Posted on 05/07/2016 4:19:11 PM PDT by Salman
(Newser) – Mitt Romney and William Kristol met privately "over glasses of water" Thursday to discuss running a third-party candidate and the possibility that candidate might be Romney himself, the Washington Post reports. Kristol, a conservative commentator and editor of the Weekly Standard, has been a major part of the #NeverTrump movement, according to Time. “[Romney] came pretty close to being elected president, so I thought he may consider doing it, especially since he has been very forthright in explaining why Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton should not be president of the United States,” Kristol tells the Post. Romney announced this week that he won't be supporting Trump for president.
The Washington Examiner reports Romney sounded much like an independent candidate during an awards gala for American Friends of the Hebrew University this week. "I wish we had better choices, and I keep hoping that somehow things will get better, and I just don't see an easy answer from where we are," Romney said during the event. But if Romney won't run—and he's said recently he won't—Kristol still wants his support for an eventual third-party candidate. Kristol says he has a list of potential candidates he's working on, and he tells CNN that Romney has agreed to help if they're able to find someone to run.
FUMR! Loser.
These guys have got to be a bunch of retards...
Or GOPe power misers.
I think that’s one in the same.
ROTFL! Mittens. Go home and spend more time with the family. You’re old news. You couldn’t beat Obammie, how the heck do you plan on beating Clinton?
Aren’t we getting a little tired of this crap? Romney/Ryan were losers, go back to building your 10 car garage Romney and RINO Ryan, go sit on the curb because your done for!!!
What an a$$hat!
Romney and Kristol = a worm and a snake.
They better hurry because indie runs in Texas must be filed Monday
I hope he does so he can beat again....
Get back to the kitchen and make more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
The last Designated Loser of the GOP wants to make sure that the citizens cannot elect a President who enforces the laws and borders.
It’s all about keeping the people pipeline operating.
I think it’s fine if he tries to run. It will be a final and complete humiliate and repudiation of their ilk.
Thia ia nothing but a desperation spolier plan to defeat the will of the voters and keep the presidency in the hands of the establishment.
It’s sole purpose can only be to keep Trump out of the White House and put Hillary into it.
Romney couldn’t win as the Republican party candidate, backed by the full resources of the party, running against the worst president we have ever had.
So he and his enablers know he doesn’t stand a chance of winning as a third party candidate.
Trump should tell Romney that if they run a 3rd party candidate and he loses, he will fund a third party candidate in every future GOP presidential election until Romney is dead so he never sees another GOP President.
Think about the overwhelming support conservatives gave Bush II, giving him two narrow victories and still supporting his agenda even though he was getting destroyed by both the media and Democrats.
Think about the base still supporting the likes of Dole, McCain, and Romney.
Now the establishment clearly lost, they know the reasons why they lost but are in total denial, and they know that conservatives aren't playing their game anymore.
So now it's time to renege, pull the rug out on the will of the voters, and try to insert a handpicked charlatan like a bunch of medieval rulers.
Hurry, Mitt. You need to make the state deadlines.
I am looking forward to seeing your next Mormon defeat.
I assumed, since they pointedly met “over glasses of water” , they were going to resurrect Bonnie Prince Charlie for a run.
Now we know where all of the JEB, cruz, and rubio voters are all headed to.
Romney has been dying to run!
LOSER!
They wouldn’t do it without GOP. If comes about, GOP still working against their nominee.
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