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BILL KRISTOL (Weekly Standard editor) THREATENS THIRD PARTY SUPPORT IF TRUMP WINS NOM
http://www.breitbart.com ^ | September 15, 2015 | John Nolte

Posted on 09/15/2015 4:27:24 PM PDT by Beowulf9

If frontrunner Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination, one of the biggest names in the Republican Establishment, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, says he “doubts” he would support the Democrat in a general election but would “support getting someone good on the ballot as a third party candidate.”

“I doubt I’d support Donald. I doubt I’d support the Democrat,” Kristol told CNNMoney via email. “I think I’d support getting someone good on the ballot as a third party candidate.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; billkristol; bush; election2016; gop; gope; jeb; kristol; newyork; trump; weeklystandard; williamkristol
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Is Jeb the third party risk?
1 posted on 09/15/2015 4:27:24 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

So Bill Kristol didn’t sign the Loyalty Pledge they made Trump sign?


2 posted on 09/15/2015 4:30:29 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
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To: Beowulf9

Two late. This is mere psy war. It would be doomed from the start.


3 posted on 09/15/2015 4:30:55 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Trust me: Donald Trump propagates basic untruths/misinformation re: current trade/defense with JAPAN)
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To: Beowulf9

After the first win of BHO the very strongest voice yelling, “The era of Reagan is OVER” was Bill Kristol.


4 posted on 09/15/2015 4:30:55 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Beowulf9
Is Jeb the third party risk?

Why? Because he's been so inspirational?

If Jeb loses the nomination, he's toast.

Bloomberg has enough money that he could jump right in.

But he probably favors Hillary.

5 posted on 09/15/2015 4:31:05 PM PDT by x
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To: Beowulf9
Memo To Bill Kristol:

Click the Pic

6 posted on 09/15/2015 4:32:28 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Beowulf9

There isn’t even a third party candidate right now. But it’s good to know they will get one vote.


7 posted on 09/15/2015 4:32:33 PM PDT by Williams
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To: Beowulf9

So the base must hold their noses for the RINO nominee at all costs, but if the conservative wins (See O’Donnell in DE in 2010) then it’s sour grapes.


8 posted on 09/15/2015 4:33:29 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Bush [the 90s rock band] for POTUS 2016!!!)
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To: Beowulf9
He likes THEM

He - 6 foot 5

She - 4 foot 11

THEY LOOK RIDICULOUS and they think that way, too.

9 posted on 09/15/2015 4:33:56 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Beowulf9

What he’s saying is he’d back a spoiler to try to keep the presidency from Trump and hand it over to the Democrats instead. He knows a third party candidate isn’t going to win.


10 posted on 09/15/2015 4:34:45 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: x

Jebbie must have thought if all else failed, he could still depend on his native TX and his adopted FL to get him the nomination. And maybe CA and IL thrown in too


11 posted on 09/15/2015 4:35:39 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Don’t forget Chris McDaniel in Mississippi.

Another conservative tossed overboard by GOPe dirty tricks.


12 posted on 09/15/2015 4:36:12 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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To: Beowulf9

Kristol is probably for HRC too but is just playing games.


13 posted on 09/15/2015 4:36:52 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Beowulf9

Kristol is full of crap. If the GOP nominates a candidate he doesn’t support, he’s voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Bank on it.


14 posted on 09/15/2015 4:37:28 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Beowulf9
So he is willing to do what he was going to condemn Trump for doing.

Nice.

15 posted on 09/15/2015 4:38:45 PM PDT by NELSON111
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To: Beowulf9

I expected this. At this point it is a THREAT to try to get us to bend over and take it, yet again.

When next year comes, I definitely expect The Establishment to try to throw the election to Biden, as they will do MUCH BETTER if the Dems win, than if Trump wins.


16 posted on 09/15/2015 4:38:57 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: Beowulf9

So kristol is willing to turn Jeb into the 21st century Perot?


17 posted on 09/15/2015 4:42:32 PM PDT by uncitizen (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Beowulf9

Easy comment, who cares? Why wait Bill? Start a third party yourself because Donald Trump is not going away.


18 posted on 09/15/2015 4:42:32 PM PDT by mountainfolk ((The past is prologue))
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To: VitacoreVision
Notice how party loyalty isn't a two-way street with the GOPe types.
19 posted on 09/15/2015 4:44:29 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: Beowulf9
Unless Bernie's the Democrat nominee there probably won't be a third party.

It will be like France a few years back when LePen knocked out Jospin, the Socialist Party candidate, and the entire political Establishment backed Chirac in the run-off to keep LePen out.

Washingtonians who don't back Hillary (or Biden) are probably just going to lay low until the election's over. They aren't going to mount a third party campaign that could help Trump.

If you're Bill Kristol and you're saying you're not going to back Trump, you can talk third party now as your way of striking out at Donald Trump, but if Trump is the nominee, you're going to be in real trouble and have a really difficult decision to make.

20 posted on 09/15/2015 4:45:43 PM PDT by x
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