I think I’m in the minority here, but I want a candidate with good policies.
If he has skeletons in the closet — and those skeletons are well out of the closet and known to everyone, then I think maybe they can’t “get to him” and “turn him” by holding secret stuff over his head.
A flawed personality? I used to care about that a lot more. Because, you know, character matters.
My new reality is that the media will make stuff up about even perfect people. This guy doesn’t seem perfect. The media doesn’t seem to need to make stuff up. But in the end, maybe it’s all the same thing anyway.
Are his policies good? That’s really the only thing that matters to me.
Let’s define good policies.
Build the wall, drain the swamp, America first in all things, pro life and pro guns.
Cheney doesn’t sign on to that. So she must be removed.
You select the candidate most likely to remove her. Are there going to be 5 guys who embrace those policies above, and he just happens to be one of them?
Yes. Probably. So why select him, with a history Cheney could use? Why not policy equivalence and a superior personal history?