Is anyone else thinking that the respective vice president selections seem to indicate neither presidential candidate wants to win this fall?
Let’s start with Donald Trump giving the nod to J.D. Vance.
Traditionally, VP picks are made with the eye toward winning a swing state or segment of the general electorate that the presidential candidate might not deliver.
In Vance, Donald Trump has a mini-Trump. Vance is from Ohio and Trump figures to win that state without any help. Vance, although in his past he has publicly rebuked Trump, since has become an acolyte in the church of MAGA.
Some Democrats have laughingly suggested that Vance will be Trump’s attack dog. This just in, Trump does a mighty fine job on his own of stating his position and disparaging the opposition.
This is not to say that Vance is not qualified for the job, even though left-wing cynics note his relatively short stay of approximately two years in the Senate. They might recall fawning over Barack Obama, who was in the Senate maybe three years before moving on to being president of these United States.
It’s not that I believe Vance cannot do the job. For political reasons, though, I’d have gone for someone like Tulsi Gabbard to have been Trump’s VP pick. She is articulate, accomplished, and could have helped him in some demographic areas.
But, for anyone thinking Vance is not up to the VP job, let us consider the pantheon of severely limited VP people who have served in that post up to and including the current one, Chameleon Harris.
Now to the other VP candidate. Tim Walz is Chameleon Harris with male genitalia added – presuming that is correct on both sides.
Walz seems to have fibbed about his military service in the pursuit of taking away guns whose ownership is guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment.
Tim is equal opportunity on snatching freedoms, denying 1st amendment rights, too, when it suits his purpose.
Walz wants an open border, proposing buying ladders to enable illegals to mount border walls. He is all for putting tampon dispensers in boys bathrooms, loves the smell of shops being burned by BLM protesters, but dallied for days before calling on the National Guard in Minnesota to quell the out-of-control street violence.
Tim also loves communism, particularly as practiced by the Chinese and, despite massive media efforts to paint him as a folksy Midwestern moderate, there is footage of Walz proclaiming himself a leftist progressive and being proud to do so.
Waltz is OK with abortion up to and past birth. Let that one sink in for a moment, although he’s likely denying this now, too. He was all for COVID lockdowns, even setting up snitch lines for neighbors to turn in neighbors for ignoring ridiculous mandates.
Walz as a VP candidate is doing a whole lot of denying facts these days. In this way, Walz mirrors his Chameleon Harris partner on the Democratic ticket. Harris also has spent copious amounts of her recent time trying to run away from her record. They should fit well together.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro might have helped the Harris ticket immensely. But, owing to the Democratic Party now being a tenuous coalition of fringe groups, Shapiro’s Jewish heritage weighed against him.
Shapiro likely could have delivered Pennsylvania, but that Jewish thing offended the Hamas wing of the party, so he is gone.
I don’t think Trump helped his cause by picking Vance and now Harris has done the same thing to her chances with Walz.
Regardless, if Trump and Vance just stick to talking about the issues and the dubious track records of their counterparts, they could and should win. That is presuming votes are counted fairly, and that’s a whole different matter.
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