I had actually imagined they stationed someone at major broadcast centers and could, in an emergency, shut it down.
Boy was I wrong. That’s the broadcaster who enforces the 7-second rule. Ignorance fought.
~Max
You misspelled plank.
Don’t know, don’t care. I think the real question is how many people will never vote for a black woman for Vice President no matter how much they like the Presidential candidate. “Conventional wisdom” is that Dan Quayle’s misspeaks hurt George H.W. Bush at least a little, and Sarah Palin cost John McCain more votes than she brought him.
I submit that the answer is relatively few, at least among Republicans. There hasn’t been a black female VP candidate yet, so we don’t have direct evidence of it, but there’s plenty of indirect evidence.
First, lets address the “woman” aspect of your question: You mentioned Sarah Palin. A Republican ticket with a female VP on it got almost 60 million votes in 2008, with the overwhelming majority of those coming from self-identified Republicans. It seems pretty clear to me that Republicans collectively don’t have any major hang-ups about voting for a woman.
So what about “black”? It’s true that the Republicans have not run a black VP candidate, but there have been black Republican candidates for other positions, and the Republicans have not seemed to be shy about voting for them in general elections. I could probably dig up some additional examples if you doubt this, but off the top of my head, the current Lt. Governor of Kentucky is a black female Republican and until the 2018 election, Utah had a black female Republican congresswoman (Mia Love).
If you’ve got some evidence to suggest that the number of people who “will never vote for a black woman for Vice President” is significant, I’d be interested in seeing it, but right now it looks like fiction.
Actually, the FIRST question should be, will there be any Republican party left after what Trump’s doing to it.
I have to figure post-Trump, the Republican Party average IQ will rise, because he is surely dragging them down a bit.
But more likely after his defeat in 2020 (inshallah), he will be loudly and perpetually yelling that his second term was “stolen” and if he isn’t the nominee in 2024, it’s because the Republicans have turned their backs on him and they’ll be sorry! This will continue until he sooner-or-later dies (inshallah).
What makes you think he’s going to make it to 2024, and age 77? You see what he EATS, don’t you?
I expect he’s made his children sign mandatory organ-donation contracts in case he needs them.
I have no evidence to support my statement, but I will offer my opinion that there is some portion of voters, who would never accept a black, a woman, or a black woman as President, and the thought of such a woman being “a heartbeat away” from being President is too much for them. It is also my opinion that while they are crazy nutjobs who, if they vote at all, vote for fringe candidates, some of them voted for Donald Trump. And those voters would find some fringe candidate to vote for if Trump chose a black woman as his 2020 running mate.
Whether we define that number of voters as “significant” is strictly opinion. But given how close the popular vote was in many states in 2016, it’s my opinion that Donald Trump needs every vote he can possibly get.
You have your opinion, I have mine. As for 2024, my offer still stands for anyone on this board.
I’d actually be interested in any detailed forecast of next year’s election from my conservative friends here because it would make for a good argument. Really, anything beyond “he surprised us once” would be great to read.
I see no reason Republicans would hold on to Trump in any way once he is out of the White House. Reading many posts on Facebook written by conservatives, they already have turned on Bush Sr., Bush Jr., McCain and Romney in such a way that you’d never have guessed that they were fervent supporters of them in the past. Once Trump is gone, his usefulness is absolutely gone as well. They’ll firmly jump aboard with whomever is steering at the helm next - Tom Cotton, Ben Sasse or whomever.
This isn’t too relevant but it made me remember a Bushism (though I doubt Bush ever approved of Trump):
~Max
Probably planning on harvesting Barron first; he’s the youngest and freshest.
Ever read “The Foundation Trilogy”? Remember what happened when The Mule died? That’s what it will be like when trump goes. They will abandon their present form of insanity and revert to their prior form of insanity.
You support Republican disenfranchisement efforts if it means you get your way. Weird that a while back you declared yourself to be a patriot. I doubt you’d be as sanguine about the matter if roles were reversed and decent Americans were making efforts to disenfranchise right-wing scum.
Of course he could, and he has. Trump doesn’t understand psychology or sociology. He doesn’t know how to read people, really. He does know what his base likes, but that’s mostly because his base mirrors his simplistic, pseudo-patriotic, ignorant views. He’s been successful at conning people because when he was in the private sector, he hired the wiliest attorneys and the most brilliant toadies and told them what he wanted. Their job was to figure out how to make it happen. He doesn’t know much about power and doesn’t need to: he’s got it, and his base is so infatuated (Call it narcissism.), they’ll go along with anything he says or does.
John Bolton.
He’s as belligerent and as big an asshole and liar as Trump. Not quite as crass and probably not as good with the tweets, but he loves bombs. He should be able to pick up the “America should quit getting pushed around” theme wherever Trump leaves off.
“If”? Left-wingers ARE trying to disenfranchise Republicans.
No they aren’t. You support Republican disenfranchisement efforts if it means you get your way. Weird that a while back you declared yourself to be a patriot.