Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol wrote Tuesday he wants to recruit National Review columnist David French to mount an independent presidential bid.
Kristol has been seeking, unsuccessfully, to get a well-known conservative politician to challenge presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton in November.
Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, has already given up on a similar effort.
In a column pre-dated June 6, Kristol compares this year’s election process to Argentina, calling the current list of candidates “a self-righteous socialist who’s learned nothing in 50 years except how to rally the economically illiterate and uninformed; an heir to wealth who’s done nothing impressive in 50 years except to hone his skills as a self-promoter and demagogue; and an insider who’s climbed the greasy pole alongside her husband, enriching herself and her family through 50 years of ‘public service.’”