Posted on 07/14/2016 9:20:50 AM PDT by dragnet2
Breaking on Drudge
I would estimate approximately 8,000 times.☺
Normally, yes. But the 'Day of Rage' tomorrow will give the MSM an opportunity to ignore Trump, and this may be Trump's way of one-upping them.
Chief of Staff Gingrich will whip Congress into shape. He’ll flatten Lyin Paul Ryan (who will hopefully be gone, by then) like a pancake. Midge will be all to happy to get the Senate to shape up, quickly thereafter.
I’ve always believed that Reagan was allowed to live after that first attempt so long as he did not denounce the Brady Campaign (which James Brady would have opposed). That was one of his few flaws.
It's tough enough to argue with a Democrat but boy the mind set here is unbelievable sometimes.
If tomorrow it's actually someone else and being Newt who I really don't like I'll support him. Donald hasn't gotten where he is today making bad decisions.
John Nance Garner: He famously described the Vice-Presidency as being “not worth a bucket of warm piss”. (For many years, this quote was euphemized as “warm spit”.
If this turns out to be his actual VP choice, I’ll learn to live with it.
Trump winning this election is what is important to me.
Go Trump, Go! Go Trump, Go! Go Trump, Go!
Exactly. This is 1980 again, a maverick and establishment ticket. I see a lot of Trump Democrats voting this November.
Pence is TEA party, former Roman Catholic, now evangelical, had the balls to challenge Boehner for House minority leader in 2006, has parked his shoes next to one bed for 30+ years, recent immigrant stock ...
Not sure what the naysayers want: super powers?
Down side, he swept his House races but struggled to win as governor; upside, Hillary was weeping inconsolably, now she must be comatose.
Keeping in mind the polestar: winning the White House, this would be the golden ticket.
“Trump just lost the election.”
So far the dumbest post of the day. However there is still time left.
You’re going to see that line a lot in the coming months, get used to it.
$5, $10, $20, whatever it takes...whatever it takes.
“Ted Cruz could have been the VP.
But then he screwed it all up.”
I’d say Trump screwed up that relationship totally.
He constantly called Cruz a liar, insulted his wife, and put Cruz’s dad behind the grassy noll.
Since Trump can only build fences and never mend them, he will still have problems with loyal Cruz supporters.
I forgot, Trump amended his comments by saying Cruz is a “reasonable liar,” whatever that means. Not my idea of fence mending.
Pence also hatched up the touch-back scheme to provide an amnesty.
I think Hillary goes with Julian Castro to cut into Trump’s advantage with Hispanics.
I would have preferred someone else, but Trump's judgment is solid, his thinking is clear, and IF it is Pence, the guy is far more conservative than most, very capable of uniting the conservative wing, yet acceptable to enough weirdos in the GOPe to steal the thunder from the #nevertrumpers. Pence being on board takes the Cruzer arguments away, along with telegraphing that the entire Midwest (Pennsylvania too) is now in play.
Only #nevertrumpers will be against any of the choices Trump will make. Let them pout in their mush. Vote Trump!
“Daniels has said he won’t run.” When did he say that? I just read yesterday that he would.
Here are 10 things you should know about him:
1. Pence was born in 1959 in Columbus, Indiana. He has been a lifelong Indiana resident. He attended Hanover College and the Indiana University School of Law.
2. Pence was a Democrat in college. He was the youth coordinator for the Bartholomew County Democrats and voted for Jimmy Carter in 1980. Pence claims his senior thesis changed his views, due to a heavy emphasis on studying the American founding fathers. He left Hanover as a conservative Christian, according to Indianapolis Monthly.
3. Pence ran a conservative Indiana think-tank called the Indiana Policy Review Foundation from 1991 to 1994.
4. In 1994, he started a radio show that grew into a five-day-a-week show on local radio. He left his radio show to run for Congress in 2000. It was his second attempt having lost in 1990. He won the 2000 race.
5. As a congressman, Pence was more conservative than the average Republican. He frequently scored perfect on the American Conservative Union scorecard. Earlier in his career, he also scored well on the Club for Growth scorecard, but scored worse as time went on.
6. Pence is soft on illegal immigration. In 2006, he pushed George Bush on immigration reform. In 2013, Governor Pence signed into law a bill that lessened the restrictions on illegal immigrants being ineligible for in-state tuition rates at Indiana state colleges and public universities.
7. In 2015, Pence made a stand for religious liberty with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) … only to cave soon after following uproar from the Left and the media. In the remarkable volte-face Pence let lawmakers “clarify” (gut) the law.
8. Under Pence, Indiana became one of the first states to opt-out of Common Core. However, Pence’s replacement plan was essentially a rebranding of Common Core standards. Many conservatives argued his plan was even more overbearing.
9. Despite his conservative promise as a congressman, Pence proved to govern as a progressive technocrat not a conservative. Much like John Kasich in Ohio, Pence has shifted to government centric policies on education, health care, and the economy.
10. Pence is widely known for giving one of the most tepid, hesitant endorsements in the history of presidential politics when he announced his support for Ted Cruz before the Indiana primary earlier this year. While endorsing Cruz he also spoke very highly of Trump. Perhaps a move that move could be paying off now.
Shocked that he didn’t pick him instead
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