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The secret movement to draft Gen. James Mattis (USMC-Ret.) for President
Daily Beast ^ | April 6, 2016 | Daily Beast

Posted on 05/04/2016 9:55:41 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo

An anonymous group of conservative billionaires is ready to place their bets on a man dubbed “Mad Dog,” hoping to draft him into the presidential race to confront Donald Trump.

Think of it as a Plan B should Trump be nominated by the Republican Party in Cleveland: swing behind retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis and press him into service yet again as a third-party candidate.

Mattis is the former commander of Central Command, which includes the strife-afflicted conflict zones of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, and has developed a reputation among troops as a general officer who cares about the little guy. This reputation blossomed into the political realm during the 2012 presidential contest, when a Marine Corps veteran started an online campaign to write-in Mattis on presidential ballots—it ultimately lacked the backing to take

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To: RaceBannon

https://hallsofkarma.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/donald-trumps-official-voter-registration-records-have-been-leaked-hold-on-to-your-hats-this-could-be-devastating/


41 posted on 05/04/2016 10:26:26 AM PDT by Snowybear
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Mattis has said he has no interest in running for President.
This is a recycled story that has been played out a couple times on FR already.


42 posted on 05/04/2016 10:26:46 AM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: Lion Den Dan

“I doubt that General Mattis is so foolish.”

He isn’t. This is the nervous gibbering of the ruling effete.


43 posted on 05/04/2016 10:27:09 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (That giant flushing sound is the New Whirled Order, going down the tubes.)
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To: Reno89519
Third party or sitting out is no different than supporting Clinton.

This is absolutely and categorically false — a vote for Person X does not translate to a vote for Person B because Person A didn't get that vote.

44 posted on 05/04/2016 10:30:38 AM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: euram

It would be called the globalists, open boarders party!!!!


45 posted on 05/04/2016 10:32:13 AM PDT by Kit cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: WMarshal

I have a better idea Patreas as Trump VP general against general TAKE THAT GOPe !!!!’.


46 posted on 05/04/2016 10:34:06 AM PDT by Kit cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Reno89519

Pfff... no party owns my vote. If they want my vote, they need to earn it.


47 posted on 05/04/2016 10:34:15 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: AmericanInTokyo

At the Republican party meetings up to the District Level (3), Trump supporters were in the minority. The most committed and vocal Trump supporters, who were not generally involved otherwise, were retired military, including a general. I don’t see a military candidate peeling votes away.


48 posted on 05/04/2016 10:36:08 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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To: Edward.Fish
“Third party or sitting out is no different than supporting Clinton.
This is absolutely and categorically false”

In this case it is 100% true.

Clinton can only win if conservatives sit out or support 3rd party a candidate.

She is unpopular and can not win on her own.

49 posted on 05/04/2016 10:36:48 AM PDT by detective
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To: Argus

We’ll played, FRiend. I was thinking the same thing.


50 posted on 05/04/2016 10:36:53 AM PDT by j.havenfarm
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To: Argus

Well, we *are* in the middle of the first Seven Days in May…


51 posted on 05/04/2016 10:37:21 AM PDT by mikrofon (Humpday BUMPty)
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To: Edward.Fish
The result may be the same, electing Clinton. There are only two viable likely candidates, Clinton and Trump. Choose one.

Reminds me of my twin boys, tell them they have choice between chocolate and vanilla ice cream, they say strawberry and get none.

There is no viable third party, picking one is simply a cop out to not choose between the two choices before us.

52 posted on 05/04/2016 10:37:26 AM PDT by Reno89519 (American Lives Matter! US Citizen, Veteran, Conservative, Republican. I vote. Trump 2016.)
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To: baltimorepoet

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But point well-taken. I will be voting for no such. Until the voting changes to plurality voting...

There is a good reason why the founders chose not to have plurality voting. The Presidential election is actually an election by the States and not a majority of people.
This is a Republic, not a Democracy, and in this American Republic they forsaw that the election and your future should not turn on a simple majority with the deciding vote cast by some nutcase, fruitcake in San Francisco or Seattle. That is what plurality voting can do.


53 posted on 05/04/2016 10:37:38 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
An anonymous group of conservative billionaires

Same group the people have rejected.

54 posted on 05/04/2016 10:38:30 AM PDT by niki
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To: detective

Trump is not a conservative and barely even qualifies as GOPe, except for his money and liberal stances. He’s the ultimate RINO.


55 posted on 05/04/2016 10:40:00 AM PDT by livius
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To: Reno89519

“It’s over. Anyone pushing another candidate should be dumped from the party. Trump is the presumptive nominee and these folks should choose between Clinton and Trump.”

_____________________________________________

Completely agree. Trump is not a guy who barely edged out the competition in a 3-way race, or won the nomination by outspending the competition.

He won convincingly, and spent less than anyone else.

The people has spoken.


56 posted on 05/04/2016 10:40:21 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: usurper
All he has to do to be Secretary of Defense is call Trump.

If Mr. Trump has not already called him.

57 posted on 05/04/2016 10:40:23 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: detective

The Cheap Labor Express.
They have to block the citizens from electing Trump.


58 posted on 05/04/2016 10:40:51 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: detective

The word “conservative” applies accurately to exactly zero of the conspiratorial consultant/GOPe-type schmucks referenced in that article.


59 posted on 05/04/2016 10:41:59 AM PDT by PermaRag (If Trayvon had a father, he'd look just like Obama)
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To: livius
“Trump is not a conservative and barely even qualifies as GOPe, except for his money and liberal stances. He’s the ultimate RINO.”

Are you Glenn Beck or Erick Erickson?

60 posted on 05/04/2016 10:42:20 AM PDT by detective
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