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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If Romney wanted to restructure his platform to imitate a popular candidate, seems to me that Cain is in that spot.
I have a great respect for Buchanan and I too think he may be right. I am another who is not going to vote for Romney no matter what.
If Romney is anywhere on the ticket, that slot on the ballot will be left blank.
Bring it on.
Obama 35%
Romney 10%
Cain 55%
Romney has kept insisting that he never wished Romneycare on any other states or as a Federal thing, that it was a local Massachusetts thing. He’d probably claim the same with other screaming liberal influences he buddied up with while governor of Massachusetts. So a veep that parroted these talking points wouldn’t get any grief from Romney.
Could you please be more clear?
I will NEVER vote for Romney for Pres.
I could be persuaded if he were the VP candidate, because he would be too old to run again after his VP term was up. I don’t see what assets he could bring to the table as VP, though.
Cain hasn’t been able to push Romney because he doesn’t have full support on his own ideas and has shown a readiness to speak out before he gives an issue full though.
In other words, Romney thinks that he can dominate Cain, not the other way around. Romney knows that he is no match for Gingrich, less so Santorum, though I’d match Santorum’s intelligence against Romney any day.
And when Obama has replaced a dying, say, Scalia with you know what, we know the ballot blankers are to thank.
Why not? He effortlessly moved to the left of Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts then governed as Teddy’s bitch. He’ll lie, steal, cheat, do or say anything to get elected.
He’s a two-bit lying political whore. No foundation whatsoever.
“Could you please be more clear?”
Not without getting the boot...lol
NUTS TO YOU!!
NO SURRENDER!! NO RETREAT!!
FUMR!! FUBO!!
Pat is often wrong but he is right on this one. Romney would torch what is left of the GOP.
That would ensure the re-election of Obama.
OK, let’s easily lose the last bastion of US sanity before dissolving into another armed battle. I’ll gladly take the nuts, be they Brazil, almonds, filberts, cashews, even peanuts, for saying that. Of course every effort must be put into seeing that Romney is not the candidate. But if he is, a boycott of the GOP candidate for president, without a spectacularly good third party (again e.g. Cain/Palin running as TEA) is cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face.
LOL. I appreciate your being so succinct!
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