Posted on 03/17/2016 9:41:46 AM PDT by GIdget2004
A secretive group of Republican operatives and conservative leaders convened Thursday morning for more than three hours to discuss ways to unite the right against Donald Trump, with a presentation about the feasibility of mounting a third-party challenge as well as extensive deliberations about whether a coalition of anti-Trump forces could prevent the billionaire mogul from securing the party's presidential nomination at the July convention in Cleveland.
"It's certainly not too late," Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) said as he left the session. "You could get another party on the ballot. If you did that, you'd need a movement conservative to be the candidate."
"I was just here to listen," Franks, a supporter of Trump rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), added. "I am worried about the kind of damage that Trump could cause to our party. You can't trust him and we've got to stop him."
Franks repeatedly declined to name who was floated as a potential standard-bearer for a third-party conservative bid.
A second attendee, requesting anonymity to discuss private conversations, said Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska was one name mentioned as a possible late-entry contender who conservatives could rally around.
A spokesman for Sasse said he did not send a representative to the meeting.
Per three people familiar with the talks, the mood of the room was muted and downbeat. Attendees voiced frustration with the lack of coordination so far and wondered aloud whether Trump could be halted. The third-party scenario drew intense interest, but it also acknowledged that it would be logistically and financially difficult with few major politicians willing for now to agree to take the political risk that such a run would entail.
Instead, a consensus emerged by the end that the best option may be working in upcoming primaries to boost Cruz...
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The thing that I see with this ‘Stop Trump No Matter What’ b.s. that is going around is another spin that is hidden in all of this:
They took Cruz into the Bush Crime Family to ‘use’ him to get a Bush into Government...this is the ONLY reason they nabbed onto him...
I am a 100% Trump supporter, have been and will be, but even I can see what the Bushes are doing to Cruz, you Cruz supporters are going to go down in the toilet if you don’t get your candidate to see just how dirty and worthless the Bushes are...
Do your research and you will find out how they manage people that they have done ‘favors’ for to ‘call in the favors’ and they are using your candidate to do this, he has been promised anything he wants if he would do this, and believe me. they don’t care about you or me or anyone else, they care about themselves and only themselves...
Get Cruz away from the Bushes if you want him to survive anything, he won’t make it with the Bushes behind him!!!
I think this is the greatest thing I ever heard. DJT should stay right where he is, as the frontrunner in the GOP primary. Few things would thrill me more than watching these dunderheads clank their heads together trying to figure out how to quickly get on 50 state ballots somehow.
I read on Wednesday that GOP donors had already spent north of 200,000,000 on ads to take down DJT.
Folks, if this is true, and knowing they are willing to spend even more to field a 3rd party candidate, then the news is grim indeed. And take note, fans of Cruz, Kasich, etc.
It means the level of graft, corruption that exists in our system is probably 10x what we thought it was.
Good point, and the answer is...
We actually have no idea how many of these types of meetings they have held.
I’ll bet it’s way over 250 by now.
They’ve been scared breathless since June 8th.
And the faux conservatives in the media will gobble this turkey up and spew out “for the good of the party” nonsense. Like rush who has been slobbering all over Cruz’s fat butt.
If these GOP morons don’t think that after Trump ends up with a majority and having spent his own money to get there is just going to quietly rollover....
The more I hear these leftists, the more determined I am to support Donald Trump!
You would think that these people would be concerned about illegal immigration crime, stopping ISIS, restoring our military, stopping the murder of the unborn, securing our borders, stopping IRS, EPA, BLM and other government agencies from persecuting Americans targeted by the Obama Administration, reforming tax law, implementing trade agreements that favor our country, protecting Christians from the tyranny of same sex marriage, and more...
But, instead, they are worried about having the light of truth shining on them so they cannot remain in darkness. The pleas of the people have been broadcast for thirty years or more, only to be ignored as they help themselves to the spoils.
Remember when Sasse was saying all the right things as a Constitutional Conservative? I do.
Well, he keeps saying no to the Islamic Horde.
One hundred percent of his opposition is united in their determination to bring me Middle Eastern Muslims here.
This is why Cruz voted for the Corker bill.
No remaining Tedomite has a viable retort for this since Cruz brought in Neil Bush and blamed the far left attempt at riot on Trump.
The European Union is going to break up now. If the globalists are to retain control they have to insert a Muslim army into the United States now. It’s all or nothing.
Most of us will follow Nancy Reagan's great advise and say "NO!".
One hundred percent of the inflexible conservatives voted against the Corker bill.
Thanks to Trump, a very good thing is that the covers are being thrown back and in their desperation, these people are revealing themselves for what they are.
We need a list of all these backstabbers.
I’m writing my representatives that I will never ever vote for them if the GOPes pull funny stuff at their convention.
Actually I’m thinking of refusing to vote for *any* incumbent in the future.
Yeah, all one of them, and it wasn’t Cruz.
It is not only Trump, but his millions of voters and supporters, who are willing to be assaulted by traitor thugs at Trump's meetings, crawl over broken glass to vote for him, and tolerate the daily bs thrown at Trump across the land and here on Free Republic by the Trump haters disabled by their severe TDS.
We thanks to Trump are the threat that scares these rectums, 24/7.
Come on guys, just let it go. If he gets the delegates it’s over. Pretty simple.
One thing I always liked about that one Speech Jeff Sessions made was when he referred to the Washington Cabal as the “Masters of the Universe”.
He was absolutely right.
They have been doing a pretty good job of it for quite a while with their many and varied attempts to knock him out before the convention.
Do they realize every underhanded act they take, every anti-Trump plot they cook up, just validates the opinion that we have of them as arrogant elitist weasels?
Do they realize that their very actions are placing the republican party in greater jeopardy far beyond what they accuse Trump of?
Do they even care?
They would rather destroy the republican party and help Hillary get elected before they would willingly relinquish control of their fiefdom.
Agreed.
Agreed. And given what we know about Hillary's apparent national security crimes, think of what is being revealed of those in the GOPe threatening to vote for her instead of Trump.
Despicable behavior. These people are not fit to lead. And we should be grateful for the unveiling.
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