Marc Cuban, the billionaire who spends most of his day on Twitter whining about Trump on Twitter is apparently being wooed by Willard Mitt Romney to run as a third party candidate against Trump and Hillary Clinton. Other names mentioned by the article include washed up John Kasich and Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse. Kasich may be interested because there would be more free food involved. Ben Sasse has become a loony-bin with his Twitter wars with Trump, and Marc Cuban probably has too many other things going on to bother. Plus Marc Cuban is a leftist and would likely pull more votes from Hillary Clinton. So RUN MARK RUN!
Cuban likes to claim he’s libertarian but he’s nothing more than a progressive liberal like Romney.
In fact, Marc Cuban should be far more worried about his crumbling NBA franchise the Dallas Mavericks as they are a complete mess these days.
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What do Ben Sasse, John Kasich, and Marc Cuban have in common politically? Er, not much … except for being wooed as potential independent presidential candidates. The Washington Post’s Robert Costa and Philip Rucker update readers on efforts to find a conservative alternative to Donald Trump to run in November, but so far it seems that even another reality-show billionaire wants to take a pass:
Last July, Cuban even expressed an openness for running this November … but as Trump’s running mate. He later decided against jumping into the pool, but he sounds like a choice that would make some sense for Trump’s approach to ideology, too. “”I’m not dogmatic in any way, shape, or form. I try to take every issue independently.”
Given all of that, the pursuit of Mark Cuban looks like a mirror image of the arguments made in support of Donald Trump. The best argument for conservatives is that he has the bankroll to kickstart an organization that could possibly compete, at least in a few states … but not in his home-business state of Texas, where the deadline has already passed for getting on the ballot. Otherwise, he’s not a movement conservative or even close to it — just an outsider who wants to sell pragmatism rather than consistent application of political philosophy.
That sounds familiar, eh?
Cuban told Costa and Rucker that he demurred because “there isn’t enough time.”Kasich and Sasse don’t have the broad political support or the resources, either. That’s true of the whole independent-bid project, and also that it’s out of options.