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To: Finny
So it is time NOW to embrace the fact that in 2016, our only hope for weakening the leftist president, D or R, who will likely win, is by voting Third Party....

I like your reasoning but I don't see much chance of a third party candidate who'd do as well as Perot did. Sarah has alluded to the idea of running, but I suspect she was mainly trying to keep the GOPe honest (or less dishonest). It would need to be someone like her who already has the name recognition or someone like Perot who can self-fund. Do you have anyone in mind who might run up a decent vote total?

Regardless, if the nominee is indeed Christie, Jeb, or someone else of that ilk, I'll vote for a conservative on principle.
13 posted on 01/03/2014 10:35:20 AM PST by Eagle Forgotten
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To: Eagle Forgotten
Palin is really the most logical choice ... I wish she'd do it ... especially if the dream scenario happened and Hillary was nominated by the Dems! Can you imagine!

I can dream, can't I?

But yes, you're right the candidate would have to be dynamic. Then again, Americans are restless, more and more. All those American flags all over the place that you never used to see, I think are saying, "Sick of party politics, I'm an American." In other words, 2nd amendment and freedom loving Democrats, along with disgusted Republicans, are ... restless. So maybe it wouldn't take much.

61 posted on 01/07/2014 12:11:20 AM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Eagle Forgotten

I think you are right on the money. I will admit that even if Christie is the R nominee I will probably hold my nose and vote for him in the belief that the most important thing right now is to consolidate as much power as possible under the R’s on the theory that the Tea Party, whose numbers in Congress, I believe, will be increased by 2016 to the extent that we can temper the more liberal impulses of a GOPe President. I hope beyond all else that either or both Palin and Cruz run in 2016 primaries. In fact the dream ticket would be Cruz/Palin either way. They both have the ability to explain their positions in common sense ways to the American people in much the same way Ronaldus Magnus did, they go right around the media filter directly to the American people. There is a conservative/Tea Party tsunami building in response to the progressive overreach that might not only effect this election but 2016 also, and considering the damage done by the progs thus far may even effect elections beyond that. That’s the beauty of remaining patient and subtle, let the progressives provide the rope that they will hang themselves and their ideology with. They have planted the seeds of their own destruction and they do not even realize it because their Achilles heel is the fact that they believe their own propaganda.


64 posted on 01/07/2014 3:27:42 PM PST by fatman6502002
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