Even though many of his colleagues in the Senate are lining up behind Donald Trump now that he is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) affirmed his #NeverTrump status in a lengthy Facebook post calling for a third party candidate.
“With Clinton and Trump, the fix is in. Heads, they win; tails, you lose. Why are we confined to these two terrible options? This is America. If both choices stink, we reject them and go bigger. That’s what we do,” Sasse wrote in a Wednesday night Facebook post.
“So … let’s have a thought experiment for a few weeks: Why shouldn’t America draft an honest leader who will focus on 70% solutions for the next four years? You know … an adult?” he continued.
Sasse said he thinks there’s an appetite for a third party candidate.
“I believe that most Americans can still be for limited government again — if they were given a winsome candidate who wanted Washington to focus on a small number of really important, urgent things — in a way that tried to bring people together instead of driving us apart,” he wrote.
Sasse takes himself out of the running by noting that the third party candidate “can’t be an engaged parent with little kids” because of how rigorous a presidential campaign is.
He signs off his post by saying that “the kids need baths.”
Read Sasse’s full Facebook post here.
Republicans did not reject Trump, Democrats did not reject Clinton. Who is this “we” stuff kemosabe?
Damn it, Washington is broken, broken, BROKEN! Someone else fix it though, my kids need baths!
Those who backed losers always assume that most other people did too; somehow the winners won by cheating or something, and there simply must be a way to rally all those many fellow losers to victory.
Help us, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re our only hope…
Yeah, come on Sasse step up. Resign your Senate seat and run third party. It would be a win win, you wouldn’t be our Senator anymore and maybe you would split the local Republican vote enough to let Hillary pick up Omaha. Then we could have given our Electoral Vote to both the first Black President AND the first Women President and wouldn’t that be awesome?