Good day all. Over the Memorial Day weekend, Bill “Wrong Again” Kristol announced that he had found his perfect “Conservative” candidate to Stop Trump from winning the election.
His plan, such as it was, was to force the election into the House of Representatives since his candidate would prevent either Trump or Cankles from winning the 270 electoral votes required to win the presidency. Wrong Agains perfect candidate was National Review Online columnist David French. Almost immediately, the “Usual Suspects” within the GOP(e) were singing his praises, starting with that abject failure, Mittens Romney. In a story on Politico, Romney said that French was the best thing since toast.
Mitt Romney embraced David French, the conservative lawyer and National Review staff writer who some are pushing to mount an independent presidential run — but stopped short of an endorsement.
“I know David French to be an honorable, intelligent and patriotic person. I look forward to following what he has to say,” the former Republican presidential nominee tweeted late Tuesday.
There was just one teensy weensy problem with all this slobbering over David French. No one asked him if he wanted to run. Sunday night, David French gave his response. Here are the details from the Daily Caller:
David French announced Sunday night he will not run for president, ending his unexpected candidacy before it even began.
“Here is a sentence I never thought I’d type: After days of prayer, reflection, and serious study of the possibilities, I am not going to run as an independent candidate for president of the United States,” French says in an article for National Review.
French, a lawyer and writer for National Review, attracted unlikely presidential speculation after it emerged he was being wooed by Weekly Standard Editor-in-Chief Bill Kristol to make an independent presidential run, offering a conservative alternative to both former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Kristol said French would be “an impressive candidate, with a strong team and a real chance,” despite his near-total lack of name recognition.
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And as I mentioned, there was just one small problem. Wrong Again Kristol apparently never asked French beforehand. If he had, French would have sat down to talk things over with Wrong Again, and either decide to run or not run. In any case, it wasn’t Wrong Again Kristol’s place to make the announcement, and now it looks like Kristol is back out on the ledge…again.
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French gave a number of reasons on why he wouldn’t be a candidate.
“It would be tempting to say that when it comes to confronting this national moment, ‘somebody’ stepping up is better than nobody,” he says in his non-candidacy announcement. “But somebody is not always better than nobody.
One problem with David French is that he IS a nobody. Almost no one has heard of him outside of the GOP(e). French has his own recommendations on who should run of course.
I’m on record saying that Mitt Romney could win. I believe others could run and win, and would make excellent presidents.”
What is it with these GOP(e) pundits who seem to think that the way to win an election now is to put up someone who’s already been rejected twice? To put it bluntly, they are delusional, and continue to be delusional.
French says his hesitancy isn’t based on a lack of political organization. An “existing network” stands ready to get an independent candidate on the ballot in most states, polling suggests a “true outsider independent” could perform well, and “many Americans” are ready to quit their jobs to join an independent conservative campaign.
In this economy, primarily wrecked by the Democrats, but ably assisted by the RINO elites such as French, Kristol, Romney and the Bush family, no one is going to give up a job to help Wrong Way on his mission to utterly fail again. Of course, if they did, I would be more than happy to take their job since they won’t need it.
Oh, one thing about giving up your job to help a candidate? Why not ask all those who did so to help Barack Obama get elected? They expected to get nice government jobs once Obama took office. What really happened was “Thanks for your help, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.” And their old jobs? Gone of course.
Wrong Again Kristol needs to just shut up and support Trump. After all, isn’t that what he and his ilk in the GOP(e) have been telling the Republican base to do for decades? Hold their noses and vote for the RINO? Now the shoe is on the other foot and Wrong Again Kristol is complaining about the fit and demanding a new shoe. Now he knows how we’ve felt the last few elections.
Thatisall
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