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. Bushs chief media strategist, suggested a scenario to NPR the GOP elite might follow if it looks like Trump will win the partys presidential nomination.
The Republican establishment completely freaks out. They get together and say, this is unacceptable, but it looks like its going to happen. So we go off, and we create a new Republican Party as an Independent candidacy and draft somebody whos 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 dont 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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The point is that Democrat drones will ALWAYS vote for whoever has the "D" after their name even if it is Satan himself.
The monocle and top hat crowd of both parties will be the only ones who would even consider a third party liberal to make a statement. And those types tend to be very concentrated in the northeast or other ritzy places with large bodies of water.
He can sit in a wheel chair during debates, with a nurse attendant giving him oxygen ROFL..
Absolutely.
The rat Willard Romney ruined Sen Thompson.
Then, he attacked Gov Palin and her children 4 years later.
for Obama.
Then, the Metamorphic carpetbagger rat cowered
and gave up 4 years later. for Obama.
After 12 years of destruction by Bishop Romney,
why stop now?
So this is what PerRINO was talking about yesterday while she was smirking. What a little troll. Laughing about the Republicans trying to sabotage the Republican party. If it’s Trump vs Romney vs Biden, I think Trump wins in a landslide. We just need to get as many poll workers as we can out there to stop as much fraud as possible.
And if they don’t like what BobDole has to say. . . the exits are CLEARLY MARKED!!!!
Of all the dumbest things currently going on, this has to take the top slot.
They are afraid.trump is.gonna toss.the dead bodies in front of the American people.
It shows their absolute desperation and total worthlessness as human beings that they are even talking about romney.
Shows me that the GOP and the Dems are working together against the will of the majority of Americans.
Lets face it more Americans do not want homosexual sham marriage, nor in the military, nor cross dressing, nor illegals getting welfare.
They cannot die out soon enough for me.
Certain to bring about a Trump presidency.
The Dims have Hillary, Sanders...and maybe Buttons Biden.
"Moderate" Democrats plus a higher-than-normal proportion of the ghetto vote would ensure Trump's election.
Of course, Romney would spend $800 million to garner 28% of the vote.
The ONLY way to "Stop Trump" is to beat him in the Republican Primaries.
And, so far, nobody has shown much traction against him.
Once a legitimate poll shows him trailing another candidate, he is likely done.
If not he leads all the way to the White House.
And where exactly was the Trump panic in there?
LOL, the desperation gets more pronounced by the day...
I don’t think Romney is stupid enough to run. He’s already got multiple defeats. This would be a certain defeat against Trump and would cause major damage between him and the base if he tried.
Independents need petitions to get a non-established party slate of Presidential Electors on the ballot. You need 1% of the total valid votes from the previous election, about 130,000
I already did this after the Chris McDaniel drama in Mississippi.
We are the enemy of the GOPe.
There is that, run Jeb with Hillary that is. Of course, this Romney stuff is a distraction while the GOPe tries to come up with a plausible candidate who has the resume that fits the massive, maybe impossible, job of rebuilding this country. My financial contribution, Trump does not need it, goes to Cruz for his superior intelligence which he has used to support this Republic, and his extensive experience in the legal field which has made him an expert on constitutional law. Donald Trump also is highly educated and has life experience in all fields relating to business and commerce and the related knowledge of the mentality of both friend and foe of the US. I trust them both because they are each solid Americans whom I expect to put America first and to be fair and honest in the implementation of their elected offices.
Former Bush Strategist SPECULATES on Romney 3rd Party Run.
Trump PANICS?????????
Give me a break.
Wow! That is duplicitous.
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