So Trump has threatened to go third party, and that supposedly has the GOPgirlys running scared. That is laughable. Trump in a third party gives the presidency to the dems, and eliminates Trump from the White House. How does any of that scare the GOPGIRLYS?
That is JUST what the GOPe and the DNC and the nail bitters WANT you to think....go ahead and think it if you want, Trump has my vote all the way, GOP DNC INDEPENDENT doesn’t matter, he has my vote....
Had Perot not been paranoid--remember he was surging in the polls before he pulled out--and then reentered, but with no where near the support before the paranoid event, ending up with only 19% of the vote;--he could have really rattled the dentures of the major parties.
The other problem that Perot had--which Trump would not have had--is that he could not speak extemporaneously on television, but looked totally spaced out, reading off a teleprompter behind the camera. I have personally used TV for half hour speeches in a campaign and can attest the effectiveness, if one can extemporize.
The reason to keep the Third Party option viable, is the changing demographics, that the Left is counting on to make Conservatives a permanent minority. A strong and articulate candidate, who lets the mindless acceptors of Leftist premises split their vote between the Democrats and the sort of "Republicans," who prattle their own version of the same acceptance of Socialist values, just might pull it off.
No! I am not suggesting that that is the ideal approach at this point. But a strategy on that order, might prove our last resort, if we cannot recapture the Republican Party next year. (And keep in mind that even if we do, a Cruz nomination might well provoke a Corporate CEO 2016 version of Republicans for Johnson, such as the Rockefeller branch of the Party hit Barry Goldwater with in 1964.)
The problem is complex. So we have to keep all options open.
Another historical note. Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose Third Party, which actually outpolled the Republican Party in 1912, lost to Wilson==but the mere threat of a revival by Hiram Johnson or William Borah was the whip that kept Henry Cabot Lodge from cutting off the debate that the irreconcilables finally won to defeat Wilson's League of Nations; leading to the overwhelming landslide of 1920.
Yet, all of that said, I sincerely hope that the useless idiots in our party--I remain a Republican;--those who keep hamstringing our efforts, will wake up and stop acting like amateur Nazis trying to suppress dissent. They have no sense, no integrity or courage, and no future.
Trump can run and win leading a 3rd party.
Historically, 3rd partie3sw run out of money before crunch time and cannot compete in the 4th quarter.
Trump can.
And, he can win a 35-40% plurality in 30-40 states.