With J. D. Vance’s option as vice president, those of us who want the MAGA movement to accept after Trump can breath easy. Although it became increasingly obvious in the last few weeks that Trump would choose Vance, the majority of national campaigns attempt to keep the VP pick a secret until the protocol. Even though I would n’t have put it past them to have gone to the wrong senator’s house, the fact that Secret Service agents secured Vance’s residency after the assassination attempt on Trump sort of gave the secret away. And did they protected his backyard’s shed? Or was that outside their boundary of responsibility?
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I’ll briefly address the various top contenders for which some of my fellow liberals were anti-traditional.
DOUG BURGUM: Well, a good, reliable liberal. I ask Burgum how many new votes she would have brought to the table for those who claim that Vance has n’t even given it one. Is there an undeveloped pool of fence-sitting grannies in a position where Trump needs to push a little further into his row after winning the previous vote by a 34-point margin? Optics, however, do subject more than they should in an election where there are enough people on both sides saying the presidential hopefuls are very old, and a Burgum VP find may only serve to reinforce this discrimination.
MARCO RUBIO: Nope. He ran for the Senate as a Tea Party Republican, and he almost instantly backed” comprehensive immigration reform,” which everyone had already interpreted as “mass amnesty then, window-dressing border enforcement afterwards.” Vance has taken some positions that I do n’t agree with, but they’re largely peripheral and I’ll get past them. However, Rubio’s assistance of a Squad-indistinguishable immigration policy is politically unjustifiable.
TIM SCOTT: Scott was my first option. He was n’t chosen. Suddenly, I’ll get over it.
Over at Powerline, John Hinderaker calls Vance a “disappointing alternative”. He draws notice to Vance’s “less than two years” practice in Washington, D. C., as if that’s a terrible thing. That’s really the place, John. Joe Biden has about 50 years of this vaunted Washington knowledge. On Inauguration Day 2016, Trump had nothing. Who has proven to be the better leader? Vince is beautiful because he exhibits the same stranger semblance as Trump. How many vote had a movement that has a strong dislike for swamp careerists in the McCain/Cheney mold receive?
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Hinderaker even laments that Vance is” also evolving” on problems. Afterwards, why is this a problem? Do we want a chief who is open to learning from and adapting to life’s experiences, which ultimately would allow each of us to develop? Or do we want another Obama, someone who is always right about everything, outside, all the time? People who condonesed openly any sneering criticism of prejudice or kept it a secret from anyone who might disagree? Someone who previously claimed that he was a better ghostwriter than his speechwriters, that he had more knowledge of plan than his policy directors, and that he had a better social director than his social director?
Obama clearly felt he did n’t need any more “evolving”. This was problematic given that before his election, he had hardly any accomplishments another than surviving a lavish lifestyle without any personal sacrifices, and that he was only propelled into office by the color of his body.
Vance was born into a disaster of drug habit, local abuse, and Appalachian poverty. Despite all odds, he should have had a losing lottery seat in one side and a Mountain Dew in the other when he overdosed on meth in a two-lane ball courtyard parking lot long ago. Otherwise, he fought in Iraq, graduated from Yale, became a venture capitalist, and got elected to the Senate. If everyone figured it out on his own, it’s Vance. That he has much humility to” also advance” is not a sign of weakness. It’s a mirror of excellent character. When the Minnesota-based Hinderaker has “evolved” enough to change his state purple by backing a Jeb/Kinzinger solution, I’ll give his premieres a little more trust.
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I’m not therefore “evolved” as to suppose my stamp of approval is required, but in the event that it is ever sought, Vance has it. Vance will be our next vice president if the Philly vote counters do n’t stumble across a few million untallied Biden votes at 4:27 a.m. on November 6. And that will render him the Republican nomination in actuality in 2028. He’ll had four decades of on-the-job education in which to “evolve”.
Trump did n’t pick him as a direct reference to country club personalities. Trump did n’t choose him because he’s a meek, anxiously nodding yes-man. Trump chose him because he is a young, independent thinker with the potential to upend the defunct political group that has done nothing but stubbornly retreat to the left in the last 20 years.
Bravo, President Trump. Congratulations, Senator Vance. Make us proud.
