HOW CAN VP WANNABEES SUPPORT THEIR UNQUALIFIED CANDIDATE?

…The potential VP running mate, New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie

 

GOP VP candidates are running to support one of the most politically ignorant presidential candidates.

 

Since tomorrow is when Donald Trump says he’s going to announce his choice for a VP running mate, I just had to show how much ignorance there is coming out of this current Republican candidate.

 

About a week ago, Donald Trump pledged that he would defend Articles, I, II, and Article XII of the US Constitution.  In fact, he declared he would defend ALL of the Articles of the US Constitution.  Yessiree, The Donald swears that he will defend these Articles to his last breath.

 

Well I’m sorry Donald, but there is no Article XII of the US Constitution.

 

Now, some Republicans are trying to save their candidate’s ass by saying that he must have just confused Constitutional Amendments with Articles.  Well, the XII (12^th) Amendment is the one where it says that in a presidential election, the state’s voters will be voting for both a president and a vice president at the same time.

 

I was not aware that there was some kind of on-going issue of the 12^th Amendment needing to be defended…..? 

 

But I digress……

 

It has become apparent that for those top three potential GOP VP candidates, they are all three running to support and join one of the most politically ignorant candidates to ever run for the most powerful position in the world.

 

To emphasize this statement, here is what each of the three potential VP running mates have said about Donald Trump:

 

From the mouth of the former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, he is the ex-Speaker that had to leave his position in total disgrace.  To quote the official document of his removal, “The Speaker was engaged in conduct that did not reflect creditably on the House of Representatives.”  Newt then left via a “plea bargain”, where he agreed to pay a fine of $300,000 for his false claim of having tax exempt status.

 

So, here is what Newt had to say in support of Donald Trump, hoping that he will be picked as Trump’s running mate.: “I know of no example in American history of a moment where the leader and the American people came together as fast as they have in the last year with Donald Trump.”

 

As to the second individual on Trump’s short list for a VP running mate, here he is, one of the key individuals in the “Bridgegate Scandal”, New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie.  For the George Washington bridge scandal,  this is where multiple individuals that were associated with the governor have already been indicted.  But here is Christie’s comment about The Donald:  “He is the person who I firmly believe will serve this country best.”

 

And finally, for the third individual on the short VP list, here is the Republican Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence.  Yes, the same Mike Pence that is best known for signing a bill that has cost his state millions of dollars and has also lost many new jobs for his state.

 

Governor Pence signed into state law the RFRA,  That’s the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that cost the city of Indianapolis 12 major conventions and up to $60 million in lost economic impact.  The basics of the bill would allow Hoosiers to discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people on the basis of religion.  Days later, a so-called "fix" was signed into law to clarify that the state law was not intended to override civil rights protection.  Even with the “fix”, many corporations have still decided to not do business in, or relocate to Indiana.

 

But the Indiana Governor has said the following about Donald Trump in hoping he is chosen as the VP running mate: “He [Trump] is someone who has connected with everyday Americans like no one since Ronald Reagan.”

 

Some things never change, and in this case, these potential VP running mates are heaping ridiculous praise on their party’s presidential nominee. This process is usually only mildly embarrassing, but when the presidential candidate is Donald Trump, the drooling over the candidate has become absolutely repulsive.

 

When these individuals praise a candidate like Trump with his obvious ignorance of politics and of the Constitution, as well as his contempt for issues such as the freedom of speech, these individuals are just displaying their own ignorance.

 

How can these people even consider attacking Hillary Clinton for dishonesty, when their candidate continues to offer a string of lies such as his seeing thousands of American Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks, and his claim that the US unemployment rate was actually 20%, and his false claim that “the federal omnibus spending bill "funds illegal immigrants coming in and through your border”?  And that’s only a few of the over 100 lies that he has spouted since he began running for president.  (Just do a little Googling and you can easily find the long list of Trump lies.)

 

If nothing else, these VP wannabees should be asked how they can support a man they know is totally unqualified to be the US Commander in Chief.

 

In fact, all three of these individuals have criticized the GOP candidate before they were added to the nominee’s short VP List.

 

Chris Christie has criticized Trump for acting “like a child” and he insisted that Trump is not “suited to be president of the United States.”  It has also been reported that Governor Pence has “privately loathed the presumptive GOP nominee”.  Mr. Gingrich had actually called Mr. Trump’s attacks on a Hispanic judge for his ethnicity “ totally inexcusable.”

 

But today, all three of these conservatives think that Donald Trump is the absolute best choice to be running for President of the United States, that’s right, they want that idiot to be our POTUS.

 

I totally agree with E.J. Dionne who recently wrote, “Treating Mr. Trump as a normal candidate is a grave insult to the country’s democratic tradition. This election year presents an unusually clear moral choice. Not only are Mr. Trump’s supplicants on the wrong side of history, but they are also actively and knowingly aiding the candidacy of an unacceptable, dangerous demagogue for their own personal gain.”

 

So the current choices for GOP VP are:

 

Two US Republican Governors that have an approval rate in their own state of around 35%, and that could probably not be re-elected as their state’s governors.  The third VP candidate is a disgraced ex-Speaker of the House whose political judgement is as bad as the individual that might be choosing the ex-Speaker as a running mate.

 

What a boondoggle…!!!

 

Tomorrow should be interesting, but whomever is chosen will just be another level of devastation to the Party of Lincoln.

 

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