Posted on 05/30/2016 8:01:02 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Republican candidate Donald Trump is firing back after neoconservative operative Bill Kristol announced that he expects an independent candidate to enter the race to split the Republican vote.
Kristol’s effort to get a candidate to run on his anti-Trump “Latter-Day Republicans” ticket – already condemned by the Republican National Committee – has apparently come to fruition.
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.
Trump did not take the announcement lying down. The presumptive Republican nominee slammed Kristol and implored Republicans to keep the “Weekly Standard” editor in line.
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They will definitely get more than 1 percent. That is what Johnson was polling in May/June 2012. He is up to 10 percent in some surveys already.
//Latter-Day Republicans”//
Seriously? Beck must have thought up THAT one. The choice of name speaks volumes.
Bill Kristol is a Hillary-shill. People voting for his independent candidate will put Hillary in the White House.
The only hope is that Republicans, independents, conservatives, anyone with an ounce of sense will vote for Trump, ignore this spoiler candidate, whoever he or she might be.
You are one sick REMF.
He ia mad that Obama attacked the Weekly Standard...
That seals it...I better head to Sonic for my Route 44 Cherry Limeaid. Bloomberg wants to do for the country what he did for NYC! lol
There is some internet buzz that Kristol has recruited David French—I personally have never heard of him. Looking him up it appears he is some National Review figure who was an Army Lawyer and now concentrates on writing articles concerning foreign policy, particularly middle east affairs-—go figure!
Why bother with a parachute?
Kristol wants to deny Trump a majority in the electoral college then throw the election to the House. Have Mittens pick off enough states, maybe some Mormon heavy ones.
It would be deeply destabilizing politically.
That was my thought. It says a lot, not just who is behind it but the idea of a ‘restoration’ and ‘the one true party’.
Here’s my input folks.......talk from Bill Kristol & Mitt Romney is cheap!!! Where’e the action....big boy/ Tell us all today who your candidate is....or shut your hateful, envious, mouth and return to the sewer, where you were birthed from!!! End of story!!!
I am thinking Jon Huntsman.
Revenge of the 1% ers.
ping me if he actually responds and good choice of words.
He is trying to follow in his dad’s footsteps.
Irving Kristol, was part of the anti-Goldwater gang that handed the presidency to Johnson in 1964. At the time, many credited him with “saving conservatism” by leading the fight against Goldwater.
Irving Kristol is also the father of neoconservatism.
Just answer the question
Bloomberg? I know he started as a Republican, but can he be passed off as one today, after his nanny-state, gun-grabbing, soda-grabbing stint in NYC?
Sigh. Back in the 90’s I subscribed to The New Republic, then dropped my subscription when they canned Michael Kelly for criticizing BJ Clinton. I also read National Review for decades, but dropped it when they fired John Derbyshire for publishing “racist” opinions. Kristol is really off the rails with his Trump animus, but at least he isn’t censoring pro-Trump voices in his magazine — Fred Barnes and David Gelernter have had recent articles symapathetic to the Donald and his voters — so I don’t feel compelled to toss the Weekly Standard yet.
It one thing to post a tweet saying, "I have some sucker that is going to run independent." It's quite another to actually follow through with it. You don't just snap your fingers and get on every ballot nationwide, some deadlines have already passed and many others are coming up quickly and require large numbers of petition signatures just to get on the ballot. Not to mention even he liberal New York Times has said that at this late a date an independent run is virtually impossible because of the cost, $250 Million minimum, and the ballot access issues (actually they said that nearly three weeks ago when Cruz and Kasich dropped out.) I personally think Kristol and crew are just "testing the waters" to see if there is some major public demand for their mysterious 3rd party option (there isn't).
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