Yeah. This is really bad. We are up against an invincible foe that always beats expectations, because they cheat big and have the media, plus all those billionaires. They always win and always will, so we should all move to Canada and call a doctor.
Seriously, they said the same thing about Walter Mondale forty years ago, and said the dynamics had changed because he named Geraldine Ferraro as his vice president. They preached endlessly on the “gender gap,” saying that women hated Reagan and would destroy him. The day before the election USA Today published “Reagan seeks fifty state sweep.”
When the establishment press rises each day, they get their orders on how to promote the Democrats during the news cycle. Most of us remember Ezra Klein. Red State is not a very pro-Trump publication and they aren’t someone I would choose to be in a foxhole with.
Who cares if they don’t kiss Trumps butt. We don’t want that. We need political folks that will push us to do everything we have to do to win. Imagine if we were just following the butt kisser who said ‘everything’s perfect’. You get lazy and go over a cliff. How many damn elections going off a cliff is it going to take to prove you are following a losing strategy. You shouldn’t group the advice from conservative/right leaning media in with mainstream medias advice. One is rooting for the left & the other is rooting against.
I’ve run campaigns and please believe me you always want a couple of people advising a candidate that arent a natural personality fit or super friendly with the candidate. If you have only people you are really friendly with- you become friends, lose focus & get extremely lazy & you don’t even realize what’s happening. Everything the writer wrote is absolutely good advice & he obviously wants our side to succeed & win the election. I’d have also gone with somebody different than Vance. The reason Trump is running ahead this year is b because he softened his approach & has been making an effort at likeability.
It would have been extremely smart if he had blunted any attempt for Democrats to use race as a wedge by picking someone useful in that respect. Obviously, first & foremost, pick conservative & populist, but also remember that as VP, it’s not a huge concern to make them an idealogy. A VP is no longer a shoe in for the nomination in the next election. Especially for conservatives, after a 2 term President, we usually want a Governor or somebody different. That makes it possible to use the VP slot as a ticket balancer or way of drawing in or shoring up a demographic needed to win. I though Trump should’ve picked Tulsi Gabbard or Tim Scott, etc 😉