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surprised Palin’s nowhere on the list

Tuesday, July 5th, 2016

Okay.  So here’s what’s making the rounds for Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate…

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
Tennessee Senator Bob Corker.
Indiana Governor Mike Pence.
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions.

I like that last one, because he’s been roughly the biggest cheer-leader among actual Republican sitting senators.  I suppose the same can be said of Chris Christie– ignoring the body language — though the case is something of the matter that Jeff Session’s politics lie roughly where you’d expect a Republican from Alabama to lie.  On the others:  Bob Corker appears to want out of the Senate, so it looks like he tested the waters by praising a Trump foreign policy speech.  And Mike Pence is odd, because Ted Cruz tried to align himself with Pence and Indiana and attack Trump regarding trans-gendered bathroom politics.

That leaves us with Newt Gingrich, who…

Okay.  Trump / Gingrich 2016?  Now you’re just trolling us.

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where are the kooks and oddities?

Sunday, July 3rd, 2016

It occurs to me, looking over the 2016 Senate election map — where you see a bunch of Republicans up with a a grouplet of vulnerable Republican seats and a smaller bunch of Democrats and one or two vulnerable Democratic seats…

determining whether you’re getting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell or Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer …

But it occurs to me… There aren’t any wackos, or semi-wackos, or novelty figures out there.

You would think somewhere down south– out of the nature of an electorate full of long-forgotten Democrats who’ve switched parties but not registration and stuck with entrenched incumbents– you’d get your Alvin Greenes and Jim Rogers.  Or, a bit more upscale, Mississippi Democrats having to settle for an octogernarian Albert Gore, or that truck driver who was their candidate for governor.  (Brown, as his name?)

Or your weird White Nationalist dude, or that weird John Bircher Ron Paul ish guy who ran to the right of Lindsey Graham…

No perennials of the Bob Kelleher type for the Republicans.

It’s all exasperating, and the only thing I can say is… (1) Well, maybe I have to stop at the top of the ballot. for this type of jollies.  (2) Or… down lower on the ballot.  (3) Still a few more primaries to go, maybe?

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