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Pick Trump VP Drudge poll
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Posted on 07/05/2016 12:29:05 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman

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To: Zenjitsuman

NEWT GINGRICH 40.28% (109,270 votes)

JONI ERNST 30.91% (83,855 votes)

JEFF SESSIONS 14.39% (39,043 votes)

MIKE PENCE 7.27% (19,709 votes)

CHRIS CHRISTIE 5.6% (15,186 votes)

BOB CORKER 1.55% (4,214 votes)

Total Votes: 271,277


61 posted on 07/05/2016 2:44:31 PM PDT by Gator113 ( Go Trump, Go! Just livin' life my way. Don't worry, everything's gonna be alright. 👍 &#1)
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To: battletank

If only!! I sincerely admire that man and his love of country despite the odds. A true American Patriot


62 posted on 07/05/2016 2:53:58 PM PDT by V K Lee (u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
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To: Pelham

Yeah, he put his name out there.


63 posted on 07/05/2016 3:01:58 PM PDT by Liz (SAFE PACE A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: Zenjitsuman

Newt is a loser. Sessions is the only one on this list I would consider. Ernst would be 2nd, from this list, gun to my head.


64 posted on 07/05/2016 3:04:43 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery)
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To: Zenjitsuman

If he wants a woman V P, Judge Jeanine would be better. She ‘s smart, fearless, a staunch Conservative- and quite a looker to boot!


65 posted on 07/05/2016 3:18:57 PM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan-(girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE? HELLO HILLARY!!!)
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To: Zenjitsuman

The absence of a “none of the above” option renders this poll worthless even for purposes of amusement.


66 posted on 07/05/2016 3:27:50 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: higgmeister

All the good that can come from newt can be had without him being VP. His value is his experience in Congress. And how one may decimate Washington’s reach.


67 posted on 07/05/2016 4:39:25 PM PDT by ecomcon
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To: Zenjitsuman

I want a VP with great Gravitas! Who has the most? I’d go with the General who was on the list, but this isn’t 1950 anymore. I really don’t know who I would want, but Newt has a lot of luggage, Ernst isn’t a draw, the guys, have no Gravitas or in one case, the wrong kind of Gravitas. Want a kick ass VP, I’d go with West, but his 2 years in Congress doesn’t amount to much. (The opposition ended West’s career with the help of the RINOs) He’d’ also be good in Rumfeld’s old job. Its not easy to battle corruption in Government as we are learning lately. Trump should pick, Trump Jr. and really mess with their brains.


68 posted on 07/05/2016 6:07:12 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (HILLARY 2016 - SERIOUSLY? What are they thinking?)
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To: Zenjitsuman
An ex wife the press said was dead? Had Cancer when she never did, according to Newt’s daughter?

Newt in comparison to the Clintons is a saint.

Not too much baggage, Lots of folks get divorced.

His first wife did have cancer but survived. Newt asked for the divorce while she was in the hospital so that he could marry Marianne Gingrich.

Newt's baggage is his cowardice and his desire to be loved by the people. He will cave to the Liberal Democrats at every confrontation.


He was my Congressman for 20 years. I did my job by helping to get Newt resoundingly reelected to the 106th Congress with 71% of the vote and the the next day the weird cowardly jerk announced he was leaving the Congress, not just resigning his Speakership, but resigning his House seat. Newt tucked tail and ran like a whipped dog clear out of the state, just when we depended on and needed him. He had an obligation and commitment to serve, after a very successful campaign, yet the chicken litter could not endure a little embarrassment. The effect was to help fix in the sheeples minds that Bill Clinton's situation was just Moral Majority harassment. For Newt to be so smart, that was pretty dumb. I voted for him multiple times and could have forgiven him his peccadillos. It should have had nothing to do with the job I depended on him to do in Washington.

Newt was a Southern transplant. Born in Pennsylvania, his dad was in the Army. Newt was an Army brat with his Stepdad stationed nearby, so he decided to live in Carrollton, GA to teach at West Georgia College. My wife graduated from Carrollton High School and my sister was enrolled at West GA when Newt was teaching there. Newt Gingrich is a pathetic cowardly fool. An educated idiot with pie-in-the-sky ideas but no courage to follow them through. After his self imposed exile, he left Georgia in shame to live outside of Washington where he could be close to the fleeting dream of the power he once had. Newt hasn't lived in Georgia for years.

Year-after-year, I drove past his Cobb County office at The Summit on Roswell Road, to and from work every day. I was there to meet Newt's Double Decker London Bus as it arrived at his rally in the parking lot of Williamson Brother's Bar-B-Q which is only a thousand yards from The Big Chicken. I attended Newt's rallies at the Joseph Wheeler High School Auditorium. I wore Newt t-shirts for the TV Cameras, put out yard signs, and helped him defeat Michael "Cookie Monster" Coles, David "Big Red" Worley and Ben "Cooter" Jones. I read two of his books, "Window of Opportunity" and "To Renew America" when he was still my Congressman, giving me hope that he might thwart Socialism. I gave him money, and put out yard signs. I even had a pleasant chat with his sweet ex-wife about his books at one rally. She was a really nice lady! She took the time to talk with me for quite a while on the sidelines at one of his Big Red Bus campaign stops. She described the circumstances of Newt writing the first book. A gracious lady, who at the time validated my confidence in him! How wrong I was about the lying spineless POS!

In his teens, he married a woman who mothered him. In his 30s, he wed a woman who was broken by him. And in his 60s, he partnered with a woman who accessorized him. Is this the best we could hope for as vice president, some combo of spoiled child, browbeating bully and smug trophy holder?

The first Mrs. Newt Gingrich was Jackie Battley, his high school geometry teacher from Columbus, Georgia. They married in 1962, when he had just turned 19 and she was 26. Jackie supported him financially through college and graduate school; a Georgia colleague once told Vanity Fair that "all the way through the Ph.D., he didn't work."

Another friend from that era described Jackie as a "nurturing, mothering kind of person"who "finished raising him."

"He was her little boy," said Kit Gingrich, Newt's actual mother, who struggled with bipolar disorder.

Even when he eventually prevailed at the ballot box, "It was a very, very bad period of my life," he later told Mother Jones: "I ultimately wound up at a point where suicide, or going insane, or divorce were the last three options." By 1980, Gingrich had made his choice.

"It came as a complete surprise," Jackie later told the Washington Post's Lois Romano. "He walked out in the spring." That September, Jackie, in the hospital for her third cancer surgery, had a visitor. Their daughters told her, "Daddy is downstairs." But when he came up, Jackie told the Post, "He wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering."

What Newt Gingrich's three wives tell us about the president he'd be

I can't help believing that Newt is a sullen and moody person in private which isn't a good character trait for the loneliest job in the world.


In every case you can list, Newt caved to pressure from Democrats and "teamed" with then in "compromise" from a neurotic need to be "loved and appreciated" by the public at large.

When attacked on the budget for being petty, he gave in instead of standing firm against the Democrats. He even gave up his government limousine, provided as SotH, to accusations by the Democrats that it went against his stated goals of Congressional reform; although the fact is that Newt used it as a traveling office and got more work done in his limousine than ten other politicians together.

Rather than ignoring attacks and standing against the Democrats and the MSM, he will continue to try to usurp their positions with the effect that Republicans are constantly pushed to the left. Rather than trying to implement "green conservatism", Newt should have been shouting from the mountains that the Environmental issue is a globally manufactured Socialist tool for the destruction of Free market Capitalism.

Rather than trying to solve the "health-care issue", he should have exposed it as a manufactured Democrat Socialist issue that must have no federal involvement. Rather than attempting to "transform government" he should have stopped the Socialist transformation that has occurred for the past one hundred years.

In addition to all of that, in the Federal Budget Crisis of '98, Congress lead by Speaker Newt Gingrich, caved in to President Bill Clinton, and sent him a revised budget instead of forcing him to shut the government down. In the case of all previous Budget Crises our Republican Presidents have given in to Congressional pressure.

Knowing all this, consider he gained notoriety and thereby gained his Speakership by forcing his Democrat predecessor, Speaker Jim Wright, from power for corruption in a suspicious book deal that might have been a payoff.

Gingrich has a pathological need to feel "loved" and will therefore meekly acquiesce in the face of any pressure. Gingrich started the trend of the GOPe Congress kowtowing to the Democrats to avoid criticism.


I tried for a few years to give him the benefit of the doubt, but there was one thing that continued to gall me. I really liked his sweet wife Marianne, but who can know what goes on within interpersonal relationships, so I forgave him his "tete a tete" with his current wife, Callista.

The thing that was so repulsive to me was his total disregard of Cobb County and North Georgia voters that kept him in Congress year after year. He could never do or say anything to overcome that affront for me.

Now as the years roll by, I continue to observe Newt Gingrich strive to appease and reconcile with Socialist Democrats in a defeatist position of conciliation. The only position a Conservative can have against the evil enemy at the gates is intransigence. Conciliation only gives tacit credence to Progressive Socialist mendacity. The media whore Newt of today has grown fat on Saul Alinsky's Salami Slices.

Newt, I loved you when you were my Congressman before 1998. You’ve wasted all the votes you’ve ever gotten from me. I’ll never be suckered by you again. Now, I would not waste a heimlich maneuver on you.

69 posted on 07/05/2016 9:43:33 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - vote Trump 2016)
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To: Zenjitsuman

I think Trump’s sons and daughter has a lot of influence on him. He listens to them and from seeing them answering questions, they are impressive adults. Not that he does what his family tells him all the time, but he listens and takes notes.

I’d go with Allen West too. I like Sessions and Newt also. No Ernst, and no Christie. Trump needs someone from Ohio and kasich is OUT... do not pick him... but Indiana governor would be ok. Maybe the TX governor... but I’ve not heard him being considered.


70 posted on 07/06/2016 5:56:00 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Zenjitsuman

Laws don’t apply to Newt either.

Newt Gingrich, Marianne and the Arms Dealer:
A Buried FBI Investigation
https://dcbureau.org/201112136815/national-security-news-service/newt-gingrich-marianne-and-the-arms-dealera-buried-fbi-investigation.html


71 posted on 07/06/2016 6:17:01 AM PDT by FR_addict (Ryan needs to go!)
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I want someone who will help Trump defeat Hillary.

That’s all, that’s the one and only issue for picking a running mate.

If it’s a younger female veteran instead of yet another old gray haired white man, I’m OK with that.

The VP nominee has ONE JOB, winning the election.

That’s my ONLY demand.


72 posted on 07/06/2016 6:25:34 AM PDT by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: Jim 0216

My pick for VP Allen West. Smart man and tells it like it is. This would be dream team.


73 posted on 07/06/2016 7:56:41 AM PDT by ducks1944 (GOD Bless the USA .)
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To: battletank

Agree with you 100000000000000%


74 posted on 07/06/2016 7:58:06 AM PDT by ducks1944 (GOD Bless the USA .)
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To: proust

Have you ever actually listened to Newt?

If you had you would not be saying something so stupid


75 posted on 07/06/2016 8:00:16 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: ducks1944; spintreebob

That’s fine even though as I said WHAT the criteria is (POTUS in eight years who will be ready will and able to take down the 80% unconstitutional portion of the $4 trillion central government) is more important than the WHO.

I was responding back to a critic who had no alternatives to offer. I’m tired of these snipers who shoot down ideas but offer no alternative ideas of their own and no explanation of why their alternative is better.

Better is these nay-sayers with no alternatives shut up IMO - they have nothing to offer.


76 posted on 07/06/2016 8:20:52 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Zenjitsuman

I still say Santorum could be the surprise. I’m not saying he’d be my choice, but he’s on the short list.


77 posted on 07/06/2016 8:26:30 AM PDT by weston (Ashttps://youtu.be/oBb2EQmtnhQ far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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