You Can't Make This Shit Up

The GOP is so worried about a massive drubbing in the fall, rumor has it that Mitt Romney is trying to get Kasich and Sasse to run on a third-party GOP ticket.

This is truly bizarre. However, there are problems with deadlines and such.

More:

A band of exasperated Republicans — including 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, a handful of veteran consultants and members of the conservative intelligentsia — is actively plotting to draft an independent presidential candidate who could keep Donald Trump from the White House.

These GOP figures are commissioning private polling, lining up major funding sources and courting potential contenders, according to interviews with more than a dozen Republicans involved in the discussions. The effort has been sporadic all spring but has intensified significantly in the 10 days since Trump effectively locked up the Republican nomination.

Those involved concede that an independent campaign at this late stage is probably futile, and they think they have only a couple of weeks to launch a credible bid. But these Republicans — including commentators William Kristol and Erick Erickson and strategists Mike Murphy, Stuart Stevens and Rick Wilson — are so repulsed by the prospect of Trump as commander in chief that they are desperate to take action.

Why not just throw in the towel and declare Hillary Clinton the winner? She will be elected anyway.

Personally, I think the GOP has written the fall election off.