Posted on 12/21/2015 10:07:19 PM PST by TigerClaws
On Monday, Weekly Standard editor-in-chief Bill Kristol tweeted out what the rest of the Republican establishment is thinking: better Hillary than Donald. Here’s the tweet:
Crowd-sourcing: Name of the new party we’ll have to start if Trump wins the GOP nomination? Suggestions welcome at editor@weeklystandard.com
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 20, 2015
Kristol isn’t alone. As I wrote at Daily Wire today, Politico’s Jeff Greenfield says, “If the operatives I talked with are right, Trump running as a Republican could well face a third-party run – from the Republicans themselves.†That follows last Thursday’s Politico column from former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman, who compared Trump to Hitler and called him “evil,†and last Wednesday’s Politico column reporting that Jeb Bush’s aides “began looking into the possibility of making a clear break with Trump – potentially with the candidate stating that, if Trump were the nominee, Bush would not support him.â€
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It just floors me that Republican leaders think this way about Trump but they didn’t think this way about John McCain.
I absolutely couldn’t vote for a constant traitor to his party, regardless who he put in the Veep slot. I didn’t vote for him, couldn’t make myself do it. Voted third party.
But now there are GOP-e’s that will form a third party if Trump is the nominee?? Seriously? I don’t think I’ll agree with Trump on every single issue but I am much prouder to stand with him than I would have with McCain or Romney.
Cuckservative Party
Really? Worse than McCain, the bellicose war monger who joked "Bomb, bomb, bomb, Bomb Iran". Worse than the feckless Romney who refused to criticize Obama in a forthright manner?
"As a Conservative" did you feel that McCain was dedicated to upholding the Constitution and returning America to limited government? Did you feel that Romney and McCain were legitimately anti-abortion, or just lying to win votes in the primary?
Going back a little further we had Bob Dole as our nominee. Famously Newt Gingrich called him "the tax collector for the welfare state". Dole was instrumental in the year in, year out creeping growth of the behemoth State we are now suffering under. What aspect of "being conservative" makes you admire Bob Dole over Trump? Oh, yes, lets not forget Dole voted FOR the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, the original piece of legislation that "fundamentally transformed" America. "As a Conservative" do you think that was a Conservative thing to support?
Just curious.
Yeah, good luck with finding voters.
Say what you will about him but Obama has never suggested a 50% or more top marginal tax rate and the rich somehow managed to get richer while he was in office.
Bill Kristol: Please leave and take the sorry GOPe with you. You will guarantee yourselves a solid 3% every election.
In a note. I have not seem him since.
It continually amazes me how many people who complain that Trump isn’t sufficiently conservative were absolutely in love with “compassionate conservative” (= watered down liberal) George W. Bush, and reasonably content with Dole, McCain, Romney, etc.
I knew Kristol was bad news when he first showed up, along with the term ‘neocon’. Real conservatives don’t have modifiers. ‘Neocon’ is not-con.
Hold a card to cover the Trump half of the ticket so you will feel better when voting for the Cruz half of the GOP ticket in November.
I have had misgivings about most all the Republican nominees I’ve voted for, starting with Nixon. But Trump would be the most dubious of all. I think he’s clueless about conservatism. How he would govern would be a crapshoot.
‘How about “The Little Lord Fauntleroy” party?’
That works for me. They can use a lilac colored damselfly for their mascot.
“I don’t think the GOPe realizes how much we hate them.”
They don’t have a clue. Total Versailles replay.
What does he have against D. Trump that sends him into such frenzy? Is that Trump would be really tough on terrorists? Is it that Trump would bring jobs back to the US? Is it that Trump is strong on freedom of speech and opposed PS tyranny? Is Kristol in the pay of foreign interests?
I do not know much about Kristol. Thus it could be personal. Maybe some woman dumped him and he blames Trump.
I always read the neocons as dingleberries hanging onto GHW Bush. They sort of stealthed in with Reagan but laid low. Reagan still had people like Pat Buchanan and Alan Keyes, who were tossed out like stained sheets on the unholy ascent of GHW Bush in 1989.
“But culturally, man, I can’t get enough of Trump’s New York schtick.”
I don’t, but I am an old school Southern peckerwood. It hurts him a little bit here, but not much. What resonates in the South is the direct, unvarnished patriotism, will to win, and eagerness to fight. That carries him past any other friction.
You are correct. The true axis of evil runs from Washington DC to Brussels to Riyadh, and the transnationals and globalists are running the shaky table.
Loyalty is only one way with the republicans.
Make the candidates sign a pledge to not run third party and support the nominee. . .but as far as the party is concerned, they have no such limitation.
Despicable.
Dishonorable.
Not men at all.
Until the laws change regarding PC it's still talk. So we shall see or not....just as we'll see if or not Trumps talk actually wins him the election.... Until the actual voting takes place it's still a race without a winner.....nor has the final lap been run...
He's not a globalist and he's not a neocon.
The same John McCain who told us we had nothing to fear from an 0bama presidency.
He campaigned harder for his opponent than he did for himself.
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