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    Bill Weld rejoins Republican Party

    Weld switches from Libertarian back to GOP as he mulls 2020 challenge to Trump

    by Dominick Mastrangelo
    February 05, 2019

    Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld is mulling running for president and has taken a step toward challenging President Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020, according to a report.

    Weld, 73, has changed his party registration in the Bay State from Libertarian back to Republican, according to the Associated Press.

    A former Republican governor during the 1990s in the strongly blue state, Weld was running mate to 2016 Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson.

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    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...llenging-trump



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    Once a RINO always a RINO.
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    Please go away already...haven't you done enough damage for $#@!'s sake?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Please go away already...haven't you done enough damage for $#@!'s sake?
    Some people that know him and respect him say that he's not done with the philosophy, just the party. I am not sure I believe it, but that's just what I heard.

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    In the run-up to the 2016 election, Weld described Trump as having “a screw loose.”
    Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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    You only show up to attack Trump when he is wrong
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    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    Some people that know him and respect him say that he's not done with the philosophy, just the party.
    Well considering he's never done anything with the philosophy, he has only done things to the philosophy, that's not very reassuring.
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    Isn't this guy a clinton-humper?

    Don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

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    Let's be honest. Like Bob Barr, he never stopped serving the interests of the GOP throughout his tenure in the LP.



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    This is terrible for the GOP, Weld is the absolute worst.
    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by William Tell View Post
    This is terrible for the GOP, Weld is the absolute worst.
    There should be a poll on this.
    "The Patriarch"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    There should be a poll on this.
    Too depressing, this news is causing me to lose faith in the Grand ol' Party.
    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    It's a balance between appeasing his supporters, appeasing the deep state and reaching his own goals.
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    Quote Originally Posted by William Tell View Post
    Too depressing, this news is causing me to lose faith in the Grand ol' Party.
    "The Patriarch"

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    What Bill Weld hasn't realized is that his liberal brand of "conservative" politics just isn't selling these days.
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    He is not being received warmly.
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    Weld: Oh no, I'm going to stay L.P.

    https://reason.com/blog/2017/11/06/b...ing-to-stay-lp
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    The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.
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    This intellectually stimulating conversation is the reason I keep coming here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Suzanimal View Post
    Weld: Oh no, I'm going to stay L.P.

    https://reason.com/blog/2017/11/06/b...ing-to-stay-lp
    Oh yes, "Libertarian for Life!" is a direct quote. I don't really care about him, really.



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    Thumbs down Severely conservative Massholes

    Severely Conservative GOP voters proved their love for M$#@! governors in '12, so Bill Weld has a good shot.

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    You only show up to attack Trump when he is wrong
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    Quote Originally Posted by shakey1 View Post
    Isn't this guy a clinton-humper?
    Yeah he said that back in November 2016 that hes vouching for Clinton.
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    Quote Originally Posted by enhanced_deficit View Post
    Tend to agree.
    LOL

    We now have confirmation that the trolls have been instructed to push weld.

    This is a hilariously stupid bump
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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    There should be a poll on this.
    Seems I recall there is a poll and Weld is not ahead of Sirhan Sirhan last I checked .
    Do something Danke

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Once a RINO always a RINO.
    Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, who is a longshot challenger to President Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican nomination, this week called the president a "raging racist," adding that if Republicans don't denounce Trump in the upcoming election they will be known as the "party of racism.""Donald Trump is a raging racist, Okay? He's a complete and thoroughgoing racist," Weld said Wednesday during the national NAACP convention in Detroit. "And he made that choice, a choice a long time ago, when he was engaged in the housing business in New York with his father."

    Weld warned the Republican Party that if it does not denounce Trump in 2020, the GOP will be known as the "party of racism in America."


    "The national Republican Party has a choice. And a lot of them like to think that it's a political choice," he said. "But it's not a political choice. It's a moral choice."
    "Unless the Republican Party in Washington expressly, expressly rejects the racism of Donald Trump, they're going to come to be universally viewed as the party of racism in America," he concluded.

    More at: https://news.yahoo.com/bill-weld-tru...005106660.html
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    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

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    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, who is a longshot challenger to President Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican nomination, this week called the president a "raging racist," adding that if Republicans don't denounce Trump in the upcoming election they will be known as the "party of racism.""Donald Trump is a raging racist, Okay? He's a complete and thoroughgoing racist," Weld said Wednesday during the national NAACP convention in Detroit. "And he made that choice, a choice a long time ago, when he was engaged in the housing business in New York with his father."

    Weld warned the Republican Party that if it does not denounce Trump in 2020, the GOP will be known as the "party of racism in America."


    "The national Republican Party has a choice. And a lot of them like to think that it's a political choice," he said. "But it's not a political choice. It's a moral choice."
    "Unless the Republican Party in Washington expressly, expressly rejects the racism of Donald Trump, they're going to come to be universally viewed as the party of racism in America," he concluded.

    More at: https://news.yahoo.com/bill-weld-tru...005106660.html
    I sent him a message, let's see if he responds.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    I sent him a message, let's see if he responds.
    What kind of message?

    If it was a movie what rating would it get?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    What kind of message?

    If it was a movie what rating would it get?
    I asked him what makes him believe Trump is a racist.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    I asked him what makes him believe Trump is a racist.
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    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    You only show up to attack Trump when he is wrong
    Make America the Land of the Free & the Home of the Brave again

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    Quote Originally Posted by RonZeplin View Post
    Honk, Honk.
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    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

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    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

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    Weld barely won the nomination as the LP VP candidate alongside Gary Johnson. He only won because at the time, he pledged to never leave the Libertarian Party or to rejoin the GOP or Dems. GJ was begging delegates to vote for Weld and insisted he would never change parties again.

    So here we are..

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