So Who Will Trump Pick for Veep?
Kurt Schlichter
With Nikki Haley disintegrating and being discarded like a floppy paper straw foisted upon us by the same kind of unsatisfied suburban wine women she hoped to use to win the nomination, it’s time to look ahead at Donald Trump’s options for his second Veep.
I’ll save you time – Mike Pence is not on the list. Oh, if he had only just done his job and sat there being pious and sober, but instead, he had to try to be Mitt without the edge. During Trump 1.0, Pence fulfilled the requirements of a modern Veep – the Veep used to be the campaign assassin, but with Trump, the head of the ticket is the stone killer. Pence did no damage to the ticket, which is a threshold requirement. Now, there were never any ugly rumors about Pence, as there are about several of the people we discuss below, but after Trump, rumors really are not going to dissuade GOP voters. Pence was also competent to take over if Trump burst a blood vessel or if one of the leftists who fantasized about murdering him – which was a lot of them, if you recall – got lucky. And he brought something to the table for the campaign, which was evangelical types skittish because of Trump’s open-minded views on aggressive and unrepentant heterosexuality.
So, the candidate needs to be someone who does no damage, is competent, and brings something to the table to help win. The problem is that many people being talked about fail on one or more of these basic points.
Ron DeSantis meets all of them, assuming the shared state of residence issue can get glossed over. He would be an asset instead of a liability. He’s certainly competent, and he brings the ability to make this a unity ticket. He would bring in the remaining reluctant DeSantis supporters, and be opposed only by the terminally dumb Trump people who are currently being quietly willed into the cornfield by Trump’s much-improved campaign team, which understands that the mediocre meme mongers, fringie lunatics, and @ChubbyMAGA69-types have outlived their limited usefulness.
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