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How Mitt Romney could take down Trump: Become the Republican Ralph Nader
The Boston Globe ^ | November 15, 2018 | Nestor Ramos

Posted on 11/19/2018 9:43:28 PM PST by Trump20162020

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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Sure, Mittens just aches to be known and remembered as a spoiler GOP fringe candidate who wanted Trump to be replaced with a liberal Democrat. If Mittens ever doubts that is his destiny, he can always call Jeb Bush and Jeff Flake for encouragement, and MSNBC can be counted on to slobber all over him.
41 posted on 11/20/2018 1:15:03 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: Trump20162020

Mitt Romney could not even take down Barack Hussein Obama or, CNN’s Candy Crowley...who dumped all over him in a 2012 POTUS debate!!!

Facts: Romney, McCain...”WEAK SISTERS”!!!


42 posted on 11/20/2018 1:26:43 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Trump20162020

Romney still wants to become president and sees his opportunity again in 2024. Causing the GOP to lose the WH in 2020 would destroy his political future and cause him to lose his next primary.

Sasse is on the ballot again in 2020. He’d look like the biggest sore loser of all time if he ran for president fresh off a primary loss. If he wins his primary and Nebraska laws allow him, would he run for Senate as a Republican and and president as an independent? He’d lose both.

Flake might run since he has nothing left to lose. Kasish is probably a greater likelihood since he doesn’t have the humiliation of getting chased out of his primary. It could backfire on the Democrats however, since they’ll probably run on abolishing ICE and the entire communist agenda. There will be a lot of left-leaning Trump haters who can’t bring themselves to vote for a Marxist.


43 posted on 11/20/2018 1:37:49 AM PST by MountainWalker
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To: Skywise

Because the Left is still butthurt that Ralph Nader ran in 2000 and siphoned votes from Al Gore Junior.

Ralphie didn’t even get as many votes (2,883,443) as Ross Pee-rot (19,743,821 and 8,085,402).

Interesting side note, the same Green Party ticket (president-veep) ran in 1996 (and only got 685,435 votes)

https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/


44 posted on 11/20/2018 1:59:48 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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To: EinNYC

keyboard spew alert


45 posted on 11/20/2018 2:07:05 AM PST by SteveH
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To: Trump20162020

You thought these morons were having a hard time accepting 2016...

They still can’t get over 2000!

You see, the only reason Algore lost in 2000 is because Ralph Nader siphoned off Democrat votes. Ralph Nader should never have been on the ballot, and all of those Nader votes were the legal property of the Democrat Party, and should have been given to Algore in the recount (along with all the votes for Pat Buchanan).


46 posted on 11/20/2018 3:08:09 AM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Olog-hai

Nader pretty likely did pull enough Democrat votes in Florida in 2000 to make a difference.

That’s the point. And our side would do well not to dismiss it as a potential Never Trump/uniparty strategy in 2020. Best to take seriously and prepare counters for potential threats.


47 posted on 11/20/2018 3:14:18 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Trump20162020

Mitt Romney has only had a few brushes with PDJT.

I can hardly wait until Mittens experiences the full measure of PDJTs chopping/grinding machine.

Into the hopper Mittens, you’ll be wiser after.


48 posted on 11/20/2018 3:18:40 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Trump20162020

Another lib having wet dreams....


49 posted on 11/20/2018 3:19:56 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Right...LOL


50 posted on 11/20/2018 3:24:19 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Paul R.
What he is suggesting is that a “moderate” running 3rd party could draw enough Republican votes to ensure the Dem candidate for President would win.

The way Perot helped Clinton to win?

Why don't third party candidates ever throw elections of Democrats? Why is it only elections of Republicans that are thwarted in this manner? Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

51 posted on 11/20/2018 3:31:42 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Trump20162020
If it weren't a dozen nails in our coffin, it would be fun to watch the leftists twist Prez Mitt into a pretzel. He would be Obama 2+ when they were done with him.

52 posted on 11/20/2018 3:31:59 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: Trump20162020

LOL


53 posted on 11/20/2018 4:11:08 AM PST by stylecouncilor (Dreg of Society)
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54 posted on 11/20/2018 4:16:46 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Trump20162020
Someone tell Hekter that Nader hurt Gore in 2000, and that Bishop Dullard would hurt Biden in 2020.
55 posted on 11/20/2018 4:21:25 AM PST by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: Trump20162020

Romney would take more votes from the left if he ran third party.


56 posted on 11/20/2018 4:21:45 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: StAnDeliver; bramps

I doubt either of you really believe that. If Romney/Kasich/Flake/Sasse runs as an independent in the 2020 presidential election, and President Trump loses by a small margin, everyone here will claim the backstabbing GOP establishment conspired with the Democrats and cost Trump the election because the uniparty preferred Biden as President over him. No one would stick to the “Romney/Kasich/Flake hurt Biden more” line in that scenario.


57 posted on 11/20/2018 4:28:24 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

When Hyde-Smith holds that 53rd seat Willard will become a potted plant. Any questions?


58 posted on 11/20/2018 4:58:58 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberal is lies.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
A lot of fiction wrapped up in a “news” story.
59 posted on 11/20/2018 4:59:10 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: 867V309

Yes, I remember the “little guy” with the “big ears” and the funny accent.


60 posted on 11/20/2018 5:18:35 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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