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Buchanan: GOP Risks Third Party Revolt with Romney Candidacy
Newsmax.com ^ | 19 Oct 2011 | Martin Gould and Ashley Martella

Posted on 10/20/2011 11:40:57 AM PDT by broken_arrow1

The GOP could face a revolt from within its tea party grassroots base if it nominates an establishment candidate without true conservative, anti-big government values, one of America’s leading conservative pundits tells Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview.

Specifically, columnist and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan told Newsmax that the nomination of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the architect of a state insurance plan that many say inspired Obamacare, could prompt the tea party movement to form a third party.

“It’s a real possibility because the tea party folks and the Republican conservatives and social conservatives and others are very apprehensive of Mitt Romney and they don’t feel he is really one of us,” Buchanan told Newsmax.

“They’ve got reason for that feeling and that sentiment but if they do that, if, for example … they persuaded Ron Paul to run on a third party ticket, Barack Obama would be easily re-elected,” he added.

Buchanan would certainly know. A former aide to President Ronald Reagan, he was one of the first conservative commentators to hold a prominent job as a TV commentator and syndicated columnist in the mainstream media.

From 1966 through 1974, Buchanan was an assistant to Richard Nixon, and from 1985 to 1987, White House Director of Communications for Reagan.

Buchanan ran twice for the Republican nomination for president and then in 2000 ran for the White House on the Reform Party ticket. He said he can see a third party candidate emerging in 2012 if Mitt Romney gets the GOP nod.

Of the current Republican candidates he said, “Certainly Michele Bachmann is one of us. I think Rick Perry is. I think Herman Cain is. If you are talking about a more traditional conservative certainly I would put Santorum in there.

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To: Eva

If Romney wanted to restructure his platform to imitate a popular candidate, seems to me that Cain is in that spot.


61 posted on 10/20/2011 12:36:33 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: livius

I have a great respect for Buchanan and I too think he may be right. I am another who is not going to vote for Romney no matter what.


62 posted on 10/20/2011 12:38:39 PM PDT by DallasSun (Courage~Fear that has said its prayers.)
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To: Jim Robinson

63 posted on 10/20/2011 12:38:50 PM PDT by Bobalu (More rubble, less trouble)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

If Romney is anywhere on the ticket, that slot on the ballot will be left blank.


64 posted on 10/20/2011 12:39:44 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: broken_arrow1

Bring it on.

Obama 35%
Romney 10%
Cain 55%


65 posted on 10/20/2011 12:42:11 PM PDT by Avery Iota Kracker (He Hate Me Uns)
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To: trubolotta

Romney has kept insisting that he never wished Romneycare on any other states or as a Federal thing, that it was a local Massachusetts thing. He’d probably claim the same with other screaming liberal influences he buddied up with while governor of Massachusetts. So a veep that parroted these talking points wouldn’t get any grief from Romney.


66 posted on 10/20/2011 12:42:42 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: Beagle8U

Could you please be more clear?


67 posted on 10/20/2011 12:43:13 PM PDT by DallasSun (Courage~Fear that has said its prayers.)
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To: tirednvirginia

I will NEVER vote for Romney for Pres.

I could be persuaded if he were the VP candidate, because he would be too old to run again after his VP term was up. I don’t see what assets he could bring to the table as VP, though.


68 posted on 10/20/2011 12:43:34 PM PDT by Politicalmom (I am intrigued and open to the Bush administrationÂ’s amnesty proposal. -Rick Perry)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Cain hasn’t been able to push Romney because he doesn’t have full support on his own ideas and has shown a readiness to speak out before he gives an issue full though.

In other words, Romney thinks that he can dominate Cain, not the other way around. Romney knows that he is no match for Gingrich, less so Santorum, though I’d match Santorum’s intelligence against Romney any day.


69 posted on 10/20/2011 12:43:47 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Beagle8U

And when Obama has replaced a dying, say, Scalia with you know what, we know the ballot blankers are to thank.


70 posted on 10/20/2011 12:44:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: Eva

Why not? He effortlessly moved to the left of Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts then governed as Teddy’s bitch. He’ll lie, steal, cheat, do or say anything to get elected.

He’s a two-bit lying political whore. No foundation whatsoever.


71 posted on 10/20/2011 12:46:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: DallasSun

“Could you please be more clear?”

Not without getting the boot...lol


72 posted on 10/20/2011 12:47:12 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

NUTS TO YOU!!

NO SURRENDER!! NO RETREAT!!

FUMR!! FUBO!!


73 posted on 10/20/2011 12:48:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
When that happens it will be the fault of those that didn't make their position clear before the liberal puke was given the nomination.
74 posted on 10/20/2011 12:49:50 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Something tells me that won't work because the question won't be what's the difference (state vs. federal). The question will be is RomneyCare a good plan. Romney still defends it. How can a VP criticize RomneyCare without criticizing Romney? A RINO VP could, but conservative VP? I don't think so.
75 posted on 10/20/2011 12:50:46 PM PDT by trubolotta
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To: broken_arrow1

Pat is often wrong but he is right on this one. Romney would torch what is left of the GOP.


76 posted on 10/20/2011 12:52:02 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
“If Romney got the GOP nod, then Sarah Palin said she was going to run with Cain as a third party... now that could grab enough votes to upset the applecart but good.”

That would ensure the re-election of Obama.

77 posted on 10/20/2011 12:53:02 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: broken_arrow1
Sorry but it would better if the gop would lose if Romney was the candidate because it would teach the gop to not run liberal fools like Romney for president and put a real conservative instead!
78 posted on 10/20/2011 12:54:54 PM PDT by The Right wing Infidel
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To: Jim Robinson

OK, let’s easily lose the last bastion of US sanity before dissolving into another armed battle. I’ll gladly take the nuts, be they Brazil, almonds, filberts, cashews, even peanuts, for saying that. Of course every effort must be put into seeing that Romney is not the candidate. But if he is, a boycott of the GOP candidate for president, without a spectacularly good third party (again e.g. Cain/Palin running as TEA) is cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face.


79 posted on 10/20/2011 12:55:30 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: Beagle8U

LOL. I appreciate your being so succinct!


80 posted on 10/20/2011 12:55:40 PM PDT by DallasSun (Courage~Fear that has said its prayers.)
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