How about a little common sense here? The GOPe ran YEB! and he’s polling at 3%.
So when Trump gets the nomination, if the GOPe cobbles together a 3rd Party to run YEB! or Carly or anyone else; by what magic trick will they get anybody to pay any more attention to them than they do now? And by what powers of persuasion will they get more than 3% to actually VOTE for him or her, or whoever?
Strikes me as an exercize in futility.
Maybe this is all a ruse to get Trump supporters to panic and, once again, vote for “the lessor of two evils”. Mainly Bush. It won’t work this time, Rove.
Good point. The GOPe and more timid conservatives always compare that situation to Perot in 1992 handing the election to Bill Clinton but Jeb doesn't remind me of Perot in 1992, he reminds of John Anderson in 1980. Anderson ran as a centrist alternative to "extreme" Reagan and the failed Carter administration. He got 7% of the popular vote and no electoral votes. Reagan got 51%, Carter 41% and just 49 electoral votes. Reagan got 489.
The moderate pulled votes from the liberal Carter not the conservative Reagan. That could happen in a Jeb-Clinton-Trump race.
Though Jeb is a lot less exciting than John Anderson.