[TheRealThing]

A lot of names are being thrown about, Ben Carson, Christ Christie, Marco Rubio, Joni Ernst.

I believe America will ultimately do herself a great injustice if Governor Mike Huckabee does not at some point realize his elective place in the sun. IMHO, he would be an excellent choice to fill the VP half of the ticket, providing balance and conservative insight for Mr Trump.

What say you?

[Demarcus ware]

I can honestly say I have no idea who he will pick. I've seen a lot of names thrown around today. Can't wait to see who it will be.

[jetpilot]

I know it won't happen but I would love to see Newt Gingrich be Trump's running mate.

On a lighter note, my sources are telling me Hoot Gibson is lobbying hard for the position.:biggrin:

[Hoot Gibson]

I know it won't happen but I would love to see Newt Gingrich be Trump's running mate.

On a lighter note, my sources are telling me Hoot Gibson is lobbying hard for the position.:biggrin:

Your sources are wrong. Even a great VP candidate cannot make up for a weak candidate at the top of the ticket.

Seriously, Kasich is probably the best pick that he could make politically. In a close race, it might make the difference in Ohio. Naming a woman to the ticket, such as Haley, might be better because it would deflect some of the criticism about his relationships with women.

Gingrich did not make a good presidential candidate and not enough people remember him as Speaker of the House for him to have any impact on the campaign. But Gingrich does speak in long, coherent sentences, so he would add some balance to the ticket in that regard.

[Spirit100]

Ron Jeremy would be a fitting piece in the Trump circus!

[Demarcus ware]

Ron Jeremy would be a fitting piece in the Trump circus!

Yeah we could keep going with the circus of losers that keep losing election after election or better yet the ones that have contributed to Obamas policies by doing absolutely nothing. Sure that circus is much better nicker:

[WideRight05]

I honestly don't know who it would be. We know Rubio is out of the question, and Trump has destroyed any chance of a solid relationship with most of the other candidates. It would have to be someone like Kasich, Christie, or Carson.

It's likely going to be Kasich, for one thing, his ties to Ohio. Carson lost a lot of his supporters (many of whom did not like Trump) when he decided to jump on the Trump bandwagon even after Trump mocked many points Carson made in his autobiography, comparing his psychology to that of a child molester. While he might have earned a few Trump supporters in his pocket by announcing his support for Trump, he won't swing a lot of people over. I think he has already been vetted out and he is going to likely involved in an area where he can have an impact on the health care system.

Christie seems to be more involved in the organizational aspect of the campaign and the Trump administration rather than running as the VP.

Kasich likely hung around to steal votes from Rubio and Cruz to prevent them from having a shot at taking out Trump. My guess is that Trump decides to go with a moderate like Kasich that may lean a little more conservative from a fiscal standpoint.

Trump may have come on strong attacking the establishment, but he has also destroyed any chance of relationships with potential allies - Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and possibly Mike Lee - who could have played a key role in uniting with him against the GOP establishment. Instead, he has people like Christie, Kasich, and Carson behind him - none of the three of which I would trust.

[WideRight05]

Yeah we could keep going with the circus of losers that keep losing election after election or better yet the ones that have contributed to Obamas policies by doing absolutely nothing. Sure that circus is much better nicker:

You mean moderates like Dole, McCain, and Romney?

Trump is closer to the center than all three of them. We had consistent conservative candidates this election that very likely would have taken Hillary out, and we blew the opportunity.

[RunItUpTheGut]

That's right. You blew it. Time to get over it and jump on emperor Trumps bandwagon. There's still room but it's filling fast.

[WideRight05]

That's right. You blew it. Time to get over it and jump on emperor Trumps bandwagon. There's still room but it's filling fast.

I guess I'll just go change my avatar again. Oh wait. :biglmao:

You can't even determine the correct poster you're messaging. Let alone Donald Trump's actual positions.

[RunItUpTheGut]

I guess I'll just go change my avatar again. Oh wait. :biglmao:

You can't even determine the correct poster you're messaging. Let alone Donald Trump's actual positions.

I would learn of the other 17 GOP candidates positions but that kind of seems post partum now doesn't it? :biglmao:

[Hoot Gibson]

I would learn of the other 17 GOP candidates positions but that kind of seems post partum now doesn't it? :biglmao:

After birth? I would have said postmortem, as in after the death of the Republican Party.

[WideRight05]

I would learn of the other 17 GOP candidates positions but that kind of seems post partum now doesn't it? :biglmao:

So you're admitting that you went through the election process not doing your research on the candidates. :biglmao:

[Spirit100]

Yeah we could keep going with the circus of losers that keep losing election after election or better yet the ones that have contributed to Obamas policies by doing absolutely nothing. Sure that circus is much better nicker:

Suffice to say I'd have no problem having Ron Jeremy debate drumpf on the the potential improvements our country could make...

trumps feedback has been very telling....his choice for VP will either win it for him or not. Because he isn't going to win this on the "outsider card." And that's a sad state of affairs considering killary as his opponent.

Time for folks to realize school, city, county, state politics hold more water than these horses arses!!!

[Demarcus ware]

You mean moderates like Dole, McCain, and Romney?

Trump is closer to the center than all three of them. We had consistent conservative candidates this election that very likely would have taken Hillary out, and we blew the opportunity.

Sorry Wide Right but being conservative has gotten us absolutely nowhere. You seen where those consistent conservatives landed in this primary. While i do believe many of the candidates would have beaten Killary, they didn't beat Trump, so we really won't know. The populist won out this cycle because of the actions or non actions of politicians in DC now, is it fair to lump them all together? Not really, i'm sure some do better than others, but people are looking at them as one big group of do nothings. While being a certain level of conservative only matters to some, some of us don't really care as strongly about it. But hey, that's what makes America great, we all get our own opinions, and mine is i think Trump will surround himself with the right people when it's all said and done, and things will look a little brighter :Thumbs:

[RunItUpTheGut]

After birth? I would have said postmortem, as in after the death of the Republican Party.

That was my original intention.
I would be more than happy with the death of the GOP. They're all moderate Democrats anyways.

[WideRight05]

Sorry Wide Right but being conservative has gotten us absolutely nowhere. You seen where those consistent conservatives landed in this primary. While i do believe many of the candidates would have beaten Killary, they didn't beat Trump, so we really won't know. The populist won out this cycle because of the actions or non actions of politicians in DC now, is it fair to lump them all together? Not really, i'm sure some do better than others, but people are looking at them as one big group of do nothings. While being a certain level of conservative only matters to some, some of us don't really care as strongly about it. But hey, that's what makes America great, we all get our own opinions, and mine is i think Trump will surround himself with the right people when it's all said and done, and things will look a little brighter :Thumbs:

Being conservative has gotten us somewhere, the problem is that the Republicans have not used it much since the 1980's. Too often they have given in to the fear pushed by the media, that they need to send a moderate because they would turn off voters by sending someone too conservative - all while the Democrats send candidates like Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders that are far to the left. As mentioned in the prior post, they sent candidates such as Dole, Romney, and McCain that were more moderate but tried to pander to the right when election time rolled around. That did not work out. Name me a presidential candidate that was a real strong conservative since Ronald Reagan. Almost every single one of them were slightly right-of-center candidates that often tried to pander to the right when election time rolled around.

Our society has degraded to the point where people would rather have a candidate that is "cool" rather than competent. The Democrats figured that out with Barack Obama in the way they insulted his opponents, that anyone who disagrees is a racist, the opponents are these backwoods bigots, etc. Now Trump has insulted anybody and everybody that has gotten in his way in the least bit. At first I felt he was just trying to take out the establishment, but when he shoved aside the non-establishment members that were actually trying to work and make a difference in the House and Senate, that was when I became concerned that it was about more to him than just knocking off the establishment. He has chased away key allies that would be crucial to his agenda being pushed in Congress. We already are for sure going to lose Rubio in the Senate. The establishment's lack of action may have helped Trump, but all in all it was his constant use of insults and entertaining the crowds that led him to be victorious in the primary campaign.

You mention that Trump beat out these conservatives, but using that logic, Barack Obama has won more votes than anybody who has ever run for president, so should we support him? Should we support Bernie Sanders because of the mass support he is getting to the point where the only thing keeping Clinton going is the super delegates? McCain, Romney, and Dole won primary elections as well. Often times (See 08 especially) the conservative votes were split or the Republican establishment heavily pushed a candidate because it was "their time," e.g. Dole or Romney.

[RunItUpTheGut]

So you're admitting that you went through the election process not doing your research on the candidates. :biglmao:

Not one bit.
My entire voting preface was cruz looks like a rat so we better not vote for him.
Seems most of the others thought the same with the shellackings Trump gave him.

[RunItUpTheGut]

Being conservative has gotten us somewhere, the problem is that the Republicans have not used it much since the 1980's. Too often they have given in to the fear pushed by the media, that they need to send a moderate because they would turn off voters by sending someone too conservative - all while the Democrats send candidates like Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders that are far to the left. As mentioned in the prior post, they sent candidates such as Dole, Romney, and McCain that were more moderate but tried to pander to the right when election time rolled around. That did not work out. Name me a presidential candidate that was a real strong conservative since Ronald Reagan. Almost every single one of them were slightly right-of-center candidates that often tried to pander to the right.

Our society has degraded to the point where people would rather have a candidate that is "cool" rather than competent. The Democrats figured that out with Barack Obama in the way they insulted his opponents, that anyone who disagrees is a racist, the opponents are these backwoods bigots, etc. Now Trump has insulted anybody and everybody that has gotten in his way in the least. At first I felt he was just trying to take out the establishment, but when he shoved aside the non-establishment members that were actually trying to work and make a difference in the House and Senate, that was when I became concerned that it was much more than that. He has chased away key allies that would be crucial to his agenda being pushed in Congress. The establishment's lack of action may have helped Trump, but all in all it was his constant use of insults and entertaining the crowds that led him to be victorious in the primary campaign.

You mention that Trump beat out these conservatives, but using that logic, Barack Obama has won more votes than anybody who has ever run for president, so should we support him? Should we support Bernie Sanders because of the mass support he is getting to the point where the only thing keeping Clinton going is the super delegates? McCain, Romney, and Dole won primary elections as well. Often times (See 08 especially) the conservative votes were split or the Republican establishment heavily pushed a candidate because it was "their time," e.g. Dole or Romney.

nicker: 6 years from now into Trumps second term it will be nice to know Jeb and Ted can come back here to see they'll still have followers

[WideRight05]

nicker: 6 years from now into Trumps second term it will be nice to know Jeb and Ted can come back here to see they'll still have followers

Yeah, the same Ted Cruz that you were all about just a few months ago.

That post was in reply to DeMarcus Ware, I see you were too embarrassed to reply to the fact that you admitted that you didn't research the candidates. :biglmao:

[RunItUpTheGut]

Yeah, the same Ted Cruz that you were all about just a few months ago.

That post was in reply to DeMarcus Ware, I see you were too embarrassed to reply to the fact that you admitted that you didn't research the candidates. :biglmao:

I told you before. I would have been fine with a Cruz presidency. I'm not the spiteful butt hurt person that his followers seem to be. I would vote for anybody over Hillary. Like it or not Trump is your nominee and the head of the GOP. Cruz will fall in line or be shoved out all together. No reason to continue crying about it. It's already over.

[WideRight05]

I told you before. I would have been fine with a Cruz presidency. I'm not the spiteful butt hurt person that his followers seem to be. I would vote for anybody over Hillary. Like it or not Trump is your nominee and the head of the GOP. Cruz will fall in line or be shoved out all together. No reason to continue crying about it. It's already over.

See, that's all you can do is try to continue to taunt. You've never once got on here and tried to defend Trump from the time the election started so I wouldn't expect you to now. I would have been fine with Cruz, Rubio, or another non-establishment candidate. My contention, had you paid attention, is that this is not about Ted Cruz or whoever. This is about a moderate candidate that has fooled a lot of conservatives. You didn't defend Trump one bit the entire way, and now you're saying that should jump on board.

Cruz was the last line of defense against Trump. I would have taken any candidate over Trump with the exception of George Pataki. Of course, you probably wouldn't know who Pataki is since you failed to research the candidates.

I will keep going on about this whether you like or not. Using your logic, then we should have just sat back when Obama won the presidency in 2008 and 2012. I don't cave to somebody who can't even get there, their, and they're correct in a sentence. Your boy may have won the primary, but the Republican Party and the United States are going to be set back many more years because of it. You happy?

[TheRealThing]

There have been several damning books to come out lately about the Clinton legacy, I suspect similar releases on Obama will one day eclipse that list. Notable among the list however, are The "Legacy of Corruption" which is an expose of the Clinton-Reno Justice Department, and "Clinton Cash" which deals with the Clinton Foundation and the like; And there is a movie coming out this fall or possibly this summer based on the book "Clinton Cash." It has been suggested that one might want to indulge further vetting by reading these books or at least watching the movie before we allow the GOP to implode completely. Trailer--- http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/04/2...ng-cannes/

We at this point know two things, what Clinton says she will do, and what Trump says he will do. The two presumptive nominees, one an avowed liberal/progressive and one a renaissance conservative, could not be farther apart in their stated intentions.

If Trump is the dark lord of lies being painted by the Rich Lowry's of this world, I doubt that the Congress would be all that adverse to impeachment proceedings to remedy the situation. The argument of distrust could be made about anybody actually, but I really doubt that those newly clairvoyant self appointed watch dogs of freedom would actually be able to discern the difference. They certainly missed it in the case of Mr Obama, who is worthy of all the contempt IMHO. Welcome to the transformation, which BTW, will bring all the conservative fears to fruition as a matter of course. All Republicans have to do to ensure it, is to keep up the circular firing squad, or allow Hillary to succeed him, or and it will be lights out. Republicans should be engrossed in the national campaign, that's the battlefield. But no, we'd rather throw hand grenades inside the tent.

[RunItUpTheGut]

See, that's all you can do is try to continue to taunt. You've never once got on here and tried to defend Trump from the time the election started so I wouldn't expect you to now. I would have been fine with Cruz, Rubio, or another non-establishment candidate. My contention, had you paid attention, is that this is not about Ted Cruz or whoever. This is about a moderate candidate that has fooled a lot of conservatives. You didn't defend Trump one bit the entire way, and now you're saying that should jump on board.

Cruz was the last line of defense against Trump. I would have taken any candidate over Trump with the exception of George Pataki. Of course, you probably wouldn't know who Pataki is since you failed to research the candidates.

I will keep going on about this whether you like or not. Using your logic, then we should have just sat back when Obama won the presidency in 2008 and 2012. I don't cave to somebody who can't even get there, their, and they're correct in a sentence. Your boy may have won the primary, but the Republican Party and the United States are going to be set back many more years because of it. You happy?

Sorry I refuse to argue with you, hoot, and the rest of the cruz crazies.
There's no sense in it. What's done is done and I've stated my opinion and what I've thought about Trumps proposed policies. But I refuse to get angry at the little cheap shots at Trump who let's be honest, are only read by the 5 of us who are here anyways.
But keep it going. Acting like I donto know anything adds fuel to the troll fire.
Lord emperor Trump will get the respect he deserves.

[RunItUpTheGut]

There have been several damning books to come out lately about the Clinton legacy, I suspect similar releases on Obama will one day eclipse that list. Notable among the list however, are The "Legacy of Corruption" which is an expose of the Clinton-Reno Justice Department, and "Clinton Cash" which deals with the Clinton Foundation and the like; And there is a movie coming out this fall or possibly this summer based on the book "Clinton Cash." It has been suggested that one might want to indulge further vetting by reading these books or at least watching the movie before we allow the GOP to implode completely. Trailer--- http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/04/2...ng-cannes/

We at this point know two things, what Clinton says she will do, and what Trump says he will do. The two presumptive nominees, one an avowed liberal/progressive and one a renaissance conservative, could not be farther apart in their stated intentions.

If Trump is the dark lord of lies being painted by the Rich Lowry's of this world, I doubt that the Congress would be all that adverse to impeachment proceedings to remedy the situation. The argument of distrust could be made about anybody actually, but I really doubt that those newly clairvoyant self appointed watch dogs of freedom would actually be able to discern the difference. They certainly missed it in the case of Mr Obama, who is worthy of all the contempt IMHO. Welcome to the transformation, which BTW, will bring all the conservative fears to fruition as a matter of course. All Republicans have to do to ensure it, is to keep up the circular firing squad, or allow Hillary to succeed him, or and it will be lights out. Republicans should be engrossed in the national campaign, that's the battlefield. But no, we'd rather throw hand grenades inside the tent.

Except for the very few die hards, the bashing of Trump will stop on a dime once the attention fully turns to the general. Repubs will vote for Trump. They can throw all the grenades they want. They're always duds.

[WideRight05]

Sorry I refuse to argue with you, hoot, and the rest of the cruz crazies.
There's no sense in it. What's done is done and I've stated my opinion and what I've thought about Trumps proposed policies. But I refuse to get angry at the little cheap shots at Trump who let's be honest, are only read by the 5 of us who are here anyways.
But keep it going. Acting like I donto know anything adds fuel to the troll fire.
Lord emperor Trump will get the respect he deserves.

Read this slowly to yourself. This isn't about Ted Cruz and liking him or not, this is about the Republicans sending another moderate with the potential to cave to the left-wing agenda.

You haven't said squat in regard to your opinion or Trump'a policies. You may know a thing or two, but you sure haven't shown it. This time last year you were saying that anything other than Cruz is bad, now anything other than Trump is bad. You're scared to go directly at me or Hoot because you know you've already been badly destroyed and wouldn't be able to provide anything to back your claims up.

TRT, and I hate to drag him into this, but agree or not, he throws out information to back up any claim he makes. And I have disagreed with his assessments. But at least he provides a credible argument. I highly doubt he appreciates a cheerleader trying to slap him on the butt every time he makes a post. TRT and Hoot, despite their differences right now, both provide relevant information and can construct a lucid argument as to their reasoning. You have not.

[Demarcus ware]

Being conservative has gotten us somewhere, the problem is that the Republicans have not used it much since the 1980's. Too often they have given in to the fear pushed by the media, that they need to send a moderate because they would turn off voters by sending someone too conservative - all while the Democrats send candidates like Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders that are far to the left. As mentioned in the prior post, they sent candidates such as Dole, Romney, and McCain that were more moderate but tried to pander to the right when election time rolled around. That did not work out. Name me a presidential candidate that was a real strong conservative since Ronald Reagan. Almost every single one of them were slightly right-of-center candidates that often tried to pander to the right when election time rolled around.

Our society has degraded to the point where people would rather have a candidate that is "cool" rather than competent. The Democrats figured that out with Barack Obama in the way they insulted his opponents, that anyone who disagrees is a racist, the opponents are these backwoods bigots, etc. Now Trump has insulted anybody and everybody that has gotten in his way in the least bit. At first I felt he was just trying to take out the establishment, but when he shoved aside the non-establishment members that were actually trying to work and make a difference in the House and Senate, that was when I became concerned that it was about more to him than just knocking off the establishment. He has chased away key allies that would be crucial to his agenda being pushed in Congress. We already are for sure going to lose Rubio in the Senate. The establishment's lack of action may have helped Trump, but all in all it was his constant use of insults and entertaining the crowds that led him to be victorious in the primary campaign.

You mention that Trump beat out these conservatives, but using that logic, Barack Obama has won more votes than anybody who has ever run for president, so should we support him? Should we support Bernie Sanders because of the mass support he is getting to the point where the only thing keeping Clinton going is the super delegates? McCain, Romney, and Dole won primary elections as well. Often times (See 08 especially) the conservative votes were split or the Republican establishment heavily pushed a candidate because it was "their time," e.g. Dole or Romney.

That was my point. Republicans haven't used it or in fact haven't really done anything in a long time. That has allowed an opening for someone to stand up and say no more. Granted it was a Billionaire reality tv star, but i'll take it over Hillary. We have no idea what he will do, and while that is a scary thought, i'll still take the chance over another 8 years of what is known with Hillary. Republicans have gotten lazy, or just scared, but at some point someone from this party has to stand up and stop worrying about what label the media puts on them, otherwise today is our future. Today Obama is trying to order Schools to open bathrooms for everyone, being the bully he is, and the cowards in DC, he will end up with his way unless someone stands up. The only Republican i've seen say anything so far, is Matt Bevin. Although i haven't looked too hard to see what's being said, it's disgusting enough without seeing all the liberals praising him for it in the comments section nicker:

Me personally, i don't really care who votes for who. It's the Freedom of choice that's the greatest thing, plus to be honest the whole NeverTrump crowd doesn't really make a difference one way or the other. A lot of them will still vote for Trump when the time comes, just have to let them get through the 5 stages of grief and they will come around. Like i said before, i think Trump beats Hillary easily, and he will surround himself with the right people, and the future will be somewhat brighter for us all.

[Hoot Gibson]

See, that's all you can do is try to continue to taunt. You've never once got on here and tried to defend Trump from the time the election started so I wouldn't expect you to now. I would have been fine with Cruz, Rubio, or another non-establishment candidate. My contention, had you paid attention, is that this is not about Ted Cruz or whoever. This is about a moderate candidate that has fooled a lot of conservatives. You didn't defend Trump one bit the entire way, and now you're saying that should jump on board.

Cruz was the last line of defense against Trump. I would have taken any candidate over Trump with the exception of George Pataki. Of course, you probably wouldn't know who Pataki is since you failed to research the candidates.

I will keep going on about this whether you like or not. Using your logic, then we should have just sat back when Obama won the presidency in 2008 and 2012. I don't cave to somebody who can't even get there, their, and they're correct in a sentence. Your boy may have won the primary, but the Republican Party and the United States are going to be set back many more years because of it. You happy?

I would have taken any candidate over Trump if forced to choose one - and that includes Pataki and even Lindsey Graham, whom I despise. Pataki was actually a pretty decent governor, IMO. Trump is the most dishonest and dangerous candidate that I have ever watched. Hillary may be as evil, but she is not transparently evil the way that Trump is. Trump does not even try to hide how he would use the power of the federal government to punish his enemies. I doubt that there is a man alive with a longer list of perceived and real enemies.

[Hoot Gibson]

I told you before. I would have been fine with a Cruz presidency. I'm not the spiteful butt hurt person that his followers seem to be. I would vote for anybody over Hillary. Like it or not Trump is your nominee and the head of the GOP. Cruz will fall in line or be shoved out all together. No reason to continue crying about it. It's already over.

Trump is not my nominee. Virginia does not allow registration by party. I would have re-registered as a Libertarian or Constitution Party member if I had been registered as a Republican when Cruz suspended his campaign. I have no desire to be a member of a party that would nominate Donald Trump as a presidential candidate.

[TheRealThing]

Trump is not my nominee. Virginia does not allow registration by party. I would have re-registered as a Libertarian or Constitution Party member if I had been registered as a Republican when Cruz suspended his campaign. I have no desire to be a member of a party that would nominate Donald Trump as a presidential candidate.

Rand Paul endorsed Trump.

"You know, I've always said I will endorse the nominee," said Paul. "I think it's almost a patriotic duty of anyone in Kentucky to oppose the Clintons, because I think they're rotten to the core, I think they're dishonest people, and ultimately I think we have to be concerned with what's best for Kentucky." ----Rand Paul


Count me in! :Thumbs: