Neither Clinton Nor Trump [#NeverTrump]

Weekly Standard ^ | May 16, 2016 | William Kristol

[C19fan]

I have always voted for the Republican presidential candidate. From Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford to Ronald Reagan (twice) and George H. W. Bush (twice) and Bob Dole, from George W. Bush (twice) to John McCain and Mitt Romney—I've checked the box next to those eight names on all 11 occasions I've had the chance. About half the time, I've voted for someone else in the primary. But even in those cases I never hesitated before supporting the Republican nominee in the general election.

[Jim Robinson]

If they keep this up, Weakly Stranded is headed for bankruptcy.

[riverdawg]

“How about a new political party for ... Tinker Bell”

Hey, I didn’t think this was a thread about Lindsey Graham!

[austinaero]

Kristol is in the rigid fringe minority now and he does not like it!

He’s on the brink I tell ya! He’s almost relevant!
OOps, now, ehrr, wait.

That ship has left the harbor.

SNORT!

[SunkenCiv]

more recently, he whined that Trump had to be defeated, that he'd "virtually" always voted Republican (IOW, he hasn't), and that he couldn't vote for HIllary. He was full of it on all three.

• Bill Kristol: I Would Rather See Hillary Win Than Trump [2016]
• National Review: Trump Worse Than Hillary [2016]
• Erickson: I'm never voting for Trump [2016]

more from the FRchives:

• Bill Kristol Names Romney, Rubio as Third-Party Challengers to Trump [2016]
• What Trump Saw and Cruz Did Not [2016]
• Bill Kristol Names Romney, Rubio, Tom Cotton As Third-Party Prospects If Trump Wins Nomination [2016]
• Bill Kristol Names Romney, Rubio, Tom Cotton As Third-Party Prospects If Trump Wins Nomination [2016]
• Bill Kristol Pushes Jim Mattis For Third Party Run: "Patriotic Americans" Will Look At This Choice [2016]
• Banana Republicans [2016]
• Weak and Getting Weaker: Electability argument against Trump in the general election is hardening [2016]
• Bill Kristol: I Hope a Third Party Candidate Comes Forward [2016]
• Bill Clinton Trashes Obama: 'Awful Legacy of the Last Eight Years' [2016]
• Trump Will Drop Out By Mid-October And Endorse Hillary Clinton (PSA against glue-sniffing) [2016]
• Kristol Trying to Get Tom Coburn or Rick Perry to Run Third Party [2016]
• Republican Leaders Map a Strategy to Derail Donald Trump (Coburn or Perry 3rd party candidate) [2016]
• HORROR! Conservative Website REDSTATE Calls on Far Left Protesters to BRING GUNS to Trump Rallies [2016]
• Why I Changed My Mind and Joined the #NeverTrump Movement [2016]
• The Craziest Political Prediction Article Ever Written [2016]
• Bill Kristol Knows His Predictions Have Been Bad But He's Going to Keep Making Them
  • Bill Kristol blows his New Hampshire primary picks -- and Twitter won't let him forget it
  • The Donald's Debate Boycott Officially Pays Off, As Bill Kristol Predicts Trump Has Peaked
  • Bill Kristol: Donald Trump Mystique Would Disappear With Iowa Loss [2015]
  • Bill Kristol: Trump Has Peaked, Won't Win Iowa [2015]
  • Bill Kristol: 'We'll Have to Start' New Party If Trump Wins Nomination
  • Bill Kristol: Trump Has Peaked, Won't Win Iowa
  • ( October 18, 2015 ) Kristol: Biden will get in Monday or Tuesday
  • Scarborough Accuses Kristol: 'You're Trying to Cover Your A--' About Trump
  • Kristol: Look For A Rubio-Fiorina Ticket [2015]
• Neoconservatives Declare War on Donald J. Trump [2016]
• Davi: The Long Con-Rubio, Kristol, and the Destruction of the American People [2016]
• After Months of Constant Attacks on GOP Front-Runner Trump -- Conservatives Lose Faith in FOX News [2016]
• RedState's Leon Wolf : My Endorsement for President (Marco Rubio) [2016]
• If He Wins, Do We Stand With Trump? [2016]
• Redstate's Leon Wolf: "No CNN, Trump is not on the Path to the Nomination" [2016]
• New York Daily News Slams 'Anti-Christ' Donald Trump In Fiery Front Page Image [2016]
• Three Strikes -- 3rd Time This Campaign Season NBC/WSJ Caught Promoting Agenda Polls [2016]
• Donald Trump's New Hampshire Win Means These Media Members Are Winners & Losers [2016]
• The Donald's Debate Boycott Officially Pays Off, As Bill Kristol Predicts Trump Has Peaked [2016]
• National Review, conservative thinkers stand against Trump [2016]
• Conservatives pen anti-Trump manifesto (22 'Conservatives' including Erick Erickson) [2016]
• Mark Levin's fiancee's son works for Ted Cruz. [2016]
• The Dems, Not the GOP, in Disarray This Election [2016]
• Let Us Not Be Consumed By the Mob (Author decries voter revolt against GOP-E) [2016]
• Trump's 2015 Conservative Critics Were Obama's 2009 Fan Boys... [2015]
• Not Coincidental -- Trump's 2015 Conservative Critics Were Obama's 2009 Fan Boys... [2015]
• BILL KRISTOL (Weekly Standard editor) THREATENS THIRD PARTY SUPPORT IF TRUMP WINS NOM [2015]
• The "Trump Conservative War" -- The Great Trumpian Divide -- National Review VS Mainstreet... [2015]

[Gunner TLW]

I have twice met this man; once in Iraq and again in Afghanistan. I was busy training the Iraqi 1st and 7th Divisions and later the 215th Corps of the Afghan Army. Mr Kristol was, on both occasions, part of a contingent of visiting “Smart Guys” who were interested in what we were doing.

I’ve never met a man more smug and aloof. He displayed an air of supreme confidence; yet he was wholly incompetent regarding the training of indigenous forces. He is one of those guys who wants to only speak or hear what the General has to say; even after the CG identified that my team was the guys who had the experience in training of indigenous forces.

This man is a bore and has lived a fabulous life off the accomplishments of his Father and Mother. He strikes you as a little “Lord Fauntleroy” His wit and intelligence is far overrated!

His actions will mean nothing! America has all of him and his ilk we can stomach.

[Parley Baer]

“Nobody cares what you think, Kristol. You’re just part of the problem that needs flushing.”

So true. He is a big part of the problem.

[nhwingut]

Must be interesting for the Mark Levin “Principled Conservative” Wing to look at its allies and see George Will, Mitt Romney, Linsey Graham, Jeb Bush, Rich Lowry, and Bill Kristol.

[Blackhawk45]

I’ve thought for a number of years that Kristol is a turncoat & it looks like it more & more. It would appear that he wants to continue the policy of the GOP being in the tank for the libtards like they have in the recent past.
The Standard may be the standard bearer of the left.

[MNJohnnie]

Dear #Never Trump,

Trump or Clinton will be President. You do realize you losers are painting yourselves into a lose-lose corner here?

IF Trump wins you demonstrated yourself politically impotent, utterly childish and totally irrelevant. Your moronic political temper-tantrum here will follow you around forever. Your career in politics will be over.

If Trump loses, everyone in your audience is going to point at the #Never Trump clown posse as the cause. Your will be politically pariahs. Your career in politics and media will be over.

IT is over, you lost. Sit down shut up or be destroyed by your own petulant, arrogant, stupidity.

[MNJohnnie]

This “3rd party” is know as the “Petulance Party”. The Democrats have the Donkey, the Republicans have the Elephant, their symbol will be a Crying Baby.

[OldNewYork]

“I’m not giving them the click required to find out more.”

Same. And I don’t care what a neo-con does with his one vote.

[TigersEye]

Nobody for president - 2016!

[Jeff Chandler]

I believe all these rhino and neocon assclowns will come around by election time.

[utahagen]

“Neocon A-hole.”

You know what? I'm a neo-con, but, unlike Kristol, I'm not an “A-hole”. Bill Kristol and the rest have got to grow up. It's time to back Trump, try to influence him to the degree we can, and let the chips fall where they may. I'd much rather have President Trump than President Hillary Clinton.

[StormEye]

Hmmm, not Clinton or Trump.
Then it must be the Neocon/Globalist dreamboy Jeb!
Yeah, that has got to be it.
Wow, those guys like Kristol are so smart.

[euram]

Kristol, Krauthammer and a host of others need to go back to the democrat party from whence they came. They only invaded the republican party like a virus back in the 1980’s, and that is why we are in such a mess.

[Chaguito]

Kristol should get behind Libertarian John McAfee. That’s the ticket! http://www.bealibertarian.com/

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Makes one wonder where Kristol’s allegiances really lie.

[The Continental Op]

Kristol hates the very idea of actually putting America and Americans first. That is and always has been anathema to his goals. Likewise, the republican party is simply a vessel to Mr. Kristol.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

This guy is a nothing burger.