Posted on 07/07/2024 7:24:53 PM PDT by BurgessKoch
The need for stability and experience should eliminate the young MAGA-in-a-hurry types like Sen. J.D. Vance or Members of the House.
As the GOP convention nears, and voters focus on the election, the race remains closer than it should be given Mr. Biden’s infirmities. Swing voters still worry about Mr. Trump and the possibility of four more years of turmoil. The former President can help his campaign, and the country, by projecting stability and calm.
We know many readers will think this is impossible, and maybe it is. Yet he showed admirable restraint after the debate last week, letting Democrats implode, until his profane golf-cart outburst.
The opportunity is there to present a reassuring alternative if Mr. Trump wants to take it. And he has a timely opening to send that message with his vice presidential choice in the next week. Now leading in the polls, he doesn’t need an attack-dog VP or someone to rally his core voters. He needs a choice who shows mature judgment and has the ability to appeal to anxious and undecided voters.
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That was an unwarranted personal attack. Checked your posting history. We are generally aligned. But you get nasty with those who could be allies. Not a good approach IMHO.
Oh BTW I have several degrees including at the post grad level and more professional licenses and certificates than I bother counting. You?
Paul Gigot BS
There are many Conservative folks, who aren’t Trump backers. He’s not actually a Conservative at all, and they can’t tolerate that.
I’m a Trump supporter, due to his dedication to the cause of making America great again.
He put his money (donated his salary) where his mouth is. My interpretation of a MAGA Conservative is one who recognizes the need for Trump to right the ship, and leave it in Conservative hands to continue to defeat Marxism in the US.
My interpretation of a MAGA Conservative is one who recognizes the need for Trump to right the ship, and leave it in Conservative hands
But it is important to have some common understanding of what a conservative is.
https://kirkcenter.org/conservatism/ten-conservative-principles/
Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata. So far as it is possible to determine what conservatives believe, the first principles of the conservative persuasion are derived from what leading conservative writers and public men have professed during the past two centuries. After some introductory remarks on this general theme, I will proceed to list ten such conservative principles.
YES!!!!!! Lt. Col.WEST!!!!!!!!!
“Oh BTW I have several degrees including at the post grad level and more professional licenses and certificates than I bother counting. You?”
Enough to not be impressed with it and certainly not anyone who crows about it.
“That was an unwarranted personal attack.”
Your degrees don’t alert you to the contradiction embedded in that statement “anyone with a brain knows this” and then complaining about an unwarranted personal attack.
You made an unwarranted personal attack on 90% of the posters on this site who shudders just like me at the thought of Trump choosing the homo. He doesn’t even support Trump half the time.
I don’t think he will pull from the senate. I think Byron Donalds.
He supports Murkowski
He is actually on the actual short list -- ironic since he's taller than Trump -- and that is, oddly enough, the only thing holding Trump back, is that Glenn is taller and Don doesn't care for the optics.
That may not be enough to keep Youngkin off the ticket -- and it wouldn't be hard to keep them apart -- as the prospect of flipping VA and possibly NH/NV/MI/WI/PA/NJ/ME and handing Bidendropov a 360+ EV wipeout and taking a near-supermajority trifecta is a once-in-an-era opportunity.
I made a general statement. Sure, a little hyperbole. Also admit there are other valid VP picks.
Thing is you went after me personally. There is a big difference.
You appear to have a habit of doing that to others.
You are no longer worth my time.
/snif?
I don't really know much about Byron Donalds, but from what little I do know think he'd be a good pick.
I thought she was from hearing it years ago and then a poster wrote ad it sparked my memory. Maybe her family is Hindu and she is Christian nut somebody surrounding her is if it is not her.
You are seriously posting garbage from 4 commie sources? Go back to the DUmp.
Below is the testimony of Stephen Mnuchin, given under penalty of criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. 1001.
Now take your sorry act back to Neo-Con central casting.
https://archive.org/details/january-6th-committee-witness-testimony-NnKM--B1
Steven Mnuchin - J6 Committee Witness Testimony Transcript
I have to remind you, as we do with all witnesses, that it is unlawful to deliberately provide false information to Congress. Doing so could be a violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001 or other statutes. Any questions about the basic --Secretary Mnuchin. No. All set.
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Q. How about military leaders or Members of Congress, did you ever speak to any of them about the events of the 6th?A. I don't recall speaking to Members of Congress, I think only because in one of the questions that you sent me you referenced that General Milley referenced a conversation that he and myself and Secretary Pompeo had had.
Q. Yes. Yeah. Let's go to that. Do you recall a conversation where General Milley was present where you were talking to Secretary Pompeo?
A. I believe -- I believe it must have been a meeting, a normal meeting in the Situation Room. It was probably a Principals Committee meeting, because I don't recall having seen him other than that period of time. And we may have had a casual conversation on the sidelines of that.
Q. Okay. And do you recall anything specific about that casual conversation?
A. Again, I recall that, you know, we felt there was the normal functioning of government. And, again, putting aside the election issues, we all had a lot to do and government was functioning.
Q. Yeah. Let me just read you what General Milley testified when he was here before the select committee.
He was asked, "Do you remember on the 6th or days thereafter any discussion of the potential invocation of the 25th Amendment?"
He said, "Yes. So l'm not a member of the Cabinet and I have no role whatsoever in the 25th Amendment, but there was at least one or two occasions when other members of the Cabinet mentioned it very brief, like 10 seconds, 15 seconds. And then they looked and they saw that I was standing there and, knowing that I'm not a member of the Cabinet, they shut up."
Question: "Who were they?"
Answer: "Steve Mnuchin, Pompeo. I think that's it, those two."
Q. "What do you remember them saying?"
A. General Milley said, "It was just a discussion. They were talking about something and then the term '25th Amendment' comes up. I'm there. I'm like from here to here away." And he literally was about as far as I am from you. "And then they look, they see me, they know I'm not a member of the Cabinet, so they ceased the discussion."
That ring any bells, or do you recall talking to Secretary Pompeo in General Milley's presence about the 25th Amendment?
I mean, I do recall speaking to Secretary Pompeo about the 25th Amendment. I don't recall it being in that circumstance, and I surely don't recall that I stopped the conversation when General Milley came up.
Q. Okay. Let's talk then about your conversations with Secretary Pompeo or others about that topic of the 25th Amendment.
Tell me, when was the first time that you had any such discussion, either on or after January 6th?
A. Okay. Again, I just want to put this in perspective on timing.
Q. Yes.
A So I think, as you are aware, kind of during the month of December I was very, very busy negotiating with Congress both what was the CARES Act and the additional funding of government, which I believe President Trump signed on December 28th. So that was really my full-time focus.
I then ended up leaving shortly for vacation. I came back. And then! went ona planned trip to Egypt, Sudan, and other countries in the Mideast. I cut that trip short, and then I came back.
So I believe the conversation that you're referencing must have been, you know -- we can check the exact date I got back, but it was not in the first few days.
Q. I see.
A. So, again, my conversations with Secretary Pompeo, when I got back, this was all over the press. So every time you turned on TV, there was the 25th Amendment. It came up very briefly in our conversation. We both believed that the best outcome was a normal transition of power, which was working, and neither one of us contemplated in any serious format the 25th Amendment.
Q. I see. Did you or anyone on your behalf do any kind of research into the predicates for the invocation of the act or sort of --
A. The only research I did out of curiosity was I googled it. It came up. I remember my general counsel asking me if we wanted him to do extensive research on it. I said, no, not at this point.
Q. Okay. I see Ms. Lofgren has joined us, a member of the committee. So you talked to Secretary Pompeo about that prospect?
A. Again, it came up in a conversation. I can't recall in date whether it was in the conversation with General Milley or whether it was in a different conversation that we had.
Q. Okay. Do you remember talking about the 25th Amendment with any other members of the President's Cabinet?
A. I don't.
Q. Okay. Do you remember talking about it on the telephone in addition to the in-person discussion that General Milley referenced?
A. I recall discussing it on the telephone. I don't particularly recall the meeting with General Milley. But, again, it sounds like a meeting where the three of us were together in the Situation Room.
Q. Okay. Do you recall a telephone conversation with Pompeo about it?
A. Yes.
Q. I see. Anyone else that you talked to on the phone?
A. No.
Rand Paul.
The man is AMERICAN first through and through.
“I made a general statement.”
“Thing is you went after me personally.”
I took your general statement personally, just like you took my personal statement personally. You and Hillary should be good friends.
“You are no longer worth my time.”
I am so crushed, I tell you. Crushed.
True about assuming the office, but, Trump is a pretty high risk due to his age & weight.
I agree. I think Ben CARSON would be a top pick!
Thank you for clarifying. That is helpful.
Interesting. I don’t believe I’ve heard Conservatism described quite like that before.
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