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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It was laughable. Reagan still won 44 states, and swept the senate into republican control for the first time since 1954 and significantly increased the republican numbers in the House.
There are way too many people drunk with power in this country.
why not just get bush to run as a democrat
Oh Nonsense!
It wouldn’t surprise. The establishment are utterly without honor or integrity.
Romney would not even get 1%
Panic? Please. Trump will chuckle & carry on.
Won't make any difference, though. Milt Romley is about as exciting as a warm bucket of spit.
If GOPe pulls this stunt, the party will go the way of the Whigs, replaced by an American version of UKIP.
LoL.
Good luck with that. He’ll draw more from the Democraps.
Huckabee, Pataki,Graham, Gilmore and Santorum are all scratching their heads: “Romney is talking 3rd party to block Trump? They told me that’s what I was here for!”
John Anderson! Been trying to remember his name all afternoon long. He ran as an Independent.
If true, this proves they are less concerned with winning than the possible upsetting of the gravy train.
Ah finally! The GOPe Hillary for President kicks off!
Romney’s not gonna run.
Let’s stop sending out all this GOPe bull***t anymore.
Before it's over the republican establishment will be trying to recruit Lyin' Lizie Warren or Lois Lerner to run for them.
Anyone other than a reformer who promises to upset their corrupt system.
You probably say that in jest, but I did float the idea back in early summer of a Democrat ticket of Clinton/Bush and a Republican ticket of Bush/Clinton. I was not jesting, joking or anyway being flippant. I was dead serious.
That seems to be the way the UniParty really wants things to be.
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