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 Trump’s candidacy and winning himself a lifetime of media adulation. The nominee will have visions of well-compensated board positions, Time magazine’s 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 doesn’t need a vice president from the party he’s just buried.
Everyone thinks Trump’s model should be Reagan, who chose his main primary rival as his vice presidential nominee. It’s true that the important thing is for Trump to win. Reagan couldn’t 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 Reagan’s 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 Reagan’s vice presidential mistake, finally rejecting the Bush brand beginning with the 2006 midterm elections. This year, they are trying to correct Reagan’s amnesty mistake. Why pick a vice president who won’t let the voters do that?
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Trump needs to know loud and clear that Newtie is BAD news, period. If he wants a job, make him Ambassador to Exwiveastan or give him to Pelosi to be her towel boy.
Not if he picks an excellent choice. They exist:
Govs. LePage (ME), McCrory (NC) & Abbott (TX).
Cruz is an excellent pick for legislators. The best Senator in TX history, bar none. Would mend a lot of bridges after the ugly internecine primary.
Even though my original choice in 2012 was Herman Cain (for much the same reasons as my support for Trump), I voted for Romney.
I don't need a lecture from you on how to be a conscientious voter.
‘You have it backwards. The kids love Santa Clause Sanders. They’d get all that free $hit.’
I must have forgotten my sarc tag again. ;)
Not to defend Newtie, but Mother Jones might’ve exaggerated what he said. Perhaps he just realized he didn’t want to be married to a much older woman at a time he was still young and vital (and politically upwardly-mobile). Wouldn’t go well in DC. Bob Dole’s first wife didn’t want to be a DC wife and wanted hubby to go back to Kansas to be a country lawyer, and we know how that went.
Frankly, DC is a family destroyer. Most men are better off going there as singles (or divorcees). You’re going to spend more time with your staffers than your family, and often inevitably fall into bed with one.
As for Newt, the peanut gallery ignores that he was massively unpopular and polarizing just within the GOP when he abruptly quit office after running for reelection (why he bothered to do that, wasting taxpayer money in the process...). Some fools believe had he been nominated in 2012, he would’ve won. Of course, Willard (same with McQueeg) were both ringers for Zero, but the likelihood, with even a Newt running “to win”, it’s doubtful he would’ve necessarily performed better than either. As you cited, his chronic obsession with wanting to be liked by the establishment and morally bankrupt culture would’ve been his Achilles’ heel. He would’ve gone soft on Zero. We needed someone to go absolutely nuclear, and no candidate in the 2012 race who was still running in the Spring was going to be that person.
I always thought she was a more serious person than Sarah. Sarah’s speeches started to sound more like a stand-up routine. She seemed to go more for laughs and attention. I admit that I do always compare female politicians to Margaret Thatcher, so few measure up.
Newt would not have won in 2012. You failed to cite what I said endlessly in the past (hey, you’re a n00b, I’ve been here since 1998). Both McQueeg and Willard (and Ryan, but not Palin) were all ringers for Zero. Socialist political establishment flunkies who were there to assure no Conservative either won the nomination or that Zero would be substantively challenged in the general. Gracious and cheerful losers.
Romney was for for immigration control than any other candidate. Newt was a gang of 8 kind of guy.
I just told my wife we have been married ten years longer than my parents were married. That speaks to us twofold. My Dad passed away after 32 years of marriage so that means I have lived several years longer than he did.
Or Curtis Lemay.
I guess it depends upon how much you love your spouse. If it reaches a point where each shares vastly different goals in life, you have a major problem. One or the other is going to be miserable with whichever decision is made, and divorce may be inevitable regardless.
The one thing that really pissed me off in 1996 as a Dole supporter was the claim made by the Clintoons, “Oh, we stayed married despite the difficulties.” Of course, their marriage was a business partnership from the get-go, with each having their own affairs (to put it mildly) while the other looked the other way. Dole’s first wife essentially had issued him an ultimatum not long after he was elected Senator and becoming a political force, “Quit and come back to Kansas and we’ll stay married or stay and we’ll divorce.” That wasn’t much of a choice. Better an honest divorce than a fake marriage as represented by the Clintoons (or LBJ or JFK...).
</s> He gets to pick unlike in the old days it was an election held at the convention after the Presidential Nominee was selected. The reason Reagan picked the traitor was there was no candidate getting enough votes, so they appealed to Reagan to name his pick, and end the floor fight. Now the candidate names his choice before the convention to stop a floor fight and unite the party.
He also handed Cruz his head in a backhanded sort of way. Epic.
You may not believe it but I actually read your post and you are definitely Bashing Newt.
1) Texas Governor Greg Abbott
2). Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama
No Globalist on the ticket. We know what happened when Bush was put on Reagan’s ticket.
Have you skipped all of Trump's speeches?
Gingrich is Globalist Why are you for Globalist?
Ivanka was born in NYC. She turns 35 next October 30th. She meets the Constitution's basic requirements.
But she and her dad are both NY residents, as far as I know. That's a Twelfth Amendment problem. So, DJT would need to move to Floriduh as fast as his 757 can get him there.
Back in 2000, Dick Cheney had to deal with that pesky constitutional requirement — he changed his voter registration from Dallas, Texas to Teton County, Wyoming four days before the convention.
I know neither is a NBC, but after Cruz, Rubio, Jindal, and Barry, that doesn't matter.
Birfers are tiresome.
Ann, was doing pretty good for awhile, but I think the labial flutter she’s having from Trump being where he’s at...and we’re all happy too... has stunned her thinking. Trump will need help in Washington to avoid the pitfalls. Newt is the guy.
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