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Trump panic: GOP establishment floats Romney 3rd-party candidacy
wnd.com ^ | 9/18/15 | Garth Kant

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


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To: cotton1706
Hey, it worked in the Virginia gubernatorial race.
121 posted on 09/18/2015 4:36:27 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: Stepan12
Ann Coulter might endorse Mitt happens, however.

Don't be silly.

122 posted on 09/18/2015 4:39:39 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: COBOL2Java

“Hey, it worked in the Virginia gubernatorial race.”

Yeah, you’re right about that one. And in the Mississippi primary.


123 posted on 09/18/2015 4:40:07 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: SamuraiScot

I’ve heard that, and think it’s entirely possible. They’ll stay on the gravy train, have their exclusive dinners, no Obamacare, lush life, etc. Basically, “Screw my constituents; I’ve got mine.”


124 posted on 09/18/2015 4:53:27 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Beware the tyranny of the easily offended. (Stossel))
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To: cotton1706

It’s not going to happen. Once their fevers subside, they’ll realize how delusional they were.


125 posted on 09/18/2015 4:57:14 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: phormer phrog phlyer
John Warner did this at the state level in VA to Ollie North.

Don't forget that Nancy Reagan trashed Ollie and leant to his defeat.

126 posted on 09/18/2015 5:04:48 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: cotton1706
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.

This is where I get pist at Trump. I said at the time that when he was asked to sign "The Pledge", he should have counter-offered that he would sign when the GOP-E signed one pledging they wouldn't run Third Party against him if he won the nomination. They would have lied of course, but he would have had them by the short hairs.

127 posted on 09/18/2015 5:07:13 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate. [URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/currencyjunkie/me)
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To: cotton1706

The establishment is beaucoup pernicious.


128 posted on 09/18/2015 5:45:23 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Red Badger

That would have been perfect if separated were spelled correctly.


129 posted on 09/18/2015 6:07:57 PM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: silverleaf
Has Bloomberg turned them down flat then?

Now there is a possibility. Much more so than Jeb. He's been all over the place politically like Trump over the years and can match Trump in campaign spending. The GOP-E is messed up in the head enough to vote for him also. Why isn't Rove saying whom he's working for this time? Is it Bloomberg or Mitt, or even both? That's what I can't figure about Trump. Why didn't he run against Bloomberg for Mayor? Wasn't there also a riff recently about Bloomberg media's estimate of Trump's worth?

130 posted on 09/18/2015 6:13:09 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: freespirit2012

True


131 posted on 09/18/2015 6:21:48 PM PDT by Darroll
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To: MayflowerMadam

Just like the last election.


132 posted on 09/18/2015 6:21:48 PM PDT by Darroll
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To: peyton randolph

http://www.selfgovernment.us


133 posted on 09/18/2015 8:38:16 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TheStickman
"Trump panic: GOP establishment floats Romney 3rd-party candidacy"

Panic? Please. Trump will chuckle & carry on.

Poorly worded title. It's the GOPe who is panicking...

134 posted on 09/18/2015 8:42:57 PM PDT by sargon
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To: cotton1706

BTTT!


135 posted on 09/18/2015 8:46:20 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: cotton1706

Trump has this but I’m still not sure if he wants this.I really thought he was there to push his ideal candidate Cruz.He’s crazy or bored if he wants to be president.


136 posted on 09/18/2015 8:51:48 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: 4rcane

Or Romney could run as a Dem. Why go third party? He can take credit for being the original architect of Obamacare.


137 posted on 09/18/2015 8:55:10 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: TornadoAlley3
Burned mine last year. Officially registered as “ no party” in the great state of Oklahoma. Love that the phone calls and mail from Republicans begging for money has ceased.

I unenrolled in 2004 after watching Bush renege on campaign promises. I still get calls from Republicans during the final two months of the election. I screw with the caller for two minutes and then tell them to never call again and hang up.

138 posted on 09/18/2015 9:17:12 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (behind enemy lines)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

Left when Roberts voted for Obamacare.Never looked back.They bug my husband now.There is an app for robo calls but does not include political or donations.


139 posted on 09/18/2015 9:36:27 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: cotton1706
The Establishment that got Bush as Vice-President, and took the party back to the Ford-ites after Reagan was gone. That Establishment.

Yes, that Establishment. After they got Bush on the ticket they certainly weren't supporting John Anderson. So why say they did?

Reagan and Bush won in 1980. If Reagan had gone with another candidate (the rumor was he wanted Paul Laxalt) the results might have been different.

But what makes you think Reagan wouldn't have chosen a more moderate running mate on his own? In 1976, he wanted Richard Schweiker, described in his obituaries as a "liberal Republican" for VP.

Plus, those Fordites are a wily bunch. Whatever happened with GHW Bush, a lot of people voted for GW Bush because they figured he was a conservative, and who did he give us? Cheney and Rumsfeld, straight out of the Ford Administration.

Whether that was the right move or not, there are only so many people out there with administrative experience on the higher federal levels so the people who get appointed tend to come back again and again.

140 posted on 09/19/2015 11:06:03 AM PDT by x
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