Third Party Republicans?

Red State has just come out for conservatives to form a third party.

I will mourn the party, as I mourn our nation, but if we are to save the nation from progressive, big government overreach, and the creeping cancer of Trumpism, we need other options. I’m not sold on the Libertarian option. The platform has some fiscal ideas that I could potentially get behind, but socially there are points that aren’t to my conservative comfort.

We need a genuine conservative option. We need a small government, free market, God-country-family conservative champion.

Now is the time for a conservative third party option to emerge. The time has come and to not take this leap of faith may very well consign our nation to certain ruin. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

And today I got an e-mail from the Heritage Foundation.

There are eight million conservatives who can form the core of a new movement for free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.

Heritage’s Conservative Census will organize them and strengthen our cause.

The next two days are crucial to uniting conservatives in the movement. We’ve set a goal of $250,000 by midnight tomorrow.

Will you support this initiative right now?

Well no. I’m not going to support such a movement. And that is despite the fact that Trump has hired a Goldman-Sachs guy to manage his campaign finances for the upcoming general election.

In an oddly ironic twist, today Donald Trump announced that he has picked as chairman of his newly launched fundraising operation none other than a former employee of the bank he has repeatedly criticized in the past, and which he used as a foil to criticize Ted Cruz: Goldman Sachs.

Trump announced that heading up his own personal fundraising operation as national finance chairman will be Steven Mnuchin, a long-time business associate, chairman and CEO of the hedge fund Dune Capital. More importantly, however, he spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs where he was most recently a Partner, having built a fortune of $46 million before launching his own hedge fund.

And that is not all.

In addition to Goldman, Mnuchin also worked at Soros Fund Management, whose founder, George Soros, has funded many left-leaning causes. Where it gets even more bizarre is that Mnuchin has donated frequently to Democrats, including to Clinton and Barack Obama.

As a hedge fund manager, Mnuchin is part of a group of businesspeople Trump has excoriated. In August, Trump said hedge fund managers were “getting away with murder” as he touted his proposal to end the so-called carried interest loophole, which gives private equity and hedge fund managers preferential tax treatment.

“The hedge fund guys didn’t build this country,” Trump said at the time on CBS’ Face the Nation. “These are guys that shift paper around and they get lucky,” he said. “They are energetic. They are very smart. But a lot of them—they are paper-pushers. They make a fortune. They pay no tax. It’s ridiculous.”

They apparently are also very good at raising money.

So I’m wondering. Is this hire because Mnuchin knows where the bodies are buried? Or is Trump a Trojan Horse? Or is it “just business” as our mob friends like to say?


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6 responses to “Third Party Republicans?”

  1. Robert fof Ottawa Avatar
    Robert fof Ottawa

    Do the Republican Party, and RINOS in general, have a death wish. They have s candidate who will fight and win the presidency, unlike the last two or three occasions.

    Now Trump may not be “true Conservative” but, unlike all those “true conservatives”, he has not been promissing conservatism to the base and then delivering nothing, except golf to their wn personal bank accounts.

  2. Casper Avatar
    Casper

    Trump is, and always has been, a mainstream Democrat. He managed to tap into the anger of the Republican grassroots with their “leaders” on one issue — immigration. But there’s no evidence whether he really believes what he says, even on that issue.

    Whichever way November goes, expect to be governed by a mainstream Democrat.

    I just hope we don’t lose Congress too, as a result of candidates constantly being embarrassed when asked to defend Trump’s latest statement on whatever, after having defended his opposite statement last week.

  3. aporitic Avatar
    aporitic

    When I hire an attorney to advise me on a legal matter, I usually hire someone I like and trust; someone I believe will help me do the right thing.

    BUT, if I were charged with a serious crime, I would hire the attorney who I thought would be most successful in keeping me out of jail. It wouldn’t matter if I liked him, heck, I might even think he’s personally a really bad guy, but if he’s the one who can help me beat the rap, that’s who I’d hire.

    I can see the same thing being true if I were running for office. Some of the people I’d hire would be people I genuinely trust to help me do the right thing, and others would be people who were simply the best “hired gun” for that particular job.

  4. Simon Avatar

    Casper,

    One thing that makes him different from a main stream Democrat is that he understands “too much debt”.

    As to losing Congress – budget bills originate in the House. When did the House try to hold any line on the budget?

    Support for Medical Cannabis has been in the 70s to 80s for quite some time. When did the Republicans pass a bill on the subject and “force” Obama to do something about it?

    I’ll take Med Pot and the 2nd over Hillary.

  5. Simon Avatar

    Robert fof Ottawa,

    And that is why Trump has been doing so well.

  6. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    money people want free trade and republican politicians will follow them around sniffing their behinds!