's been good to me so far
Oh crap, my decoder went off, GS is not happy with me......
After watching his (ahem...) well thought out plan (snicker) with the Occupy BS and Obama falling apart spectacularly, I doubt he’s happy with a whole bunch of things right now ;)
I go to parties sometimes until four It's hard to leave when you can't find the door
It's tough to handle this fortune and fame
Everybody's so different I haven't changed
Who said GS doesn't have strong and important opinions worth disseminating?
He’s really misunderstood I think. I mean look what he’s done for us?
And he has great wisdom...
Hey!
Down in Joe’s Garage
We didn’t have no dope or LSD
But a coupla quartsa beer
Would fix it so the intonation
Would not offend yer ear
And the same old chords goin’ over ‘n’ over
Became a symphony
We would play it again ‘n’ again ‘n’ again
‘Cause it sounded good to me
ONE MORE TIME!
What more does a guy need to live well?
I know I’m blowing our cover, but here’s GS with his newest message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XyTpENuoCI&feature=related
My, but GS is looking much better than the last time I saw him..In a Dali-esque sorta way. Seems like kilos of coke and bails of herb agree with him (Although Herb’s politics are unknown at this time ;)
Don’t worry. The Majority of FR will never suspect. Only those troublemakers a while back caught on to our infiltration and they are being watched from the satellite....
Hey, if the shoe fits....
Sent from his Iphone......
What a HYPOCRITE! Buchanan did this himself as a third party candidate, but now, it’d be bad if Paul were to do it? It’s no surprise Buchanan would raise this specter with Ron Paul as the bogeyman. Buchanan is obviously pissed that Paul’s removed any value from the old Buchanan campaign mailing lists. Paul has effectively robbed Buchanan of the opportunity to lift any further cash from the far right, as Paul runs a campaign that is intended to actually influence government. Unlike Buchanan’s ‘campaigns,’ which had as their primary aim selling Pat’s books, raising Bay and Pat’s prominence as commentators, and otherwise enriching the Buchanan family and their friends, people are seeing a lot of Paul’s platform and talking points adopted by the rest of the primary candidates, while Pat’s campaigns resulted in jack squat.
Did you see the pic of “Natasha” someone posted a couple weeks back? Ol’ G couldn’t seem to keep her in the manner in which she wanted to become accustomed...
Glad we just work for Sports cars. We got something for selling our souls anyway....
Newt’s already moved ahead of Herman on my list.
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