Trump May Run an as Independent
I hope and pray he does not.
If he does, it will guarantee the re-election of Obama. This is what I call the “Ross Perot Syndrome”.
You remember Ross Perot, he ran as an Independent and split the conservative vote putting Slick Willy in the White House. Four years later he made the same stupid mistake and handed Slick Willy a second term. Let us all hope The Donald has enough intelligence to hang it up if and when he loses the Republication nomination.
Trump simply cannot win the White House as an independent. No third party candidate has come anywhere near winning the White House since the GOP first started in the 1850’s! In fact, the GOP is the only third party that has ever won. Technically, when the GOP first started there were three major parties. The new GOP, the old-line Democrats and the moderate Whig Party (the party Abe Lincoln initially belonged to). Once the GOP got a full head of steam, the Whig Party disappeared. But for a time the GOP and the Whigs coexisted along with the Slave-owning Democrat Party.
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