Posted on 06/01/2016 7:37:51 AM PDT by Trumpinator
The "Never Trump" movement died on Tuesday night.
That's when the loose affiliation of Republican pundits and conservative thinkers, banded together by their shared distaste for Donald Trump as the GOP nominee, leaked the news to Bloomberg that conservative lawyer David French was the secret third party candidate they have been working to recruit into the 2016 race as an alternative to the real estate mogul.
The French news ended days of frantic speculation set off by a tweet -- yes, this is the world we now live in -- by Weekly Standard editor and "Never Trump" leader Bill Kristol.
And, it confirmed what many -- including me -- had long suspected: The "Never Trump" movement is totally out of options.
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Here's the problem: No one -- and I mean NO ONE -- outside of a small circle of conservatives and anti-Trump folks knows who David French is.
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Then there's the Trump factor. If you decide to run as the candidate of the "Never Trump" movement, you have to expect a full-frontal assault from the real estate billionaire. He will savage you, your family, your business and anything else that you currently or have ever cared about. That's a powerful deterrent to lots of private citizens -- including many who are independently wealthy and simply don't really need to run for office. Especially considering how long the odds are of even being relevant in the race.
The emergence of David French as the likely "Never Trump" standard-bearer is another win for Trump over the forces within the GOP aligned against him. They failed. He triumphed. Again.
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Cilizza refuses to admit it, but he has a tingle for Trump like David Brooks had for Obama.
I thought Romney lived in La Jolla, Calif. not Montecito?
I heard someone say the Morning News shows that David French was surprised that David French was selected.
You are right! I mixed him up with AlGore who moved to a large mansion/compound in Montecito on the Pacific Ocean, right by the (allegedly) rising sea levels.
Chris Cillizza is one of the better "honest broker" type liberal reporters, same as Jake Tapper. They can fail but are usually fair.
“writer for National Review”
That does it for me, a puke!
Trump in the WH will cause the Congressional Senate and the House to retake and flex their authority as an equal branch of government just to stop Trump, possibly becoming a lame duck on his first day. I hope I’m wrong but that’s how the entrenched establishment criminals in DC operate.
Perhaps he should have his name legally changed to David Freedom.
#NeverTrump = NothingBurger
He does, but his garage is so big it runs all the way to Montecito. ;-)
So....Kristol supports the Democrats and Hillary by engineering a third party, losing, Independent candidate to some day save the GOP after 8 years of Hillary.
Is there a straight line to this logic somewhere? Let's commit suicide in order to cure a stubbed toe.
The only reason these "alternate candidates" get any coverage at all is to avoid covering Hitlery's scandals, and the fact that she hasn't been able to put away Bernie "Doc Brown" Sanders, even with the full use of the corrupt crony-based DNC machinery, partisan media shills, and B-list of entertainment industry nitwits on her side.
I now Hate the word “Conservative”. A person is either a Nationalist anti-Globalist, or a Traitor.
I see what you did there... Mr. French -- took me a while though.
I'd certainly never consider voting for a guy named French I'd never heard of.
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