Stop Trump Is On

  We've read articles that go all over the place on this issue of stopping Trump. Some say it's too late, or, too little too late, or, that the movement itself is too weak, etc etc etc. Here we have the NY Times, the paper of record, saying on Saturday March 19th that the movement to stop Trump is on and happening. Read it and see the numerous constraints, possibilities, and some of the actual plan. We still might very well see a third party traditional conservative on the ballot in November. Rick Perry is a strong possibility because it is thought he could take Texas from Trump and derail him.

  There's enough political irony here to go around for everybody. We have Trump threatening to leave the GOP to run as a third party candidate for various reasons. And now we have the GOP itself, sic, saying they will leave the GOP and get in line behind a third party candidate because Trump could win the Republican nomination!

NYT: Republican Leaders Map a Strategy to Derail Donald Trump By ALEXANDER BURNS and JONATHAN MARTIN

Mr. Kristol, a leading critic of Mr. Trump, said in an interview that he believed it was not too late to put forward a viable independent candidacy. “I think the ballot access question is manageable,” he said. “The big question is, who’s the candidate?” ...Rick Perry...