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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

BREAKING: Establishment Pick to Challenge Trump Revealed

Two Republicans intimately familiar with Bill Kristol’s efforts to recruit an independent presidential candidate to challenge Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have told Bloomberg Politics that the person Kristol has in mind is David French -- whose name the editor of the Weekly Standard floated in the current issue of the magazine. 

French is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. According to the website of National Review, where French is a staff writer, he is a constitutional lawyer, a recipient of the Bronze Star, and an author of several books who lives in Columbia, Tenn., with his wife Nancy and three children. 

Reached in Israel late Tuesday afternoon, Kristol declined to comment on his efforts to induce French to run. The two Republicans confirmed that French is open to launching a bid, but that he has not made a final decision. One of the Republicans added that French has not lined up a vice-presidential running mate or significant financial support. However, according to this person, some conservative donors look favorably on the prospect of French entering the fray. 

In Kristol’s piece in the Standard’s June 6 issue, he argued that “the fact of Trump's and Clinton's unfitness for the Oval Office has become so self-evident that it's no longer clear one needs a famous figure to provide an alternative.” After mentioning Mitt Romney and other possibilities such as Judd Gregg and Mel Martinez, Kristol invoked French’s name and résumé, writing, “To say that he would be a better and a more responsible president than Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is to state a truth that would become self-evident as more Americans got to know him.”

Source: Bloomberg

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

This NWO scumbag knows full well this will throw the election to Hillary. He will do more damage than the Democrats and the media combined.

Anonymous said...

I think the Republican Party is committing suicide. When you think about how being registered as a Republican lets you vote for a Republican candidate, that seems like a good reason to be registered as a Republican. What the Party is now doing however is trying to take away that privilege and making your vote unimportant. People might just as well become Independent. Same goes for the Democratic party.

If they don't need my vote, they don't need my support or money.

Anonymous said...

The "ELITE" Repulicans do not want change. Look at the traitors, Krystol, Romney and Ryan to start with. They are trying to keep their money and not change a thing. These are the chameleons that always agree with the DemocRATS and try to say they are Conservative Republicans.

Anonymous said...

Couldn't make a pimple on Trump's exitory area. Trump has won. Get over it.

Anonymous said...

Trump has accomplished every endeavor he ever walked through. Being POTUS will be another success for him, and especially, for the U. S. of A.!

Anonymous said...

This is one of those people Trump is always talking about. They do not want change - they want to keep on raping the Americans so they can live the life style they are now accustomed to. They do not want to be called out on all their wrong doing - like Trump did today with the press. Trump for President, Hillary for Prison!!!

Anonymous said...

What qualifies you to be the POTUS????? I have honestly forgotten what the office use to stand for.

Anonymous said...

Dave T: Billy who do you think you are? Meddling with the national election? If the American people want you involved, I'm sure they will let you know. I think this is a waste of time and if the GOP wants to destroy itself, I'm all for it. We need to can the losers that are in there already anyway. I'm sick of all this corruption and establishment politics.

Anonymous said...

Why would anyone want to be part of this?
At this stage of the game, they have to know they are being used, with a very, very thin chance of anything positive happening for them.