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"Republican Gridlock Rekindles Talk of Third-party Candidate"
Toronto Star ^ | 18 January 2008 | Tim Harper

Posted on 01/20/2008 5:16:22 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo

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1 posted on 01/20/2008 5:16:24 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
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To: AmericanInTokyo

The answer is Fred Thompson.


2 posted on 01/20/2008 5:21:04 PM PST by reasonisfaith (Donating to Fred Thompson is the antidote to media bias.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

bs. they’re angling for another Ross Perot crapola.


3 posted on 01/20/2008 5:21:05 PM PST by Cinnamon
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To: AmericanInTokyo

There are only two candidates I simply cannot vote for at this point: McCain and Huckabee.

If it’s McCain, he’s going to have to do a whole lot of convincing in order to prevent me from jumping ship.


4 posted on 01/20/2008 5:22:34 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: reasonisfaith

That’s the thing. I love Fred to death, but if he’s not able to win a primary in the South, then HTF is freakin’ Lou Dobb’s or Gingrich going to fair? Answer: not very well.


5 posted on 01/20/2008 5:23:29 PM PST by jdm (A Hunter Thompson ticket would be suicide.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

It has less to do with a fractured coaltion and more to do with a competitive race when there are no incumbent Presidents or VPs running. There are clear choices. The Dems really have none with all of their candidates essentially running on the same platform.


6 posted on 01/20/2008 5:23:36 PM PST by kabar
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Not the GOP.

Let’s have Obama and Hillary as candidates for Prez. And Edwards.

Democrats should vote their conscience, after all.


7 posted on 01/20/2008 5:23:43 PM PST by combat_boots (She lives! 22 weeks, 9.5 inches. Go, baby, go!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Geez louise, 6% of delegates awarded, not even to Feb. 5 yet, and they’re using the word gridlock.


8 posted on 01/20/2008 5:23:59 PM PST by squidly
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To: Brilliant

“If it’s McCain, he’s going to have to do a whole lot of convincing in order to prevent me from jumping ship.”

McCain has already lied to you. Anything coming out of his mouth now can only be seen as another lie.


9 posted on 01/20/2008 5:24:10 PM PST by reasonisfaith (Donating to Fred Thompson is the antidote to media bias.)
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To: Brilliant

And of course the NY types who were rooting for Rudy are now talking up Bloombillionaire.


10 posted on 01/20/2008 5:24:15 PM PST by BlueNgold (... Feed the tree!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

My prediction -

There will be a lot of people chastising the writer, and a handful agreeing with most of it.

I’m in the latter group. The ‘top tier’ are buffoons.


11 posted on 01/20/2008 5:24:38 PM PST by GovernmentIsTheProblem (We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I think it would result in another deal made just like the Perot/Clinton deal.


12 posted on 01/20/2008 5:24:53 PM PST by freekitty
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To: reasonisfaith

Thanks, reason. I believe him to be a good man.


13 posted on 01/20/2008 5:25:30 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Enough has been said already. The RINO takeover is almost complete. It is what it is.)
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The dems are more likely to have a brokered convention.
14 posted on 01/20/2008 5:25:45 PM PST by ILS21R
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If Bloomie runs, it will be a visible interposition of God.
A true miracle for the GOP.

He could not get a Republican cat to vote for him in the red states, and he would force hillary to spend big bucks to defend the Socialist States of the North East, and possibly California.

Divine intervention.

15 posted on 01/20/2008 5:25:59 PM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: reasonisfaith

“The answer is Fred Thompson.

If Fred couldn’t win SC or even come in a close 2nd, how can he win anywhere else?

My guess is he’s out after Florida.

And there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.


16 posted on 01/20/2008 5:26:28 PM PST by GovernmentIsTheProblem (We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: squidly

You see Christmas (er, sorry, “Holiday”) displays in stores in early September nowadays!


17 posted on 01/20/2008 5:26:44 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Enough has been said already. The RINO takeover is almost complete. It is what it is.)
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If conservatives leave the RINO run GOP to form a new party,the GOP would become the third party—a small party populated by a circus of little prima donna generals moving non-existant divisions about on a fantasy battle map.
The conservative party,the new Federalist Party,would be second in size to the Dems only and with a lot more unity, purpose and nascent power.


18 posted on 01/20/2008 5:27:17 PM PST by Happy Rain
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To: jdm

“That’s the thing. I love Fred to death, but if he’s not able to win a primary in the South,...”

WE don’t know that he is not able to win. The MSM brain washing line is beginning to come out of your mouth.

If that happens more, perhaps we can take the artsy hat on your page and insert it into your mouth.

Sorry. You just happen to be the 501st person to say Fred can’t win and I’ve had it with that.

It is a neat hat. Actually, I have knitted one like that....


19 posted on 01/20/2008 5:28:35 PM PST by bperiwinkle7 ( In the beginning was the WORD................)
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To: BlueNgold

I often state that any candidate who cannot deliver his own state is suspect.

Neither Rudy nor Mitt can, so it really doesn’t matter what the pubs in those states say.
Only the dems.


20 posted on 01/20/2008 5:28:47 PM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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