Republican Party actually thinking of running a third-party candidate...
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Republican Party actually thinking of running a third-party candidate...
The Republican Party establishment is in a quandary over Donald Trump. He is rapidly gaining enough deligates to cinch the nomination, but national polls indicate that if he were the Republican candidate he would lose to any Democrat. It's 1964 all over again. Plus, he seems to embrace the KKK, and he still hates Mexicans and women.
I hesitate to say I told you so, because I only predicted that the Republican Party was no more. Now, CNN is reporting that other candidates for the House and Senate are worried about a negative coat-tails effect...if Trump is the candidate for president, it will spill over and he will chase away voters in their race.
There are 30 Republican Senate seats up for election this year, and of course all 435 House seats. The Democrats would need to pick up 30 House seats in order to take control. Things are bad for the Republicans. In order to create a 'safe-haven' for Senate and House contenders--someone other than Trump with whom to share the platform--the Republican Party is actually contemplating running a third-party candidate.
Now think about that: they are actually contemplating giving up their own party apparatus, and inventing another party that in any other year would be their own competition. It's the move that in the beginning the establishment feared Trump would do...go off and start a third party, which would draw off voters from Republicans. That's really hard-up, eh?
I hesitate to say I told you so, because I only predicted that the Republican Party was no more. Now, CNN is reporting that other candidates for the House and Senate are worried about a negative coat-tails effect...if Trump is the candidate for president, it will spill over and he will chase away voters in their race.
There are 30 Republican Senate seats up for election this year, and of course all 435 House seats. The Democrats would need to pick up 30 House seats in order to take control. Things are bad for the Republicans. In order to create a 'safe-haven' for Senate and House contenders--someone other than Trump with whom to share the platform--the Republican Party is actually contemplating running a third-party candidate.
Now think about that: they are actually contemplating giving up their own party apparatus, and inventing another party that in any other year would be their own competition. It's the move that in the beginning the establishment feared Trump would do...go off and start a third party, which would draw off voters from Republicans. That's really hard-up, eh?
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Re: Republican Party actually thinking of running a third-party candidate...
WOW! That is surely food for thought.
And for those that think he might be good with business and economics:
Trump Airlines– bankrupt Trump Vodka– folded Trump Casinos– bankrupt Trump Magazine– folded Trump Steaks– folded Trump University– fraud,
And for those that think he might be good with business and economics:
Trump Airlines– bankrupt Trump Vodka– folded Trump Casinos– bankrupt Trump Magazine– folded Trump Steaks– folded Trump University– fraud,
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Yes it is interesting that the Republicans woud put up a counter candidate, that basically ensures Hilliary's victory by spliting the RW vote
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2016/03/02/chris-christies-wordless-screaming/
I believe that Donald Trump was talking, tonight, and that he, in fact, held an entire press conference. But it was impossible to hear him over Chris Christie’s eyes.
Chris Christie spent the entire speech screaming wordlessly. I have never seen someone scream so loudly without using his mouth before. It would have been remarkable if it had not been so terrifying.
Sometimes, at night, do you still hear them, Clarice? The screaming of the Christies?
His were the eyes of a man who has gazed into the abyss, and the abyss gazed back, and then he endorsed the abyss.
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Christie is lining his pockets with future cash, for future elections. Trump will take the Republican nomination, and he will lose in the general election.
So why not? By the time the election cycle will have come around again, all will be forgotten...and Trump will still have $10-billion to toss around.
So why not? By the time the election cycle will have come around again, all will be forgotten...and Trump will still have $10-billion to toss around.
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Lurker wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2016/03/02/chris-christies-wordless-screaming/I believe that Donald Trump was talking, tonight, and that he, in fact, held an entire press conference. But it was impossible to hear him over Chris Christie’s eyes.
Chris Christie spent the entire speech screaming wordlessly. I have never seen someone scream so loudly without using his mouth before. It would have been remarkable if it had not been so terrifying.
Sometimes, at night, do you still hear them, Clarice? The screaming of the Christies?
His were the eyes of a man who has gazed into the abyss, and the abyss gazed back, and then he endorsed the abyss.
He looked like a rabbit in the headlights!
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NPR - Interview with Jane Mayer; Political Journalist & Koch Brothers Empire
Dark Money
The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by Jane Mayer
On the Kochs' secret, semi-annual seminars
They've been so careful about the secrecy at these meetings, which take place twice a year in resorts, that at one point they even went to the trouble to erect white noise machines that would create static facing the outside, so that nobody could eavesdrop on them. They routinely refuse to disclose the names of the donors who come to these events, but at one point a guest list got left behind, which has provided the one full guest list of one of these events. What you can see from it is that there are about somewhere between 400 and 450 of the wealthiest conservatives in America getting together to plan how to use their fortunes to influence American politics. ...
I think the genius of the Kochs is the magic trick that they've really figured out, which is that it's not just their money funding this; they've created a consortium. It's a club where you've got maybe 400 people who are cumulatively enormously wealthy. I tried to figure out at one point how many billionaires were involved just in the first term of Obama's presidency, because they were funding so much of the opposition to Obama, and I got to a count of 18 billionaires who are known and whose net worth put together was $214 billion. Now, obviously they're not spending all of it on politics, but it gives you a sense of the throw-weight of this tiny, concentrated group of people.
On how the Koch brothers' father built oil refineries for Hitler and Stalin
Fred Koch, the patriarch of the family, was an expert in building oil refineries, and he and a friend named William Rhodes Davis proposed building one in Germany during 1934, '35, that period in there. In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of the Third Reich in Germany, so this meant working under the Third Reich. And in order to get permission, they actually had to go to Hitler himself, and William Rhodes Davis did the "Heil Hitler" to greet Hitler, and finally they got Hitler to greenlight this proposal so that they could build an oil refinery in Hamburg.
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And the Hamburg Oil Refinery, built by the Winkler-Koch Co., became key, according to several German historians I talked to, to Hitler's war efforts. By the time they built it, it was already clear that Hitler had very major military ambitions, but one of the things he was unable to do was to refine high-octane oil for warplanes. What this plant did was create that capacity, and it eventually supplied much of the fuel that was needed for Hitler's Luftwaffe.
He was not a Nazi, and I certainly don't suggest that in the book, but what he was was an American businessman looking for a good deal, and he was looking all over the world to see how he could make some money. Oddly, and what's been known before, is before working under Hitler's Third Reich, Fred Koch had worked for Stalin, where — under Stalin's first five-year plan — Fred Koch helped build up the Russian, the Soviet oil refineries and really gave huge muscle to the oil industry in the Soviet Union.
On the four Koch brothers' upbringing
I think their parents seem to have cared quite a bit about them, but they were the kinds of parents who were gone much of the time. The father was gone doing business, and the mother was a very active socialite and was gone much of the time, and so she and the father placed the child rearing in the hands of a hired nanny.
Here again, you get this strange recurrence of a kind of little touch of Nazi Germany, because ... Charles and Frederick, the oldest sons, were put in the hands of a German nanny who was described by other family members as just a fervid Nazi. She was so devout a supporter of Hitler that finally, after five years working for the family, she left of her own volition in 1940 when Hitler entered France because she wanted to celebrate with the Fuehrer.
On three of the brothers attempting to blackmail the eldest, Frederick, when they suspected he was gay
You have to remember this was a very long time ago, when the idea of being gay was considered scandalous in a family, particularly a family of rough, self-made oil men out in Wichita, Kan. It was considered a dark secret that first-born son Frederick might have been gay. At some point, when Frederick was in his 20s, all four of the sons by then had shares in the family company. And what the three other brothers did was they created a kind of kangaroo court ... so that [Frederick] walked into a room, found his three other brothers sitting there in chairs facing him, and they confronted him and conducted an inquisition to see if he was gay. And they then said that if he was, they were going to tell their father unless he handed over his share in the company.
It's been rumored about for years in other write-ups about the Kochs, and there have been various descriptions of people denying it, but I actually got a hold of a sealed deposition in which one of the brothers, Bill Koch, describes the whole thing as it unfolded. The brother who they were accusing — Frederick, who was the eldest — stood up, looked at them, said, "I never want to hear about this again," and walked out of the room. It didn't work. But as a ploy, I think it gives you an idea of a family that is not the usual cozy, all-American family.
On the family company, Koch Industries, being investigated for pocketing millions in oil from Indian reservations
It was in the 1990s. Koch Industries was dragged in front of the U.S. Senate. There was a committee investigating the company, looking into accusations that it had stolen oil from Indian reservations by purposefully mis-measuring it and had pocketed millions and millions of dollars of extra money by doing so. The company didn't deny it at the time. ... They said it had happened, but they said it was an accident. But if you take a look at the Senate report, what you see is that other companies that were operating around the same time in that same oil patch didn't have this problem. They've raised eyebrows in pushing the limits of what a company can get away with for decades during this period, and to some extent it was in harmony with Charles Koch's hard-lined libertarian views, that the government just should not interfere with private enterprise.
http://www.npr.org/2016/01/19/463565987/hidden-history-of-koch-brothers-traces-their-childhood-and-political-rise
Listening to Jane Mayer's discussion about how she became so fascinated by this 2 solid unit of Koch brothers {when there are really 4 but we only hear about the '2'} and her interest got tweaked when she found out the 214 BILLION dollars that was collected through a very secret/select group of billionaires --- gathered at those retreats. That wasn't all spent trying to get Barack Obama out of office for his 2nd term --- Oh, Nooooo!
There's another 'SUPER FUND' waiting to be used - when & if they decide that Trump won't suit their purpose and they'll support a late comer --- perhaps that why Mitt Romney is scratch'n the dirt 'NOW'
The timing certainly seems appropriate...but would he be their hand puppet
I heard his 'anti-Trump' speech today;
Romney blasts Trump as a 'fraud'
AP on MSN.com · 2 hours ago
Speaking at the University of Utah on Thursday, Mitt Romney issued a harsh takedown of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.
OMG --- he went through each and every one of Chump-Trumps business failures --- some I'd forgotten all about!
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Re: Republican Party actually thinking of running a third-party candidate...
Here's my happy thought for the day: The GOP is attacking Trump on the basis that he's been deceptive about his business practices, and that he's not a true conservative.
Of all the things to object to about Donald Trump, those are the things the GOP has chosen to attack.
Not statements about Mexico sending us rapists and murderers, not proposals like building a wall on the border or cataloguing people by religion. Business practices and conservative credentials.
Of all the things to object to about Donald Trump, those are the things the GOP has chosen to attack.
Not statements about Mexico sending us rapists and murderers, not proposals like building a wall on the border or cataloguing people by religion. Business practices and conservative credentials.
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Ben_Reilly wrote:Here's my happy thought for the day: The GOP is attacking Trump on the basis that he's been deceptive about his business practices, and that he's not a true conservative.
Of all the things to object to about Donald Trump, those are the things the GOP has chosen to attack.
Not statements about Mexico sending us rapists and murderers, not proposals like building a wall on the border or cataloguing people by religion. Business practices and conservative credentials.
Frankly...IMO; he's slowly and assuredly tightening his own 'dead-mans-rope' with his skin-head guards acting and doing his bidding with tossing out the 'colored' people in the shameful way that they've been doing!
How many minorities will bother to check off his name?
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I certainly hope so, but I am really quite worried that there are more bigots and brain dead in both our country and yours who will latch on to this vile, vile man and we will march back quickly to the stone age.
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Well poop...trying to type this via my tablet...I do not know what I hit that put a red bar beside your post---but it was in error; where's the UNDO option??? LOL. OOPSveya_victaous wrote:Yes it is interesting that the Republicans woud put up a counter candidate, that basically ensures Hilliary's victory by spliting the RW vote
My concern and the power behind the secret MILLIONS that the KOCH brothers control...may be the shift that the GOP needs. But any NEW former candidate would be a HUGE improvement over the GOP bodies on that debate stage last night! I can't in good faith take any of them seriously...
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Like a stage show by the Marx brothers?
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Re: Republican Party actually thinking of running a third-party candidate...
Ben_Reilly wrote:Here's my happy thought for the day: The GOP is attacking Trump on the basis that he's been deceptive about his business practices, and that he's not a true conservative.
Of all the things to object to about Donald Trump, those are the things the GOP has chosen to attack.
Not statements about Mexico sending us rapists and murderers, not proposals like building a wall on the border or cataloguing people by religion. Business practices and conservative credentials.
Would that be due to the numbers of humans interview end outside CHUMP-TRUMPs rallies, keep saying --- 'the man is a brilliant business man and will bring back jobs to AMERICA again?'. Trying to pound into all of those LESSER THINKING HUMANS that CHUMP_TRUMP is a liar and has had far more business failures then his successes...may be a futile attempt but I do hope the message works!
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So do I. Perhaps when the court case re the fraud involved with 'Trump University' is splashed all over the papers, that might just bring it home.
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