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”
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Archie the Cockroach was exempted from using the shift key because he typed by jumping on the keys and he couldn’t jump on two at once.
He never said he would ASK them not to do abortions. Are you using the French translation?
How Progressive of you!
Coburn and Perry are both fine fellows. But neither are presidential, nor electable! We've seen this to be the case twice in Perry's case.
Trump, on the other hand, is electable.
Presidential? Well, maybe. We'll just have to see! Trump can turn presidential on a dime, when the atmosphere calls for being presidential, as opposed to combative. It is a rare talent!
I voted for Ted in the Massachusetts primary. But my gut feel is, the Donald will work out OK in the job. Even if he turns out to be a disaster, he'll be far better than Hillary or Bernie! As Rush said, the Trump upside is far higher than the downside.
You are mixing two things that do not coincide. When I ran a large corporation it was prudent to support some powerful people I did not like. “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer,” is often good business practice. It is doubtful Trump went looking for these opportunities for donations. His support was solicited with appropriate guarantees for political support of one or more of his many projects. It is not reasonable to infer support for a particular cause into legal extortion by powerful movers and shakers.
As to Trump’s conservativism I am satisfied that he loves this country and will undo the some of the worse horrors of liberalism. Whether we ever get our country back from the march of Marxism depends entirely on how we as a people rise above our hedonism to become people who deserve to live in a shining city on a hill.
Hillary must be denied the presidency. I believe Trump has the bulldog tenacity to make that happen.
It was sarcasm!
We have Trump’s official registration records since 1987 publicly available online. In that time, he has been a Republican for over twice as long as he was a Democrat, yet tremendous numbers of Cruz supporters like to pretend that he has always been a Democrat (he was a Republican from 1987-1999, then he was a member of Perot’s Reform Party) and just recently switched from the Democratic Party back to the Republicans (rather than 7 years ago). Stopping illegal immigration and cracking down on Islamic terrorists most certainly don’t fit in the current Democratic Party anyway, as it rapidly hurls toward its anti-American, Progressive hard left.
that horsesh*t. trumps fans don’t even understand all of the things that have come out of his mouth.
Nobody knows who Coburn is. Hardly anyone knows who Perry is. They don’t have a chance. And Trump is promising a conservative agenda.
Really??? Well explain them to us then...
Check Westchester County, where Trump outpolls Hillary. If he takes Westchester, he most certainly takes the inner burbs of LI. Not to mention Staten Island. With upstate a lock, Trump wins NY and I don’t care what Hillary does in Manhattan.
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