Trump's List of VP Picks - Corker, Christie, Ernst, Fallon, Gingrich, Pence, Sessions - WHAT DO YOU THINK? Thumbs up or down???

Pam Bondi. A tough cookie Florida Attorney-General. Critically important swing-state Florida. Endorsed Trump, resisting pressure from GOP big-wigs to ditch her friendship with him.

Too bad Pam Bondi doesn't have a hispanic-sounding last name, or at least a hispanic husband.

And unlike Sarah Palin, whom Katie Couric and the media turned into a big caricature liability for McCain in 2008... Pam Bondi can appeal to mainstream, moderate WOMEN voters, as well as making Undecided male voters horny.

Sure ideally, Trump needs someone from inside Washington to help him govern. But guess what? If Donald loses the election, it's all for nothing, anyway! That's why hee needs a risky Home-Run pick as a VP. Someone to excite and attract the mainstream majority of voters.

In other words: Newt Gingrich may have a wealth of Washington experience, but most people are repulsed by another fat, old White Guy (who dumped his wife when she got sick with cancer -- the media will spin it so that most American females are repulsed by Newt)

I like Chris Christie - even his "divinely-inspired" name sounds so close to Jesus Christ, so as it bring out the Evangelicals. But Christie is 5 years past his prime politically. His Bridgegate scandal hanging over his head. Just not appealing to Democratic voting females.

Gen. David Petraeus, both as a military commander and then CIA director, is a world-famous authority on terror and counter-insurgency -- which will become a huge issue in future elections. But Obama operatives destroyed General Petraeus because they knew he would be formidable opponent as a Republican VP in 2012 or 2016. Very shrewd, ruthless move by Obama. So DP is not an option for Trump anymore.

Gen. Stanley MacCrystal - see Patreaus. He doesn't seem to be interested in politics, may be being blackmailed over "war-crimes" committed in Iraq. Again, give credit to Obama's forward-thinking: his thugs took out potential threats and future competitors ahead of time. GOP could learn a lot from Obama's laser-focused ruthlessness.

Who else? Marco Rubio? 3-4 years ago? Yes, Little Marco was a superstar in the making. Again, Florida is key to Republicans to win the WHite House..... But he got badly exposed as a choker under pressure starting with that 2013 water-bottle embarassment on live TV. Plus Rubio and Trump spilt so much bad blood, called each other such nasty names --> can you see all those Clinton ads quoting Rubio as calling Trump "a con man, a fraud"....????

Def. Sec. Bob Gates? Widely respected on security by both parties, but he's burned-out emotionally and is happy teaching in a university

Colin Powell? 10-20 years ago, would have been a helluva Running Mate. Maybe even first ever black POTUS himself. But in 2003, neocons set him by having him do their dirty work selling the Iraq War at the UN. Colin Powell's reputation destroyed. He felt betrayed and has been hating on GOP ever since. Even endorsed Democrat Obama in 2008. Getting to be too old, too.

Condolizaa Rice? - like Powell, is forever tained by Bush and the Iraq War. Highly overrated in her "expertise" on Russia, to be honest. Meh.


Ted Cruz? Even more bad blood with Trump than Rubio. Plus unlike the good-looking, reasonable Marco who would have appeal to average General Election voter --- Ugly Ted is a viewed as a radical and repulsive by most Americans (outside of hardcore Conservative, religious Primary electorate, that is)

Scott Walker? Would be nice for Wisconsin, but his stock plummeted when he choked early in the Primaries. Same as Rick Perry both in 2012 and 2016 election cycles. Got exposed as a lightweight. Very unimpressive debates. Lacking in intellectual depth of Newt Gingrich, or the foreign policy knowledge. Trump already faces those accusations from the media, last thing he needs is a mediocre running mate like Walker (who was his enemy in Wisconsin primaries, let's not forget, and did lots of damage to GOP nominee's chances)

Jeb? Again, like Chris Christie and Rubio, he is a former heavyweight who is long past his prime. Totally hates Trump. And as electorate has shown, most people in America want NO part of anyone named 'Bush' -- fairly or not, that's just reality.

Kasich? Yes, Ohio is just as important as Florida. But this guy utterly lacks in charisma, and doesn't like Trump, either. I guess Donald could overlook some things -- and pick Kasich as a last resort. But it would just that: if all other options fail. Color me uninspired.

Scott Brown? Another decent fall-back option. But NOT a HR. Brown ran in a very liberal state, so he had to take positions which would alienate him to Conservative, religious, Tea Party and Libertarian voter groups --- all of whom already view Trump with a suspicious eye (and make no mistake about: Donald needs all those groups to turn out in November, or he's toast against Clinton-Soros Machine)

Rand Paul? Appeals to Millenial voters, but unfortunately not as much as Bernie Sanders does. And Bernie will endorse Hillary. Again, Rand Paul has the same problem as his father: he's seen as a kook by most people, so his General Election appeal is inherently limited.


Another thing: picking VP as only part of Trump's challenge. But unless he scrambles all his resources to build a MASSIVE GOTV infrastructure & ground-game - and also learns how to sound much more professional, avoiding saying some of the stupid, offensive shit as in the Primaries.... none of this will matter

"can she take dick good"??!!

what kind of an F'ing question is that. you're talking about honorable, highly accomplished women here. and what does it have to do with anything?

Romney people considered Pam Bondi on the short list 4 years ago.

There must be something in her background that disqualified her. As someone mentioned earlier, she must have been having so much wild sex in the 80s and early 90's, that surely it would come out.

Hillary machine would VET the shit out Bondi and will fabricate shit even if there is nothing there.
That's what Clintons and New-Democrats do.

OP, Katy Couric didn't do the damage to Sarah Palin it was her two mccain handlers, Nicole Wallace and the guy. Notice Nicole has a nice cushy media job now and so does the guy. McCain panicked when he realized no one liked him but everyone liked Sarah Palin so wanna bet he was complicit in what was done to Sarah in that interview?

Those two should never ever work for another republican candidate again. But, they've got their 500 grand a copy media jobs so they don't care do they?

Like Chris christie but not scott walker and all the rest of the old guarde retreads.

Trump really needs to pull a rabbit out of a hat on this one, someone no one knows but everyone will love. It might be fine to have all those others in his administration if he carefully watches them and their moves but not as VP.

I know it may come as a shock to a Klinefelter's Syndrom afflicted dork in Mom's basement,

but even "honorable, highly accomplished" women NEED and LOVE to be fucked, hard. Especially those women in high-stress jobs need to get loose and be made to submit, get in touch with their deepest feminine natures.
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SO chances are, both Pam and Tulsi get their pussies smashed and slammed to bajillion screaming orgasms, on the regular.

Deal with it, sissy boy

fair point, they're probably screamers, haha

Pam Bondi?????????????????????? Are you crazy?????????????

She's the one who railroaded Zimmerman even though she knew damn well the state had no case!! She is evil in many ways.

I still don't get why Trump is wasting time with a conventional "Congressional" safe-pick for VP.

You first gotta WIN the damn White House!

And in 2016, voting is all about Popularity Contest & Social Media-approval. In plan terms: he needs a VP that will be exciting & beloved by the majority of low-information lemmings in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio. That's how you get to '270'

Look, I understand Trump is facing a huge dilemma: if he picks Jeff Sessions or Newt Gingrich, then majority of Americans will reject the Trump ticket as "extremist Old White Guy". You simply CANNOT win without women, hispanics, blacks, Independents, Moderates, Centrists, Undecideds, Distruntled Bernie-Bro's, et al. Again, the math just doesn't work. That's WHY you need someone like Pam Bondi or Tulsi Gubbard.

On the other hand: Trump is already viewed by True Conservatives, hardcore Christians, Libertarian wings of the GOP... with a big suspicion due to his background as a Manhatten Liberal. If that weren't enough, Mormons flat-out reject him because "he's too rich and not nice to Prophet Mitt derr derrpity"

Trump campaign is working hard - with Jeff Sessions, Sarah Palin, Jerry Falwell Jr, et al's help -- in order to alleviate those "hard-Conservative" grievances & concerns. With mixed results so far, given Trump's mediocre polling with Republicans (for someone who is a run-away Nominee!)

So if Trump were to pick some young, Socially liberal woman - or even a Chris Christie type ..... then aformentined True Conservatives, hardcore Christians & Libertarians will just say "oh fuck it, I am staying home; I told you Trump was a fraud!"

It's literally an impossible situation for Donald. Damned if he do, damned if he don't. Conservative Radio scumbags like Glen Beck, Mark Levin, Bill Krystol certainly don't help the matters by inciting the base of the party against Trump non-stop, 24/7.

Now I think Trump shouldn't try to please "True Conservatives" and Libertarians". All together they are a fairly small % of the General Electorate. And chances are, even if he were to pick, say, a Jeff Sessions ------> the Ted Cruz and Ron Paul people would STILL find a way to reject Trump in November.

Some bullshit reason, or another bullshit "purist" reason. Like something Trump said or did 30 years ago, or whatever. Believe me, there is no stupid quite like "True Conservative" stupid. Totally self-defeating bunch of jamooks, who either get what they *demand* 100% of the time --- or they take their ball and go home.

Mitt Romney was a good example. I don't personally like the guy for what he did to Trump, but I have to admit: he was a rare Republican who managed to WIN in a deeply liberal state like Massachussetts. That's some feat. So of course, his views had to be moderate - otherwise it would be impossible to win & govern with 95% Liberal legislation. Even though as a Utah Conservative, Mittens is pretty far from a liberal himself, LOL

During 2012 Republican Primaries, however, Romney took hard-Right positions. He knew it would damage him with Women & Hispanics during a General Election, but he thought he would get a natural boost from hard-Right & True-Conservatives he tried to court so hard.

And guess what? All the "True Conservatives" and Ron Paul Libertarians laughed at the "stiff Mitt" and said "haha, we aren't voting for you anyway! Kthxbai"

And that's how we got Obama's 2nd term and all the global horror that came with it. And about to get 8 years of Hillary, a super-Liberal Supreme Court, open borders, the works.

I bet same thing happens with Trump. Hard-Right will find an excuse to stick it to him. So Trump's best bet is to move to the Center and get a sexy blonde like Pam Bondi. Women love her. Younger people love her. (Democrat) Men will get an erection and secretly vote for her, too, haha

See, this is why you're a loser, as are most "hard-core" Conservatives, Conspiracists and Republican "Purists".

You are so wrapped into your own warped sense of self-importance and lack of discipline, sense of perspective, moderation of any kind... you CAN'T SEE FOREST FOR THE TREE

Oh sure, Pam Bondi is "only" a potential political superstar- one that will BOTH help Trump undo his horrible problem with women AND bring in younger (horny) men into Trump's camp.

Translation: Pam Bondi if properly presented and coached up, could be that "home-run" VP pick that Trump needs for a political Upset of a Century in November. Thus saving America's future.

But what do you and a few other hard-core, purist morons concentrate on? Some irrelevant sociopath vigilante-wannabe George Zimmerman! Yeah, boo Pam Bondi because she dared to disagree with your bullshit knee-jerk defense of that fugly creep (in all fairness, Trayvon Martin was a piece-of-shit thug, but that's besides the point)

No wonder Republicans are dying and so is America. They have this truly GOLDEN chance to Take the Country Back from the impending Clinton-Soros Orwellian Dictoratorship.... and yet what do Republicans do? Engage in cannibilizing and petty feuds.

Libertarians hating on Trump. Tea Party hatin' on Moderate Establishment. Moderate Establishment hating on Trump. NeoCons hating on Trump. NeoNazi and Dylan Root types thinking they are doing Trump a favor by publically associating themselves with his campaining, thus poisoning it. Evangelicals hating on Atheist Republicans and vice Versa. South vs. North. East vs. West. Trump picking fights with Megyn Kelly, Glen Beck, George Will, Krauthammer and just about everybody else. Etc, etc et cetera.


All while Rome (America) burns.


. Keep it up. Choose your obscure, old ugly White Guy like Newt or Sessions or Corker for VP. The press and social media will quickly paint him as an extremist and Hillary will win in a landslide in November.

Idiots.

fair point, they're probably screamers, haha

Sessions and Ernst are the only good ones.

So you like Ernst? That's reassuring, I would like to see him pick a woman to go at Hillary. Can you tell us anything in particular you like about her?

Joni Ernst (R) Iowa, 46 years old She won Senator Tom Harkin’s (D) Iowa Senate seat in 2014. (he retired) * 23 years of service in US Army Reserves, Nat’l Guard, overseas deployment 2003-04 ...

What is this all about? What does it have to do with the topic? Oh wow, Pam Bondi has a clitoris, female hormones and brain-wiring and probably enjoys sex. Discovery of the century, that!