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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Don't be silly.
“Hey, it worked in the Virginia gubernatorial race.”
Yeah, you’re right about that one. And in the Mississippi primary.
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.”
It’s not going to happen. Once their fevers subside, they’ll realize how delusional they were.
Don't forget that Nancy Reagan trashed Ollie and leant to his defeat.
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.
The establishment is beaucoup pernicious.
That would have been perfect if separated were spelled correctly.
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?
True
Just like the last election.
Panic? Please. Trump will chuckle & carry on.
Poorly worded title. It's the GOPe who is panicking...
BTTT!
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.
Or Romney could run as a Dem. Why go third party? He can take credit for being the original architect of Obamacare.
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.
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.
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.
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