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 ...
I commented earlier here by asking, where the Trump panic was in the article.
Articles like this do reveal panic though.
The publication that publishes it reveals that it is the entity that is panicking.
WND <<< a heaping helping of out of control panic
Ann Coulter might endorse Mitt happens, however.
“why not just get bush to run as a democrat”
Ding ding ding....
And Hillary and the rats can run as socialists. Bernie can run as a marxist.
Anderson even picked a Democrat as his running mate: Gov. Patrick J. Lucey of Wisconsin. (Illinois and Wisconsin— there is a balanced ticket!)
Would Romney pick Ryan again or find some “moderate” Democrat? Maybe Webb? Lieberman?
America’s Party!
The scorched earth circular firing squad continues.
He could probably find a ballot line in New York — there are 8 ballot-qualified parties.
Not thinking that he’s exactly “panicking”.
[Romney would not even get 1%]
^^^^THIS. The same people that made Trump sign an agreement. Who’s the enemy again?
I’m not a Trump guy, but if he gets the nod I’ll vote for him for the pure entertainment and chaos factor as the uniparty runs around with their a$$es on fire. He can’t be worse then what we have now, and with Cruz on board we may actually have something.
Romney won’t play this game.
Nah, that’s just WND being WND.
Anybody who believes this crap probably would be a Trump voter.
Nice name choice. My personal preference is “Freedom Party.” Members will be known as Freepers. ;)
But look at it this way. If Trump really is going to be the disaster that the party honchos claim he'll be, then if the party survives, the establishment will be running it for years or decades to come.
If it looks like Trump will get the nomination, they may just decide to get out of his way and let him do himself in. Getting in the way only makes them the fall guys, rather than Donald.
Mark McKinnon: Why I’m Working With Hillary Clinton Now (McCain/Bush advisor defects)
Jun 14, 2013
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3031367/posts
The GOP-e represents the butt end of the elephant. Apparently they want Hillary to be Prezy.
Of course he is, the Bushes and Clintons are both part of the same political cartel.
Turtle/Bonehead?
LOL!!!
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