What a ticket!!!!!!
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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Really. The GOP would rather see the Democrats in power than have Bush lose to Trump. Cut off nose; spite face.
What Establishment? Reagan had the party behind him when he ran, Chafee, Jeffords, Specter, Hatfield, and the rest.
Anderson was a quixotic outrider who got more support from Democrats and Independents than Republicans, let along elected Republican officials.
Are they smoking crack?! TRUMP WOULD WIN IN A LANDSLIDE!
Or, how about this wild scenario: Trump actually starts to get enough delegates to win the nomination. Then, irony of ironies, rather than Trump running as a third party, the GOP establishment decides to pull a Roosevelt, and re-creates the Republican Party under an independent banner.
See: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/11/why-the-donald-can-go-the-distance.html
Why doesn’t Jeb just run as Hilary’s Vice President??
Hey DJ, cue up The Eagles’ ‘Desparado’ please.
Donald signed the ‘Loyalty Oath’, but it is an invalid contract, and always has been. Look at the bottom of that ‘contract’ to our right. What date is there? Why, it’s August 3, 2015, and guess what? the actual date this was signed was September 3, 2015.
Trump, a businessman, had to know this.
This point is never brought up.
What a ticket!!!!!!
I have resisted Third Party. I understand the pitfalls. They do this. and I sever all ties to the GOP. They can join the ranks of the Whigs and the Federalists. They want loyalty and then pull this? I will burn my registration card.
What a bunch of cowards. If GOP-e would do what they were elected to do, they wouldn’t be in this position. btw - I will not vote for Romney.
That would end the Republican Party
The GOP is hell bent on forcing some RINO they can control down the throats of the electorate. If they run Romney it will only confirm (again) their Washington Cartel complicity.
Dole is 92. Why not? LOL
Romney would not even get 1%
It was proven DECADES AGO.
Oh Oh, peers’ the Fox just got into the chicken house by the sounds of all panic squawking.
The individual members of the GOPe will receive a nice paycheck from the cabal for throwing the game.
LMAO ROFL....brilliant!
They sure weren't voting for McCain
He couldn't get 100 people at a campaign event before Palin
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