Vance Is a Solid Choice: His less than two years experience in Washington, D.C. is not a bad thing. That's actually the point.

PJ Media ^ | 07/16/2024 | C.A. Skeet

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Those of us who desire the MAGA movement to endure after Trump can breathe easy with his choice of J.D. Vance for vice president. Most presidential campaigns try to keep VP pick under wraps until the convention, though it was increasingly clear in the last couple of weeks that Trump was going to choose Vance. The fact that Secret Service agents secured Vance's residency after the assassination attempt on Trump sorta gave the secret away — though I wouldn't have put it past them to have gone to the wrong senator's house. And did they secure the shed in his backyard? Or was that outside their perimeter of responsibility?

I'll comment briefly about the other top contenders for whom some of my fellow conservatives were gung-ho:

DOUG BURGUM: Yes, a good, dependable conservative. But to those alleging that Vance doesn't bring a single new vote to the table, I ask: how many new votes would Burgum have brought? Is there an untapped group of fence-sitting octogenarians in a state that chose Trump last election by a 34-point margin that Trump needs to nudge a little further into his column? In an election where enough voices on both sides are saying the presidential candidates are too old, optics unfortunately do matter more than they should, and a Burgum VP pick would do nothing but cement this bias.

MARCO RUBIO: Nope. He originally ran for Senate as a Tea Party Republican … and then almost immediately threw his weight behind "comprehensive immigration reform," which everyone rightly understood as "mass amnesty now, window-dressing border enforcement later." There are stances Vance has taken that I disagree with, but they're largely peripheral and I'll get over it. But Rubio's support of an immigration policy that is indistinguishable from that of the Squad is politically unforgivable.

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Over at Powerline, John Hinderaker calls Vance a "disappointing choice." He draws attention to Vance's "less than two years" experience in Washington, D.C., as if that's a bad thing. That's actually the point, John.

Joe Biden has almost 50 years of this vaunted Washington experience. On Inauguration Day 2016, Trump had none.

Who has proven to be the better president? Vance is attractive because he has the same outsider aura that Trump does. How many votes would another swamp careerist in the McCain/Cheney mold bring to a movement that instinctively distrusts such creatures?

[CaptainK]

Obama was President without finishing his first Senate term and the MSM cheered.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Vance is a good choice, enough time in DC to see how things work but not enough time to be corrupted or set up to be blackmailed to be a mole for the DS.

[PGR88]

“Hope and Change” Obama had 143 days as a Senator from Illinois

He even got a Nobel Peace Prize at 143+14 days.

[SeekAndFind]

Let’s rfemind ourselves that Abraham Lincoln himself served ONLY one term in the United States House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849, representing Illinois’ 7th congressional district before running for President.

[chajin]

Beat me by five minutes, only because I’m working 🤓

[Dilbert San Diego]

Trump had zero political experience prior to his election.

Some politicians have been failures in spite of a long resume in politics.

Is experience in the political world really so important?

[Alberta's Child]

The author makes excellent points but undermines his own credibility when he says TIM SCOTT was his first choice. Tim Scott? I don’t know whether to laugh or vomit.

[mware]

Let me remind my Democrat friends, Obama was in senate less than a year.

[bgill]

Vance’s problem may be Trump’s first term’s problem. Trusting the wise old lifetime career folk. You can NOT trust anyone who’s been there longer than a week or vetted by anyone but yourself. Nothing but vipers.

[The_Harlequin]

I’ll support Vance for the same reason I supported Trump mere days following his presidential candidacy announcement in 2016. He immediately was getting pissed off reactions from every corner of the country. I thought it was about time that someone had the balls to start pissing these people off. It should have happened years ago.

[ridesthemiles]

OBAMA only got that Senator time because he got SEALED DIVORCE records of his opponent UN SEALED & the other man quit. JACK RYAN

[ridesthemiles]

LESS THAN 6 months.

[elpadre]

In two years there is a good chance he hasn’t been corrupted yet. Great choice!

[Lizavetta]

Obama was President without finishing his first Senate term and the MSM cheered.

Same with Hillary, right?

[CaptainK]

Hillary actually did her full term.