Bill Kristol's candidate is David French??? WHO??????????

[Gomez163]

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-31/kristol-eyes-conservative-lawyer-for-independent-presidential-run

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.

[Mass]

1. Who f*ng knows whether it is true or not.

[JHB]

2. Vive le French!

Or as Kristol's online poll name him, "Splitty McSplitface".

Will another Kristol favorite, the Gifter Queen of Glacier Gulch, be his VP?

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Hah! Roy Edroso will have a field day

He's one of the rightbloggers he regularly demolishes on his blog and in his Village Voice column. A combination of him and Bill Always Wrong Kristol is the perfect target for Roy. I don't think anyone expected Kristol to nominate a blogger for president.

Here's a example of the profile of French: Wikipedia has 3 David Frenches, but he's not one of them.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. He will have to change his name to David Freedom

if he wants conservatives to vote for him. But seriously, who the hell is he? At least a little smidgen of name recognition is useful if somebody wants to run for president at the last minute. Still, this is Bill Kristol's idea, so of course it's completely fucked up.

[rusty fender]

8. Lololol!

David Freedom

[tanyev]

5. LOL! the husband of Bristol Palin's ghostwriter/ghost blogger?

Is that why "Bristol's blog" has been quiet since May 5? LOLOLOL!

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Roy Edroso's reaction: "Are you shitting me? He makes Trump look like Eisenhower"

PARDON MY FRENCH.

Are you shitting me:

Conservative columnist Bill Kristol is working to recruit David French, a writer for National Review, as a third-party presidential candidate, CBS News has confirmed.

"A group approached French, he's considering it seriously and is in contact with lots of serious people," a source with knowledge of the effort told CBS News.

I have followed French's career at National Review and will just quickly tell you that he's not only against gay marriage, he's also against Griswold v Connecticut, the decision that invalidated laws against contraception ("Is there a single legal doctrine that can stand against the quest for personal sexual fulfillment?" French thundered); that he denounced the widespread mourning of Prince's death on the grounds that "Prince was ultimately just another talented and decadent voice in a hedonistic culture... notable mainly because he was particularly effective at communicating that decadence to an eager and willing audience"; that he has compared Kim Davis, that crazy clerk who refused to sign gay marriage licenses, to "men like Martin Luther, John Calvin, and John Knox — the men who first put the 'protest' in 'Protestant'"; that he -- well, I'm out of time for the moment, but you can peruse the archive for more if you can stand it. The point is, he makes Trump look like Eisenhower.

http://alicublog.blogspot.com/2016/05/pardon-my-french.html

[QED]

7. My reaction to reading this is that French and Trump would split the bat shit crazy vote

thus helping elect HRC.

[Initech]

9. Isn't Bill Kristol the guy who gave us Freedom Fries?

[deepestblue]

10. Perfect choice by Billy Kristol. This is ALL working better than expected!

He takes some away from Trump in the south, which guarantees Bernie a 48 state whitewash. Mississippi and Alabama the only holdovers.