YOU are the Presidential Presumptive For Your party. You alone get to pick a candidate for VP. What criteria are important. Which ones aren't?

Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 7 years, 10 months ago to Politics
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Any one who will get me enough votes to win regardless of abilities, experince, successes, failures, baggage, or connections. Votes are what count.

2. One who can compliment my weaknesses with skill and experience.

3. One who can tap the interest of half the nation who opted out due to non representation.

4. Whoever is annointed by the Party Leaders acting for the Establishment.

5. Whoever is most ideologicaly pure.

6 Whoever looks and sounds good on TV and oh yes radio. Doesn't flub lines, make verbal mistakes,embarrass me or the party and oh yes looks better on the tube than any one else including the commentator.

7. Can be trained for and will do the best job of anyone I can find should I fall. Who will pick up the flag and lead the country as it should be lead. Who is the best replacement as a leader of the nation. Without regard to any other criteria...but beyond the best of their abilities.

7a. as a Constitutional Republic based on democratic principals at it's lowest levels and a multi party system of government selected as delegates from and employees of the citizens and always under their control through the mechanisms of elections, primary, general and recall.
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7b as a Socialist Autocracy based on the guidance of our party and it's wise leaders.

That made it fair and even.

8. You must have your own criteria to suggest...


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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 10 months ago
    Back from the big city. So any one who says perhaps is not making a nomination for the list they are just ruminating.

    if your going into discussing pros and cons of specific choices or combinations that's later for me. What I'm looking for is basic descriptions. The rest wil follow. For exampel define conservative conservative and define liberal. Personallhy I find the terms to have so many definititions they are useless and as very few have any connection witrh real life double so...useless. But I shall endeavor to perserver and tackle that subject as well - tomrorrow.
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  • Posted by minorwork 7 years, 10 months ago
    One thing fer sure. It wouldn't be anyone who is about displacing women's role in deciding what should and should not be the case regarding their re-productive function. And Pence ain't it. He is anti-liberty to women.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    its looking like crooked hillary will get the support of all the entitled people, and she will win. Too bad. Trump had a real chance to keep her out for good. Now we will have to endure another 4 years of obama's socialism.

    By then, it will be too late for any libertarian to ever be president until the final collapse of the USA.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The chances of that are much less than the Libertarian Party winning the presidency, imo. The con-gress is more likely to change direction for the better under Johnson, and more likely to oppose any Trump proposals for change because Trump is a jackass.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    IF he gets elected, and turns out to be a good president, will you eat crow and admit it ? I dont expect miracles from him given the socialist direction the country is on, but I do expect that he will be mostly honest and tell it like it is, and slow down the progression into socialism.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You may be more surprised than I will be.
    When have you heard him gracefully accept criticism without sarcasm or insult to others?
    (Perhaps he shows that to his children in private?).
    Trump isn't qualified to be POTUS unless being a corrupt arrogant looter is a vital qualification. Trump is repugnant and a disgrace to anyone who truly supports free markets and individual liberty.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 10 months ago
    The VP is usually the President's hatchet man. In the case of Trump, however, he does his own hatchet work pretty good. Perhaps someone who can play good cop - bad cop would be a good choice. Someone like Pence?
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Trump wasnt successful in business using these criteria. IF he gets elected, you will be surprised at his managerial style and the people he picks.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I never thought of that, but I did think that Obama would be assassinated. There were so many reasons for that happening. Hillary should pick Elizabeth Warren by this reasoning. NO ONE would want that vicious bit%& to be president !!
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 10 months ago
    Where I have weakness the other dude or dudette has strength strikes me as a good part of the way way to select a running mate.
    Yesterday I noticed it written of Pence that he is a solid conservative.
    (This is where I make a clearing of the throat noise).
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 10 months ago
    I would think that number Two...would be the correct and most important consideration. The rest, I would hope not. I would've hoped though. that the VP have a strong sense of the Constitution, (make that number 9 or better yet...number 3)...especially in trumpets case...(hilteries TOO! but it ain't gona happen)

    Don't know much about Pence...I would just hope two things....that he'd be constitutional in the intended sense and that he could guide the reins on trumpet to avoid a runaway disaster.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 7 years, 10 months ago
    Every VP since LBJ appears to have been chosen as "someone who shares the President's views, but dumber" as a form of life insurance for the President. Mike Pence does not fit that mold, but it's OK with me if Trump thinks he does. Certainly his record of not increasing spending is much better than the average Republican governor.
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  • Posted by ChuckyBob 7 years, 10 months ago
    There are two criteria: 1 the VP attracts a demographic that I am missing. 2 makes me assassination proof because nobody really wants them as POTUS. Joe Biden comes to mind.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 10 months ago
    Trump's list:
    One who will brown nose, defer to my magnificence, kiss my ass without being told, and take all the disrespect that I dump on it without complaint.
    I am so masterful, I don't need anything more than a PA.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Prior to that. Pence was announced AS the VP while two others in the line were flown to Trump one of them Gingrich. Then another article said three factions within and without the Trump organization were pushing each one. That was almost good enough for a thread but waiting to put it here with your statement was a much better albeit accidental move so stick the sarcasm it was meant to be polite.

    Assassination Insurance is officially Nine. Sounds Like a Beatles cut from White Album was it?

    An unannounced who wishes to remain incognito has picked number 10 reason to pick an VP as political pay off and added number 11 as a Money as Free Speech reason with George Soros taking the fall.

    so the end of the list is now

    8. Pick your own
    9. Assassination Insurance
    10. Political Payoff
    11. Money as Free Speech purchase by Soros.
    12 is next up for grabs.

    I'm leaving for the bus one more time is 22 minutes so don't forget the discussion part and whatever else floats your boat. Objective Reasoning please we have to pay the bills to our great sponsors. Here we're sailing on sweat from the temperature. Except for 11. Greed or Fear might work for some of them.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I did read #8. I was hoping to have a little fun. Sarcasm doesn't translate so well in written form, as it does orally.

    Timing should be a consideration. For example, Trump just delayed his VP announcement scheduled for tomorrow on account of the attack in Nice, France tonight.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 10 months ago
    Isn't assassination insurance on the list? ;) It was for Bush I and Obama.
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