Posted on 07/17/2024 5:39:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Former President Donald Trump’s selection of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance might surprise you, but it shouldn’t. The 39-year-old first-term senator is a solid, smart pick who will not only bring youth, energy and vigor to the ticket, but also a wealth of hard life experience, highly unusual for someone so young.
Trump’s announcement gave the bare bones of why he selected Vance over the many others who vied to be his running mate:
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.
All excellent qualifications.
But there is a lot more to Vance, whose life story would fill a book. Indeed, it already has: His memoir of his hardscrabble, troubled childhood in a single-parent household headed by a drug-addicted mother, “Hillbilly Elegy,” became a surprise best-seller in 2016, the same year Trump first won election.
While much of America didn’t know who Vance was, Trump did. Vance’s book, better than any other, explained why Trump had such a fanatic following in America’s rural and industrially ravaged heartland.
It was that book, and Vance’s own experience, that won him the backing of Trump for a 2022 run for an open U.S. Senate seat in Ohio. Vance won.
Now, with Trump’s announcement, Vance (born during the Reagan administration) becomes the first millennial to have a spot on a major-party presidential ticket. He’s part of a shift from the current political gerontocracy that rules Washington to a new generation of leaders who will inherit America’s most serious problems. Vance is in the vanguard.
Ironically, Vance started out as a “never-Trumper” in 2016, but found over the years that he and Trump saw eye-to-eye on many issues. Vance has since shown himself to be uniquely in tune with Trump on many key issues: abortion (let the states decide); illegal immigration (it’s dangerous and out of control); protecting children from grotesque sex reassignment surgery and so-called puberty blockers (Vance authored the Protect Children’s Innocence Act); “unaccountable” military and government aid to Ukraine; continued U.S. backing for its ally Israel; and advocacy for shifting foreign policy to focus on our growing rivalry with China while bolstering our allies across Asia.
Beyond policy, it doesn’t hurt that Vance’s Ohio has 17 electoral votes, and Vance will help Trump once again win that state and give him an electoral boost across the troubled Midwest, which Trump must win to be reelected.
Nor does it hurt that Vance, who worked as a venture capitalist with legendary Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel, has an extensive understanding of finance and equally deep ties to high-tech political donors. Or that Vance worked as a combat reporter while serving as a Marine in Iraq.
For those who don’t know but who’ll soon see, Vance’s keen intelligence is plainly evident when he speaks. But he’s no wonk. He has no problem evincing sympathy and genuine, unfeigned concern for the plight of working people and those who suffer joblessness, poverty, and drug and alcohol abuse. He’s seen those things first-hand.
This is no small thing: In part, the Democrats’ visceral hatred for Trump comes from the very real fear they have of losing their reputation as the party of the working class. In fact, they’re mainly backed these days by the hyper-liberal Big Media, and funded by leftist billionaires and Big Labor, which constantly sells out its own members.
There’s one more very important political aspect to Vance’s selection: He’ll soon likely square off against current Vice President Kamala Harris in a debate. Who do you think will win that?
Meanwhile, whether Trump or Biden wins, they’ll have just four more years in the White House, so we’ll ask the inevitable question: Which vice presidential candidate would you rather see just a heartbeat away from the presidency? Looks like a pretty easy pick to us.
Having a capable VP seems like a breath of fresh air.
After having listened to all the other candidates speeches, I agree with Trumps pick wholeheartedly.
This could be the beginning of at least a 12 year run, long enough to drain the swamp and save America.
I had been hoping for Vance for months!
Oh, how I would relish a Vance vs. Harris debate!
We aren’t out of the woods yet and there are going to be some doozies of events that will make last Saturday look like a picnic. But at least we will have the right leadership in place.
I like JD but I don’t think he gets Trump any extra votes any where that he would need it
He doesn’t lose Trump any votes either
I don’t like JD’s Silicon Valley connections since it might mean he’s soft on h1-b scammers from india that they love over there. Allowing America to be overrun by Indians is just as bad as allowing the southern border to stay open.
Hoping he can bring home the young vote
I liked Ben but I understand the reasoning behind it: Trump probably didn’t want two senior citizens on the ticket. Vance is pretty young so that’s a plus.
We need an electable guy there once Trump finishes his term.
kamaltoes screwed her way to the top of demonRAT politics starting with willie brown, but she would used every lowdown trick in the demonRAT play book to get ahead.
She can barely articulate a cogent thought without a nervous cackle {at least joe has dementia, what's her excuse?}.
By the time the debates come, she may be the Presidential candidate and will have to answer why she didn't invoke the 25th Amendment when she had to know that joe was not mentally capable.
If she still is the vp candidate, JD will crush her into both cackling and crying.
“Jarheads follow orders blindly, but have problems understanding when to change course.”
Talk about a stupid observation, that is unusually stupid. Were you ever in the Marine Corps? Are soldiers allowed to evaluate each order they receive? Is it wise to have soldiers evaluate orders before carrying them out?
“This could be the beginning of at least a 12 year run, long enough to drain the swamp and save America.”
It absolutely MUST be!
Corporate media is dedicated to anti-Christian, anti-American, anti-America, pro-globalist - values. In other words, corporate media is an arm of the democrat party.
Recently, we've see a few in the corporate media gently question if the emperor has clothes. However, overall TDS remains strong with our corporate 4th estate and I predict that if Biden is confirmed at the DNC convention - we will see the corporate media wholly back to supporting and covering up Joe's lies, stumbles and bumbles - as they always have.
In any case, regardless of who the dem candidate is, the corporate media will paint that person as a savior and the republican as Hitler.
The combination of election fraud, corporate media support for dems and illegals voting will be a combination that's hard to beat in November.
Indeed, we are not out of the woods yet.
C,mon man. H1B workers lower American wages, but they are productive and do not rape and murder.
Don't conflate the two.
I know because in the 80's a company I owned imported Indian workers from TATA because at the time many American code hackers were doing cobol on IBM mainframes and didn't want to dirty their overpaid hands using UNIX, Oracle, Informix, Red Brick and other relational databases.
The market will always find better/faster/cheaper ways to produce results, because profit is the number one business driver.
When someone made more money for me, he'd be my choice, regardless if his breath smelled like garlic and wore a turban.
I'm a capitalist, not a communist and there are real business reasons that US Steel failed, that Westinghouse is long gone and so many of our other innovations are moving overseas.
In the 70's the United Steel workers union {I was a member of the union in the late 60s} negotiated a 13 week additional paid "vacation" in addition to their regular 2-3 weeks paid vacation and many of the workers chose to work and get double pay for 25% of the year.
No company can sustain that kind of wage cost and is one reason that Nippon Steel will be the real owner of US Steel in a few weeks.
Open borders can not even be compared to imported cheap labor..."just as bad"...naaaaahhhhhh, not even close.
It’s even worse than illegal aliens actually
(n.b. That's a phrase of the 1980s which the current era (CE) is resembling very strongly.)
If Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Che, Lenin, Marx, Ho Chi Minh, and any other bad guy of history were alive it would piss him off too.
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