Over the weekend, conservative provocateur, Twitter troll and Weekly Standard boss Bill Kristol teased us with a tweet declaring, “Just a heads up over this holiday weekend: There will be an independent candidate-an impressive one, with a strong team and a real chance”.
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French’s hometown is Lexington, Kentucky.
Like her husband, Nancy French has also written for National Review, the popular conservative media outlet, although she has not published an article with them since 2014.
With Hillary a sure thing, the Democrats and their network of donors would pour money and energy into down-ballot races, threatening Republican control of the Senate and possibly even the House. According to Politico, Mrs. Reached by phone Tuesday evening, French declined to answer questions about any possible run.
Right Wing Watch checked its archives and found an instance in which French argued against government social-insurance programs because the poor should rely on churches for assistance, and another instance in which French condemned marriage equality because of its impact on American “culture”.
French also set strict rules for his wife before he left to serve in Iraq, telling her she couldn’t drink, use Facebook or have phone/email discussions with other men regardless of the topic. I see him on the different shows.
If worse comes to worst and French’s name doesn’t appear on our ballot in the Bay State and I find Johnson unsatisfactory, I could always follow my Mom’s advice and write in Groucho Marx’s name.
This level of desperation tells tells us all we need to know about the pathetic state of the #NeverTrump movement, and says a lot about what’s wrong with the GOP.
Before he enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve, French was a constitutional law attorney.
French’s bio says that he graduated from Harvard Law School and previously taught at Cornell Law School. His reported choice: a National Review blogger.
“In November 2014, he took aim at modern feminism, calling it “appalling stupidity backed by hysterical rage.’ French also wrote that feminism is ‘less a true ‘women’s movement” than the public face of hysterical leftist intolerance-combined, of course, with utterly freakish (and bizarrely stupid) ideas'”.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said the timing was coincidental.
Just three months ago, Trump was renewing a threat to run as an independent himself because he thought the Republican Party was being unfair to him. “One day he’ll boast of his commitment to the First Amendment and unborn children; the next day he either embarrasses the pro-life movement. or signals his disregard for fundamental conservative principles”. Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee?
So who is this new presidential candidate?
French asserted that Romney is “the only man who can save us from future calamity”.
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For an example of where the general public seems to be on this, judging by the majority of comments under their French coverage, even The Blaze readers seem to be fed up with this nonsense, and they’ve been as anti-Trump as anybody.
