Posted on 05/29/2016 2:56:32 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Per Twitter
"Just a heads up over this holiday weekend: There will be an independent candidate--an impressive one, with a strong team and a real chance."
-Bill Kristol
Who is it, Mittens?
This absolutely disgusts me. This fool is going to cost us the election because he and some bitter Cruz supporters didn't get their way. He knows it will split the vote and we won't win. A few things:
1)He wants to cause enough of a vote split where no candidate has the 270. Ok. Let's say he does that. He will literally be usurping the will of all the people who voted for Trump in the primaries and general (which will be way more than his guy).
2)That assumes his candidate will even win one state. I would venture to guess his candidate won't win a single state but will divide the votes enough to help Hillary.
3)Maybe he wants Hillary. I had a Cruz supporter tell me on Twitter he'd rather 4 years of Hillary (he says it will only be 4 years) and 2 Supreme Court picks from her (he insists it will only be 2) so he can get a conservative like Cruz in 4 years.
Somewhere Hillary is cackling at the stupid party and "principled" conservatives who are willing to torpedo Trump to get all or nothing.
Let's hope either Bill is bluffing or this fails. Even Trump the other day seemed to concede it would give Hillary the election.
It takes a special kind of elitist attitude to usurp the voters of your own party and tell them you know better.
If he was impressive he would have ran in the primaries. He’s a hater like Kristol if true.
It’s just John Anderson all over again.
Reagan beat Carter AND Anderson, Trump wins a three-way easy.
I’ll never, ever forget. Billy Boy has made my Airport List.
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“But you get the point, plenty of these neocons are far from admirable and yet they pass themselves as conservatives while working to push the GOP to the left. No borders, amnesty, no opposition to gay marriage or most any other social issue that the Left wants to impose in their war against the old America.”
So true.
All these old gasbag “conservative” pundits just blather at each other these days. Talk about an echo chamber.
Agreed, any handwringing about Kristol finding a third party spoiler candidate is premature. One thing is that this “spoiler”could actually help Trump, like John Anderson helped Reagan more than he hurt him in 1980. Anderson received his support primarily from liberal Republicans who likely would have voted for Carter.
So until at such time as Kristol ever finds a sucker to run as a third party spoiler candidate, I will view this all as just entertainment and Kristol trying to remain relevant.
I have never encountered "potatoe" as the spelling for the plant, but since I haven't read everything that was ever published in English, I could have overlooked cases.
If you're using Inca quipus the final "e" is optional.
He’s already said he prefers Clinton to Trump, so, no surprise there. The guy is the uber-status quo.
Who knew the civil war would be rinos against conservatives while the liberals sit on the sideline and watch us kill each other?
Pelham, you need to take a "lighten-up" pill. I wasn't mocking Stockdale at all. Those two lines I posted are called "direct quotes", and came directly from the mouth of Stockdale at the start of his VP debate, as you can see for yourself right here in this youtube video clip:
Notice the big smile on Stockdale's face as he expresses those two questions to start his introduction at that debate, and notice the laughter from the audience when they heard those two questions. He and they all knew that those were two humorous lines with which to start out that debate. He was using two of the deepest, most profound philosophical questions we all ask ourselves at some point in our lives as a humorous tool to begin the process to introduce himself to America.
"Who am I? Why am I here?"
Heros are just as human as everyone else who ever lived, and it is just plain foolish and bizarre to try to remember heros as some kind of delicate freaks whose memory must be delicately shielded from any kind of good-natured, gentle humor involving them. The late Admiral Stockdale was a strong man, who obviously had a sense of humor, and I'm certain he would not be offended at others seeing the exact same humor he saw when he opened that debate with those two memorable, humor-tinged lines.
(By the way, do you have the same kind of trouble in your reaction to humor involving other heros, like former POW George Washington?)
I remember Stockdale’s debate performance perfectly well. I’m just tired of seeing the man treated with disrespect.
Gary Johnson's VP is Bill Weld. That tells you how worthless the Losertarian Party has become.
Stockdale was also a vigorous advocate of abortion.
Do you think quoting him directly is somehow showing him disrespect?
I read the tweet from that same idiot who would rather have Hillary than Trump. I can’t process that level of stupidity.
The FR Cruzers are mostly rational but the ones on Twitter are psychotic. It’s amusing to see “principled conservatives” become Hillary’s biggest fans.
I finally told one of the more crazed #nevertrumpers to get the Kool-aid ready, get the cult down to Jonestown & get it over with.
They can take Kristol with them.
Well ol’ Paddy didn’t help himself very much when he produced a history tome painting Hitler in a sympathetic light as a victim of Churchill and FDR’ s tag team.
Preferably during a thunderstorm producing copious amounts of lightning.
It’s amazing how some of these people want to keep bitterly fighting the primaries long after their favored choice won.
That ain’t the path to unity, if they really value that.
No. Pee Wee is probably Johnson’s Libertarian VP!
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