Take it from a guy who knows: Nader says Trump’s third party bid could be kryptonite for GOP

[DonViejo]

Take it from a guy who knows: Ralph Nader says Donald Trump’s third party bid could be kryptonite for GOP

The perennial third-party presidential candidate says Trump can cause the GOP big headaches

SOPHIA TESFAYE

Donald Trump has floated a potential third-party run should the GOP run him out of the Republican primary and Ralph Nader, who has his own extensive (and controversial) history with running as a third-party candidate, thinks the Republican Party should take his threats seriously.

“The Republican Party establishment is playing with nitroglycerine when it goes after Donald Trump and tries to minimize him and exclude him,” Nader told CNN this week. “Because a jilted Donald Trump as a third-party candidate can blow the presidential race wide open and turn it into a three way race.”

Nader, who’s been tagged with the title of “spoiler” over charges that his 2000 Green Party run allowed George W. Bush to prevail over Al Gore, is a four time third-party candidate who argues that Trump has nothing to lose with an independent run. Writing in a blog post last month, Nader argued that Trump’s candidacy alone is “a big nightmare for Republican contenders,” citing the media attention to sucks up and away from the other 15 contenders:

If he survives the first three months of mass media drubbing him and his notorious affliction of ‘leaving no impulsive opinion behind,’ he’s going to be trouble for the other fifteen or so Republican presidential candidates.

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If he is still campaigning by Labor Day, watch out Republicans!

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If the Republican bigwigs try to exclude or humiliate him, Trump has the means to run as an Independent candidate for president – as Mr. Perot essentially did under the banner of his Reform Party. Just the prospect of that added nightmare might induce caution at the top levels of the GOP.

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http://www.salon.com/2015/07/24/take_it_from_a_guy_who_knows_ralph_nader_says_donald_trumps_third_party_bid_could_be_kryptonite_for_gop/

[n2doc]

1. His concern is duly noted n/t

[7wo7rees]

2. Hot fun in the summertime!! nt

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Didn't Nader run on the Reform ticket in '04? And didn't Trump flirt with...

the Reform Party?

At any rate, when Perot ran, the Reform Party was already a grassroots movement and while Perot threw lots of money in, it had its own fundraising mechanism. The Reform party is dead now and there's nothing else out there like that for Trump today. He has no record of success at anything to indicate he could build it in a year, in fact his record is one of consistent failure. He overpays for properties and either runs them into the ground or someone else runs them.

Even his "fabulous" golf courses are in trouble, with the Puerto Rican one in bankruptcy and a Scottish one losing backers.

Republicans should be annoyed with Trump and his ignorant, egotistical, gasbagging, but afraid, I'm not so sure.

[Jamaal510]

4. If you don't get the nod, Donald,

it just means you're too intelligent for the "Stupid Party". I would implore you to split off and do your own thing. They don't deserve your wisdom! You could branch off and start the Trump Party USA!