Oh, please. In 4 weeks Trump named a prominent pro-life adviser, a key ant-”global warming” guy as energy adviser, and named his top 10 superb conservative USSC pick, and you’re worried about this?
I keep saying, historically veep is the place you put a guy you want to neuter. Yes, we have had 6 presidential deaths since 1865. Three of the beeps were improvements (Truman, Coolidge, Arthur), TR was a wash, LBJ and Johnson were disasters. So the historical record is one generally of removing political obstacles.
I don’t want Corker-—we will win TN without him, he can’t advise Trump, and squaring some of his positions with Trump on the campaign trail will be hard-—but I would much rather take him OUT of the senate than someone like Sessions, whom we need there. And finally, as tie-breaker he would have to vote Trump’s way.
But I don’t see him adding except by subtraction.
I would disagree with the notion that Arthur was an improvement over Garfield. Garfield was shot three months into his term so it is hard to judge how good a President he would have been, but he was very well-qualified. I saw a program on C-SPAN a while ago in which someone argued he might have been rated as one of the best Presidents if he had not been killed.
Arthur was possibly born in Canada. But his father wasn't accused of involvement in any assassination plots.