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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Even my family thinks I am crazy, that is, after they give me the blank look and say "Who?"
He is not perfect but I think he relates to working class, tax paying America very well. And that is the group that has been sitting out elections because nobody speaks for them.
These are the people who must be brought out to vote this time.
Sessions is great but he needs to be in the senate. Preferably as Majority leader.
Very, VERY true.
You have it backwards. The kids love Santa Clause Sanders. They’d get all that free $hit.
Newt has ached the establishment since day 1. Newt has always been a rebel from day 1...
I think we need a law-and-order type at a high level of government, and Guiliani represents that. He has his negatives, to be sure, but there aren't too many in the GOP that don't at this point. He has more "gravitas" (a word the libs like to toss around) than any worthless turd that Hillary will choose as her partner in crime. Guiliani isn't at the top of my list, but I'd be fine if he were the choice.
Baloney. You don’t know Newt at all. He was a Rockefeller lefty when he first started running for office in 1974. He was a “Conservative of Convenience” after he was elected, but he wanted nothing more than to be the darling of the party establishment. He’d throw Conservatives to the wolves so he could be “one of them.” He’s never been trustworthy.
I haveen tossing him out. He is wonderful. His wife is first Mexican American First Lady of Texas.
Gee, this know-it-all old skank is just full of great advice.
He would actually be an excellent choice.
I have been tossing him out. He is wonderful. His wife is first Mexican American First Lady of Texas.
It is he who filed lawsuit against Obama to prevent Executive Order keeping Illegals.
Yes Ivanka
I would not be shocked if he picked her. She knows “a lot” about how the Muslims have infiltrated our government/country.
I have always liked and respected her.
Why didn’t she run for re-election?
Stephen Miller
He lost the district because the state restructured the lines.
Liz Cheny.
Myopic?
That couch episode made Newt appear like a opportunist.
I will read your links.
Honest question for you because I know we are on the same team, does Newts lack of fidelity in marriage give you any pause concerning his character or more importantly his ability to stay on course even when tempted by his own desires?
I know he is brilliant and has a great sense of cutting to the real issue which would be a great asset for Trump but Newt carries some serious baggage.
I was seriously disappointed in his recent criticism of Trump.
I am afraid Newt is more establishment than some might think.
I don’t think that he is going to be VP but with this crazy cycle anything is possible.
Nobody ever cares who the VP is one week after the election.
I just listened to Newt’s speech. Not the right energy. Should be involved, but Coulter is correct.
Huckabee could be trusted and Sessions only two I would trust!!!!
AMEN and AMEN!!
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