Posted on 07/06/2016 5:10:01 PM PDT by Hojczyk
My vice presidential prediction is: Trump is about to make his first mistake. I knew this would happen as soon as he hired campaign consultants, rather than relying on his gut. If these campaign consultants were any good, their first piece of advice to Trump would be, Fire us immediately!
If Trump picks a typical Republican, the odds are better than even that his nominee will end up withdrawing in order to win the good opinion of The New York Times.
Once a week until the election, there will be some fresh media hysteria about a Trump pop-off, and his nominee will come under enormous pressure to repudiate Trump destroying Trumps candidacy and winning himself a lifetime of media adulation. The nominee will have visions of well-compensated board positions, Time magazines Man of the Year, meetings with actresses, his own show on Fox News maybe NBC! and not one, but two covers on Vanity Fair.
Trump doesnt need a vice president from the party hes just buried.
Everyone thinks Trumps model should be Reagan, who chose his main primary rival as his vice presidential nominee. Its true that the important thing is for Trump to win. Reagan couldnt have saved the country if he had lost, and nor can Trump.
But, apart from signing off on amnesty, choosing a Bush for his vice president was Reagans biggest mistake, foisting this pestilence on the country for no reason. Reagan won in a landslide. Did he really need to worry about carrying Greenwich, Connecticut?
It took 26 years for voters to correct Reagans vice presidential mistake, finally rejecting the Bush brand beginning with the 2006 midterm elections. This year, they are trying to correct Reagans amnesty mistake. Why pick a vice president who wont let the voters do that?
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I would LOVE to see Abbott but he is VERY HAPPY in Texas!!!!
I try to evaluate the total sum of a person for what is best for the country. Personally, I do not think Newr should be VP. His skills are better suited in leveraging mentoring Trump on legislation process and DC in general. Further, Newt is extremely smart, know history and there is no one better to school Trump as our next President.
Watch those videos and find the one where Newr buries Juan Williams. It was a delight to see.
No to Newt. He can be terrific but sometimes he is just awful. I also cannot bear to hear him say me and callista over and over. I too didn’t forget his piling on over the Mexican judge a few weeks ago. Another role ok but not VP. Please no. My personal pick is Jim Jordan OH. He has everything but name recognition which won’t take long.
“Pelosi and a couch.
No thanks”.
Deserves re-posting.
Since the MSM couldn’t bring Trump down they will unload on his VP pick like they did Palin—Quayle
He better pick somebody with Gonads
I agree with Ann on the consultants, who have managed to filter Trump’s message. I found Trump’s recent rallies are not exciting as before. Trump needs to be Trump again.
Agree dump the damn consultants—political whores
Newt is the insiders insider! Newt is the worst craven politician in the country!
Newt is a coward and has a desire to be loved by the people. He will cave to the Liberal Democrats at every confrontation.
Newt was a Southern transplant. Born in Pennsylvania, his dad was in the Army. Newt was an Army brat with his Stepdad stationed nearby, so he decided to live in Carrollton, GA to teach at West Georgia College. My wife graduated from Carrollton High School and my sister was enrolled at West GA when Newt was teaching there. Newt Gingrich is a pathetic cowardly fool. An educated idiot with pie-in-the-sky ideas but no courage to follow them through. After his self imposed exile, he left Georgia in shame to live outside of Washington where he could be close to the fleeting dream of the power he once had. Newt hasn't lived in Georgia for years.
Year-after-year, I drove past his Cobb County office at The Summit on Roswell Road, to and from work every day. I was there to meet Newt's Double Decker London Bus as it arrived at his rally in the parking lot of Williamson Brother's Bar-B-Q which is only a thousand yards from The Big Chicken. I attended Newt's rallies at the Joseph Wheeler High School Auditorium. I wore Newt t-shirts for the TV Cameras, put out yard signs, and helped him defeat Michael "Cookie Monster" Coles, David "Big Red" Worley and Ben "Cooter" Jones. I read two of his books, "Window of Opportunity" and "To Renew America" when he was still my Congressman, giving me hope that he might thwart Socialism. I gave him money, and put out yard signs. I even had a pleasant chat with his sweet ex-wife about his books at one rally. She was a really nice lady! She took the time to talk with me for quite a while on the sidelines at one of his Big Red Bus campaign stops. She described the circumstances of Newt writing the first book. A gracious lady, who at the time validated my confidence in him! How wrong I was about the lying spineless POS!
In his teens, he married a woman who mothered him. In his 30s, he wed a woman who was broken by him. And in his 60s, he partnered with a woman who accessorized him. Is this the best we could hope for as vice president, some combo of spoiled child, browbeating bully and smug trophy holder?I can't help believing that Newt is a sullen and moody person in private which isn't a good character trait for the loneliest job in the world.The first Mrs. Newt Gingrich was Jackie Battley, his high school geometry teacher from Columbus, Georgia. They married in 1962, when he had just turned 19 and she was 26. Jackie supported him financially through college and graduate school; a Georgia colleague once told Vanity Fair that "all the way through the Ph.D., he didn't work."
Another friend from that era described Jackie as a "nurturing, mothering kind of person"who "finished raising him."
"He was her little boy," said Kit Gingrich, Newt's actual mother, who struggled with bipolar disorder.
Even when he eventually prevailed at the ballot box, "It was a very, very bad period of my life," he later told Mother Jones: "I ultimately wound up at a point where suicide, or going insane, or divorce were the last three options." By 1980, Gingrich had made his choice.
"It came as a complete surprise," Jackie later told the Washington Post's Lois Romano. "He walked out in the spring." That September, Jackie, in the hospital for her third cancer surgery, had a visitor. Their daughters told her, "Daddy is downstairs." But when he came up, Jackie told the Post, "He wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering."
What Newt Gingrich's three wives tell us about the president he'd be
In every case you can list, Newt caved to pressure from Democrats and "teamed" with then in "compromise" from a neurotic need to be "loved and appreciated" by the public at large.
When attacked on the budget for being petty, he gave in instead of standing firm against the Democrats. He even gave up his government limousine, provided as SotH, to accusations by the Democrats that it went against his stated goals of Congressional reform; although the fact is that Newt used it as a traveling office and got more work done in his limousine than ten other politicians together.
Rather than ignoring attacks and standing against the Democrats and the MSM, he will continue to try to usurp their positions with the effect that Republicans are constantly pushed to the left. Rather than trying to implement "green conservatism", Newt should have been shouting from the mountains that the Environmental issue is a globally manufactured Socialist tool for the destruction of Free market Capitalism.
Rather than trying to solve the "health-care issue", he should have exposed it as a manufactured Democrat Socialist issue that must have no federal involvement. Rather than attempting to "transform government" he should have stopped the Socialist transformation that has occurred for the past one hundred years.
In addition to all of that, in the Federal Budget Crisis of '98, Congress lead by Speaker Newt Gingrich, caved in to President Bill Clinton, and sent him a revised budget instead of forcing him to shut the government down. In the case of all previous Budget Crises our Republican Presidents have given in to Congressional pressure.
Knowing all this, consider he gained notoriety and thereby gained his Speakership by forcing his Democrat predecessor, Speaker Jim Wright, from power for corruption in a suspicious book deal that might have been a payoff.
Gingrich has a pathological need to feel "loved" and will therefore meekly acquiesce in the face of any pressure. Gingrich started the trend of the GOPe Congress kowtowing to the Democrats to avoid criticism.
I tried for a few years to give him the benefit of the doubt, but there was one thing that continued to gall me. I really liked his sweet wife Marianne, but who can know what goes on within interpersonal relationships, so I forgave him his "tete a tete" with his current wife, Callista.
The thing that was so repulsive to me was his total disregard of Cobb County and North Georgia voters that kept him in Congress year after year. He could never do or say anything to overcome that affront for me.
Now as the years roll by, I continue to observe Newt Gingrich strive to appease and reconcile with Socialist Democrats in a defeatist position of conciliation. The only position a Conservative can have against the evil enemy at the gates is intransigence. Conciliation only gives tacit credence to Progressive Socialist mendacity. The media whore Newt of today has grown fat on Saul Alinsky's Salami Slices.
Newt, I loved you when you were my Congressman before 1998. Youve wasted all the votes youve ever gotten from me. Ill never be suckered by you again. Now, I would not waste a heimlich maneuver on you.
My choice , as well. Especially after listening to her on the Hannity radio show today.
Maybe if Coulter was running for President, she could decide who should be VP. Here's a guy who scrapes 16 other candidates off his shoes like they were dog crap and the rest of the world is full of geniuses with ready advice for him.
Exactly. Trump knows what he is doing and Newt is a Patriot. The people who are most nervous of Newt as VP are the lying Lefist Libs. Just imagine, George Socialist Stephanapolis or lying Commie Chris Mathews or Still on the Payroll James Carville interviewing Newt Gingrich. They don't want to interview Newt. They would rather interview or discuss some no name politician than have to go toe to toe with Newt Gingrich in the 2016 election cycle. Everyone knows why. Newt.
Just Newt
Ann Coulter needs to respect the advances Newt has made for Conservatives along the way. Love Ann, but she sits behind a keyboard as a desk jockey and makes millions, Good for her. But she needs to respect people who have actually run for office and made a difference for Conservatism for decades. Newt has run for office and won. He represented the state of Georgia and delivered on the Contract with America. At a MINIMUM, Ann needs to respect Newt for his accomplishments. Ann doesnt need to go Romney on us at such a time as this.
Huckster is a fraud and phony and was a disastrous Governor who destroyed the AR GOP.
Excellent and devastating critique that sums up Newt’s problems to a “T.”
Read post #110.
Appeasement Newt does not fit any bill.
LOL Are you watching the same feed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA2ZfKOfTA8
Newts intro tonight was epic. There is a reason Drudge is featuring Newt’s speech for Trump tonight as the headline on DrudgeReport.
Newt whipped up the crowd and nailed Corrupt Hillary. The crowd loved Newt.
Newt is a patriot.
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