No Labels and a Series of Headlines Which Would Not Have Existed...

...if Very Serious People (most of whom have been on the board of No Labels at one time or another) had taken the obvious threat that No Labels posed seriously back when I warned them it was a bad idea that they would all come to regret. 

From Politico, December 18, 2023:

No Labels Is Pushing a Lie That Will Elect Trump 

 

There’s no path to victory for a third-party candidate.

And.  There.  Never.  Has.  Been.

The article continues:

With a rematch between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump almost set in stone, it’s time to put a farce to rest: The notion that a third-party candidate could actually win the presidency in 2024.

The idea that a “unity ticket” featuring a Republican and a Democrat could somehow produce a nominee with “a clear path to victory” is worse than a political fiction. The group behind it, No Labels, is pushing a dangerous lie that would simply serve to put Trump back in the White House.

And now, a new wrinkle!

From NBC News, December 21, 2023:

No Labels floats the possibility of a coalition government or Congress selecting the president in 2024 

 

The group, which is trying to mount a third-party presidential campaign, could block a major party nominee from winning the Electoral College outright.

No Labels, the organization attempting to assemble a third-party presidential unity ticket, is openly floating the prospect of a “coalition government” forming after the 2024 election if no candidate reaches the 270 Electoral College votes necessary to win the White House.

It's spelled S-P-O-I-L-E-R.

From Maine CBS affiliate, WGME 13:

'No Labels' political party qualifies for ballot access in Maine

But there's a catch.

From Maine NBC affiliate:

No Labels party will not hold Maine primary 

 

The state's newest political party will select a nominee behind closed doors in hopes of forming a centrist coalition.

Womp, womp!

And then, because there's apparently an endless supply of wealthy trolls out there lining up to be separated from their money... from The New York Times, January 10, 2024:

A Super PAC Forms to Support No Labels

Officials with the group said they had $2 million in initial commitments but expect up to $300 million if there’s a “viable” ticket.

Ryan Clancy, the chief strategist for No Labels, said, “If we offer our line to a unity presidential ticket, it will need a lot of support to rally voters, and it looks like New Leaders 2024 will be well positioned to provide it.

A political group intending to support a presidential candidate run by the group No Labels plans to file paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, with a handful of Republican and Democratic strategists as advisers.

The group, New Leaders ’24 political action committee, expects a No Labels ticket to materialize this year. No Labels has said it would mount a campaign if President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump are their parties’ nominees, in a rematch of the 2020 campaign that is increasingly likely.

The group will be advised by Rob Stutzman, a Republican and former deputy chief of staff to Arnold Schwarzenegger during his governorship as well as an adviser for Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign. Kathleen Shanahan, a Republican and former chief of staff to Jeb Bush during his governorship, will be the chief executive, and Andrew Fishman, whom the group identified as a Democrat and who has a business background, will serve as treasurer, Mr. Stutzman said.

Officials said they had $2 million in initial commitments, but they expect up to $300 million if there’s a “viable” ticket...

Can't say you weren't warned/

This Here Blog,  December 15, 2010:

Dead Center -- Political Cowardice Now Has Its Own "Movement"!

In case you ever idled away an afternoon screwing around with your old political chemistry set/fantasy football league lineups and wondering what would happen if you took a bunch of Republican primary losers (Charlie Christ)...added in a goonbag of out-of-work and out-of-favor former Republican speechwriters and campaign button-men (David Frum/John Avlon/Mark McKinnon)...the last of the politically arteriosclerotic insider DLC goofs who aren't already drawing paychecks under the Obama Administration's "Former Clinton White House Full Employment Project" (Nancy Jacobson aka. Mrs. Mark Penn)...Republican minor teevee celebrities (Joey Joe Joe Junior Scarborough)...

...and David Fucking Brooks?

And then sprinkled the resulting crime against nature with an assload of money (because there are always, always endless assloads of money available for any horrible idea that reinforces Villager sensibilities)?...

Burn The Lifeboats