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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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buchanan; communism; marxism; obama; socialism; zot; zots4romneybots
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To: The Right wing Infidel

Pyrrhic squared.


81 posted on 10/20/2011 12:56:06 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: Grunthor

Great.. you purist Freepers will give us 4 more years of Obama.

Wonderful.


82 posted on 10/20/2011 12:57:15 PM PDT by Count of Monte Logan
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To: I Shall Endure
So I’d expect a liberal fourth party challenger, too.

The birth of a new conservative party requires 4 viable candidates running, which is exactly what happened when the new Republican Party first won power. If a conservative candidate runs third party it would be a good idea for us to also support a fourth party moonbat to break up Barky's base.

83 posted on 10/20/2011 12:57:31 PM PDT by Reeses (Have you mocked a Democrat today?)
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To: DaxtonBrown

As I said when Obamacare passed...the GOP is dead, they just don’t know it yet.

Nor does the majority on FR.

Any party that for decades wages war on their Conservative base, deserves ZERO support.

What are we?

The battered wives club?


84 posted on 10/20/2011 12:58:10 PM PDT by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: Count of Monte Logan

Unbunch your panties, I never said I was IN FAVOR of it.


85 posted on 10/20/2011 12:58:50 PM PDT by Grunthor (BEAT OBAMA WITH A CAIN!)
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To: riverdawg
If Romney wins the nod, it insures obama gets re-elected, period.

However, if he wins the nod, then Sarah and Cain getting together against him would at least make it interesting, and less of a cinch for obama.

86 posted on 10/20/2011 1:00:53 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’ve posted a thousand times and this will make it a thousand and one. If RINO Mitt is the best the GOP has to offer then the GOP isn’t worth sh.. (rimes with Mitt).

It’s not that I’ve left the Republican Party, it will be the Republican party has left me.

Nominate an abortionist constitution trampler like Romney, then the GOP deserves to rot in hell!


87 posted on 10/20/2011 1:02:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Massachusetts Mitt, Gerald Ford, “mark my words” George Bush I , George Bush II, Undocumented Puppet Spammer, Rick Perry, Big Government vote the bailout McCain, and all the Big Media D.C. Bureaus.....

...all making the late Tip O’Neil so proud.....

.........making D.C. and the Big Beltway No. 1 in national income, on everyone elses backs. Hooray!


88 posted on 10/20/2011 1:02:55 PM PDT by Varsity Flight
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To: Count of Monte Logan

romneybot zot


89 posted on 10/20/2011 1:03:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: Count of Monte Logan

Shove your “purity” where the sun don’t shine!! NUTS TO YOU, IDIOT!!


90 posted on 10/20/2011 1:04:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: tirednvirginia

Please tell me what Rubio has ever done to qualify him for national office.


91 posted on 10/20/2011 1:05:26 PM PDT by Jim Noble (To live peacefully with credit-based consumption and fiat money, men would have to be angels.)
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To: Count of Monte Logan

Here’s your purity, troll: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7OQoBxZZPqU


92 posted on 10/20/2011 1:06:54 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: Count of Monte Logan

The poison brought by Obama extends to judicial appointments. Could a President Romney do worse? I’d think that Romney would lean towards libertarian judges and justices with strong tenth amendment sympathies, so that he can bask in the glory of pleasing all states, liberal and conservative. Obama would bring on nothing but more jackbooted socialists. When replacing other jackbooted socialists it’s a wash, but if someone like Scalia or Thomas is on the line, it’s a whole nother ball game.

If I get banned for asking the question, well I get banned. It’s Jim’s blog and he can do what he wishes.


93 posted on 10/20/2011 1:09:36 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: roses of sharon
What are we?

The battered wives club?

Excellent! Either establishment Republicans adapt or perish. It is they who will need a home and I doubt they will flock to the Democrats.

94 posted on 10/20/2011 1:10:53 PM PDT by trubolotta
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To: Jim Robinson

I feel your pain


95 posted on 10/20/2011 1:12:08 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: HiTech RedNeck

I don’t think it is going to answer you. (Kitties ate him )


96 posted on 10/20/2011 1:12:41 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Romney has a history of making liberal appointments. He’s a dedicated big government progressive (leftist):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7OQoBxZZPqU

There will be NO campaign for Romney on FR!!


97 posted on 10/20/2011 1:16:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: trubolotta
The establishment GOP lives in its own little world, and it's difficult to penetrate. But they've got to be asking themselves now, why has Cain done so well, to push a more mushy Republican like Perry out of the limelight. They do all agree on deposing Obama, don't they? That means they need to compromise with the more conservative elements of their party to bring that hope to fruition.
98 posted on 10/20/2011 1:17:59 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: Jim Noble

Sort of like Cain?


99 posted on 10/20/2011 1:18:12 PM PDT by tirednvirginia (t)
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To: All
I'm starting to feel better. Going to have to do some electoral map research. Maybe pull a Bush 2004 electoral map upset. . This just might do it!

Palin/Cain

100 posted on 10/20/2011 1:19:23 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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