Posted on 07/16/2024 4:26:31 AM PDT by RandFan
Freepers,
I can't tell you how huge this is.
Trump made the RIGHT CHOICE as far as I'm concerned and all common sense and for CONSERVATISM.
Vance is NOT a Neocon. He's a foreign policy realist and shares the same views as Trump.
The likes of Bill Kristol and the perpetual War Machine will not have slept well last night.
It's superb.
I'm sure Sen. Rand Paul although snubbed and skeptical of Trump 2.0 will be delighted that his friend from Ohio has got this.
Please get behind J.D Vance not just as a potential VP but a future star in the conservative movement!
You will see. He will not let us down!!
Ping. This is big
I don’t trust the guy, but I would say the same thing about almost every potential VP selection in 2024.
It wasn’t a great list but Vance was at the top if I had to choose one. I’m relieved and delighted
Boy I haven’t read about Rand in a while :)
I have a lot of catching up to do on Vance.
Hate to say I didn’t know his name before all of this.
On this morning’s show Maria Bartiromo played a series of the propaganda media’s attacks on JD Vance. He definitely has all the right enemies. I’m willing to bet that any commentary they had on him before was positive if they had ever interviewed him after his book was published. His life story is truly amazing.
The fact that he was against Trump before he actually observed what Trump’s policies did for the country may even encourage other people who liked JD’s book and his life story but did not like Trump to give Trump another look.
J D Vance’s son’s name is Vivek. Now where did he come up with a name like that ?
His wife.
Hopefully JD (with Trump’s help) will be able to influence RINO Gov DeWine to appoint a conservative replacement in the US Senate.
Maybe not. Vivek and Vance were law school classmates, and Vivek said they used to watch Bengals games together at a bar.
Huh?
Isn’t Vivek a widely used Indian name?
Vance’s wife is Indian.
WIKI
<><>Vance opposes abortion and he has indicated that he may support a federal ban on abortions after 15 weeks. He has more recently said that abortion laws should be set by the states.
<><>When asked whether abortion laws should include exceptions for rape and incest, he said, “two wrong[s] don’t make a right.”
<><>Vance opposes the Respect for Marriage Act[78][79] and has said, “I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, but I don’t think the gay marriage issue is alive right now. I’m not one of these guys who’s looking to try to take people’s families and rip them apart.”
<><>Vance has proposed a bill that would make gender-affirming care for minors a federal felony and block taxpayer funds from being used for it, saying in a statement, “Under no circumstances should doctors be allowed to perform these gruesome, irreversible operations on underage children.”
Vance was raised in a “conservative, evangelical” branch of Protestantism, but by September 2016, he was “thinking very seriously about converting to Catholicism” but was “not an active participant” in any particular Christian denomination. In August 2019, Vance was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in a ceremony at St. Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He chose Augustine of Hippo as his confirmation saint. Vance said he converted because he “became persuaded over time that Catholicism was true [...] and Augustine gave me a way to understand Christian faith in a strongly intellectual way”, further describing Catholic theology’s influence on his political views.
On July 15, 2024, during the 2024 Republican National Convention, Trump
announced that he chose Vance as his running mate via a post on Truth Social.
“After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio.
J.D. honorably served our Country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a Yale Law School Graduate, where he was Editor of The Yale Law Journal, and President of the Yale Law Veterans Association.
J.D.’s book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” became a Major Best Seller and Movie, as it championed the hardworking men and women of our Country.
J.D. has had a very successful business career in Technology and Finance, and now, during the Campaign, will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American Workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond….”
— Donald J. Trump, Former President of the United States and 2024 GOP Nominee, Truth Social
I wish I could share your enthusiasm about him. I’m definitely leery of Vance in light of his past statements and his age.
JD should have kept his mouth shut.
I’d feel a kit better if hadn’t said ALL of those t derogatory things about our President.
He supports Israel which is good enough for me in 2024.
Congratulations!
We won a U.S. Senator, with a beard... who has probably already been given the Jack Abramoff-like presentation that all congressmen eventually get. Jeff Sessions was a Senator and look how fast he turned on Trump.
I’m with ya, AC. He’s got Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley behind him. But I think he’s as good as any of them, at least.
Yes but Indians have a billion names. It’s a tribute to his friend Vivek Ramaswamy.
A good point.
I would add, that he is a Marine, and a young man with a family. All good.
Most importantly, he is President Trump's choice, and nobody has put more blood, sweat, and tears, into building the MAGA movement, than Donald Trump has.
He knows more than anyone, how important the VP will be to the future of MAGA.
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