Another GOP pundit eyes third-party movement

[truebluefan]

About a month ago, the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol raised the prospect of creating a new party to compete against Republicans if Donald Trump is the GOP’s nominee. Pressed on his plans, Kristol said he’s “semi-serious,” adding, “f Trump were to be the nominee, I’d be open to a new party, probably for 2016 only.”

Yesterday, Hugh Hewitt spoke with the Washington Post’s George Will, a prominent Republican pundit in his own right, who said something similar about what would happen if Trump wins the GOP nomination.

“[Y]ou would also figure that there would be movement to have a third-party candidate because if the election is Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump, this will be the first election since God knows when, there was no real conservative candidate. […]

“[In 1964] I cast my vote for Barry Goldwater who valued that classic, creative defeat of his because he took the Republican Party and said, ‘Henceforth it will be a conservative party.’ Those of us who feel that way are not about to sit idly and see the Republican Party which was saved by William Howard Taft to 1912 for conservatism that was reclaimed by Barry Goldwater for conservatism, we’re not going to let it disappear in 2016.”

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