Pro-war pundit Bill Kristol is disgusted about Donald Trump being the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Indeed, Kristol has even been searching for someone to launch an independent or third-party campaign to counter Trump.<\/p>\n
Last weekend Kristol stirred up some interest with a tweet<\/a> that \u201can independent candidate–an impressive one, with a strong team and a real chance\u201d would emerge. That hasn\u2019t happened yet. But, Mark Halperin and John Hellemann report<\/a> today at Bloomberg that Republican sources say Kristol is trying to recruit National Review writer David French to launch an independent presidential run and that, while French is open to the idea, French has not yet made up his mind.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n David French is not a household name like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Still, French and his take on the presidential race have not escaped the interest of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity (RPI).<\/p>\n On May 10, I wrote about French in my RPI article \u201cAnti-Trump Republicans to Hijack Libertarian Party Presidential Nomination?<\/a>\u201d In the article, I discuss French\u2019s yearning, shared with Kristol, for 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to enter the 2016 presidential race as an independent or third-party candidate.<\/p>\n The article also addresses French\u2019s advocacy for the Libertarian Party to nominate a presidential candidate to French\u2019s liking, with French even suggesting that Gary Johnson, who since won the Libertarian presidential nomination on Sunday, may satisfy French. Well, if the Bloomberg report is correct, for some reason Johnson may not to be satisfying enough.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s wait and see what happens. French has not announced a campaign, and Kristol is notorious for making predictions that are off the mark<\/a>. Ron Paul likely correctly called the situation when he said<\/a> in a recent Fox Business interview:<\/p>\n I think what the neocons will do – the Bill Kristols of the world – and you hear it already, they are going to go with Hillary. Hillary is a Wall Street person, she\u2019s a neocon, and she wants to spend money on the military, so a lot of them will go there.<\/i><\/p>\n Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pro-war pundit Bill Kristol is disgusted about Donald Trump being the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Indeed, Kristol has even been searching for someone to launch an independent or third-party campaign to counter Trump. Last weekend Kristol stirred up some interest with a tweet that \u201can independent candidate–an impressive one, with a strong team and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-27154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27156,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27154\/revisions\/27156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27154"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=27154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}