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Report: Tom Coburn tells allies he’s open to leading a conservative third-party challenge to Trump
Hotair ^ | 03/21/2016 | AllahPundit

Posted on 03/21/2016 9:08:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: dragonblustar

"My Name is Inigo Montoya, You killed my father party, prepare to die."


101 posted on 03/21/2016 10:04:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: CA Conservative

What if the gope demonstrably cheats to shave enough delegates to keep it under? Would turnabout be fair play?


102 posted on 03/21/2016 10:04:46 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: ichabod1
What if the gope demonstrably cheats to shave enough delegates to keep it under? Would turnabout be fair play?

If Trump has 1237 delegates and does not get the nomination, then the GOP deserves whatever happens. If they change the rules to deny Trump delegates he has earned then they deserve whatever happens. But barring that, if Trump goes into the convention with less than a majority of delegates, it will be up to him to try to persuade enough delegates to vote for him on subsequent ballots to give him the majority, or he won't be the nominee.

103 posted on 03/21/2016 10:10:46 AM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tom does not want to lose the corrupt gravy train in Washington. Notice nothing was said about Ted Cruz.


104 posted on 03/21/2016 10:11:05 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: SeekAndFind

In other words, Tommy wants Hillary to win. No real conservative would want that. But the fake neo-cons would.


105 posted on 03/21/2016 10:11:32 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Sybeck1

Report: Tom Coburn tells allies he’s open to leading a conservative third-party challenge to Trump

More proof that the GOPe wants Hillary as president. Not because of Trump but because of their symbiotic relationship with the Democrat Party.

I’d sooner contribute to the mafia then to the GOPe. At least you know where they stand.


106 posted on 03/21/2016 10:13:05 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Political Correctness = National Suicide)
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To: Durbin

“Trump supporters when Trump threatens to go 3rd Party:
Yeah, you stick it to em Trump. We got your back. Trump Trump Trump!!!

Trump supporters when someone else threatens to go 3rd Party:
Why do you want Hillary to win?”

You are forgetting the deal that GTrump made with the GOP. He is sticking to it but it appears some in the GOP are not.


107 posted on 03/21/2016 10:13:51 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: 1Old Pro

Tom Coburn and his DickHead Party.

Sounds really appealing.


108 posted on 03/21/2016 10:15:33 AM PDT by o2bfree (DNC = RNC :-)
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To: catnipman
And the “convention process” would ..... Great process, hey? Especially for the GOPe party apparatchiks who’ll get to keep their cushy six figures jobs even though the rest of us lose our country forever.

Don't be too sure about that. I think many Trump supporters would be so fed up they would actually vote Democrat at the state and federal levels in every voting precinct across the USA. At the very least, they would stay home in November. Or maybe write in "Donald Trump" for all the positions that had a Republican incumbent running for office.

If Trump loses fair & square, that's one thing. But if the RNC Rules Committee changes the rules on the fly -- a power they gave themselves in Aug 2012 -- then all bets are off regarding other Republican politicians from the Presidency all the way down to the local city councilman. If anyone thinks I'm exaggerating, spend a day or two on social media. Never in my lifetime have I seen so many pissed off Republicans.

Again, just for you, Mitch McConnell:
If the GOPe is even perceived to be blocking Trump at the convention, then no state or federal Republican seat is safe in November. PERIOD.

109 posted on 03/21/2016 10:21:21 AM PDT by Nita Nupress (https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/breitbart-news-saturday-stephen-miller-february-26-2016 MUST LISTEN)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

GOPE, you had best pay attention.

110 posted on 03/21/2016 10:21:26 AM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: 1Old Pro
At this point I don't think Coburn would carry his home state, and if by some quirk of fate he were to be elected...

...hey, I don't want to come out and say it, but uh, we all face some kind of health problem at some point in our lives, it's a thing called mortality.

I mean, the guy retires from the Senate on the pretext of having serious health issues and now he's talking about running for President, and getting all mixed up with Milt Romley and all kinds of other slimy creatures and getting exposed to all the bugs and viruses and bacteria and bad mojo that they carry?

WTF for?

111 posted on 03/21/2016 10:22:05 AM PDT by OKSooner (Eh?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Reagan had to deal with John Anderson, remember that?

At least John Anderson had run in the primaries, albeit he got beaten badly.


112 posted on 03/21/2016 10:22:51 AM PDT by GeaugaRepublican ("Which State Could Cruz win in General that Romney didn't carry in 2012?" Cruz has a math problem)
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To: SeekAndFind
Tom Coburn tells allies he’s open to leading a conservative third-party challenge to Trump

So is Coburn supposed to be that "conservative" he's alluding to? If so, HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAA!

113 posted on 03/21/2016 10:23:00 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: skeeter; SeekAndFind

“Wasn’t Coburn the guy Trump erroneously quoted as slandering Cruz?”

Coburn did criticize Cruz.

Ex-Sen. Tom Coburn Slams ‘Cruz Effect’ For Creating False Hopes About Congress

[snip]Former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn slammed what he called “the Cruz effect” — saying Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s rhetoric and the Texas senator’s inability to follow through on his promises have caused great disenchantment among Americans toward Congress.

“I call it ‘the Cruz effect,’” Coburn, a Republican who retired last year after 20 years in the Senate, told Sirius XM host Pete Dominick on Thursday. The interview was reported by BuzzFeed News.
“When you tell people you can accomplish something that you can’t — for example, shutting down the government over the Affordable Care Act,” Coburn said.

“When, in fact, you promise people in your speeches and your talk that we can do this, and — by dinghy — we’re gonna get rid of the Affordable Care Act, and all we have to do is shut down the government.”

“Well, that’s one thing to tell ‘em that,” Coburn continued. “It’s a whole other thing to be able to accomplish that, and build a coalition that once you shut it, that it doesn’t get opened up till you win.”

Breaking News at Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/tom-coburn-rips-ted-cruz-effect/2015/10/16/id/696627/#ixzz43YkAGqqR


114 posted on 03/21/2016 10:24:08 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump right on Trade, Immigration, Terrorism,Economy, 2nd amend. Without them, we are lost.)
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To: CA Conservative

“I think Trump has already guaranteed that outcome.”

Indeed. Exactly like Reagan’s guaranteed lost to Carter:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3411391/posts


115 posted on 03/21/2016 10:24:13 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
" Don't believe HotAir's spin. If Coburn is so "anti-establishment" but is being coaxed by the very establishment to run for them, then he's just as corrupt and worthless as all of the other Republicans the GOPe wants to run. "

No, Tom Coburn isn't corrupt... one might say that in time he's become very flexible and willing to do the right dad thing to facilitate his daughter Sarah's career as an opera singer:

https://www.google.com/webhp?tab=mw&ei=fAbwVtTuGYXteZbDiOgM&ved=0EKkuCAUoAg#q=sarah+coburn

116 posted on 03/21/2016 10:27:34 AM PDT by OKSooner (Eh?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tom did not have kind words for Ted Cruz...

He excoriated Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s “defund Obamacare” mission that led to a partial government shutdown last year.

Here’s what he said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program: “To create the impression that we can actually defund Obamacare, when the only thing we control, and barely, is the House of Representatives, is not intellectually honest.”

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2014/01/17/263484054/tom-coburn-gop-budget-hawk-and-obama-friend-to-leave-senate


117 posted on 03/21/2016 10:29:06 AM PDT by GeaugaRepublican ("Which State Could Cruz win in General that Romney didn't carry in 2012?" Cruz has a math problem)
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To: OKSooner
No, Tom Coburn isn't corrupt... one might say that in time he's become very flexible and willing to do the right dad thing to facilitate his daughter Sarah's career as an opera singer:

I consider him a man without a spine or principle. He could care less about his oath of office, protecting and defending the Constitution.... That makes him a crook.

118 posted on 03/21/2016 10:31:09 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: GeaugaRepublican

RE: He excoriated Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s “defund Obamacare” mission that led to a partial government shutdown last year.

A history of posts here in FR shows deep disdain for Coburn and deep support from Cruz on that issue.

Somehow in this election cycle, people seem to have forgotten that.


119 posted on 03/21/2016 10:31:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Just mythoughts

Sorry, next time I need one I’ll be sure to end with a sarcasm tag. :)


120 posted on 03/21/2016 10:34:05 AM PDT by OKSooner (Eh?)
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