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Title: Anti-Trump Republican Launching Independent Presidential Bid (Utah, Mormon/LDS)
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BuzzFeed News
URL Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppi ... utm_term=.geaYV0PMw#.fdXdj9lKE
Published: Aug 8, 2016
Author: McKay Coppins
Post Date: 2016-08-08 17:18:59 by hondo68
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Keywords: Latter day Saints, contest Utah and other, Mormon heavy states
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Evan McMullin, a CIA veteran and chief policy director of the House Republican conference, announced Monday that he’s launching an independent presidential bid. “Like millions of Americans, I had hoped this year would bring us better nominees who, despite party differences, could offer compelling visions of a better future,” McMullin wrote in a statement on his campaign website. “Instead, we have been left with two candidates who are fundamentally unfit for the profound responsibilities they seek.” BuzzFeed News first reported McMullin’s plans Monday morning. McMullin’s campaign will have the support of key players in the GOP’s anti-Trump movement, including veteran Republican strategist Rick Wilson, who has been an outspoken Trump critic. Sources said McMullin is also being backed by a group called Better for America, which has been working to gain ballot access for an independent candidate. McMullin is an unlikely presidential candidate. He has never held elective office before and has spent most of his career as a CIA officer. Young and unmarried, McMullin received an MBA at Wharton in 2011, and after a stint at Goldman Sachs, went to work as a policy wonk on Capitol Hill. Though McMullin’s announcement included some bipartisan appeals to disaffected voters in both parties, he made clear he would be running as a conservative. “Millions of Americans are not being represented by either of these candidates,” he wrote, pitching himself to voters who were concerned about “the strength of the military” and “limited, Constitutional government.” He also signaled his pro-life beliefs, writing, “Those who embrace the dignity and value of every human life from conception until death … are all looking for something better than the two major party candidates are offering.” Evan McMullin / Via evanmcmullin.com Unlike National Review writer David French, another conservative courted by anti-Trump Republicans to launch a long-shot third-party bid, McMullin has virtually no public profile. He doesn’t appear regularly on television, and had just 135 followers on Twitter before BuzzFeed News reported his plans to run. His most recent high-profile appearance seems to have been a TEDx talk about genocide he gave at London Business School in April. He also delivered a speech in May about the future of the Republican Party. But sources close to McMullin — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and alum of Brigham Young University — said he planned to aggressively contest Utah and other Mormon-heavy states. Polls have shown reliably Republican Mormon voters are deeply averse to Trump’s candidacy, and some of the nominee’s most high-profile Republican antagonists are Mormon, like Mitt Romney. Even with his small audience, McMullin has been a vocal critic of Trump on social media. On the night of Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention, he tweeted that Trump was an “authoritarian” who was seeking to infringe on civil rights and establish a “police state.” And earlier this month, he wrote a Facebook post sharply criticizing Trump’s rhetoric about Muslims and terrorism: As Donald Trump continues attacking Muslims and as a former CIA officer, I’d like all Americans to know the truth: American and other Muslims have played a central role in virtually every counterterrorism win we’ve had since 9/11. They are an indispensable asset in this fight. Attacking them as a group makes America weaker, not stronger. Apart from his low profile, his candidacy will face other substantial hurdles in gaining traction — especially with ballot access and fundraising. But people close to the effort suggested McMullin would have the backing of serious Republican donors and fundraisers. Poster Comment: Trump has effectively lost everything west of the Rockies? Utah Senator Mike Lee, was giving Trump hell at the Cleveland GOP convention. Trump's disapproval numbers are huuuuuge! “Millions of Americans are not being represented by either of these candidates,” wrote CIA vet Evan McMullin in announcing his candidacy.
McMullin has been a vocal critic of Trump on social media. On the night of Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention, he tweeted that Trump was an “authoritarian” who was seeking to infringe on civil rights and establish a “police state.”
Very true, Trump is running on a tyrant platform. He wants to be your daddy. No thanks!
IMO this is a phony opposition ploy, to turn out the GOP base to vote for the elite approved establishment candidate, Donald J. Trump. 
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Uhhh...
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
I smell some Loser Romney sulfur in the air. So Trump may not win Utah's 6 Electoral College votes. Scary! Not.
hondo, does this mean you will be voting for Hillary?
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Oh, boy, now they're talking! Another CIA president? The last one was such an advance for all humankind. Don't worry, the housewives will never vote for a baldy. _____________________________________________________________ “We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.” - Tesla per FP
No, I'll be voting for someone who would actually make a great president and vice president, Darrel Castle/Scott Bradley of the Constitution Party. I'm voting second party. Is it not clear to you after 150+ years of Democrat Republican Party rule, that they suck? I have no intention of wasting my vote on the D&R party global crime syndicate (NWO). Ron Paul endorsed Chuck Baldwin & Darrell Castle in 2008. Millions wasted their votes on John McCrazy and Barry Obongo. He'll never have a bad hair day. I don't have the time left to vote for another Goldwater, Perot, or Paul; it's time for Trump to make a change for the better.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
When i vote i vote constitutionalist party. So i wont be voting for this cia loser.
______________________________________ Suspect all media / resist bad propaganda/Learn NLP everyday everyway ;) If you don't control your mind someone else will.
Shit yes you lazy fucks, get out and get people voting for whoever the free thinkers at NPR suggest. "We need more H-1B visas, because source code is rotting in the fields." - Countenance Blog
Wait! What's that?! I smell Bill Kristol in the air.....let's see if his grubby fingerprints emerge out of this 'plucked from obscurity' shenanigan.
#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and alum of Brigham Young University
#3. To: hondo68 (#0)
#4. To: hondo68 (#0)
#5. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM, *Constitution Party* (#3)
does this mean you will be voting for Hillary?
Castle(C), Stein(G), Johnson(L)
#6. To: NeoconsNailed (#4)
the housewives will never vote for a baldy.
Castle(C), Stein(G), Johnson(L)
#7. To: hondo68 (#6)
#8. To: hondo68 (#0)
#9. To: hondo68 (#0)
Unlike National Review writer David French, another conservative courted by anti-Trump Republicans to launch a long-shot third-party bid, McMullin has virtually no public profile. He doesn’t appear regularly on television, and had just 135 followers on Twitter before BuzzFeed News reported his plans to run
#10. To: hondo68 (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#11. To: hondo68 (#0)
CIA=Bush
#12. To: hondo68 (#5)
I kinda get where you're coming from, Joe. However, it's you we'll be toasting when Hillary makes her third Supreme Court nomination.
It’s All About The Supreme Court
#13. To: X-15, hondo68, lod (#10)
============================================== There are not many more wicked than Bill and Hillary Clinton. Bill Kristol is one of them. Wait! What's that?! I smell Bill Kristol in the air.....let's see if his grubby fingerprints emerge out of this 'plucked from obscurity' shenanigan.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
#14. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#13)
Kristol and all the rest of the PNAC crew.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#15. To: Lod, HAPPY2BME-4UM, X-15, Cynicom, randge, All (#14)
And speaking of the PNAC crew and despicable neocons in general, lookie here - the same warmonger bad pennies, not content to slink away to their snake dens, have gotten together and compiled a list of their crony bloodlust friends who object to Trump and his foreign policy. Talk about being clueless about how much they are loathed by Americans at large. It's badge of honor for Trump to have these warhawks oppose him. www.theguardian.com/comme...ational-security-neocons- freaking-out-republicans "Trump's national security nightmare: now even the neocons are freaking out" snip On Thursday a long list of GOP national security hands wrote a letter saying Trump would be “the most reckless president in American history” and that electing him in November would but the nation’s security at risk. Some of the 50 signatories said they’d vote for Clinton while others deemed it better to abstain from voting entirely. But all were in fundamental agreement on one main point: “Trump is not qualified and would be dangerous.” www.cnn.com/2016/08/08/politics/republican-national-security-letter-donald-trump- election-2016/ "50 GOP national security experts oppose Trump" snip Its signatories include former CIA and National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden, former Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Eric Edelman, who was Vice President Dick Cheney's national security adviser and has worked closely with Michele Flournoy -- a candidate for secretary of defense in a prospective Clinton administration -- to forge a centrist group of defense experts on key military issues. It also includes two Homeland Security secretaries under Bush, Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, and Robert Zoellick, a former World Bank president, U.S. trade representative and deputy secretary of state. Kristol and all the rest of the PNAC crew.
#16. To: scrapper2 (#15)
From the source you posted: In our era of political polarization and Congressional stagnation, it’s been ages since top Republicans and Democrats in Washington could agree on anything more definitively than the need to keep Trump out of the White House. And without getting ahead of ourselves too much (for Trump’s done nothing this election so well as outperform low expectations), let’s hope the unlikely unity extends beyond the neocons and with any luck, lasts longer than the election. =================== Aren't they saying they want Hillary to win? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/08/trump-national-security-neocons-freaking-out-republicans
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
#17. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#16)
Absolutely, 100% for sure. Guardian is a British lefty newspaper. Aren't they saying they want Hillary to win?
#18. To: hondo68 (#0)
Mormons striving to be honorary niggers.
A rainbow coalition against Jews doesn't require Whites or Pro-Whites. It can be just as brown or anti-white as you like.
#19. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#18)
ROTF!!!
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“We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.” - Tesla per FP
#20. To: scrapper2 (#15)
Well there's about as ugly a crew of vultures as could be cobbled together out of the murderer's row of nation bashers that walk our marbled halls. Ask the Hondurans about Negroponte. Or the Iraqis. I'm ashamed to inhabit the same nation as these scoundrels. If this is the bunch that wants to unseat the Donald, sign me up for Trump.
It’s All About The Supreme Court
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