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Bill Kristol Pushes Jim Mattis For Third Party Run: "Patriotic Americans" Will Look At This Choice
RCP ^ | April 24, 2016 | Tim Hains

Posted on 04/25/2016 7:36:56 AM PDT by Trump20162020

BILL KRISTOL: The only thing that appeals to me is what Reince Priebus just called a dumb idea, which is giving the American people a better choice than Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump... I think an independent candidacy is totally doable, I think it will happen. The ballot access problems are not --

STEPHANOPOULOS: -- coming up on the filing deadlines --

KRISTOL: -- oh, Texas, North Carolina. Every other state -- no other state's filing deadlines' before June 27th. You couldn't wait until the convention. You'd have to decide after Indiana, possibly after California. I think there will be legal challenges in Texas and North Carolina that the deadlines are too early.

Jim Mattis happens to be a social liberal. He's more liberal than I am. He's very concerned about the debt. He's a strong national security hawk. Why wouldn't someone like him...

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1 posted on 04/25/2016 7:36:56 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Bill Kristol?

Anything from him amounts to toxic poop. If I were a fly, I wouldn’t even land on his BS.


2 posted on 04/25/2016 7:39:34 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: Trump20162020; jazusamo; Girlene; smoothsailing; 4woodenboats; RedRover

General Mattis caved in the persecution of the Haditha Marines falsely charged.

He actually engaged in illegal command influence to get those guys convicted. It was discovered and not a thing was done to his promotion for his 4th star.

I would not vote for him to be president.


3 posted on 04/25/2016 7:40:15 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Trump20162020

Bill Kristol represents less than John B. Anderson on this score. Most Cruz supporters will vote Trump should he get the nomination. Some won’t. Trump has the potential to get replacement votes in unusual places.


4 posted on 04/25/2016 7:40:24 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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To: Trump20162020

I’m pushing for Bernie Sanders (VT-I) to make a 3rd party run.

Never Hillary!


5 posted on 04/25/2016 7:40:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Trump20162020

GOP-E will do anything it can (no matter how absurd) to elect the D nominee

its just that simple


6 posted on 04/25/2016 7:40:50 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: Trump20162020

When rump uttered the words ‘Third Party’, they shouted blasphemy, hang the S O B!

Now?
Oh my!


7 posted on 04/25/2016 7:41:06 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: Trump20162020

#NeverKristol


8 posted on 04/25/2016 7:44:47 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (https://www.facebook.com/CTforCRUZ/)
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To: Trump20162020

A better choice....like Ross Perot??

Einstein’s dictum about insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome, and Marx’s statement about history repeating itself first as a tragedy both come to mind.

For the historically impaired: Bill Clinton never won an overall majority of the votes, but thanks to Perot’s campaign a plurality was enough to win the presidency - twice. Will the GOPe give the same chance to Hillary?


9 posted on 04/25/2016 7:45:36 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Trump20162020
I never heard of this Mattis guy until a couple months ago. Learned of him here at FR, of course.

He is a General. This graphic is from last summer

I think the Trump Eagle idea may have come from this.

I dontbthink General Mattis is running.

I think it is more possible he runs WITH Trump as Veep than against him.

10 posted on 04/25/2016 7:47:57 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Trump20162020

Shut up, Kristol.


11 posted on 04/25/2016 7:50:39 AM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes" - Albert Einstein)
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To: Trump20162020

I guess Kristol and the GOPe used all the pages of Their Stop Trump playbook and is resorting to Hail Mary plays now.


12 posted on 04/25/2016 7:50:47 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Trump20162020

Billy Boy works for the Cheap Labor Express.
His job is to make sure we do not elect a President who shuts them down.


13 posted on 04/25/2016 7:52:41 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: xzins

Thanks for the info.


14 posted on 04/25/2016 7:52:57 AM PDT by FR_addict (Ryan needs to go!)
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To: ScaniaBoy
Bill Kristol is not a Conservative. He has never really distanced himself from the neo-Trotskyite approach of his father, and epitomizes the very stupidity that Donald Trump has focused on reversing. To better understand the faux Conservatism of the Kristols, see:

The Neocon Phenomenon.

Any candidate that Kristol would be involved with, would probably draw as much from a Hillary campaign as from a Trump campaign.

15 posted on 04/25/2016 7:53:53 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: ifinnegan

The General has already said he is not interested.


16 posted on 04/25/2016 7:54:07 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: austinaero

Kristol should run a comedy show. Establishment Fool/Tool.


17 posted on 04/25/2016 7:54:19 AM PDT by ZULU (Trump is the answer. The Establishment is the problem.)
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To: Trump20162020

More people will attend tonight’s Stanley Cup game in St. Louis than will cast votes for this guy in the Fall.


18 posted on 04/25/2016 7:58:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Trump20162020

Bill Kristol wanting to be a player. He’s not.


19 posted on 04/25/2016 7:58:49 AM PDT by odawg
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To: FR_addict

Mattis wasn’t even a great battlefield general, but that’s just a matter of opinion.

He really did cave on the Haditha Marines. There’s no denying that.

My idea of a warrior conservative general is Jerry Boykin, the founder of Delta Force.


20 posted on 04/25/2016 8:00:54 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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