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The assignment? Find a way to get another candidate on the ballot so that conservatives don’t have to vote for Trump. The candidate should definitely not be reasonable, because… conservatives, but should be unreasonable in a completely different way than the Donald. The candidate should be available in as many states as possible, even though election laws mean it’s too late to start from scratch getting a new name on the ballot in most locations. To accomplish this impossible feat: recruit from a crack pool of Republican cracks, infiltrate an existing third party, and leave their party a hollowed-out shell—like one of those wasps that eats a caterpillar from the inside while it’s still alive.
The challenges? Finding a Republican willing to play the role of designated loser, selecting a party ripe to play caterpillar, and trying to get everyone to stop laughing. The stakes? The free world!
The head of the Republican National Committee denounced efforts to draft an independent candidate to run against Donald Trump as a "suicide mission" that could "wreck" the United States for generations. ...
"They can try to hijack another party and get on the ballot, but, look, it's a suicide mission for our country because what it means is that you're throwing down not just eight years of the White House but potentially 100 years on the Supreme Court and wrecking this country for many generations," Priebus said on "Fox News Sunday."
If nothing else, Reince Priebus warning about the dangers of hijacking a party in the year of Trump threatens to drench everyone in lethal levels of irony.
The party chairman also made a dig at Romney, saying he is "obsessing" unnecessarily over Trump's refusal to release his tax returns.
"People don't look at Donald Trump as to whether he releases his taxes," Priebus said.
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