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Trump: Actually, I May Break My Pledge Not To Go Third Party
Townhall.com ^
| November 23, 2015
| Guy Benson
Posted on 11/23/2015 7:58:08 PM PST by Kaslin
Hey, remember this?
After routinely flirting with a third-party run, Donald Trump signed an unambiguously-worded pledge in early September, vowing ;forego a third-party presidential bid if he fails to secure the Republican presidential nomination. Having committed his word,Trump averred that he had "no intention" of reconsidering the promise: "I see no circumstances under which I would tear up that pledge," he said, calling the pledge "total." Now he's mad about some opponents and outside groups announcing plans to attack him, so the thin-skinned and erratic Republican frontrunner is once again changing his tune. Surprise:
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump would not rule out making a run for president as an independent despite signing a pledge over the summer saying he would support the eventual GOP nominee instead of running a third-party bid. "I'm going to have to see what happens. I will see what happens. I have to be treated fairly," Trump said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" when asked about a new guerrilla effort by operatives within the Republican Party to derail Trump's candidacy.
But not to worry, conservatives. He'll be totally reliable on all the issues on which he's completely reversed himself in order to pander to you -- from tax increases, to abortion, to gun control, to government-run healthcare (which he still praises), to immigration rhetoric and policy, etc. His longstanding alignment with the Democratic Party and financial support for Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid shouldn't concern you either. Nor should his ongoing left-wing talking points on "fairness," the Koch brothers, "blame Bush," and expanding the federal bureaucracy. And neither should his abysmally low (34/61) favorability rating among the general electorate, much worse than even his dear friend and benefactor Hillary's terrible numbers. He'll never abandon you in pursuit of his own self-serving interests, or for attention. Incidentally, Trump was given yet another opportunity on Sunday to clear up the "media smear" regarding his allegedly nonexistent support for a national registry of Muslims -- including citizens. He took another pass, declining to answer the question asked of him, keeping things nice and hazy:
This is more evidence supporting my suspicion that he's deliberately obfuscating. His supporters who insist this is a made-up media hit job can point to his responses focusing on refugees, while other supporters who like the idea of this unconstitutional scheme won't find a denial in there. And then there's this:
GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump is doubling down on comments that thousands of people in parts of New Jersey with large Arab populations cheered on 9/11. Trump said at a rally on Saturday in Birmingham, Ala. that he watched as the World Trade Center "came tumbling down." "And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down," he added. "Thousands of people were cheering." ABC "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos asked Trump on Sunday if he misspoke, noting that "police say that didn't happen and all those rumors have been on the Internet for some time." "It did happen. I saw it, " Trump said. "It was on television. I saw it ... George, it did happen," Trump persisted.
He did not see it, and it was not on television. In fairness to Trump, I distinctly remember hearing rumors about crowds of Muslims in parts of New Jersey openly celebrating on 9/11, but no credible corroborating evidence ever emerged, and local police have strongly refuted the claim. He may have been thinking of this footage showing Palestinians dancing in the streets of Gaza. Conflation is often how false memories form. What's inexcusable, but not surprising, is Trump's reckless, fact-free double-down. But cults of personality will justify and excuse virtually anything. Which helps explain why this vile man still has an approval rating in the low 40's:
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; newyork; trump
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To: detch
Shades of ross Perot.
He handed the 1992 election to Bill Clinton.
Itâs hard not to imagine he knew it would happen that way.
I find it hard to believe Trump is not aware the same would happen again.
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:10:39 PM PST
by
heshtesh
To: Kaslin
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:10:46 PM PST
by
kalee
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:11:14 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: Caipirabob
Either way, this year we string GOPe up for good. The Republicans are finished as a RINO party, they have lost their base forever.
That is the way I see it. I went unaffiliated last December after a new Congress re-elected bohner and mcconnel. That was after 37 years registered republican. Yes, I voted for Reagan, twice! Let's not talk about the Perot years.
To: Kaslin
Go ahead, Trump. We don’t blame you. We blame them!
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:11:59 PM PST
by
uncitizen
(Pray for Donald Trump)
To: heshtesh
I agree.
This is some journalist’s/pundit’s wish list...
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:12:17 PM PST
by
detch
(")
To: sparklite2
You’re right. How quickly the RINOs here forget.
Q: Is RNC going to hold on to their end of the deal?
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:12:19 PM PST
by
Jane Long
(Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
To: Kaslin
The GOPe headed by Karl Rove and his minions are breaking the agreement they had with Trump. They are going to mount unprecedented attacks on him. They never dreamed he will have done as well as he has. They are b@stards.
To: detch
Yeah. I was a Perot voter. GHWB, he of the "L"-shaped
economic recovery whose "read my lips" was jettisoned in
the arrogance of his high post-Iraq popularity ratings, made
it easy to vote for conservatism that wasn't compassionate.
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:13:30 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
To: uncitizen
To: SunkenCiv
Where are the other candidates signed pledges? What is this?
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:13:56 PM PST
by
WENDLE
(Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
To: Kaslin
Trump is a Dem, posing to the right of us conservatives in order to do the 2016 equivalent of Ross Perot.
I tried to convince fellow conservatives about Perot, to no avail. (I was right, of course.)
Now, I try to convince you fine FRiends.
Trump is a Dem, posing to the right of us conservatives in order to hand the election to Hillary.
BTW, if it helps to qualify my opinion, I neither respect, nor support Jeb, Marco, or any of the GOPe creeps.
.
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:14:13 PM PST
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
To: detch
Shades of ross Perot. He handed the 1992 election to Bill Clinton.
That's mindless BS! Bush is why clinton was elected.
To: WENDLE
Go TRUMP. SEND THEM TO THIRD PARTY!! Screw those Gope bastards.
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:15:23 PM PST
by
WENDLE
(Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
To: Kaslin
To give Gay Benson the benefit of the doubt we can say he is being one-sided and intellectually dishonest.
That’s being nice.
Trump would be a fool to concede one inch of Republican real estate.
It’s time to punt the squatting, elitist scumbags to the curb. The Republican Party is our investment.
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:15:39 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:15:55 PM PST
by
Lumper20
( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
To: Cementjungle
Trump will dump so much sh*t on the GOPe nominee that he’ll have to drop out in shame.
Trump has the truth on his side.
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:16:07 PM PST
by
Boojum
To: Kaslin
Guy Benson, the same guy who claims to be a Christian and a homosexual at the same time? 1 Corinthians 6:18: Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself. I can only guess that does not apply to homosexuals.
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:16:29 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: Kaslin
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posted on
11/23/2015 8:16:37 PM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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