John Noonan
Jeb Bush [FAILED] Campaign
National Security Advisor
Posted on 04/08/2016 4:45:23 PM PDT by kevcol
A group of wealthy donors is preparing to draft retired Marine Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis to run for president and take down Donald Trump, according to reports.
Nearly a dozen donors are willing to throw their resources behind the former head of U.S. Central Command. The group has delivered six memos to Mattis outlining how he could win the race in the hope that it will encourage him to run, the Daily Beast reported.
The game plan would be for Mattis to win enough states to keep Trump and Hillary Clinton from getting the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. The House would then pick the president, and supporters believe lawmakers would support a former general widely seen as an American hero.
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I'd be first in line to plead with the general to come save America," John Noonan, a former national security adviser to Jeb Bush who is working on the campaign to draft Mattis, told the Daily Beast.
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They plan to lose the election before they win it...
Is this the onion?
DK
“draft retired Marine Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis to run for president and take down Donald Trump”
For some reason I don’t think they are talking about a political race to take down Trump!
The Veterans Party of America has had several meetings with Gen. Matis & he has told us under NO circumstances would he seek the Office of the President. He has had more than enough of the crap in dc. & wants to keep on with his charity work [the Fisher House & children of fallen service members]
He quoted lbj, “If nominated I will NOT run, if elected I will NOT serve”. And he is a man of his word too!
Well, someone in this mess is insane.
This election is certainly one of the weirdest ones I have ever lived through to date....
Nothing does more to destroy the reputation of a former U.S. military or intelligence leader than letting himself become a tool of big-government globalists in Washington.
Best Election Evah!
Just when I think the election is about to settle into an expected condition, the story changes, making everything else shapeshift again.
I have never heard this Mattis speak. Does he have much stage presence. Let’s face it, personal charisma, persuasive charm and mystique are factors to consider and look for in a leader.
[ Best Election Evah! ]
We are tearing ourselves apart, the dems are tearing themselves apart....
The question is what are the pieces gonna look like after they are picked up...
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you f#%& with me, I'll kill you all."
Sounds charismatic enough.
I agree! I’m 73 and first starting watching politics in the ‘56 election. I’m so glad I’ve lived to see this goofy race.
Sound like "Mad Dog" Perot. And will have the same results...a Clinton in the White House.
Sounds like the kind of scheme a bunch of Jeb supporters would think up. I presume they are hard at work rounding up the nearly 80,000 voter signatures they need by May 9th to get on the ballot.
That seems like a lot in Jeb and Noonan's offices.
I like it. I’m sold.
I don’t know much about Mattis beyond what I read in the book “No True Glory”, but if that is indicative of him, I would vote for him in an instant.
His men seemed to respect him greatly. Any man that can command respect from US Marines sounds good to me.
That said, I have some reservations about some military men as politicians in much the same way I have reservations about brain surgeons as politicians.
The military man may be brilliant at warfare, and the brain surgeon may be able to safely get up to his knuckles in someone brain, but politics is a different thing. Not harder, but different.
Still, I would regard a skilled military man as possessing the qualities to run a country just fine. One has to look no further than George Washington.
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