Posted on 05/25/2016 4:37:35 PM PDT by nikos1121
The media still can’t figure out why Newt Gingrich is at the very top of Donald Trump’s VP list. A recent Slate article starts this way: “Donald Trump selecting Newt Gingrich as his running mate would be insane.” The writer asserts Gingrich would be the “perfect” pick for Trump, implying the GOP front-runner is crazy as well. Call Donald Trump a lot of things; crazy is not one of them. Controversial, audacious, sometimes brash and extreme — all yes. But the primaries have showed Trump is a brilliant communicator and master tactician. “Crazy” like a fox, perhaps. Recently, I had lunch with a group of GOP billionaires and power brokers. The group had various feelings about Trump, pro and con. But all were dazzled by his ability to win a hotly contested Republican primary “all by himself,” as one of the attendees put it. (Billionaires hate spending money; that’s how they become rich. So they admire Trump for his “no-frills” approach.) Trump doesn’t think like a politician — and that's been his greatest strength with the public. When a “normal” presidential candidate looks at picking a vice presidential running mate, the candidate usually weighs what a selection brings to the ticket. Does the prospect carry a state? Would a woman, black or Hispanic help with one of those groups? Those are the questions, and others, asked by the candidates and their closest advisers. Trump wouldn’t ask those questions. He believes he is going to win this election himself. He will win women, blacks, and Hispanics by what he says and does.
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Only 11 and most of those were caucus states.
You’re delusional!
Ridiculous...He hasn’t done it before. Why would he start now?
New Meme
Media is now stepping in their own Messes... they no longer lead, they follow and hopefully they start doing their F’in Job.
(I still don’t know who I am more pissed at, Obama, the lackies we gave the House and the Senate to, the Media or ISIS
They are all accomplishing the same goal)
I think Newt would be a Great Choice!
What difference does that make?
It’s not HIS ball to carry.
If you are Nancy Pelosi.
If you understand that the sun drives climate you don’t want Newt nor anyone like him near the white house.
Petraeus is a Muslim-loving Quisling. He’s the last person we need.
I don’t know about Gingrich...he’s a brilliant guy, but.......
I suspect that this talk is cover for someone else who will blow our socks off.
I would never miss a presser. LOL
The RNC doesn't care for the total FRAUD Cubandian.
You REALLY want Hillary as president, now, since there is NO WAY that Teddykins will be the nominee.
Yes, we realize that the openborders pro-muslim faction within the party is large.
No, they can’t have a seat at the table.
Look at a map and tell me what Newt brings on Election Night.
Trump needs to keep stealing more populist/conservative Democrats. Jim Webb if he can become the ex Reagan secretary of Navy Jim Webb. Webb may be beyond redemption by that’s the idea.
Your emotional Cruz hatred blinds you to political reality, but you’re not alone, are you?
Then Trump should pick Bernie to be his VEEP; at least he’s a NBC....unlike Cruz.
He’s not quite as covert by half as he thinks he is.
Hahahahahaha! Cruz is “openborders, pro-Muslim?” Do you live in Colorado?
Ted the CINO and religious lunatic has nowhere to go, he's over, done, finished, the crumbs of burnt toast.
NEWT AS A VP IS PURE STUPID!
First Newt has the reputation of another life long Washington Insider.
Newt is NOT a fresh face or an outsider.
Newt is a Globalist and Trump is a Nationalist
Newt is the guy that got suckered with NAFTA, GATT, Glass Steagall and believes in climate change.
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