William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, says that he and a group of Republicans who don't want to see Donald Trump in the White House have recruited a third party challenger. I don't believe this and for the simplest of reasons: Bill Kristol said it. I have found that if you disbelieve everything Bill Kristol says, you'll be right an impressive percentage of the time. Donald Trump of course heard about this and immediately lashed back with the claim that Bill Kristol is a loser and a dummy and I hate to say it but Trump is right. Rude but right. He's wrong about just about everything else but he's right about this.
I don't know what's going to happen here and that's my main point: We don't know what'll happen here. Kristol says they have a candidate and it's "an impressive one, with a strong team and a real chance." Is it? The first name that comes to mind is Mitt Romney but I don't know how much of a chance he'd have. He couldn't win the presidency when there wasn't another candidate in the race dividing up the right-wing vote and when he didn't get a late start and he had a major party's backing. Then again, Kristol may not have meant "A real chance to win the Presidency." He may have meant "A real chance to screw Donald Trump and throw the race to Hillary." Hard to say.
Still, the point I want to make is that this could be a real game-changer — maybe not but we can't say for sure yet. Those of you who are certain Trump's going to win in a landslide or that Hillary is going to cream everybody…you need to remember that in the 161 days until Election Day, there will be plenty of game-changers. Not only is this thing not over until it's over but it isn't even close to being over.