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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Bill Kristol?
Anything from him amounts to toxic poop. If I were a fly, I wouldn’t even land on his BS.
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.
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.
I’m pushing for Bernie Sanders (VT-I) to make a 3rd party run.
Never Hillary!
GOP-E will do anything it can (no matter how absurd) to elect the D nominee
its just that simple
When rump uttered the words ‘Third Party’, they shouted blasphemy, hang the S O B!
Now?
Oh my!
#NeverKristol
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?
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.
Shut up, Kristol.
I guess Kristol and the GOPe used all the pages of Their Stop Trump playbook and is resorting to Hail Mary plays now.
Billy Boy works for the Cheap Labor Express.
His job is to make sure we do not elect a President who shuts them down.
Thanks for the info.
Any candidate that Kristol would be involved with, would probably draw as much from a Hillary campaign as from a Trump campaign.
The General has already said he is not interested.
Kristol should run a comedy show. Establishment Fool/Tool.
More people will attend tonight’s Stanley Cup game in St. Louis than will cast votes for this guy in the Fall.
Bill Kristol wanting to be a player. He’s not.
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.
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