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Win Or Lose, A Third Party Run Would Be Mitt Romney’s Greatest Legacy [NeverTrump]
Daily Caller ^ | May 23, 2016 | Jamie Weinstein

Posted on 05/23/2016 10:08:58 AM PDT by C19fan

Mitt Romney may be the #NeverTrump movement’s last chance for a third party bid.

Anti-Trump conservatives have so far been unsuccessful in recruiting a candidate to mount a third party run against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Gen. James Mattis said no thanks. Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said he is too busy raising his children to run for president. Former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn said he is not interested.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: Nebraska; US: New York; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: 2012election; 2016; 2016election; backstabberromney; benedictromney; dailycaller; demagogicparty; election2012; election2016; everhillary; jamieweinstein; massachusetts; memebuilding; mittromney; nevertrump; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; potus; saboteurromney; spoilerromney; trump
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To: C19fan

Jamie Weinstein, isn’t that HuffPo’s Michelle Fields’ boyfriend?

I bet he’d cry if she pinched his arm.


41 posted on 05/23/2016 10:32:08 AM PDT by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: C19fan

Yeah, just like Ross Perot’s greatest legacy was handing the election to Clintoon - Twice!


42 posted on 05/23/2016 10:34:13 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: C19fan

The word for Romney has become “infamy”, not ‘legacy’.


43 posted on 05/23/2016 10:35:49 AM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: C19fan

Michelle Fields future wife is practically begging Romney to ruin his name forever in the name of hopefully stopping Trump.
What a little biatch metrosexual.


44 posted on 05/23/2016 10:38:27 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (#NeverHillary)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks C19fan.
Anti-Trump conservatives like Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, and Tom Coburn? Good call.

Partisan Media Shills Alert!


45 posted on 05/23/2016 10:40:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

LOL


46 posted on 05/23/2016 10:43:10 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: combat_boots
WHY? You only turn tail when you either know you cannot or will not win. Or-when you are a coward. He didn’t fight for those men. He proved he would not fight for the rest of ours right there. Coward.

Granted.... But what was in Benghazi, aside from the deaths of Americans, that would cause a candidate to go soft... We have never been told what really was going on in Benghazi... Not even by Republican controlled Congress.

47 posted on 05/23/2016 10:43:25 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: JerseyDvl

I don’t see Romney running 3rd Party.

I do see him having gone through some of the initial steps to position himself as a credible spoiler to Trump, thereby creating leverage to negotiate with Trump over the direction a Trump Presidency and GOP would take.

I see a LOT of political kabuki theater (or close to it) going on within the GOP right now to establish negotiating positions to effectively deal with Trump.


48 posted on 05/23/2016 10:49:27 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: C19fan

Now Mittens has the lefties on his side. Next logical step would be for him to become one of them.


49 posted on 05/23/2016 10:52:51 AM PDT by McGruff (What about #NeverHillary?)
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To: Cyclone59

Instead of a third party, I think the Republicans need a purge, an enema, new leadership, and less douche-baggery. They have been tone deaf, downright nasty to the TEA Party, and overly protective of the elite donor class. It seems that the only effort of a creating a “larger tent” fell on deaf ears - no one seemed to know what that meant, except letting in those icky great unwashed people who were not able to toe the rock-ribbed, big “C” Conservative line. They may have learned how to win some elections, but fell on their faces when trying to govern. Rebuild, renew, have a Trump-led coupe, and get moving. We have no time to waste.


50 posted on 05/23/2016 10:56:46 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: HarleyLady27

That was great.


51 posted on 05/23/2016 11:00:23 AM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: Just mythoughts

We were funneling weapons to the jihadis. Amb. Stevens was trying to stop it.


52 posted on 05/23/2016 11:02:00 AM PDT by Company Man (I say we take off and Trump the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
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To: DannyTN
Romney is so liberal, it’s not certain who Romney would be a spoiler for if anybody.

Can't argue with that. Unintended consequences would prevail.

53 posted on 05/23/2016 11:04:13 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: C19fan

Cornell and Lomdon School of Economics

His education prepared him to be this vapid


54 posted on 05/23/2016 11:12:43 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Boogieman

Doesn’t surprise me you are pro-Romney.

You government stooge you.


55 posted on 05/23/2016 11:12:55 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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To: Company Man
We were funneling weapons to the jihadis. Amb. Stevens was trying to stop it.

I have seen/read nothing yet that Stevens was stopping anything... I think the weapons depot got hijacked and Stevens was a casualty in the hijacking... IIRC the ambassador from Turkey had just left a meeting with Stevens when the hijacking took place... I think the reason why NO help was sent was because help would have lit up the whole region... Benghazi by the sea was weapons depot for Obama and lord McCains rebels.. passing out Muammar al-Gaddafi weapons . But someone else hijacked the weapons...

56 posted on 05/23/2016 11:15:25 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: C19fan

I thought I read recently that Romney gave up this insanity — I think some people are upset and want to keep pushing, hoping he’ll change his mind again.


57 posted on 05/23/2016 11:19:34 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
So ensuring a Hillary Clinton Presidency would be Mitt Romney’s greatest legacy?

LOL, that's why he's thinking of doing it.

58 posted on 05/23/2016 11:34:21 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: Just mythoughts
Benghazi by the sea was weapons depot for Obama and lord McCains rebels.. passing out Muammar al-Gaddafi weapons . But someone else hijacked the weapons...

More likely, Obama, Hillary, McCain, Graham, et al, were selling the weapons to the terrorists, shipping through Turkey to Syria, and the terrorists just decided they didn't want to pay for them anymore.

Arms trafficking to enemy combatants is a death penalty offense.

59 posted on 05/23/2016 11:37:42 AM PDT by meadsjn
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To: C19fan
Sorry, Conservatives, It’s Likely Too Late for a Viable Third-Party Candidate
60 posted on 05/23/2016 11:50:38 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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