Posted on 07/14/2015 5:11:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
I disagree. Hillary Clinton will win if there is a repeat of the 2008 and especially the 2012 election where many on our side refused to vote in the general election and that arrogant pos of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave got reelected.
Bush was forced?
How does anyone force a President to do anything he does not want to do?
Bush 1 was a feckless one worlder—a nice person, but not strong in the mold of his predecessor.
You can chart the descent of America from the middle of 1990, and the Bushes and the Clintons play starring roles.
I don’t need the media to tell me that.
And he and Bill Clinton go back a long way, which is why he oversaw the rehabilitation of Bill after the 2004 tsunami.
Another thing we can thank him for.
I live in Texas and I saw Perot for the traitor he was, I would never have voted for him no matter what he said.
I think you are seeing clearly, Trump may be on the same path that Perot was on.
I am willing to bet that a lot of Jeb's big donors are also big donors to Hillary. It doesn't matter much which one wins the result will be pretty much the same.
What scares me is how many people here are ok with (and even appearing to be secretly rooting for) a “Hillary” presidency.
That woman cannot be president and I will vote for anyone who will keep her out of the WH. Stopping corrupt Hillary should be the main goal instead of attacking fellow republicans.
That is why every caution should be used
Correct. A third party candidate has to get a clear majority of the Electoral College to win the election. If he wins a plurality (less than 50%) then it goes to the House of Representatives.
If the Republicans control the House, then the Republican candidate will be elected. If the Democrats control the House then the Democrat candidate will be elected.
Who besides Trump can beat Hillary and how can they? The conservative vote is not enough to win, that is sad but true.
If Trump’s numbers hold it will be between Trump and Jeb for the nomination. Jeb is just about as bad as Hillary and could not beat her anyways.
Trump is doing a masterful job of selling his "deal". It does not matter what he thought last year or even last month. He is not an ideologue, he is a pragmatist, and he is not campaigning, he is negotiating.
"Everybody asks me to do it. And I think I'd get a lot of votes," Trump said. "But the best way of defeating the Democrats, and probably Hillary I think it's going to be Hillary is to run as a Republican.
"If I do the third party thing it would be I think very bad for the Republicans," he added. "I think it would be very bad in terms of beating the Democrats. And we have to win."
If my choice in November is Jeb Bush or Hillary I am voting third party.
If Trump decides to pull a Perot and run as an independent then there will be no question that he is just a Democrat plant.
And a beltway GOP that enables the Obama TPP and Iran nuke deal? Are they Dem plants also?
Stopping corrupt Hillary should be the main goal instead of attacking fellow republicans.
John Boehner’s strawman allies SPENT MONEY to attack conservatives recently. Do you think he will go to the war chest to stop the Iran nuke deal? Of course not. Sorry FRiend, your “fellow republicans” are now co-conspirators with the Democrats. Us folks on Main Street are lower than dirt to the beltway crowd.
Perot voters gave us clinton, people who didn't like Romney and stayed home gave us obama. I don't want another disaster and I don't want president Hillary on my conscience and in my WH.
Nope. Just RINOs and incompetent idiots.
Trump is a good negotiator. Perhaps he would run third party if he didn’t get the nomination. But saying this now also serves the purpose of telling the GOPe that they’d better back off or he’ll take his ball and play somewhere else, and then they’ll have nothing.
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