Trump’s VP pick
Our state news is all abuzz about maybe, possibly our senator Bob Corker could be the Trump VP pick. Even though there is no evidence whatsoever that is the case. Even Bob Corker has dismissed these claims. It doesn’t make sense. Why would Trump pick a rather unremarkable senator from a state that will likely go 18 to 20% for Trump anyway?
May 24th, 2016 at 6:57 pm
Trump isn’t going to pick a VP to shore up any politics. Frankly, he’s on his way to landslide just on himself.
Trump’s biggest obstacle right now is assassination. He needs a VP that makes assassinating him a non-starter. Alan West is good for that, but Bobby Crooker sure as hell isn’t. Never trust anyone who goes from $1MM in the hole, enters office, and IMMEDIATELY is worth $40MM. That’s a crook, and an establishment tool.
May 24th, 2016 at 7:13 pm
I heard the possibility of Jeff Sessions. I think, on balance, that would be wise choice FOR TRUMP to make. He is PERCEIVED as liberty minded enough but still establishment enough to plus up the ticket.
@Phelps could be right. It seems like a lot of the Burn vote could move to trump. I’m starting to get that feeling about trump winning big. Of course, it could just be the tingle up Chris Mathews leg.
May 24th, 2016 at 7:21 pm
I have a $100 bet with my wife – made in 2012 just after Obama was re-elected – that Hillary will win in 2016. Clinton is corrupt enough, and shameless enough, and criminal enough, to obtain enough votes by legal and fraudulent means to win. Heck, that putz AlGore almost pulled off theft of the presidential election 16 years ago, and I bet Hillary has studied that fiasco in detail and improved on the methods used back then.
Hillary might just pick Bernie as her VP, gaining millions more votes from the too-stupid-to-understand-Socialism voters.
So other than Trump picking Condi Rice and shaking up things a bit, his VP choice won’t matter a hill of beans.
May 24th, 2016 at 7:29 pm
mikee — she can’t really pick Sanders without having to lurch further left, and think that leaves a lot more middle uncovered for Trump.
Against a normal candidate, Clinton would win handily. Trump is just crazy enough to take her off her game, and he’s completely unafraid to bring up the scandals the media has tried to ignore.
He has high unfavorables, but hers are comparable — all he has to do is be less hated than her by November.
May 24th, 2016 at 7:55 pm
“Assassination Insurance.” See “Biden, Joe” and “Agnew, Spiro T.”
May 24th, 2016 at 10:42 pm
Trump will pick a VP that has a) foreign policy credentials (this will mute Hillary’s crying jag on the subject), and b) does not bring votes from a state he will have a hard time winning.
Simple as that.
May 24th, 2016 at 10:44 pm
Ops. I mean DOES bring in votes from a state he will have a hard time winning.
May 25th, 2016 at 12:49 am
Outside the loop? New horizon of support? Assassination insurance? Outstanding courage of conviction? Michal Massie. Couple months back I’d have said if we couldn’t have Trump/Cruz I’d take Sowell, then like Ted he ate his gun, fuck them both. Trump/Massie ’16
May 25th, 2016 at 10:05 am
Never seen anyone say it better:
http://mychal-massie.com/premium/why-i-do-not-like-the-obamas/
Take everything he says there, double, triple, or quadruple it, and you’ve got a pretty good dressdown on that despicable beast who would follow the zero…
May 25th, 2016 at 10:49 am
Long time Republican political advisor and unofficial Trump insider predicts a “dark horse” VP pick and one who shares Trump’s America First views:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aaQKu5t5TzU
May 25th, 2016 at 1:24 pm
As long as he doesn’t pick a moron like Palin, just to get two X’s on the ballot.
May 25th, 2016 at 2:29 pm
@Ron W, “dark horse”…that’s Massie! He not only shares Trump’s AF views but has essentially and very accurate reassigned DT’s affiliation in one of his “daily rants”…
http://mychal-massie.com/premium/?s=trump+not+conservative&submit=Search
Read into those rant archives for some more amazingly on-point positions and commentary too.
Trump/Massie ’16
May 25th, 2016 at 4:23 pm
@JTC, yes, from what I read, he sounds good to me. Trump has said he’d like to have someone who is currently in government, but the pro American part may be hard to find there.
May 25th, 2016 at 6:08 pm
Heh.
Hehehe.
Bwahahahaha.
May 25th, 2016 at 7:22 pm
My fearless prediction (keeping my perfect Zero : Whole Lots record) is:
Hillary clinches the delegate count.
Hillary gets indicted the week before the convention.
Bernie-bots riot in Philly.
Joe Biden rides to the rescue For The Good Of The Party.
HIS vice-pres pick will be … drum roll please … Michelle Obama.
Hey, you don’t think the O’s are gonna give up their free govt. flights, do you?
May 25th, 2016 at 11:56 pm
I’ve got better odds herding cats and teaching them how to whistle than Hillary Clinton ever moving back into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for another four-year stint of self-enrichment, political whoring and spewing daily doses of lies to the electorate.
He’s not the guy I voted for in the “R” primary, but you folks better get used to reading and hearing “President Trump” for four years after January 20th, 2017.
Lyin’ Hillary, her slick, perverted and impeached husband, and their Progressive Democrat Party are all lost at sea dealing with Trump; and their old and oft used political playbook has no chapter in it to guide them to victory next November.
May 26th, 2016 at 9:46 am
Or, maybe a bad-ass old school mil guy for veep…
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-to-send-nuclear-armed-submarines-into-pacific-amid-tensions-with-us/ar-BBtv51l#image=1
Whether it’s delegated to the veep to handle or whatever aforementioned mil guy gets the DOD post, the orders will come from the top; those chinks better get their “dare”ing done before there’s a CIC with the initials DJT.
Right now of course, after zero is done bowing and scraping and apologizing to the japs for annihilating them in the course of saving the world, the chinks can expect him to accept all responsibility for leaving them no choice but to rattle their nuclear swords.
May 28th, 2016 at 4:21 pm
It makes more sense than you think. Trump is rather stupid, and a connected Establishment insider. Looking at his business and campaign history, for subordinates, he rewards power worshipping, bootlicking sycophants over strong, independent, informed thinkers. He has zero strategic sense, and even less regard for knowledge. (Just look at Lewendawski). So frankly, all that describes Mr Iran Deal to a T.
Even before he hopped on the Trump Train, I had decided I was going to vote for anyone who primaried Corker next time around. His recent behavior has only reinforced that position.