Who is Bill Kristol's mystery man?
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« Reply #25 on: May 30, 2016, 10:14:55 PM »

Unless Kristol actually has Romney or an incumbent Senator/Governor (and the fact that we're down to random House people being bantered about shows this probably isn't the case), he needs to face that Gary Johnson, while not as interventionist as him, is much closer to his views than Clinton or Trump and is eminently qualified to be President. Recruiting a fourth candidate who isn't meaningfully better known just reinforces the duopoly.
This is probably the best shot at actually winning electoral votes that the Libertarian party has ever had.  This is the kind of year that 3rd parties dream of.

They actually got one in 1972; it was from a faithless elector, however.
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« Reply #26 on: May 30, 2016, 10:29:46 PM »

In descending order of likelihood:

1) No one
2) Random conservative activist who has never held elected office
3) Random back-bencher congressman no one outside of Atlas has heard of
4) Kristol himself
5) Discredited General (McChrystal, Petraeus, etc.)
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« Reply #27 on: May 30, 2016, 10:31:19 PM »

It's rough not having any of the major parties representing your views closely, and desperately trying to recruit the likes of third-rate House reps to represent you so that you at least have someone remotely qualified to vote for President.

Fortunately, I'm not in that position this year, I'm a Libertarian.

Bill Kristol has had a major political party tailor-made for him from 1980 until this year.

Imagine that he might have to vote for the lesser of two evils or stay home the way millions of Americans have to do every year.
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« Reply #28 on: May 30, 2016, 10:32:40 PM »

I think he's BS'ing and squandering whatever credibility he has left in the GOP. At this point, even most of the GOPe is biting the bullet and accepting Trump and the ones who don't are probably sealing the end of their careers by burning so many bridges.
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« Reply #29 on: May 30, 2016, 10:51:48 PM »

It would be great if it was Ben Stiller in character as his role from "Mystery Men."  The issue is that I don't think Kristol would find Janeane Garofalo an acceptable VP.
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« Reply #30 on: May 30, 2016, 10:52:30 PM »

Unless Kristol actually has Romney or an incumbent Senator/Governor (and the fact that we're down to random House people being bantered about shows this probably isn't the case), he needs to face that Gary Johnson, while not as interventionist as him, is much closer to his views than Clinton or Trump and is eminently qualified to be President. Recruiting a fourth candidate who isn't meaningfully better known just reinforces the duopoly.
This is probably the best shot at actually winning electoral votes that the Libertarian party has ever had.  This is the kind of year that 3rd parties dream of.
And a third party will still shrink to 2-3% at the end of the day.
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« Reply #31 on: May 30, 2016, 11:33:44 PM »

Unless Kristol actually has Romney or an incumbent Senator/Governor (and the fact that we're down to random House people being bantered about shows this probably isn't the case), he needs to face that Gary Johnson, while not as interventionist as him, is much closer to his views than Clinton or Trump and is eminently qualified to be President. Recruiting a fourth candidate who isn't meaningfully better known just reinforces the duopoly.
This is probably the best shot at actually winning electoral votes that the Libertarian party has ever had.  This is the kind of year that 3rd parties dream of.
And a third party will still shrink to 2-3% at the end of the day.

Not if the media covers the candidate.
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« Reply #32 on: May 31, 2016, 08:53:58 AM »
« Edited: May 31, 2016, 09:37:54 AM by Stranger in a strange land »

Unless Kristol actually has Romney or an incumbent Senator/Governor (and the fact that we're down to random House people being bantered about shows this probably isn't the case), he needs to face that Gary Johnson, while not as interventionist as him, is much closer to his views than Clinton or Trump and is eminently qualified to be President. Recruiting a fourth candidate who isn't meaningfully better known just reinforces the duopoly.
This is probably the best shot at actually winning electoral votes that the Libertarian party has ever had.  This is the kind of year that 3rd parties dream of.
And a third party will still shrink to 2-3% at the end of the day.

Not if the media covers the candidate.

Even the most slobbering, shameful media lovefest isn't enough:

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« Reply #33 on: May 31, 2016, 10:32:07 AM »

^Though to be fair, Rubio would've languished at 3% forever and dropped out before Iowa were it not for that factor.
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« Reply #34 on: May 31, 2016, 04:30:12 PM »

It's going to be national review writer David French.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-31/kristol-eyes-conservative-lawyer-for-independent-presidential-run
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« Reply #35 on: May 31, 2016, 04:33:36 PM »

Someone even Trumpkins wont blame when Trump loses.
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