Christopher Bedford of The
Federalist website wrote on Monday, “The Never-Trumpers are a joke kept
alive by a structure of self-support. They haven’t been correct on a single thing
in years yet continue to earn their supper and an invitation to the party by
wholeheartedly agreeing with their new patrons. They predicted ruin when the President
was nominated and doom when he was elected, all while his poll numbers have
continued to tick upward. They prophesied the shattering of the Republican
Party all while it has maintained near-historic discipline in the face of a
unified Democrat-media assault. They assumed the end of the economy
because America reacted to unfair international trade practices and terrible
global disasters because Donald Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord
and killed Iran’s terrorist general.”
“All of their
predictions are based on the conventional wisdom and assumptions of an insulted
and excluded D.C. intelligentsia, and all are wrong. Indeed, Trump’s above
decisions have resulted in the very things the Never-Trump Republicans once
called for, including closing America’s sizable income gap and maintaining a
strength and deterrence that are independent of entangling foreign powers.”
Enter turncoat Bill
Kristol who has made some very odd attempts at reclaiming his mantle as someone
conservatives should care about. First he founded The Bulwark, a website
wholly devoted to taking down President Trump after his Weekly Standard
went belly up. Then he left the GOP
lock, stock and barrel in reaction to the Senate’s 51-49 decision not to call
witnesses in the President’s impeachment trial by declaring
himself a Democrat.
What Cap’n Bill seems
to be suggesting is conservatives and Republicans should feel compelled to
abandon their core principles on abortion, gun rights, taxation, education,
climate change policy and any other conservative and constitutional issues
simply to get rid of Trump.
This idea that we should
hand the entire government over to Toothy McBig Tits AOC and the Squad so Kristol
can ride in on the back of Mitt Romney’s horse to reclaim the mantle of conservative
leadership is a fevered acid dream reminiscent of Timothy Leary.
“For the good of the
country, Senator Romney should run for president as an independent.”
“With the Democratic Socialist
Bernie Sanders now the frontrunner and the political arsonist Donald Trump as
the Republican incumbent, there is a yawning chasm that has never before
existed in American politics. By retreating to their poles, our two major
parties have left tens of millions of independents and moderate Democrats and
Republicans unrepresented.”
The author of this
drivel, Neal Simon (no, not the playwright), argues the odds are long for any
independent candidate citing the arbitrary benchmark to qualify and access to
sufficient capital to launch a campaign.
Simon also points out they lack the name recognition of being affiliated
with the two major parties.
Did I mention the Never-Trumpers
are dropping acid? “A
Romney-Bloomberg ticket would be a first in modern American politics: A
bipartisan unity ticket running under the banner of an independent third party.”
Simon says, “It would
give both disgruntled Republicans who feel their party has become lost in
Trump’s personality cult and Democrats who feel their party is lurching too far
left towards a socialist revolution a voice on the ballot that reflects a
popular idea of how the country should be run.”
Romney has been disinvited
to the 2020 CPAC Convention, he’s been ostracized and excommunicated from the
GOP. Senators won’t sit with him at the lunch
table according to Sen. Rand Paul. He even
faced a recall
and censure vote in the Utah State House.
Bloomberg is now a
prime target for his decades-long record of policy stances and insensitive
remarks that have offended entire swaths of the electorate.
Kristol’s notion of
Romney as his “savior” is preposterous, idiotic, absurd.
