We have avoided much of the debate and curiosity behind who will Donald Trump pick as a Vice-President candidate. In essence, for us -Big Picture- it just doesn’t matter that much; and regardless of the various pro and con checklists, we’re confident Mr. Trump will select the best candidate he views as most necessary for the ‘America First’ objective at hand.
However, that said, today perhaps some mental sorbet might cleanse an emotionally charged pallet. So we present our guess for a VP candidate.
Remember, it’s a guess, just a guess, and our guess carries no more independent weight or validity than any other voice who would also have their own guess.
If we were going to go personal, with the heart and head guess, someone like Senator Jeff Sessions would probably be high on our swoon list.
But CTH doesn’t just look at things as we want them to be, we look at things as they are  and as they present themselves to be.  That approach necessitates disengaging emotion, personal preferences, and applying a more comprehensive review of all possible angles.
When reviewing the possibilities we need to look carefully at factual behavior; known and identified action in the past year, and consider more than our own selfish litmus test.
We also need to consider altruistic voices that Donald Trump has a history of listening to (ie. trusting).  Altruism is a scarce commodity in the world of national politics.  As a consequence, those who exhibit it (and have an opinion) gain an exponential weighting factor for possible influence on the selection.

In addition, eliminating electoral fractures -diminishing any oppositional force- is part of the thought process; leverage matters and obviously the political ideology, outlook and big policy views need to be in alignment; at least in proximity of alignment.
Our guess is a guess based 20 to 30% on those aforementioned factors.
The remaining 70% of the guess is based on specific behavior, ignoring the political shell game, tuning out the intellectual voices who have been so fundamentally wrong this entire election season, and focusing on the action of the possible candidates who could be considered as part of a much longer list.
Our current best guess is:

Senator Rand Paul

If you use the customary T – CHART approach: list a name on the top, draw a line down the center and list Pro’s on one side and Con’s on the other – any candidate comes with a longer list of Cons than Pros (it’s just the way the human mind works, because we are a risk adverse species and fear is a dominant trait), Rand Paul is no exception.
Rand Paul’s list has more reasons NO than reasons YES.
So does everyone else’s list.
However, the weight of Rand’s pro-side holds more current value than is diminished by the length of Senator Rand Paul’s con-side.  And when you add that together with Rand Paul’s behavior since he was a factor in the primary race, an almost Christie-esque picture emerges where you might think Paul was always a possible selection.
Sarah Palin is also an open advocate for Rand Paul.  The favorable lean toward Paul also gained a few more slight degrees of tilt value when the anti-Trump RATs began selling Gary Johnson as an option.
Just a simple guess.
Nothing more… don’t make it weird.
God Bless.