Posted on 03/19/2016 2:19:03 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Republican leaders adamantly opposed to Donald J. Trump’s candidacy are preparing a 100-day campaign to deny him the presidential nomination, starting with an aggressive battle in Wisconsin’s April 5 primary and extending into the summer, with a delegate-by-delegate lobbying effort that would cast Mr. Trump as a calamitous choice for the general election.
Recognizing that Mr. Trump has seized a formidable advantage in the race, they say that an effort to block him would rely on an array of desperation measures, the political equivalent of guerrilla fighting.
There is no longer room for error or delay, the anti-Trump forces say, and without a flawlessly executed plan of attack, he could well become unstoppable.
But should that effort falter, leading conservatives are prepared to field an independent candidate in the general election, to defend Republican principles and offer traditional conservatives an alternative to Mr. Trump’s hard-edged populism. They described their plans in interviews after Mr. Trump’s victories last Tuesday in Florida and three other states.
The names of a few well-known conservatives have been offered up in recent days as potential third-party standard-bearers, and William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, has circulated a memo to a small number of conservative allies detailing the process by which an independent candidate could get on general-election ballots across the country.
Among the recruits under discussion are Tom Coburn, a former Oklahoma senator who has told associates that he would be open to running, and Rick Perry, the former Texas governor who was suggested as a possible third-party candidate at a meeting of conservative activists on Thursday in Washington.
Mr. Coburn, who left the Senate early last year to receive treatment for cancer, said in an interview that Mr. Trump “needs to be stopped”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Hello? You moving offshore somewhere? If not, you’ll be getting the Skank just as much as anyone else! Grow a brain.
Your hero Bill Kristol is a Hillary supporter:
Bill Kristol said Wednesday that he would rather have Hillary Clinton in the White House than the Republican front-runner.
Would YOU too rather have Hillary as President than Trump? You know, like your hero Bill Kristol who’s leading the effort to deny the GOP primary voters their choice of candidate?
What’s really rich is these are the same people who extracted a pledge from Trump to unequivocally back the eventual GOP nominee.
Now they’re going back on their word. They’re low life scum who deserve to be kicked to the curb. Its not Trump who seeks to blow up the Republican Party; its the folks who want to burn it down in the name of saving it from him.
This little-advised adventure of theirs is going nowhere.
Looks like someone skipped those anger management classes.. oh, and typing class too.
never was much for typing.
maybe you’re one of those sensitive artistic conservative souls who likes to be the gentleman loser :)
good luck with that
What a bunch of big whiney mama’s babies. They’re denying We the People’s voice.
I don’t see it going anywhere.
A third party effort needs a credible candidate, a national infrastructure, a huge amount of money and putting the candidate on the ballot in all 50 states before November.
Where are Bill Kristol and et. al going to get started? They’re more delusional than I thought.
Their hatred of Trump has led them into fantasyland. Good luck with it.
Tools of crony capitalism and corporate elites IMHO.
To put it another way, if they so sure Trump will lose, why all the panic?
They wouldn’t be putting up such resistance unless they really think Trump could get elected.
And he doesn’t care what they think after he wins the nomination.
This would be funny if it were not so pathetic. Trying to screw over the candidate who gets the most votes is now a conservative value in your world?
Well, there is your guarantee that this is going nowhere.
They should run Harvey Levin from TMZ. I think he’s the only guy who could beat Trump anywhere.
So-called conservatives as phony as a three dollar bill.
They should just flatly tell us they will vote for Clinton.
Peddling snake oil and deceiving people is why I don’t like them and I don’t trust them.
I will never vote for their so-called third party.
Post 86-Your hatefulness shows through more and more with each post. Very sad to be you.
Meaning I will no longer prevent Israel from defending herself, unlike the current administration which is far from neutral.
No, I don’t think anything could stand between the trumpers and their beloved.
I’m just havin’ fun here.
I want a president who will be pro-Israel, not neutral.
Your optimism is inspiring - totally insane, but still inspiring.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.