July 15, 2024
At 39, should this mouth-off be Trump's running mate?

Here's an excerpt from PBS... 

In a 2016 interview with Charlie Rose while promoting his book "Hillbilly Elegy," Vance called himself "a Never Trump guy" and said of the soon-to-be-president, "I never liked him." He told NPR that year, "I can't stomach Trump." He wrote an op-ed for The New York Times titled: "Mr. Trump Is Unfit For Our Nation's Highest Office."
Vance said he didn't vote for Trump in 2016 and his former roommate shared images of a text message Vance sent him that year in which he called Trump "cynical" and said he could be "America's Hitler."

Here's what I say...

I don't think I see how this guy's youth and ignorance allow him to call a republican candidate Hitler, or even remotely qualify him to be Trump's running mate. They keep saying this guy's articulate. He's articulate. He's articulate. That doesn't make him passionate, powerful and strong like Scott, or intelligent and full of vision like Ramaswamy.

 He's a kiss-ass. He articulated his point about a Trump-Hitler comparison very well. Kind of like grotesquely. He later apologized, saying that Trump turned out to be good president. Does that mean if he'd have been a "bad" president he would have been responsible for the death of sixty million Americans? Does Vance often make grossly unequal comparisons like that? Is he unable to control his emotions? I'd have felt better if he had said that he was overcome with something and unable to control his mouth, saying something that was very wrong, incorrect and immature. He obviously articulates without first thinking. And he obviously would do anything to get ahead and now that he's there I would expect him to be the vote against a Republican led bill in the Senate in the case of a tie.