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The Perfect Storm for a 3rd Party run (Vanity)
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Posted on 04/12/2012 6:31:24 AM PDT by Mechanicos

If Romney wins the nomination it will set up the Perfect Political Storm for the Democrats to run a 3rd Party "conservative" to siphon enough votes to let Obama win.

Romney is so detestable to so many conservative and so similar to Obama on so many issues that for many there's no compelling reason to vote for him. Also, Obama and the Democrats have more then enough of a war chest as well as a complacent media to make a 3rd party run look worthwhile as well as feasible to the massive number of disenfranchised conservatives who reject Romney.

With the Media and Democrat war chest supporting a 3rd Party type run they can bleed off enough to let Obama win with as little as a 3rd... To make it work they would need a GOP candidate so disliked and so similar to the Democrat candidate it would make the risk appear worthwhile to vote for the 3rd party.

As it stands Romney is NOT the Nominee and may not be the Nominee if enough conservatives continue to vote against him in the remaining primaries. He has about 535 committed delegates now ONLY. That's a long way from the 1444 first vote he needs. And the Paul camp probably has enough stealth delegates to prevent Romney from winning the first vote if he does not have enough committed delegates by convention time.

Its a long shot but we may still be able to prevent the Democrats and Media from forcing Romney on us. Because if they succeed there is a real possibility a 3rd party will siphon off enough to let Obama win again.


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To: dangus

“it’ll be Gary Johnson”

And sadly, I would vote for pot-smoking loser Gary Johnson over Romney in a heart beat.


41 posted on 04/12/2012 7:54:03 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (I will never vote for Romney. Ever.)
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To: Mechanicos

Eventually it will happen.

Sooner or later we will have to confront the GOP establishment in a “final battle”. Making them finish third in a Presidential race would turn them into the Whigs.

Are the stakes too high to do it this cycle? Perhaps.
But sooner or later it has to be done.


42 posted on 04/12/2012 7:55:27 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TheThirdRuffian

No matter how you rationalize it for yourself, you will be voting for Obama. Be a stand up guy and do not weasel out. Just pull the lever for Obama. Any vote not for the GOP nominee is a vote for Obama, period.


43 posted on 04/12/2012 7:57:55 AM PDT by gusty
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To: Uncle Ike

At this time I am opposed to a third party. But if the GOP and Romney lose in Nov., I am game to starting one. We have been betrayed ever since Geo. H. W. Bush got control of the party. He got rid of the Reagan appointees and put in his own spineless nothing moderates. But we MUST wait till after the election. If we do it before, and Obummer is re-elected, the third party would be detested!


44 posted on 04/12/2012 7:58:32 AM PDT by RightLady (Throw the Traitors out)
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To: Mechanicos

to say Romney is as bad as Obama is mis-guided moral relativism. Nothing would be as bad as an O second term.


45 posted on 04/12/2012 8:13:32 AM PDT by Nanny7
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To: Buckeye McFrog

barry is the bigger danger

get hussien first, then get the rhinos


46 posted on 04/12/2012 8:19:13 AM PDT by paythefiddler (redefeat communism)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

barry is the bigger danger

get hussien first, then get the rhinos


47 posted on 04/12/2012 8:19:22 AM PDT by paythefiddler (redefeat communism)
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To: Mechanicos

Turd Parties! Yeah sure 0Bama would love it!


48 posted on 04/12/2012 8:23:32 AM PDT by entropy12 (I absolutely believe in American exceptional-ism, the Constitution and justice for all.)
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To: gusty
No matter how you rationalize it for yourself, you will be voting for Obama...Any vote not for the GOP nominee is a vote for Obama, period.

Talk about rationalizing.

Voting for Obama is voting for Obama. Anything else is NOT voting for Obama.

Unless we do something about it, we will always have these two choices, R and D, bad and worse. And things will go from bad to worse.

49 posted on 04/12/2012 8:25:59 AM PDT by Lady Lucky (Retro Sark...because you just never know when you'll have needed a sark tag.)
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To: woweeitsme
Doug Schoen (Sp?) was on Hannity about a month ago espousing this. He is for a Huntsman candidacy and is already working toward it. Schoen is a “D”, but he’s not an Obama fan, supposedly.

They're running the Americans Elect party which is already on all 50 ballots. I think they're looking for a "centrist." Schoen wrote that op-ed last year saying Obama should bow out and let Hillary run this year. So depending on who they pick as their candidate, it could siphon off votes from either the R or D. Picking Huntsman sounds like a direct strategy to split the Mormon and Republican vote though, so that would suggest Schoen was an Obama operative all along and the Hillary op-ed was just a head fake.

51 posted on 04/12/2012 8:30:08 AM PDT by JediJones (From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)
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To: Mechanicos

Hmmm ... there are still a few variables out there that could (maybe, possibly) change the entire game.

I’ve still got my fingers crossed for something spectacular, like Obummer being declared ineligible by the Supremes or having several states refuse to place him on the ballot. That would certainly shuffle the deck!

I think Obummer’s web of lies is unraveling. (We are all Breitbart!) He cannot POSSIBLY dodge sharp questions about his college transcripts, Social Security and Selective Service, natural-born status or why he no longer holds a law license, to name a few issues. He was given a pass the first time around but people now want answers.

If a third-party bid appears (I hope none do but there is desperation in the air) then Palin/West would be the best possible option. Sarah still draws huge crowds and people DO trust her, no matter what the naysayers believe. And I’d follow Colonel West into Hell carrying a gas can, as would many others.

Of course, we should have started a Conservative GOP party right after the 2010 election, but that is all water under the bridge now.


52 posted on 04/12/2012 8:32:20 AM PDT by DNME (A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright. — Robert Heinlein)
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To: brownsfan; Anti-Bubba182

Ross Perot did a service to this country few seem to grasp

Bush was giving the democraps everything they wanted

Clinton was worse, and the so GOP paid for it with Perot siphoning off their votes, giving Clinton the win.

But the size of the Perot vote convinced the GOP to move farther right and as a direct result we got Newt gingrich and a GOP congress for the first time in 40 years.

They were even calling themselve “The Limbaugh Freshmen” (or something similar) because he said why people voted for Perot instead of the GOP.

Gingrich forced Clinton to balance the budget and reform welfare, for which we should be eternally grateful and why Gingrich should be GIVEN THIS presidency by default.

And we have Perot to thank for gingrich winning in 2004


53 posted on 04/12/2012 8:33:24 AM PDT by Mr. K (If Romney wins the primary, I am writing-in PALIN)
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To: Mr. K

“And we have Perot to thank for gingrich winning in 2004”

And we can thank him for 8 years of Clinton.


54 posted on 04/12/2012 8:43:54 AM PDT by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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To: Mechanicos

I’m not going to vote for Romney - but I’m not going to pave the way for an Obama win either. I’m sitting this one out as a protest... maybe forever. I’m that sick of the GOP. But backing a third party (that can’t win) is similar to sending a cash donations to Obama. Not gonna do it.


55 posted on 04/12/2012 8:47:22 AM PDT by GOPJ (Hoodies - because you can't kill a security camera for snitchin' - - freeper tacticalogic)
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To: Mechanicos

OK you talked me into it. I’ll run. Send me $400 million so I can smear Mitt and Barry. If elected everybody gets a free assault rifle, 1000 round of ammo and a check for $100,000.


56 posted on 04/12/2012 8:51:00 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Mechanicos

It depends what you mean by “third party.” Ross Perot was a fake “conservative” who was engineered by bill clinton to siphon votes away from “Read My Lips” Bush. That was obvious in the debates, when Perot spent all his time attacking Bush and ignoring Clinton.

On the other hand, the situation is different now. The Republican Party has virtually committed suicide, and it seems unlikely that it can come back from the dead again.

There IS one possible Democrat/fake conservative candidate out there, who resembles Ross Perot. Namely, Donald Trump. But I don’t see any signs of him running at the moment, and he actually admitted not long ago that he is a Democrat again. If The Donald enters the race, it will be as a Democrat spoiler. But I think it’s unlikely.

There is at least some possibility that since the GOP has now finished committing suicide, we will come together behind a real conservative candidate, and Romney and the GOP will be kicked to the curb like the Whigs in the time of Abe Lincoln. But that will be very hard to do.

Well, we’ll see. The problem is that conservatives are split between libertarians and social conservatives, and it seems as if they are incapable of acting together on anything. Well, we’ll see. It will take extraordinarily strong leadership to pull us out of the pit we have dug for ourselves here. And Romney is NOT the solution.


57 posted on 04/12/2012 9:02:06 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Mechanicos

Romney is going to lose anyhow.

A third party candidate with money (there don’t seem to be any out there) could win, as Obama and Romney would split the liberal/moderate vote.


58 posted on 04/12/2012 9:06:30 AM PDT by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: Mechanicos
Palin for President, 2012
59 posted on 04/12/2012 9:10:24 AM PDT by Antoninus (The Republican Party (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Romney, Inc.))
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Works for me!


60 posted on 04/12/2012 9:10:39 AM PDT by Silentgypsy
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