Treeper Question:
ICTHEMATRIX – […] “Related to the topic of discerning alignment via a question, I would like to sincerely ask you your thoughts on a very real possibility:
What are we to make of President Trump’s possible choice of Marco Rubio as his VP?
In many columns and pages, you have chronicled the multiple failure points of Senator Rubio…his service within the corrupted Intelligence committee, and his non-MAGA compromises. I fear this could become another massive moment of fatally poor judgement.”
The direct issue of the vice presidential pick of Donald Trump is a fun topic often discussed, because it can easily engage everyone.
The issue of Rubio, or ‘fill_in_the_blank‘, is not really that important to me; and before your jaw opens, I’ll explain why.
My personal preference is Dr. Ben Carson, for all the reasons I have previously mentioned {GO DEEP}. In this election, GOOD is going head-to-head against EVIL.
When I say GOOD -vs- EVIL, let me give context. These are the stakes.
Given the nature of potential nuclear weapon use, three simultaneous global conflicts (likely 4 with Taiwan), a looming World War III, hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of slaughtered people, the likely elimination of the dollar as the global reserve currency for around half the world, a dollar-based central bank digital currency created by the United States Treasury if Biden wins, the catastrophic consequences in the lives of ordinary Americans, and essentially the end of projected USA power and the economic security that goes with it, there may not be a familiar tomorrow if the election goes the wrong way. With that in mind, the lowest possible consideration in my mind is 2028.
Next up, put this thinking cream into your coffee as we sip through the thought processes.
They crossed the Rubicon in 2020 with 51 high ranking Gov Intel members purposefully and specifically lying to the public. Does everyone realize the scale of that, and what it meant when they took that position on such an openly visible lie right to our faces, using our highest-ranking government intelligence members? They don’t exactly come back from that; it was an all-in position…. and they did it. What does that stuff in 2020 tell you about 2024?
What they will do, based on what they have already done, is the stuff we should be thinking about.
Look at what they have done.
This doesn’t even touch on the forced vaccination and COVID madness where people literally stood outside of buildings while their husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, grandparents and children died alone, ALONE, because government people – the type who torture beagles for a living – said that isolation was what we needed to do…. because that was part of the predicate for manipulating an election.
Lawfare? Heck, that’s the least dangerous poison arrow in their death to the republic quiver.
That’s the 2024 context.
So back to the VP possibility and Marco Rubio.
I don’t have any idea who President Donald Trump will select. However, I can see him liking Senator Rubio, because Rubio is articulate, clean, relatively young, bilingual, has a family, is polite and well mannered, is cultured, is seemingly not in trouble, and he gives a good impression when he walks into the room and engages the guests. Rubio outwardly checks boxes that make him appear like a safe legacy consideration.
The downside is that Rubio is a manipulative liar, untrustworthy, speaks with forked tongue, fulfills the role of Brutus, or the “scorpion” perfectly, and seemingly has done stuff early on in his life that may have created the origination compromise. Beyond all that, the cherry on the corruption cake is his relationship with the Intelligence Community. Any SSCI Vice-Chair who can sit with SSCI Chairman Mark Warner as a “friend across the aisle,” can never, not for a single moment, be trusted. It’s just the reality of it.
That said, I genuinely don’t care who Trump selects as vice president. I have my preference (Carson), but I’m situationally ambivalent to the issue, because I view my preference for Trump’s mission as something totally different than most.
WE THE PEOPLE need to take back the power from our government. I want President Trump to operate every lever from the limited office of the presidency to give us the tools to take back that power. WE need to be the vice president, and WE need to be the force in 2028 that determines how the deconstruction of our oppression continues.
President Donald J. Trump is our weapon, our wrecking ball to start this MAGA process. We the People are the entities who need to support Trump, while keeping him fueled and fearless as he does it. Depending on how much deconstruction demolition Trump is able to achieve, the next phase of operational leadership will need a different skillset.
Last point – I don’t believe that President Donald Trump has “massively failed” at anything. I’m not going to backbite, judge or criticize the man in the arena, because he wears a different sandal or chooses a different weapon to fight the enemy. Look around, he’s all alone.
Go back to what I wrote in July, 2015, about Donald Trump. “Why I Support Donald Trump“… Long before anyone thought he had a chance, I explained the reason I would support him in 2015. [Part 2]
I said in 2015, if Donald Trump showed up to the August Fox debate in five-inch heels, a Carmen Miranda hat and started twerking the podium of Jeb Bush, I would vote for him even harder. …. Because Trump was the only one different than the set of characters organized to help Jeb.
President Trump isn’t the cause of the GOP problems; President Trump is the result of the GOP problems. President Trump is our weapon. From that perspective, there is no alternative. And yes, he is the ONLY alternative. Whether he makes mistakes or not is a moot point against the reality of him being the only alternative to a completely corrupt system. Think about it.
There are quite enough high-horse riders and keyboard warriors who do not understand the DC system criticizing Trump. They don’t need my help. I cheer our glorious bastard every day, because every ounce of his thinking and effort comes from a place of good intention. I do not doubt this fallible, flawed and simultaneously decent, strong, purposeful and resilient man.
Beyond 2024, Good is going to have to battle Evil, and at the same time our nation will need stability, optimism and a resurgence of faith. In short, no one is winning this political war without putting God, righteousness and prayer at the forefront, as the DC tables are overturned.
When it gets ugly, and it will get extremely ugly, something just inherently tells me, we will need Ben Carson.
I respectfully disagree that Trumps’s VP choice doesn’t matter. His life is literally hanging in the balance with this decision. You don’t think they would do the unthinkable if they knew they had an establishment con man waiting in the wings?
Maybe.
In hindsight, I believe the evil maniacal DS IC entrenched in our govt… likely threatened/forced PDJT to make Pence the controller re: the Pandemic. Trump was almost always there so no need for Pence to take the lead.
The DS IC could have said: “Donald either you put Pence in charge OR else WE will make certain many more 1000s of Americans die if you refuse. These people, controlling our govt, are really dangerous and demonic. Trump calls them “very dark forces; evil.”
When Pence was running for POTUS in the Primary, he was interviewed by Tucker (I think it was) and he asked Pence: “What are you going to do about our dangerous border crisis, massive increase in human and narcotics trafficking addicting and killing so many americans?”
Pence looked at Tucker with a stoic dead expressionless face and said: “THATS NOT MY CONCERN.” Tucker looked shocked; so was I. WHY NOT? You are running for president I immediately thought.
That clip/exchange ended Pence’s campaign, rightly so. But what I saw in Pence’s face was … death of the man he may have once been. He was … gone. Not dementia but a soulless even zombi-ish. He’s been destroyed as a person.
Ivanka Trump vetted VP picks for President Trump. SHE picked Pence! I will never forget!
everyone has learned in the last twenty years. did you support bush? i rest my case. trump knows all about the ssci. he knows the mistakes that were made.
Didn’t she used to hang out around the meeting rooms at the WH, during 45’s admin? Somewhere in the way back machine, sorry, no link, I had read somewhere that she was ‘Daddy’s favorite’….fake news? I don’t know…but just sharing….
Aren’t we glad she’s not on the VP short list!!!
At the time, I thought Pence was a good choice.
He seemed like a good trustworthy guy, a governor w/experience and a devout Christian … or so I thought. That’s how he presented himself.
For most here at CTH, this has been a process of accepting the shocking reality that our entire govt is severely and dangerously corrupt. I’m still shocked.
So many people who appeared to be good decent trustworthy people (ie, Barr) were not… and betrayed the country. Barr re: 2020 election, no one held to account for Russia Hoax, Epstein, etc. I’m still trying to comprehend how all this deception and evil and malice toward our country BY those running our country is even possible.
Maybe, at one point Pence was a good honorable man… and has been so destroyed/cowed by IC threats and blackmail and other things he has done… that he is a destroyed man.
I found it interesting that he never met with a woman without his wife present. The media mocked him. He likely had a very good reason for that – to protect against being further blackmailed by the IC psychopaths… or whoever us controlling all of this and I don’t know who.
Ivanka likely didn’t know Pence was compromised either… and made a recommendation based on her intuition, and conversations she had with Pence – hiring type interviews she has likely successfully conducted multiple times in the business world… but this DC political world is not the same.
I also thought Pence’s quiet, calm personality was a good balance, and compatable with Trump. In other words, Pence wouldn’t be trying to outshine Trump or compete with him. And, he didn’t. Ivanka was likely looking for that too.
Finally, I wouldn’t say Ivanka chose Pence as if Trump had nothing to do with it. He had a lot to do with that decision. He also trusted his daughter’s judgment… b/c he knew she was a good judge of character in the normal business world. But this isn’t that world.
Pence is a charlatan Christian. He was in with the DS from Day #1 and fooled everybody with his “Christian” nonsense. It was a ruse; he was a fake.
On Hannity, while Pence was still in Congress, he as much as swore up and down he would not support a certain bill.
What does he do, several weeks later? He voted for it. So, he talks out of both sides of his mouth.
Badly, badly done, Pence. I guess Ivanka was fooled by him, or she had other criteria on which she based he egregiously poor choice.
Is Lara Trump (RNC) is a more trustworthy choice? I haven’t seen Ivanka much, so has she dropped out of the campaign or still behind the scenes??
I mean, do you think Lara will use the RNC to recruit MAGA candidates and to defund RINO’s??
lara trump is the real deal. and all that money is going to elect repubs.
I thought it had to be someone McConnell picked.
This is the first time I have ever heard that Ivanka picked Pence. Receipts?
It was big in the news at the time.
You mean the fake news?
It’s not that the VP pick doesn’t matter, it’s that it simply doesn’t matter personally to SD, nor should it matter personally to anyone that trusts that President Trump has the best interests of these United States first and foremost.
Trust God. Fear not.
I basically agree… except the VP can’t be someone that the DS IC would … prefer be POTUS instead of Trump… so definitely not Rubio. I think Carson would be a good choice as VP and Trump could safely involve him too.
Many presidents have left their VPs out-of-the-loop. FDR did that w/Truman. JFK did with LBJ. Many others did too.
But, at the end of the day, whoever Trump chooses is fine with me.
Tulsi Gabbard put out a statement on Tik Tok, she said that’s exactly what they have planned.
One hair on his head is hurt and the George Floyd riots will look like a Sunday school picnic.
The Leftist cabal already treats the G.F. riots as a Sunday school picnic. Same as the Antifa takeover of the town block and named it Chaz and then they locals in charge called it “the summer of Love.” These people are evil to the core.
The left will riot if Trump’s hurt/assassinated?? I thought she was trying to distance herself from the left.
She doesn’t speak for me. She supported Bernie in 16. Tulsi isn’t MAGA, can’t be trusted, in my opinion. I don’t listen to her.
I don’t trust Tulsi at all.
tulsi gabbard is going after the DOJ/FBI/CIA. i’m with her. and the V.P. pick is going to have to pin point the corruption in those places to get my support.
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This isn’t the first time I have seen little lying marco name being floated as the vp choice. I just hope it’s not true.
Of course the VP pick won’t change how I vote, I detest pen¢e and still voted for him twice in a way.
I don’t feel it is safe to longevity or health have a compromised douche as vp.
He cannot be VP anymore than DeSantis. From Florida!
Trump can change his residence to Bedminster to get around that rule
No sitting Senator. Either Carson or a governor.
Youngkin. “They” will run right over Dr Carson.
No! to Youngkin… formerly of the Carlisle group. Also, he distanced himself from President Trump….
He will definitely stab President Trump in the back.
I’m not familiar enough with Younkin to share an opinion about him; but, I agree 100% about Carson. He’s as weak as Sessions, in my opinion.
He’s far too weak on gun rights. Yes, he has spoken out in favor of keeping the Second Amendment intact, has also made statements showing he does not really understand the true meaning of that amendment, or his favorable comments were deceitful.
Specifically, he’s willing to allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research on the public health effects of gun violence and have gun laws passed based on that agency’s findings.
He also believes ownership of certain types of firearms should depend on where you live.
Source: The Quotable Ben Carson — Gun Policy Edition (thetrace.org)
You don’t give Carson enough credit. To get where he is required brains, patience and perseverence. And toughness. He also won’t be running for President. So trump can groom a succession of potential followers in the presidential field.
Loyalty, right or wrong, is Trump’s most important character test. For anything. It’s a sword that cuts both though, as that’s how we ended up with Sessions as AG.
Where is that quote from? I honestly have never seen it.
I’m with you! Ben Carson! I’ve seen many of his interviews. Don’t let his quiet demeanor fool you! He’s been extremely loyal to President Trump and he’s NOT a politician!
i’m not getting the “warm and fuzzy” with the idea of rubio as Trump’s VP.
but rubio would bring the miama law crowd into the Trump WH orbit and also get little marco off the SCCC with an open Senate spot to fill for FL..
trusting Trump on this one, tricky business
Rubio was born in Canada and his father was never a U.S. citizen. Therefore, he is not a natural born citizen and is not Constitutionally eligible to ever serve as vice president or president.
Cruz was the one who was born in Canada.
Regardless,
Rubio’s parents were NOT citizens when Marco was born in Miami.
He is NOT eligible. He is not a natural born citizen.
Kamala Harris is not eligible either, but there she is, VP.
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Which is one of the reasons why the (D)’s do not want her ascended into the presidency, IMO.
She would be far more vetted and perhaps it would be discovered that she is but an actress, who had someone else’s credentials slapped on her, and that when she was being promoted in all sorts of offices in CA, it was because it was ‘thought’ she was someone else entirely — like a female who was instituted into the witness protection program . . .
Rubio ran for the Republican POTUS nomination in 2016.
little marko.
I prefer the tag little Marxo.
If he picks Rubio you can almost be sure they will harm our POTUS. Marco is one of them.
No question about it. Marco is one of them.
Question: Has PDJT actually listed these names that are being floated about? Or was it just another pundit????
answers, anybody?
Sundance, you truly have a gift. Very few people can communicate like you. I’ve learned so much here at the Treehouse because of you. Can’t thank you enough. Hope to meet you one day and thank you in person!
That said, I agree with Sundance 100 %. I like Ben Carson . He is extremely intelligent, calm, faithful, resolved and steadfast and will not back down in this tempest.
To me, anyone who ran in this primary is a big no- disloyal, profit driven and willfully ignorant of the countless accomplishments of President Trump’s promises made, promises kept , America first agenda, like they could do better.
Virtually all others will be Mike Pence to a varying degree…undermining on the backside and not getting anything done.
Byron Donalds?
Nah. He has neither said nor done anything to deserve the VP position. Sure, he’s all “Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump” and I don’t question his high regard for Trump, but I’m not convinced he would stand up for America First” if anything untoward happened to PDJT.
Interesting, Nunes is Farmer. He knows the BS in Washington. That would be a good choice
I hadn’t considered Nunes before now. But I am re-thinking that. He is a staunch supporter of PDJT and also is highly intelligent and very aware of who the DS are. He has never given them any quarter.
I don’t care where he is, VP, DNI but Gen Flynn needs to be close at hand.
I am a big Kari Lake fan, she’s a solid but we need the General in this administration. He is a 180 from the traitor Pence.
I 110% agree MM! Flyn needs to be either AG or Chief of Staff.
ahhh, there you said it. ‘close at hand. ‘ in the room with trump. i say sec of state. reason being, the state dept now runs our military. they run the cia and the pentagon. put flynn right in there.
DoD is running the military, and in ways you might not suspect. Not good ways.
I life ben Carson as president. I like devin Nunes as special advisory to President Trump as the engineer who can show how to shut down the secret police spy state as a long strategic plan that someone like ben Carson can continue, then Ben makes nunes his number two and then Nunes as president later down the road.
This is how I think/believe.
is it possible to think this far into the future?
well let me tell you something about prayer. you rarely get the job you love, or the job that pays you well…often, you have to make a choice between one of the other…(or rather, the job you take reminds you of this axiom). but then there is the job that is different in every way. it’s mission. I believe Ben carson and Devin are looking for a mission. To do some good in a world that is filled with awful. I believe Nunes is more of an operator in this first phase and this means he needs to be completely separated from official WH business and duty. His entire focus will be to guide President Trump into long term strategy to eviscerate – dematerialize the power of the secret police spy state. President Trump has the motivation and the righteous cause to act. he just needs a loyal passionate team to move that mountain. I believe Devin has the spine to take this role.
Later, participating as a loyal and morally correct person, Ben Carson, I believe would make a great next President after his wingman status. Then he can select Nunes as his running mate.
we really need to think big about BIG PROBLEMS TO SOLVE. people who have not been proofed by the fire of this enemy cannot possibly be effective. we need patriots will scars and a fire in their belly for some justice.
God Bless America.
Like your work here. There needs to be some thought this far into the future. God is way ahead of us. That doesn’t mean we can’t try. Besides, all at once is here! Dios lo bendiga 🙏🏽
Excellent points, regi!! I do believe both Carson and Nunes will bring everything they have to make the PDJT Administration the best Administration the Country, the World has seen since the days of George Washington.
also, there are a lot of people one and two tiers down that are great. not for v.p. but to get them elevated somewhere.
You nailed it! Nothing that I can add.
What do you think Sarah Huckabee for vp?
she needs to continue to be an excellent governor of her State.
Perhaps. I was hoping for Gen Michael Flynn, but after thinkng it over, I’d rather see him as the AG or Chief of Staff. Preferably AG.
Lake has not proved herself in the real world.
whats the real world? she’s put herself out there . thats the real world. i like her.
Winning something or anything would help.
Ron Johnson. We need Wisconsin in the Win Column
I agree he is perhaps the best qualified, but I’m not sure we wouldn’t lose a Senate seat. Maybe he would do better leading the Senate.
As for Ben Carson, VP isn’t brain surgery. Competence and integrity is what really matters.
No Republican can compete with Mike Pence on his level of preachiness. Mike Pence has a great voice and is a good looking man however as time went on he became annoying. Then Mike Pence betrayed us, and we were angry with ourselves for trusting him.
My personal opinion is some of the prospects are decoys.
Most definitely!!! No way PDJT is considering Rubio. PDJT may be giving false hope, on purpose, to Rubio just like he did to Romney in 2016, when Romney “expected” a cabinet position which PDJT never personally promised him.
I’ve said this before but NOTHING would surpass a Kari Lake v Kamala Harris VP debate.
It would be must see and maybe the greatest take down ever.
Trump V Biden has that capability, but they will never let it get that far.
Trump/Lake 2024
I understand wanting Lake. She is a great fighter and does not back down. However, is she ready and able to be VP of the USA at this point in time? I dunno. If PDJT should nominate her, I for one would back this choice 100%.
Lake has already been top hell and back, fighting the DS operatves who keep shutting her down. Yet, she doesn’t give up. A True Patriot, Kari Lake!!!!
She is good at losing.
Why, yes, I guess that is so. (/SARC)
She did lose.
The same way POTUS Donald John Trump lost.
So POTUS Trump is good at losing, too. (/SARC)
So why are we discussing his VP?
If he’s a loser, why does it matter.
SMH
Thank you! Saying Kari needs to “win something” or is a “loser” is to ignore the stolen elections.
she got robbed.
Do you actually think Kamala would agree to a debate with Lake??? I think not. Kamala would be eaten alive. And she knows it.
I think the contrast between Harris and Carson would be incredible. He’s brilliant, she’s stoned out of her mind. He can discuss policy and she can draw school busses if given the correct color crayon. Serious vs silly.
He would take down Harris without being angry.
Harmeet dhillon would
You’re spot on about a Lake/Harris debate. I’d even start eating popcorn again. 😉
Rubio is a key figure on AARO. The deep state alien technology complex want Rubio to keep a close eye on Trump so he doesn’t spill the ET alien technology.
Trump’s family’s well being comes first. He probably thinks he can manage the situation and get America back on economic up swing while agreeing to protect their technology secrets.
President trump said “it must be someone who can be president.”
Nuff said. It will not be Rubio, if we want to continue to MAGA. End of.
Please, no Little Marco. Dr Carson is the best option for sure. Outside of that, I’d take Peter Navarro or Rand Paul (I don’t think either of these guys have been mentioned much, if at all).
During that interview in the Bronx, when he gave the impromptu potential VP’s, he mentioned Dr Carson first, IIRC. I hope that means something.
Rand Paul did squat to support Trump as president and has done squat himself as a senator. Talks a good game, but meh.
Rand is a rat bastard that destroyed Trump’s health care initiative in the first 6 months of Trumps administration.
Trump’s VP will be Ben Carson.
I think you are correct, Judy. If not Carson, then I hope it is Nunes.
Besides being a Bush creation Rubio says one thing in English and the opposite in spanish,
Rubio on Univision: “First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border.” – https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/1241558/marco-rubio-in-immigration-reform-legalization-comes-first-it-is-not-conditional/
Before we have green cards there has to be enforcement mechanisms that are in place (paraphrased) – https youtu.be/qclLazWFdu4?t=57
Choosing Rubio would destroy the campaign
Rubio is not MAGA. Never was, never will be.
Roger that. He’s a Bushite opportunistic RINO.
Ben Carson lives in Florida also..
I don’t think having a presidential and vice presidential candidate from the same state is a problem. Obama wasn’t even born in the US and he supposedly got elected. Joe Bribem doesn’t even have a brain anymore and he was appointed by the Creep State.
Seriously!?
He also has a home in Maryland, according to the IBTimes.
I have the utmost respect for President Trump, but he will not make America great again. What he will do is set up an administration that will remove the government from all unnecessary bureaucratic nonsense and regulatory oversight so that Americans can make America great again.
Bad choice. First rule, never vote for a professional politician that can be President. Second rule, President has to have previous executive experience answering to customers, preferably on a Global scale. That leaves Business man / Governor (of well managed state) . Byron D has previous experience in Finance, Ben Carson Surgeon, Youngkin perhaps. Thats all I see.
Please….not Rubio.
I recall when Marco Rubio first emerged on the stage. He was anti-illegal immigration. He supported small business through tax reductions, and every other Conservative position he could espouse.
Rush Limbaugh had him on his show, as did Sean Hannity, and Marc Levin I believe. Marco would go through the litany of his Conservative value, and oh, did I mention that I’m a legal migrant?
After being elected, his positions changed dramatically, and he had the worst attendance record of any Republican Senator in his first term. He reportedly said, what’s the point of voting if the outcome is already decided? Just maybe I expected him to represent me (Florida) with logical arguments as to why the Conservative point of view is relevant.
When he realized that if not reelected, he would actually have to get a real job, he once again campaigned as a rock solid Conservative. Arguably, he is better than the Blue Meanie alternative.
In 2016, he as well as a plethora of “me too” candidates ran for President. He was hilarious in that as he spoke and gushed out his Kool-Aid, you could visible and audibly see and hear him believe his own rhetoric. Pathetic!
Marco Rubio, is selected as Trump’s Vice-Presidential candidate will hurt President Trump, not bolster him, and make a possible successor a yellow-spined dolt.
HE IS NOT ALONE> I STAND WITH HIM IN THE MOST POWERFUL WAY I CAN:
I WRITE TO HIM DAILY AND TELL HIM WHAT MY PRAYERS ARE ABOUT.
HE HAS GOD IN HIS QUARTERS. (we all do, even when we do not accept this truth).
I believe this is my duty: to give prayers for my champion and to remind him daily that WE THE PEOPLE BELIEVE IN HIS IDEAS AND WILL NOT BETRAY EVERYTHING THAT HE HAS RISKED AND PUT ON THE LINE>
noting: I like winners. I love winners. I admire people of courage and hard work. And if there is a single person who has shown a spine, a never back down attitude and poise, it is PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.
You know my background. I live in “the city” when he was at his “peak”…that was many years ago. I never believed in Donald Trump. He was ..well…I am going to not be polite. He was deplorable.
but let me remind…reconstitution..the choice to make a change in your life. to do something more than self.
that won me over. I have never forgotten the “former” Donald. because it matters not to make myths. But he has earned his new wings. Phoenix wings.
I believe in him, because he BELIEVES IN WE THE PEOPLE. it really might be the first time in my entire life that I can honestly say that about a leader. everyone else seems very small in comparison.
these are solely my own opinions . I will never apologize of retreat from how my heart feels. My heart tells me to support my champion. Until the very end.
God Bless Bless America
Donald Trump was once asked (by Oprah?) if he would ever run for President. His answer: “Only if I HAVE to.” That was decades ago.
I am a New Yorker (there’s much more to NY than just Manhattan) and I believe there were two pivotal events that cemented his decision to run for the highest office of the land.
The first was 9/11. We all knew this was a New World Order assertion of power.
The second event was Obama. What a miserable excuse for a president that traitor was! I think that when Obama imported Ebola into Manhattan in 2014, *that* was the very last straw!
The next thing you know, Donald and Melania Trump were heading down that elevator, praise God! I have loved these patriots ever since!
I would take a bullet for President Trump. The free world needs him more than ever now. Our children will never be free unless we MAGA.
Carson is a good man and a patriot. But he will be 73 when election takes place. Trump’s age signifies high probability of death before his term ends. No , not a certainty. These odds make him duty bound to pick VP wisely and age must be a consideration. He needs a ticket with a younger candidate than himself and one who has a long runway for 2028 x 2. Securing his legacy which is protecting all Americans rights and quality of life depends on a 12 yr conservative control. JD Vance, Ron DeSantis, Lee Zeldin, would be good choices. I am less inclined towards Rubio, Cotton, or Tim Scott.
Please read the articles on Ron DeSantis. Sundance has given extensive background on DeSantis.
NO.
Before I read the first comment, just wanted to say thank you, Sundance, for getting my eye back on the ball.
I like Kari Lake or Mark Robinson myself. Warriors.
Like both of those choices as well. Mark first and Kari secondly. Kari is required in the senate and definitely representing Arizona. She needs to cut her teeth with an Arizona win first though. Mark makes Obama look like a child out of the gate. Getting the black vote and keeping it on the Republican side for election cycles to come would be his legacy. I say all this because it’s a shallow bench after the 2024 election cycle. Going to need some “out of nowhere” candidates across the board. I definitely support Ben Carson first and foremost. Mark Robinson can definitely be brought up if needed. Apparently the shallow bench has a few warmers and warriors already. God has this!
How about we start looking at the MAGA bench? GOP needs to be burned down. I’m hoping that’s part of the plan for Lara Trump after November. She can ‘share,’ some insider info and then dismantle the whole GOP.
Mark Robinson is not a shoo -in for governor of NC. The smear campaign is in full force; I found a door hangar from Planned Parenthood on my door last week….this is a mixed neighborhood; red/blue. I also received a mailer last week…smears.
The state of NC likes their Democrat governors. Rest of state government red….also, I hate to say this, but there is still a lot of quiet racism here. People you would never guess…young people…locals…they vote for Trump, but not sure about Robinson. Only one Republican Governor since the Civil War and he only served one term.
We here in NC need Mark as our Governor. Give ol’ Pooper Scooper Cooper the heave ho!
Rubio is not even in the running in “Election Betting Odds” the venue where the people put their money where their mouths are… 5 different betting sites are aggregated into the analysis presented here.
Carson is ascendent, up roughly 5% in the past week, Now reaching 10.7%. Current #2, Vance is static at 12.1%, and longtime leader, Scott is losing steam at 17.4% (Down 3.5% in the last week). That said, 41.3% are rooting for OTHER.
The wisdom of the market is utilized in this analysis, which has proven to be more accurate and more reliable than all polls.
https://electionbettingodds.com/
Thinking like a campaign that wants to win NOW and nothing else, Rubio might be a good choice.
When I showed my wife pictures of the announced possibles to date, she asked “who is that?” and I said Marco Rubio and she said “I like him!” That’s like as in Florida GOP voter like AND suburban woman like.
We’ll see what happens. . .
Rubio will be another Pence. Sent in to manage and spy on Trump
for the establishment.. I also like Ben Carson some say he is too nice
to soft spoken..to much a gentlemen..He didn;t become a world renowned
neurosurgeon by being a push over.. and I think his calmness and soft
spokeness will serve well.. and he is loyal to President Trump
But if President Trump doesn;t pick Ben Carson for VP then I think
he should either be the Surgeon General or head of Health and Human
sevices he certainly is qualified for either and he would likely do good
taking on the CDC and FDA with his medical knowledge which
far exceeds any of thiers..
Personally I think there is ZERO chance Rubio is VP – keep your friends close and your enemies closer –
Only safe pick on so called list is Ben Carson or possibly JD Vance imo-
Why not Michael Flynn for VP. He wouldn’t need Senate confirmation for the job.
Rubio is a TRAITOR
only a hemp necklace for him and nothing less!
I think and hope that Trump’s VP choice will go to the man or woman who he feels will be the most likely to follow through on, and the most effective at, the project of developing the MAGA party as a permanent political party.
PS: I doubt that Rubio can make the cut.
I think Vivek would be best. Articulate. Brilliant. A young person of color who can lead the party after Trump. And, most importantly, he’s a guy who scares the deep state far more than Trump. No way they’d impeach Trump to put Vivek in charge.
I like a lot of things about Vivek as well. Not sure why he’s almost never mentioned anymore.
Vivek came up through the WEF, made his fortune in Big pHarma and isn’t a natural born citizen, so not Constitutionally eligible to be President. That’s why he’s almost never mentioned.
I don’t know if this has been posted here but I will share….from TLD, hat tip:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4713881-trump-to-announce-vp-pick-at-republican-convention/
>> “the $64,000 Question”
I get the point, but I would say it is off by 8 – 9 orders of magnitude.
This is so crucial it is worth something close to $64,000 for each citizen
Richard Grenell would be an interesting pick. Although i haven’t seem his name floated and Im not sure of his health status.
“You know what they say about men with small hands in the Intelligence Agency cookie jar? You can’t trust them. You can’t trust them.”
No to Rubio.
It appears most of the buzz about Rubio being vetted is coming from the Mainstream Leftist Media. They want Rubio because the Deep State wants Rubio.
Trump can pick the first random name out of the phone book and it wouldn’t bother me. But I strongly oppose giving the Leftists, the Deep State and the Media the choice they are agitating for.
Ben Carson, God bless him, unfortunately is a human sleeping pill. We need a loudmouth that will have Trump’s back. A fighter with a personality of a Jesse Ventura or a Dana White, for example. I am not saying either of those two should be VP but someone of that type.
Carson perfectly balances the ticket. By the way Trump is the perfect loudmouth and Carson’s calm demeanor is ideal and would help attract the Independent voter.
Devin Nunes
Naw man, surly you jest… that would be a disaster.. is he even an NBC .. ? Asking for my cousin
Rubio is an establishment sleaze in my view. Reminds me too much of a TV evangelist type preacher; Never lies to you, he just tells you what you want to hear.
Lee Zeldin’s name has been brought up briefly in the past on this forum as a possible VP choice, and so I’m wondering if there’s room for a more detailed evaluation here. He ran for governor of New York in 2022 and was defeated by a narrow margin (hmmm…..sounds familiar).
Harmeet Dhillon
I just threw up. She’s the ultimate establishment RINO.
They have a woman lawyer from California of color. We have one too. But ours has brains enough not to need to be a woman. A lawyer. From California or of color. She has competency
Sundance has already exposed this lady, maybe you missed it.
Nope. Not Rubio. No way. He’s made too many RINO moves for me to trust him.
I strongly agree with SD’s choice of Dr. Ben Carson. He is a Godly man (an SDA Christian, if not mistaken) whose loyalty to Trump has never been questioned. Rubio…not so much.
Hey Rubio, it”s Warner. Still waiting on that report on what Trump is doing.
Hey Warner, I can’t make a move without the Trump’s security detail behind my back, in my face, or your favorite, the probing cavity search. It’s like a parallel CIA and they can get me six ways to Sunday.
My Mother taught me the 23rd Psalm, and it is one of my favorites.
Look, they’re going to put him in jail in July- no telling how long and probably with a continuing gag order. Therefore, he needs spokespeople to carry the message. The best is Vance with Vivek a close second. Rubio is good and so is Tim Scott and Byron Donalds.
But at the convention, I’d go with Governor Youngkin. We need every moderate voter to overcome the cheating. That’s just a fact.
I suspect Rubio will not be the pick, but I guess someone could make an argument that it might help with the Spanish vote. Except Marco doesn’t speak Spanish. Maybe it has more to do with making a deal with DeSantis to go to the Senate.
My take:
MAGA will die, at the national level, after Trump leaves the stage.
STOP pretending, there is no one to take his place.
Therefore, the VP position is irrelevant.
Mike Cernovich: Ben Carson As Trump’s VP Offers “Assassination Insurance”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/mike-cernovich-ben-carson-as-trumps-vp-offers/
The VP choice does matter. If he picks a rino like Rubio than Trump hasn’t learned a thing. The VP can instantly became president and if Trump selects another rino like Pence then the deep state will try to get rid of Trump. WIth a good VP they won’t want that. Also if Trump selects a rino VP you really think he won’t fill his cabinet with more rinos again?
Excellent food for thought, SD. Thank you.
True Reglar Merican.
Excellent post by our Sundance!
President Trump needs Rubio for VP as much as JFK needed LBJ for VP.