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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: nopardons

Poor deluded person, who refuses to see what is going on around him & will blindly follow anyone who with just a loud vulgar voice over a cliff.


81 posted on 12/26/2015 1:50:54 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

I don’t think that an Iowa loss would be the end of Trump. But it would make the next few primaries more interesting.


82 posted on 12/26/2015 1:57:55 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: TMSuchman

Care to REALLY see a “deluded person”?
Then quickly run to the nearest mirror or shiny surface and peek into it.


83 posted on 12/26/2015 2:15:31 PM PST by nopardons
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To: jimbo123

Bill Kristol needs to swim with the fishes.


84 posted on 12/26/2015 3:43:39 PM PST by ohioman
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
Reagan lost the Iowa caucus in 1980.

That shows how important Iowa (or NH) really is anymore.

85 posted on 12/26/2015 5:06:11 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: jimbo123

Bill Kristol has suckled off the commie/fascist teat his entire life.


86 posted on 12/26/2015 5:18:48 PM PST by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: jimbo123

iowa is a beauty pageant event. If they want to be a primary they should have the testicular fortitude to be a true primary and tell NH to pound sand.


87 posted on 12/26/2015 5:21:35 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Trump can be distinguished from Kristol in that the Donald has a mystique to lose. And he won't be losing Iowa, or his mystique.

88 posted on 12/26/2015 5:32:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: jimbo123

KRISTOL’s living in a small conservative elite bubble. He’s clueless...


89 posted on 12/26/2015 6:04:03 PM PST by GOPJ (No one in power is on our side.No one in power is on our side. Absolutely no one. freeper marron)
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To: x

*S*.........


90 posted on 12/26/2015 6:17:25 PM PST by M-cubed ( Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the w)
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To: jimbo123

This mean Bill get get invited to the COOL parties again.


91 posted on 12/26/2015 8:05:56 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: jimbo123
Bill Kristol: “Jeb Bush, where are you?”
92 posted on 12/27/2015 5:57:40 AM PST by MasterGunner01 ( Barbara Daly Danko)
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To: jimbo123
"Trump loses Iowa, the mystique disappears, he's just another candidate -- though perhaps a formidable one -- and he's beaten by either [Marco] Rubio, [Ted] Cruz or [Chris] Christie."

Kristol knows that only Cruz can beat Trump in Iowa, so throwing Rubio and Christie in is just PC cover.

Are the Marxist globalists now championing Ted Cruz as the "Anyone but Trump" candidate? This was predicted long ago.

Has anyone in the GOPe threaten to leave the GOP if Cruz is the nominee? Has anyone in the GOPe threaten to support Hillary if Cruz is the nominee? Has anyone in the GOPe threaten to run a third party candidate if Cruz is the GOP nominee? What does that tell you?

93 posted on 12/27/2015 6:09:33 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: jimbo123

Hardly, I fully expect someone else to win Iowa... Why would folks who feel disenfranchised show up just to argue why they are voting for the anti establishment candidate in large numbers? Caucuses by their very nature format and design are for establishment politicians.

I fully expect they Trump will not win Iowa, he may, but wouldn’t be surprised at all if he didn’t win there... But I fully expect him to carry every state afterwards.


94 posted on 12/27/2015 3:10:29 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: jimbo123
Bill Kristol: Donald Trump Mystique Would Disappear With Iowa Loss

IF it happens.. and we're not even there yet.

If it DOESN'T happen then Kristoll can join Karl Rove as being just another clown blowing to the galleries.

95 posted on 12/27/2015 3:32:28 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
The south will go Trump—even Texas.

Remind me again... When's the last time the South voted for a New York Yankee? And Texas?

96 posted on 12/27/2015 3:36:44 PM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: Will88
I guess no one told Jeb if you push up on your toes and stick your chin out, it puts a really stupid expression on your face.

HaHaHaHa!

I just looked again.

You are right!!!

Makes that quick, animated graphic all the more hilarious!

97 posted on 12/27/2015 4:35:52 PM PST by onyx (IDIOT IS IRRELEVANT.)
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To: jimbo123

California stands a very good chance of going Republican for the first time since Reagan. LINK
98 posted on 12/28/2015 1:55:11 PM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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