Tom Coburn and Rick Perry discussed as potential third party Trump opponents

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Actually, a Texan 3rd party conservative, especially if well financed, could be real good. That would put Texas in play in November!

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Can't we find more credible candidates than Rick Perry?

Rick Perry getting 15%-20% in Texas (with enough funding, this might not be impossible), would put the state in play. That is all we really need! Clinton winning Texas with 41% of the vote would be precious!

Remember: this has to be a politician without future prospects. Nobody, who has life in them, will run just to screw somebody else.

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If they actually succeed in drafting a spoiler candidate, then Trump should and possibly would spend the general election season golfing at Mar-a-lago, and relaxing at Trump Tower.  Campaigning would be a waste of time.

It has to be a certain kind of a spoiler. Only strong in certain safe Republican states - but with obvious strength there. Very right-wing - so that there is no chance anybody would vote for him, who might have voted for Clinton. Credible enough to be well financed, at least as a spoiler. A major Texan politician sounds great!

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This is ridiculous. First of all, Perry? Coburn? Really? The establishment Republicans' last hope at a third party anti-Trump was Bloomberg.

Bloomberg is not, really, a Republican, definitely not a conservative, and he would have gotten more votes from Clinton, than from Trump. The objective of the third-party challenge at that point is not to win, but to give conservatives a chance to vote for somebody, without that somebody being Trump or Clinton. But electing Trump by running a centrist is not the ticket: they want to see Trump humiliated.

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Aren't we afraid of Coburn dying in office?

Nobody is talking aobut an "office" in this thread.