Comments on: J. D. Vance is Trump’s running mate

By: Brian E

Brian E — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:00:17 +0000

Glen Greenwald analyzes who is JD Vance. In his analysis he plays part of a policy speech Vance gave a few months ago and suggests it would be worth watching. He is right.

Who is J.D. Vance and What Does He Really Believe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNeEusa9oA

Here is the speech before the Quincy Institute. He makes the case, among larger geopolitical views why it is in our interests to support Israel and to rely on Europe to support Ukraine. Vance is not an isolationist, but recognizes that America can’t do everything– that we need to make choices based on hierarchy of benefits to American security and interests.

J.D. Vance on a Foreign Policy for the Middle Class
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVzoZwoU_RY

By: junior

junior — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:24:15 +0000

“Appearances only don’t usually produce three children.”

That’s never stopped the claims of the left in the past. Again, this is a playbook that they’ve used in the past. Their worldview of “Republican = Racist” will not allow them to conceive of a different explanation.

By: Cornhead

Cornhead — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:02:47 +0000

Nebraska might pass a winner-take-all in a special session this summer.

By: Bauxite

Bauxite — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:08:56 +0000

I’m on record as being a fan of Vance. I think the pick is positive – though potentially an indication that Trump’s internal polls show him to be well ahead of Biden or Kamala. I don’t think that Vance helps him in the election the way that Youngkin or (perish the thought) Haley would have.

On the whole, though, if the ticket can win, Vance gives me optimism that a second Trump administration will be run a little better than the first. Vance is a smart man with experience in the military as well as at the highest levels of academia (Yale Law), and business (Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm). I don’t think that Vance is inclined to undermine Trump behind his back. And from his writings, public appearances, and the testimony of those who work with him, he doesn’t seem to have forgotten where he came from. Hopefully this is a sign that the clown show of Trump’s first administration isn’t going to be repeated.

My only concern with the pick is that I don’t want JD Vance to become another Sarah Palin – rushed to the head of the stage prematurely or unfairly tarred by the failure of the person at the top of the ticket. I think there is a role for someone with Vance’s perspective for years to come. Twelve years would be a nice round number.

By: Banned Lizard

Banned Lizard — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:46:06 +0000

Knickers in a massive twist: British Media Melts Down over J.D. Vance’s ‘UK Becoming Islamist Country’ Comments We hope that it won't become necessary (for the good of the world) to put the UK down like a rabid animal. But if any of us became a danger to ourselves and others, we'd want our friends to do the right thing.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:29:32 +0000

Mr. Vance has led an interesting life filled with many highs and perhaps more lows. He appears to have remembered and learned from those. He has come from nothing to be a very successful person that has himself said that he wouldn’t have gotten to where he is if he hadn’t learned the lessons of his past life.
In that respect, I guess he is not “unburdened by what has been.” Good on him.

By: Michael K

Michael K — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:42:04 +0000

It looks as though Vance will play the Agnew role in the campaign. Pat Buchanan traveled with and loved the guy. I think he was the only Nixon rep at his funeral. Vance is a lot smarter than Agnew was but I suspect it will be entertaining.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:18:28 +0000

The left will claim that Vance’s marriage is for appearance only, and that his wife is a token. It’s a playbook that they’ve run in the past.
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You could argue that Bill Clinton and John Kennedy had a marriage for appearances. By the time they ran for President, only a residue was left of the marriages of Franklin Roosevelt and Edward Kennedy. Judith Viorst, Woodward & Bernstein, and, in a petty way, Doris Kearns Goodwin attempted to propagate that line in re the Nixons, as part of the chatterati’s long running war on undemonstrative people. It’s a sub rosa element in discussions of Melania Trump.
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Regrettably, the most frequent discussion I’ve seen in the last 20 years accusing someone of having a marriage-for-appearances has been in re the Obamas. There are so many authentic reasons to slam the Obamas it’s an irony that people waste their verbiage on a nonsense one.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:06:34 +0000

I expect the MSM to try to paint him as another Dan Quale.
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They won’t do that. They’ll try some other narrative. Quayle’s shortcomings (real but exaggerated) are not Vance’s and they’d look ridiculous trying to pretend they are.

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:57:41 +0000

Appearances only don’t usually produce three children.