What ain't broke...don't try to fix....
Posted on 03/11/2020 12:31:33 PM PDT by rktman
“Dems will have a hard time digging up dirt on him.”
Pence is a great guy. I was living in Indiana when he was Governor. But he doesn’t have the toughness that Trump has.
He caves.
Bush was loyal to Reagan for eight years, and look where that got us.
Pence is 100% loyal. Trump has acknowledged that. It’s one of his many fine qualities.
But our politics have turned into a no-holds-barred cage match. Trump has survived it by having good instincts on when and how to be nasty. I don’t know that Pence even has any nasty in him. I’m afraid he’d get destroyed when the media starts piling on.
Ah, but does he tweet? I just wish Trump wouldn’t tweet so much. I get so nervous.
After re-election - Pence will have to step up to the line. Be his own man. Not overstep or overshadow the president; but come close.
Only John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Richard Nixon, and George H. W. Bush have gone from Veep to being elected POTUS.
I don’t see Pence following this small demographic.
It’s like Nixon/Agnew. You don’t break up a winning team.
I don’t think so. The most important was FDR in 1944. He was one foot in the grave and everyone knew it. Thankfully he dumped the Commie Henry Wallace for Truman. Imagine if Wallace was POTUS during the critical years from 1945 - 1948.
It’s not the validity of the evidence, it’s the seriousness of the charge.
Finally, the third reason Biden will not be president is the “14-Year Rule.” The idea of former George W. Bush speechwriter John McConnell, and popularized by writer Jonathan Rauch, it basically says that politicians have a strict sell-by date. “No one gets elected president who needs longer than 14 years to get from his or her first gubernatorial or Senate victory to either the presidency or the vice presidency,” Rauch wrote. That has been true for a century.
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Biggest plus for Pence is his squeaky clean history.
What ain't broke...don't try to fix....
I find Mike likable but too stiff. He’s a good VP.
I have my eye on Josh Hawley as having the Trumpian courage and convictions.
Also we never know, maybe someone like Tuberville or even Huckabee?
You’re right. Sessions learned about the value Trump places on loyalty.
I would totally vote for Pence for POTUS. He’s proven himself to me.
Right you are. Folks here constantly stepping on the good to get to the possibly perfect.
The people around FDR may have come to the conclusion that he would not be long here on earth but the guy on the street certainly didn’t. (The guy on the street didn’t even know he was in a wheelchair.)
Ben Carson. Laid back. Something we may need. He could pull it off. Gabbi could take it off as Biden’s VP.
Ben Carson for what?
The best and most principled will be considerably less effective than Donald Trump. Donald’s nature informed by his business, particularly highly successful major builder career is the combination that has, for a while, saved the country. He/we need a successor in the same mold.
What he knows is less important then instinct which Donald T has in abundance, instinct and instant reactions.
I think he’d be a wonderful president
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