The FIRST issue isn’t WHO but WHAT.
WHAT is the single most important criteria for Trump’s VP? Someone who can take over the Presidency in eight years to continue the job of reinstating political freedom and the Constitution as the Rule of law in America.
Trump’s VP must be a person who in eights years, is ready, willing, and able to lead the effort to dismantle the unconstitutional 80% of the $4 trillion central government, leaving it the size of about $800 billion. Get rid of most of the unconstitutional cabinet bureaucracies. Nuke the utterly unconstitutional Administrative State from which all these unilateral, tyrannical, unconstitutional, and obnoxious executive laws (”regulations”) come from. Send hundreds of thousands of government workers, bureaucratic heads, and officials home packing. Sad day for them, but a great day for America and our Free Constitutional Republic.
Otherwise, this “Trump Movement” will be merely a speed bump on the Road to Serfdom as Hayek put it and as the Regan Revolution turned out to be because of the short-sighted choice of Bush as VP. Trump CANNOT make the same mistake.
WHO it is should be IMO, consistent with the anti-establishment push of this movement. Trump should pick an “unknown” - a talented, wise, and wealthy non-politician who loves America, probably a good businessman, who has a fire in his belly to do away with political correctness and tyranny and to put the central government into its constitutional cage. He’ll have eight years to figure out what he needs to know about the job. Also, a wealthy person, like Washington, Reagan, and Trump, would be less tempted to cash in on political expediency because he is already wealthy.
Totally wrong. We need to term limit the Trump administration just like any other.
Power corrupts. And 16 years can breed a lot of corruption. 8 years from now we will need another revolution.
A businessman is perfectly capable -- indeed preferred given the vast corruption that exists today in the political class.
I wish Trump could put Nigel Farage of Brexit fame to the VP, but alas he's a native born Brit. But he's absolutely the kind of patriot business man we need.
If I was going with a Non-Washington insider who would I pick? Well he is wealthy now, and IMHO by default he would help you carry Michigan, and possibly Indiana and Ohio as they produce a lot of Auto related parts. A lot of good will built up turning Ford around, you guessed it Alan Mulally. Talk about a cost cutter and getting into the bowels of things to change the culture of Washington, that is what Mulally did, he changed the Culture of Ford 1st.
