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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...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...
I’ll vote for whoever runs against Hillary the commie, she’ll undoubtedly thank you for voting for a third party shill.
If it’s Hillary versus Trump I’ll vote for Trump but it will be the toughest vote I’ve ever made.
How we could take the strongest Republican field in a generation and end up with the worst candidate is still hard for me to believe.
It also won’t surprise me a bit if President Trump announces six months into his term that he is switching parties and going back to being a Democrat.
Wow. The twits really are deperate to hang onto power, aren’t they?
Ultimately its an “elect hillary” gambit. I’m sure we’ll have a few useful idiots on the right who will play along. But here’s the fun part: whats good for the goose is sauce for the gander. Perhaps there will be a large number of pissed off Trump supporters who forget to vote down ticket.
Enjoy the sophies choice, gop.
I would support either of them over Trump, as well.
I e-mail the Weekly Standard and told them I would never buy a copy and if I saw one in the nearest gabage can.
Isn’t it wonderful to watch as we all hand you your worthless a$$! As someone said, you are besmerching the name of Ronald Reagan by your screen name.
Trump has nothing to worry about here. Nobody knows Tom Coburn and no one will vote for Rick Perry (heartless).
Save a pretzel for the gas jets, Rick.
I hate the bastards now more than the rats, is this possible? They are actually going against the will of the people. If they manage to do this they might as well call them selves democrat lite they officially killed themselves and the criminal clinton slides right in
lol. trump was a liberal democrat 9 months ago.
I Will stay home and all you phony pretend consistent conservatives can KMA! You deserve Hillary Clinton!
And that is what you will get. Y’all can whine till the cows come home for all I care.
“I would vote for Coburn or Perry over Trump, who is not a conservative.”
TRANSLATED:
“I would vote for HILLARY over Trump, who is not a conservative.”
Fixed it.
Lol the GOP is a liberal democrat right now and has been for decades.
Yes, Perry....who gave his WORD to support the candidate we voters picked!
The guy who couldn’t get over what...2%?
Perry is supporting Cruz and stated he is the only Constitutional Conservative running and will do as promised if elected.
Amen to that!
Maybe they should of fought for conservative principles a long time ago. A lot of us are finding out that with the demographics in this country changing the conservative time is probably over. Any way a lot of us are finding out that conservatism as presently defined does not benefit conservatives. It may benefit corporate and Chamber of Commerce types but it sure as hell does not benefit us. They should of fought for conservative principles while we and they still had a chance. Since they are the ones who wrecked I think they should just pay taxes and (a lot of taxes) and be done with it.
Once you overthrow the government in a coup even a nonviolent one, you’ve opened yourselves up to counter coups of a more violent type. BLM and the various Soros groups are ready to respond as are any disenfranchised Trump supporters. We might end up looking like Libya.
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