06-01-2016, 01:42 PM
So, the Republican "Never Trump" organization led by Mitt Romney and Bill Kristol is having a hard time finding a suitable candidate who's willing to run.
Aside from it being so late in the game, if they got a conservative to run and that candidate lost but managed to secure enough votes to stop Trump from winning the election, I imagine he or she would have to live with being the 'spolier' or 'traitor' for a long time and it could have very negative career repercussion.
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But, there is one person seriously considering going for it. The potential third party candidate to whom Bill Kristol was referring in his tweet turns out to be David French (^). French is a writer for conservative publication, National Review, and a constitutional lawyer. He's also an Iraq war veteran and a Bronze Star recipient. His writings have been sharply critical of Trump.
"The party of Lincoln is in ruins. A minority of its primary voters have torched its founders' legacy by voting for a man who combines old-school Democratic ideology, a bizarre form of hyper-violent isolationism, fringe conspiracy theories and serial lies with an enthusiastic flock of online racists to create perhaps the most toxic electoral coalition since George Wallace," French wrote in March.
Story: http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/31/politics/b...ntial-bid/
Aside from it being so late in the game, if they got a conservative to run and that candidate lost but managed to secure enough votes to stop Trump from winning the election, I imagine he or she would have to live with being the 'spolier' or 'traitor' for a long time and it could have very negative career repercussion.
But, there is one person seriously considering going for it. The potential third party candidate to whom Bill Kristol was referring in his tweet turns out to be David French (^). French is a writer for conservative publication, National Review, and a constitutional lawyer. He's also an Iraq war veteran and a Bronze Star recipient. His writings have been sharply critical of Trump.
"The party of Lincoln is in ruins. A minority of its primary voters have torched its founders' legacy by voting for a man who combines old-school Democratic ideology, a bizarre form of hyper-violent isolationism, fringe conspiracy theories and serial lies with an enthusiastic flock of online racists to create perhaps the most toxic electoral coalition since George Wallace," French wrote in March.
Story: http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/31/politics/b...ntial-bid/