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Bill Kristol: Donald Trump Mystique Would Disappear With Iowa Loss
ABC News ^ | 12/26/15 | BEN BELL

Posted on 12/26/2015 11:16:37 AM PST by jimbo123

This week we asked ABC News contributor and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol five questions about Donald Trump, the GOP's current frontrunner for the nomination for president, and the broader 2016 race for the White House. Kristol will appear on the "This Week" roundtable Sunday.

1] You sent a tweet suggesting a new party would have to be started if Donald Trump wins the GOP nomination. Were you serious? Would you leave the Republican party if he does win the nomination?

KRISTOL: I was semi-serious. I don't think Trump will be the nominee, so I don't expect it to be an issue. But since I don't think I could support Trump, and I'd like to have someone to vote for, if Trump were to be the nominee, I'd be open to a new party, probably for 2016 only -- but you never know.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billkristol; elections; gopestablishment; immigration; iowa; kristol; lol; neocons; rinos; tds; trump; trumpiswrong; trumpwasright; wronginsomanyways
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To: jimbo123

Whether you are a Trump fan or not...discounting the possibility of him getting the nomination is pretty silly.


41 posted on 12/26/2015 11:52:11 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: jimbo123

Another deluded wish from the GOPe, Dem, and Cruz supporter alliance


42 posted on 12/26/2015 11:52:24 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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Wishful Thinking on Billy’s part, or is he actually ignorant of how unimportant Iowa is in the overall scheme of things?


43 posted on 12/26/2015 11:54:13 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: onyx

“Kristol suffers from “little man syndrome”.

Is that what they call it. :)


44 posted on 12/26/2015 12:02:29 PM PST by Clyde5445
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To: jimbo123

I understand why and how he feels about wanting a third party; I felt exactly the same way when Romney was nominated!


45 posted on 12/26/2015 12:03:00 PM PST by erkelly
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To: jimbo123; All

I really hate to burst everyone’s bubble, But trump is playing a part & gettin the “base” fired up & raising money for the party. The head of the rnc has said that there will be NO independent candidate, but an establishment one, has been running for over 2 1/2 years & has a famous name. This upcoming election is an already forgone conclusion. And the next president has been decided & NOT by us either, but by those with very deep pockets & lots of influence over everyone in the gov.’t/s The will of the people has been thwarted & short of another real ugly, bloody [UN]civil war will never come about ever again. There are too many little factions fighting each other for power, for any real work to be done.


46 posted on 12/26/2015 12:03:08 PM PST by TMSuchman (John 15;13 & Exodus 21:22-25 Pacem Bello Pastoribus Canes [shepard of peace,dogs of war])
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To: jimbo123
Just like it DESTROYED John McCain after he finished FOURTH in Iowa in 2008.

In other words...why on Earth do we still pay attention to those cornholes?

47 posted on 12/26/2015 12:05:42 PM PST by montag813
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To: jimbo123

48 posted on 12/26/2015 12:07:31 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Catsrus
Little Bill is a worse prognosticator than Dick Morris and he should leave the GOP forever.

Talk about a CUT OF YOUR NOSE TO SPITE YOUR FACEer !

49 posted on 12/26/2015 12:08:40 PM PST by nopardons
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To: jimbo123

Grasping. Straws. Desperate.


50 posted on 12/26/2015 12:09:18 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (TDS: Hating Trump more than loving America.)
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To: onyx

I have a dog that has the same issue. But it is cute in him and he uses it to protect me!


51 posted on 12/26/2015 12:10:20 PM PST by CottonBall
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To: x

‘’The guy’s name escapes me but he’s got billions.’’

God?


52 posted on 12/26/2015 12:10:26 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (TDS: Hating Trump more than loving America.)
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To: jimbo123

More wishful thinking by the GOPe.


53 posted on 12/26/2015 12:13:20 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens." -- Mark Levin)
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To: jimbo123

Kristol forges ahead doggedly with his unbroken string of wrong predictions concerning the Trump candidacy.


54 posted on 12/26/2015 12:15:00 PM PST by Will88
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To: jimbo123

Did he say this in that douchy breathy voice he uses to try to make himself sound smart?


55 posted on 12/26/2015 12:18:03 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: jimbo123

LoL. Girl Kristol is in lala land.


56 posted on 12/26/2015 12:19:07 PM PST by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: jimbo123

Someone should remind this ahole Kristol that Reagan lost the Iowa caucus in 1980.


57 posted on 12/26/2015 12:21:08 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Just say NO to muslim "immigrants")
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To: jimbo123

I’m for Cruz but Kristol (and Will, and Lowry et. al.) can go to hell.


58 posted on 12/26/2015 12:21:34 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: TMSuchman
Trump is NOT "raising money" for the RNC! As a matter of fact, the RNC is hurting and hurting very badly!

Please remove all of the tinfoil; there's mold growing on it and it smells.

59 posted on 12/26/2015 12:21:53 PM PST by nopardons
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To: faithhopecharity
......but he was a democrat, at least early on.

Of course, so was Reagan until he realized that party was really anti-American, but then, so has the GOP become, unless we, the people, drag it back from the precipice

60 posted on 12/26/2015 12:23:18 PM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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