Posted on 08/10/2015 5:04:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Columnist and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan said that “a significant slice of the Republican Party would take a walk” on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump “and you could have a Goldwater situation,” and questioned the general election viability of other candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ben Carson on Monday’s “Sean Hannity Show.”
Buchanan was asked whether Trump should pledge not to run as a third-party candidate. He answered that while this is “a political decision” for Trump, it would be “hard” for the Republicans to win if he runs third-party. Buchanan added, “I think it would be the right thing for him to do, to take that pledge, because I think it would enhance his strength inside the Republican Party. It would remove a problem a lot of Republicans have with him, and I think if he runs third-party, he is not going to win the election. He’s going to be blamed for electing Hillary Rodham Clinton. And having run third-party, Sean, and taken four states away from George Bush, if I were him, I would take the pledge.”
Buchanan also stated that if he were advising Trump, he would have told him to “get some substance in there” before the debate. He specifically talked about Trump’s plan to make Mexico pay for a border fence, and said Trump needed to explain his plan to do so.
Earlier, Buchanan said that Trump, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, and Carly Fiorina are outsider candidates, and that “there’s a real disgust with the political establishment, a hostility to the political establishment, and I think the Republican Party does not want the establishment candidates who are being put on offer right now....
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If Trump DOES pull out he's got it easy...he can just say the Republican party is corrupt and rigged the game to get him out.
Speak the truth...
If that "someone else" was Cruz, would you still walk?
When was the last time Pat was right about anything?..He’s way past his use-by date..
Piss poor reason to leave Cruz.
Face it... Bush and the rest of the GOP-E ....IS HATED ON THE LEFT WITH A PASSION ....AND NOW HATED ON THE RIGHT WITH EQUAL PASSION.... Bottom like the idoits it charge of the gop play this mushy middle to the there own death and are just seen as spineless and duplicitous now despised by all sides....pice a side of the road..in the middle of the road and your roadkill hit by traffic coming both ways
I think both Jeb and Trump create a landslide for the DEMs. Conservatives sit out Jeb, establishment sits out Trump. Establishment would also sit out and work against Cruz. He’s not “one of them.”
It won't happen. The GOPe would never go along with giving it to Cruz. They hate him too.
“Pat thinks that Ted Cruz inherits the estate if Trump pulls out”
Trump is leading in the polls; if he stays on topic he will remain in the lead. Why is the idea he will drop out always being postulated? His response to Kelly’s question showed he is nimble on his feet. No one else will be ever be sneaky enough to get one harder to answer. Kelly’s accusation was designed to make him backtrack, knuckle under. He didn’t.
“Let’s face it, Trump didn’t have much new to say. He does need to articulate things better. For example, I would say Huckabee was light years better in that regard, as was Cruz.”
They had better questions. Trump had snark and accusations.
Who gives a rat’s butt what the GOPe thinks of Cruz? Do you have some secret logic the rest of us can follow? The GOPe hate Trump yet you think he can win. Yet because the GOPe hate Cruz, you say he can’t win. Hello, McFly, anybody home?
Ditto that.
On sheer electability, Rubio would be the best V.P. for Cruz. He helps get the women’s vote by being a pretty boy, a la Quayle. He would completely shore up Florida. A double hispanic ticket may have benefit. He also would campaign on emotion to make up for Cruz’ logic-heavy campaign. He would satiate the GOPe the way Bush Sr. did. So a powerless semi-RINO for 8 years would be a decent trade-off to keep Hillary out.
So where would the rude loudmouth vote go in that situation?
They comprehend the outrage, and are indifferent to it. The GOP, as a party, doesn't care if it is in the minority, and I think it prefers being in the minority. It's more effective in the minority, that's for sure.
Any individual politician picks a party based on sense of which party gives him the best chance of getting into office.
None of it based on principle. It's called "politics." The elites run the country, and conduct a vote occasionally to maintain the illusion that the people have a meaningful voice. The "democracy = freedom" (or "democracy = consent") canard.
We'll see if Trump actually has a more sophisticated strategery going on and if he can appeal to the 'rat emotional thinkers.
I heard a story a few years ago about a woman who voted for LBJ “because he was the peace candidate”.
Not many years later her son was KIA in VN.
Just saw an immigration advocate on Fox News saying that we have to open up more immigration because people are waiting too long to get into the country. He thinks this will solve the illegal alien problem, they will be able to come in legally so there will be no need to come into the country illegally. What a dope! There are 7 BILLION PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD! No doubt at least a billion or two would like to come to the United States (especially if we give them welfare benefits). What this guy doesn’t understand is that the more people come to the United States THE BIGGER the DEMAND FOR IMMIGRATION. Because each new immigrant has many relatives and friends who would be inspired to try and come to America. The more immigrants come here the longer the waiting lists are going to be. It is a never ending problem. We have to say enough is enough.
Boner needs to be Cantorized next time around.
They hate Cruz more, because he is relentless, principled, and knows what he's doing. That makes Trump a stalking horse, and frankly, I don't think he really believes half of what he says. If he wasn't, he never would have got so much air time.
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