Posted on 03/23/2016 8:36:13 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
I can’t say anything about Electoral College issues, but it would be IMHO the closest thing to an unbeatable ticket ever. To assuage grass roots Conservatives and get them to the polls, they could name their Cabinet and Supreme Court nominees up front, loaded with fire-breathing, credentialed Libertarian types. Trump could announce Janice Rogers Brown as his first SCOTUS appointment. I’d walk over a bed of hot coals for a chance to get Brown on the High Court. So would many others.
Rudy can’t be Veep because both he and Trump are from NY.
Dick Cheney had to change his residency to Wyoming to run with G.W. Bush. But he could do that because at one time he was from there. Since Trump has filed as being from NY Rudy would have to affect a quick move to Florida, Connecticut or somewhere.
But naming a Cabinet and potential Supreme Court nominees up front is a good idea.
Back in 1980, PBS did something that worked brilliantly, so much so that the two parties refused to let it happen again. Instead of having "debates" involving the candidates, which would have led to nothing but pre-digested sound bytes, they held genuine debates between the advisors of the candidates, i.e., those who would be expected to serve in the administration of the candidates should they be elected.
The first debate was on economic issues. Arthur Laffer was the captain of Reagan's team, I forget the captain of Carter's team, and Mitch Rogovin was the captain of John Anderson's team. Each captain determined who on his team would go in to make or answer a point. There was cross-questioning, rebuttal and counter-rebuttal. One of my favorite memories was Art Laffer taking the ball himself and eviscerating Rogovin on tax policy.
In the foreign policy debate, Al Haig, captain of the Reagan team, sent Paul Nitze in to sack Paul Warnke and his appeasement-based foreign policy.
These were honest debates, conducted within a strict set of rules, and I learned more from them than I learned from listening to the candidates. I suspect it was the spontaneity of the debates that frightened off the two party establishments.
We need to do this in 2016.
Another home run! Giuliani tells it like it is.
Also against the law. Seems that a candidate offering a government post prior to election is guilty of offering a bribe...
It would be enough to say that, “This is the kind of person I’d like to have in my administration in the Cabinet or as an advisor.”
I’d like to see her “in the big house”. She’s a life long liar and criminal.
Rudy is walking us down that road to the real truth.
What is the Benghazi cover up really about. Hillary could care less about the dead.
What it is really about is that Hillary, Obama and Jarrett funded and armed ISIS. They didn’t just create the vacuum, they filled it as well.
Libyan oil is now one of the contributors to the ISIS money machine.
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