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Title: Scott Brown Declines to Rule Out Serving as Trump’s VP (A great honor)
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The Blaze
URL Source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201 ... serving-as-trumps-vp%E2%80%AC/
Published: Jan 24, 2016
Author: Kate Scanlon
Post Date: 2016-01-24 11:30:37 by Hondo68
Keywords: None
Views: 18592
Comments: 79
NASHUA, N.H. – Former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) declined to rule out running for vice president with Donald Trump at the First in the Nation Town Hall in New Hampshire on Saturday. Trump recently implied that he would be willing to consider Brown for the position. Asked by TheBlaze if Brown would be willing to run with Trump, he said that it is an “honor” to be considered for a vice presidential nomination, but it is still too “early in the process” to seriously consider the position. Brown, who lost a 2014 bid to represent New Hampshire in the Senate, recently hosted an event for Trump in the state. Brown has also hosted events for other candidates in his “No BS Backyard BBQ” series. According to The Hill, at the Trump rally last week, when an audience member suggested that the two join forces on the Republican ticket, Trump said, “Vice president – hey, that sounds like it could, hey, hey, very good.” “Hey, you know what? And he’s central casting. Look at that guy. Central casting,” Trump said. “He’s great. Great guy and a great, beautiful, great wife and family. So important.” Poster Comment: Brown hosted Trump in the Granite State as a part of his “No BS Backyard BBQ” series. He will also hold a rally with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) The former Massachusetts senator relocated to New Hampshire to challenge incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) for her seat in 2014, but lost in a close race.Trump floats Scott Brown as potential VP
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#16. To: hondo68, Vicomte13, TooConservative, A K A Stone, GarySpFc, liberator, tomder55, CZ82 (#0)
I see that we are now getting a peek of who Trump will stack in DC if elected. Brown is pro-choice. Having a pro-choice candidate on the ticket is the kiss of death if Trump wants the Pro-life vote to show up. Plus, if this is where his advisors are leading him, to a big NE liberal Republican on the ticket with a big NE billionaire then he needs to get new advisors. Trump needs someone from Ohio or Florida.
He'd pick Kasich, hoping to pick up 5% of Ohio as a result. A Republican has no chance to win nationally if he can't carry Ohio. A Dem nominee might be able to win without Ohio but Republicans have an electoral college disadvantage.
#34. To: TooConservative (#25)
Trump will not pick Kasich. He's not going to pick some failed politician who insulted him on stage. He's not going to pick some two percenter to try to gain some state. Trump will win Ohio because he's Trump, not because he puts an Ohio loser on the ticket with him. Trump won't pick Bloomberg as his running mate either, but he's more likely to pick a success story like Bloomberg than a whiny failure who is being beaten by the margin of error. Cruz, Kasich, Paul all insulted Trump. There is ZERO percent chance that Trump is going to pick ANY of the dwarves who attacked him. Zero. Rubio hasn't attacked Trump personally, so he is still in the running. Jeb has. Even if Jeb were to recover somewhat, there is zero chance that Jeb will get anything from Trump other than the back of the hand. Don't necessarily expect Trump to pick a politician as his running mate either. He might pick another business person, perhaps a younger tech guy from California. Trump might pick Oprah. Trump and Oprah, two very successful billionaires who know how to talk to people, know how to listen, know how to organize, know how to lead, and who together would win a massive majority across the spectrum. Politicians like to pretend that what they do is hard and sophisticated. It is neither. The terms of power are simple: you get the most people in a group to vote for you. And what can be done with that power is simple: anything. There are all sorts of complex traditional "rules" that Congress has developed internally, and they are entirely optional and could be changed tomorrow. For example, rules about the power of the Vice President in the Senate are Thomas Jefferson's rules. They are not laws. Those rules can be thrown out and rewritten, and the President of the Senate COULD BE the Speaker of the House and then some. The Vice Presidency atrophied from the beginning, but that isn't because the CONSTITUTION requires that, but because the First President was rich Virginian George Washington, John Adams and he were not friends, and then Adams and Jefferson had a difficult relationship. I'm not suggesting that Trump, or Oprah, will rewrite the rules of the Senate. I AM suggesting that all of the cobweb of internal rules written by politicians to bottle things up are not laws, just rules, and that a powerful leader with a mandate can cause politicians to cut through those rules and change them. Trump isn't a traditional politician, and he doesn't have to be bound by the political traditions of weak men. Suppose he picks Oprah and wins 70% of the vote. Then the profession of politics itself changes, because the rules get rewritten.
You don't get it. You're a dinosaur who doesn't get modern politics. He will not pick the prick Kasich. Kasich is the enemy. People in Ohio hate Kasich. Even my folks who voted for him and are more sympathetic to establishment candidates.
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#25. To: redleghunter (#16)
Trump needs someone from Ohio or Florida.
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#35. To: TooConservative (#25)
He'd pick Kasich, hoping to pick up 5% of Ohio as a result.
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