Posted on 03/19/2016 2:19:03 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Republican leaders adamantly opposed to Donald J. Trump’s candidacy are preparing a 100-day campaign to deny him the presidential nomination, starting with an aggressive battle in Wisconsin’s April 5 primary and extending into the summer, with a delegate-by-delegate lobbying effort that would cast Mr. Trump as a calamitous choice for the general election.
Recognizing that Mr. Trump has seized a formidable advantage in the race, they say that an effort to block him would rely on an array of desperation measures, the political equivalent of guerrilla fighting.
There is no longer room for error or delay, the anti-Trump forces say, and without a flawlessly executed plan of attack, he could well become unstoppable.
But should that effort falter, leading conservatives are prepared to field an independent candidate in the general election, to defend Republican principles and offer traditional conservatives an alternative to Mr. Trump’s hard-edged populism. They described their plans in interviews after Mr. Trump’s victories last Tuesday in Florida and three other states.
The names of a few well-known conservatives have been offered up in recent days as potential third-party standard-bearers, and William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, has circulated a memo to a small number of conservative allies detailing the process by which an independent candidate could get on general-election ballots across the country.
Among the recruits under discussion are Tom Coburn, a former Oklahoma senator who has told associates that he would be open to running, and Rick Perry, the former Texas governor who was suggested as a possible third-party candidate at a meeting of conservative activists on Thursday in Washington.
Mr. Coburn, who left the Senate early last year to receive treatment for cancer, said in an interview that Mr. Trump “needs to be stopped”
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dumbass
They really are looking SO pathetic now.
More Hillary for President nonsense.
Lol
I strongly oppose trump, and find his supporters delusional and annoying . . . But the only thing that would be worse than nominating him would be to steal the nomination from him if he wins it fair and square.
They would get less votes then Anderson did when he ran a 3rd Party against Reagan.
Republican leaders adamantly opposed to the millions of people who voted for Donald J. Trump’s candidacy.
There.
Fixed it.
I’ll vote for Trump and against every Republican down ticket for every election to come until I die.
I will do my part tomake your party, which is not conservative, disappear.
Well in that case Hillary Rotten Criminal thanks you, and you can turn in your screen name containing the name of our greatest President, of which you are certainly no longer worthy of.
Just vote for Hillary, why bother with middlemen?
Wouldn’t it be great if they fought the Democrats this hard?
Dumb asses.
Anyone not supporting Trump is a liberal Republican.
And your vote will be for Hillary. Besides, Trump is more conservative than either Perry or Coburn. Are you genuinely so shiftless you are willing to continue the descent into hell manufactured by Marxists like Obama, Soros and Hillery? You had best think long and hard about what you really want in this country.
Gotta be Trump putting out this rumor...even the GOPe couldn’t be this dumb!
“I would vote for Coburn or Perry over Trump”
LOL, who cares?
Perry is ineligible. He took the RNC pledge.
tom assburn is an obama lover, a total scumbag.
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