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GOP women push Trump on VP pick
The Hill ^

Posted on 05/03/2016 5:31:08 PM PDT by profit_guy

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez is my choice as Trump's VP as there are a number of strategic reasons (in order of importance) to choose her. By choosing a woman, Trump would silence a lot of critics and likely attract more women voters. And her being Hispanic could be a huge asset that kills two birds with one stone. Additionally she WAS a Democrat until 1995 - so her subsequent defection to the GOP is an added bonus that can be played up greatly. And lastly, New Mexico voted Democrat in 2000, 2008, 2012, with Bush only winning by 6,000 votes in 2004.

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KEYWORDS: 2016issues; 2016veep; trump; womensvote
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1 posted on 05/03/2016 5:31:08 PM PDT by profit_guy
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President Trump must choose a VP that is most qualified. No PC stuff.


2 posted on 05/03/2016 5:33:43 PM PDT by make no mistake
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To: profit_guy

The drunk? No thanks


3 posted on 05/03/2016 5:35:43 PM PDT by Donglalinger
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Trump doesn’t need an affirmative action vp
He needs an experienced loyal,committed partner who can work,the DC bureaucracy to accomplish trumps priorities and help,thwart the treachery of the old guard entrenched establishment and the democrats


4 posted on 05/03/2016 5:35:57 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: profit_guy

No. Unless she is like Biden and stays out of Potus elections.


5 posted on 05/03/2016 5:36:11 PM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
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To: profit_guy

Women can’t fight ISIS effectively.


6 posted on 05/03/2016 5:37:02 PM PDT by donna (Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
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To: profit_guy

Gender, race, gender, race, gender, race

That really works out, doesn’t it? Obama, now Hillary.

Credentialed, patriotic Americans if there ever were ones


7 posted on 05/03/2016 5:37:35 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#BoycottTarget)
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LTC Allen West, US Army, Ret.


8 posted on 05/03/2016 5:40:06 PM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: profit_guy

Nope to her


9 posted on 05/03/2016 5:40:35 PM PDT by pangaea6
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Competence and qualifications don’t matter—Just a vagina.


10 posted on 05/03/2016 5:42:13 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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She said she doesn’t want it. Trump says he wants someone with DC experience. I have a sneaking suspicion he might pick Rubio. He fits that qualification, we know he doesn’t mind changing his position to accommodate his boss, and it would go a long way to at least keeping the GOPe from undermining Trump. And the Little Marco stuff wasn’t nearly as bitter Lyin’ Ted. I don’t see a big downside for Trump to do it.


11 posted on 05/03/2016 5:42:14 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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Diamond and Silk

Post Indiana election comments...

Must see!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_iMU0vO0uA


12 posted on 05/03/2016 5:42:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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A. You’re playing the Democrats’ game. Running a female VP against a female presidential candidate makes little sense to those voters voting on gender.

B. Win New Mexico? So what?

C. The media will ignore the Mexican-American angle, or amp-up the inevitable attacks to take her down a notch — witness Sarah Palin.

That’s just off the top.


13 posted on 05/03/2016 5:43:14 PM PDT by Tallguy
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It’s Trump’s first choice that matters and I doubt it’ll be someone who will hurt the ticket even if it doesn’t help much. I think people will be surprised when who he’s talked to and who he hasn’t comes out.


14 posted on 05/03/2016 5:44:13 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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OMG, for the 10th time, no. Little trouble back in January with using her position to stop Pollice from responding to a 911 call to her hotel room for complaints about drunken party going on NO PC picks.


15 posted on 05/03/2016 5:45:13 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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Please, Donald: no woman. Pick the best man you can find.


16 posted on 05/03/2016 5:45:15 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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A former dim turned republican? No. I’ve seen enough of that movie in Georgia with Nathan Raw Deal.


17 posted on 05/03/2016 5:47:43 PM PDT by ealgeone
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His VP will be Christopher Walken.


18 posted on 05/03/2016 5:48:34 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: profit_guy

Any Republican who is pushing for any form of affirmative action needs to be pushed out of the party.


19 posted on 05/03/2016 5:50:04 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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we’d much prefer to hear, read arguments about how well qualified a candidate is....or how good a campaigner s.he is....or what his/her politics are

if we want Identity (racist, sexist, discriminatory) selection criteria we can always join the new communistic D party


20 posted on 05/03/2016 5:51:11 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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