Monday, May 16, 2016

TRUMP'S VICE PRESIDENT--THE NEWT.

++Between the two of them,they have had 6 wives. But Newt is heavily campaigning to become Trump's vice president. He says he has kept in touch with Trump through emails over 5 years. He has been supportive of his foreign policy views and praised an op-ed by Trump to the press.

++We are taking ancient people here. Trump would be the oldest person who ever took office in a first term. Newt is not far behind. Newt says he has to consult with Callista, his wife about whether she wants it.

++The Trump campaign is zeroing on the 1990s and wants to make Bill Clinton's sexual record a blot against Hillary. His campaign is already circulating gossip from that era that has been proven wrong multiple times but so has much that Trump has said. Without much effect.

++Newt adds authenticity to this live of attack since he generates many of the stories himself. 

++The downside is that Newt has an ego as large as Trump's and the question is whether he can shrink like Chris Christie under Trump's gaze.

++Both men can be pyrotechnic with their rhetoric and Newt can go mano-a-mano in the area of Bizarre ideas. Trump's Wall to Newt's Vision of colonizing the moon. This would be a trip.

++The reagan coalition has been basically shattered and the Overton Window has collapsed allowing anything to become mainstream. For the Republicans it would be like Ole'Times when the party had reached a majority. It now is at 23% of the electorate.

++Marco Rubio claims he doesn't want it. John Kasich is looking at 2020. Ted Cruz ,I believe,has said no because he has "launched a new conservative movement". Heaven help us.

++Since this is a white man's campaign, why not Trump and Newt. For reasons that have escaped me from the beginning,the GOP decided not to have any outreach and didn't soften their stances on reproductive rights. So that are betting that over 70% of white males will vote for them and they will win. 

++So if your old white and male, TRUMP-GINGRICH makes sense. It doesn't do anything for you in the general election but you can at least, blame everybody for your problems. As John Cleese said,"Extremism makes you feel good."

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