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Bill Kristol Names Romney, Rubio as Third-Party Challengers to Trump
News Max ^ | 01 May 2016

Posted on 05/02/2016 10:27:06 AM PDT by VitacoreVision

For those who thought it is too late for a third-party candidate to run for president, don't count out that option quite yet.

Bill Kristol has put out a hypothetical short list of third-party candidates, including Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who could run if Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee, Breitbart News reports.

One of the nation's most influential conservatives and editor of The Weekly Standard, Kristol has said that a Trump victory in Indiana this Tuesday would force him to refocus on his so-called Latter-Day Republican independent ticket.

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KEYWORDS: billkristol; bishopromney; elections; romney; romney2decide4you; romneycare; romneycare4you; romneymarriage; romneypolygamy; rubio
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To: VitacoreVision

This is just absurd. Even if there is enough time to start an independent run for President, there’s no chance that there would be sufficient support for it. Trump and Clinton wouldn’t even need to acknowledge it.


41 posted on 05/02/2016 10:56:34 AM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Brookhaven

I remember it well. Didn’t exactly work out the way they planned, did it? Without John Anderson, Carter would probably have won 3-4 more New England states + New York, converting Reagan’s mere 44 state landslide into 39 states or so.


42 posted on 05/02/2016 10:57:11 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Great slogan.

In the highly unlikely event that Bill Kristol's wet dream ever comes to fruition, we could probably help him write at least 100 more on this forum.

43 posted on 05/02/2016 11:00:05 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: VitacoreVision

Knock yourself out Billy.


44 posted on 05/02/2016 11:00:45 AM PDT by Mysonsrdoctors
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To: VitacoreVision
A third party could help split the vote on the right and elect Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton president, which would allow Kristol to stave off the Trump threat and regain control of the party in 2020 without actually having to formally support Clinton.

News Max on a death spiral.

Kristol deserves to go down the drain with it.

45 posted on 05/02/2016 11:01:00 AM PDT by detch (")
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Bill Kristol has about as much influence as Anthony Wiener.


46 posted on 05/02/2016 11:02:27 AM PDT by TexasCruzin ( He always hits back.)
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To: VitacoreVision

Bill Kristol needs to swallow his own tongue.


47 posted on 05/02/2016 11:03:53 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: TomGuy

My question is the: If Mr. Kristol is really a “leading conservative” as posited, why doesn’t he place himself on a third party ticket? I’m sure he’d make a huge success of it, just like he has with “his” magazine. Well, maybe not.

From Wiki: “Since it was founded in 1995, The Weekly Standard has never been profitable, and has remained in business through subsidies from conservative benefactors such as former owner Rupert Murdoch.”


48 posted on 05/02/2016 11:05:00 AM PDT by The Continental Op
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To: VitacoreVision

I expect cruz will go third party. If the big money keeps coming in.


49 posted on 05/02/2016 11:07:23 AM PDT by monkeywrench (Deut. 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark)
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To: Dick Bachert

Because he must have enjoyed the first two terms of Obama, and be looking forward to a third under Hillary Clinton.


50 posted on 05/02/2016 11:09:47 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: Terry L Smith

I heard he DOES swallow. But that’s just an unconfirmed rumor!


51 posted on 05/02/2016 11:11:42 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: vette6387

Yeah, mini hands. LOL.


52 posted on 05/02/2016 11:17:49 AM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight....)
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To: VitacoreVision
How is this going to work any better than when they ran John Anderson as a 3rd party candidate against Reagan?


53 posted on 05/02/2016 11:18:52 AM PDT by Brookhaven (Lying Ted & Outsourcing Carly, a losing combo.)
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To: DoughtyOne
One of the nation's most influential conservatives and editor of The Weekly Standard

Guess this makes Kristol one of the shiniest turds in the GOPe punch bowl.

54 posted on 05/02/2016 11:20:35 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: VitacoreVision

Bill Kristol is delusional & dangerous to himself & our nation, IMO.


55 posted on 05/02/2016 11:20:43 AM PDT by TheStickman (If we don't elect a PRO-America president in 2016 we lose the country!)
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To: monkeywrench
I expect cruz will go third party.

"The will of Moses must NOT be thwarted!" ;)

56 posted on 05/02/2016 11:21:43 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("The bathroom deal is a big fat nothing burger." -- Jim Robinson, 04/22/16)
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To: Vigilanteman

Kristol and wet dream in the same sentence is enough to gag a maggot.


57 posted on 05/02/2016 11:22:24 AM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight....)
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To: DoughtyOne
Everything I ever wanted or needed to know about prominent conservative columnists, I found out on January 13, 2009...

President-elect Barack Obama spent Tuesday evening at a dinner party with several prominent conservative columnists, including William Kristol and David Brooks of The New York Times, according to an Obama transition pool report.

Mr. Obama, who has been staying at the Hay-Adams Hotel in advance of his inauguration next week, arrived at 9 Grafton Street, an upscale address in Chevy Chase, Md., at 6:34 p.m. The Montgomery County property tax records list this address as the home of the conservative Washington Post columnist George Will, the host of the dinner party. Also attending the party was Charles Krauthammer The Washington Post.

58 posted on 05/02/2016 11:23:25 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: VitacoreVision
"One of the nation's most influential conservatives"

Hardly! This is a good example of a piece that internally refutes itself. Bill Kristol is a media caricature of a "Conservative." The outcome of the almost year long Republican Primary contest demonstrates how "influential" the son of the Neocon Godfather actually is.

59 posted on 05/02/2016 11:29:14 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: VitacoreVision

Nope.


60 posted on 05/02/2016 11:29:58 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper (Just say no to HRC)
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