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Mark Halperin and John Heilemann say that Bill Kristol has found his presidential candidate, and he's someone I'm pretty sure is going to finish fifth, well behind Jill Stein and Gary Johnson:
Two Republicans intimately familiar with Bill Kristols 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.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/05/david-french-gop-alternative-those-sorry
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Of course, it will siphon more money to the Political Industrial Complex, but it would be worth it.
Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)flop.