Posted on 09/18/2015 1:57:10 PM PDT by cotton1706
WASHINGTON – The Empire strikes back?
First, the Republican Party made Donald Trump sign an oath of loyalty by pledging to support its eventual presidential nominee and not run as a third-party candidate.
Now, the establishment GOP may be planning to do the very thing it made Trump promise not to do: bolt from the Republican party and run a third-party campaign.
Mark McKinnon, former President George W. Bush’s chief media strategist, suggested a scenario to NPR the GOP elite might follow if it looks like Trump will win the party’s presidential nomination.
“The Republican establishment completely freaks out. They get together and say, this is unacceptable, but it looks like it’s going to happen. So we go off, and we create a new Republican Party as an Independent candidacy and draft somebody who’s tanned, rested and ready to go and with a lot of money, somebody like Mitt Romney,” speculated McKinnon.
Former Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, was floored by that.
“I think its absolutely hypocritical and crazy for the moderates to sit there and lecture conservatives about a third party and then turn around and practically advocate that for one of their own,” he told WND.
Stockman pointed out that Republicans don’t come any more moderate than McKinnon himself, considering he was an adviser to Democrats before he was tapped to help elect Bush in 2000.
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They’ll leave?
Go Trump!
Picture Mitt choking as a third party candidate. LOL!
Has Bloomberg turned them down flat then?
I question the presumption that Anderson took votes from Carter. Most of the time third party candidates bring their own voters who would not vote for the candidates of the two major parties. They would rather not vote or vote for another third party candidate.
Go Super D!!
Yeh Beck is drinking his own bathwater. :-)
As previously noted, Trump's response to the calls for his signing such a pledge should have been, "you first!"The Media Declares Trumpmania Over
What if their reasoning were something weirder, as some have suggested: They can deal fine with being the second-banana party. They still have jobs and get pay and perks for their influence on behalf of lobbyists. But if they're supplanted by Tea Partiers, the Dems are still there, but the liberal Republicans aren't running the majority OR the minority. In that Macchiavellian scenario, their Tea-Party hatred is not a "nose-cutting" tantrum. They economically would prefer rule by the Democrats.
Is that awful enough to be true?
The reasoning is pretty simple. The big money donors donate to both parties and want wide open borders, amnesty, completely free trade with no tax penalties.
All the RINO candidates (Fiorina, Bush, Rubio, Kasich, etc.) are for that, even to the point of balking at ending birthright citizenship.
The party elites care nothing about putting up a candidate who is likely to lose as long as they support that big money agenda, because they are equally happy whether the amnesty RINO or the amnesty Democrat wins.
People need to understand that being an “outsider” doesn’t have anything to do with your geographical location or what jobs you’ve held, it has to do with whether your positions match those of the big money donor class or not. If you aren’t in the country club with them on policy, you’re an outsider. It’s all about policy, policy, policy.
Fia-RINO is probably the biggest insider in the entire slate of candidates.
Remember that the GOP is not a political party in the truest sense. Its is a front for a political crime syndicate, a crime family.
They welcome and invite others to join and contribute for the sake of appearances. They invite outsiders to come into their house but contain them to the lobby or living room with only a very select few being invited to the dinner table and fewer yet to the den for after dinner cigars and potent potables.
While I’d tend to agree, the pundit class at the time was bawling that Anderson could cost Carter the elections. Of course, we heard crickets from them when it wasn’t even close.
It could be that a humiliating loss to Trump would end Bush’s career and that’s not acceptable to the Bushies running the GOP so better to humiliate Trump with a third party spoiler and then bring Jeb back in 2020 with the mantra “We had the right guy and we let him go for that loser Trump. This time don’t make that mistake, nominate JEB!”
It takes courage to admit it. At least it wasn’t as stupid as voting for Carter.
I’ll never forget that idiot, Romney trying to outliberal Kennedy in the last 1994 debate. Abortion, socialized medicine, whatever......he was for it before Ted was. The jerk threw the game and went into freefall, losing on a GOP landslide night. So he snuggles up to the GOP turncoats and later on gets to throw another one against Obama by not attacking in a foreign policy debate and getting bullied by Candy Crowley.
Mitt Romney should be a Frenchman. He has the surrender game down that well. He is an enemy of conservatives.
I can't believe it, but I was about to write the exact same thing. Graduated HS in 79 and didn't vote for Reagan (the first time). I was a registered Democrat. Once I graduated college and started paying taxes, did that change quickly. Although I must admit, I did vote for Perot. Don't regret that, but I do regret my first vote.
John Warner did this at the state level in VA to Ollie North.
In Kentucky, Matt Bevin’s facing a Demwit, but the Demwit party also has an “independent” running to shave votes. It will be a close election.
Willard won’t draw flies. His support would come from guilty Democrats who wish they would have voted for in in 2012.
He couldn’t win from the main Republican Party, and now wants us to think he thinks he can from a third party vantage point?
If he runs third party, it will be to sink the Republican’s chances at the White House. And it will be the GOPe orchestrating it.
There is a unified front against Trump, and it includes political parties, pundits, media, and internet blogs/professional media outlets of greater or lesser importance.
If some generally Conservative folks want to find fault with Trump, they will find justification for it. If they truly look at who is against him, they have to ask why, and that reveals who the Left see Trump as. It certainly isn’t who the Conservative anti-Trump folks see him as.
They need to confront this.
Trump is far better than they realize.
I’m sure they’d still spam me with lapel pin offers!
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