Posted on 03/19/2016 7:38:47 PM PDT by Rockitz
Establishment Republicans are looking to retired senator Tom Coburn or retired Texas governor Rick Perry as possible third-party options if they can’t stop Donald Trump at a brokered convention in Cleveland.
Neoconservative pundit Bill Kristol, son of Irving, has been one of the leading forces trying to broker the convention to throw out the will of the people if Donald Trump fails to make it to 1,237 delegates before July. But even if Trump reaches 1,237, Kristol and the gang are considering running a third-party candidate against him to split the vote, ensure that Hillary Clinton wins, and keep control of the party that is slipping out of their grasp.
The New York Times reported Saturday:
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.
Clinton would be a better choice for the establishment Republicans, who can still fundraise off of their opposition to her. Clinton would also presumably give them more establishment-friendly policies than Trump, who is looking to push economic policies that benefit the middle and lower classes and small businesses.
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I’ve never read it. See it everywhere and thought it was just a cute logo. We’ll continue to ignore it.
Exactly the right premise.
You’re a little ankle-biter on this effort.
I called you on it.
Deal with it.
Kristol isn’t McConnell or Ryan who were both called by DT the other day. They had a nice chat.
Consider the fact that while DT may not have donated large sums of money, there were probably many other “PERKS” given like staying at hotels suites or at his great golf courses. They know how the game is played. Once he is in, with his cabinet and FBI, NSA, DOinJ choices they’ll play him like he has never been played before.
Then he will go full executive order Obama. The man is a sociopath and owes Soros big time.
Kevin Kline, uh hardly. You don’t get out much do you?
Tom is ill. He will not do it.
That plan will go over like a turd in the punch bowl. It’ll make Trump’s support ever bigger and stronger.
I hope that both are too honorable to do that, since that would surely hand the presidency to Hillary.
You got that right! A Trumprobot.
Perry looks pretty damn comfortable endorsing Cruz.
Somehow I don’t think any of the names mentioned will excite anyone, nor will they will pull any votes from trump or sanders voters, nor will they pull any Reagan democrats,
and anyone who is so undecided as to vote for Rick Perry is hopefully a small group of tossers
Like Kristol
If the NEOcons and the World Bank want a corrupt feeble old witch like Hillary they should just vote for her.
I would like to think Rick Perry is too much of a patriot to enter into childish petulant scheming to deny a popular vote and instead devote energy into advising and helping Trump to govern well
Do you know how to read English?
D-1 he’s a single sentence, last word gnat.
Unfortunately for you, yes.
He’s got a right to his opinion.
I’ve got a right to mine.
“:^)
He’s been married to the beautiful Phoebe Cates from the iconic red bikini scene in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” Several kids, a hunk. You seem WAY preoccupied w/ “Fags” & “chick flicks.”
Someone’s got a problem & it’s not Kevin Kline ; )
Kristol made me queasy from the moment he arrived on the scene.
Still not getting out much ; )
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