(06-29-2020 07:30 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 05:30 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 11:35 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I was not for Trump in 2016 during the nomination process, because I thought he couldn't win. I didn't vote for him in the general, because the way I saw it the best he could be was better than the best Hillary could be, but the worst he could be was worse than the worst Hillary could be. So I voted for Gary Johnson and was very happy with that vote. In the end, Trump might have been the only republican who could have beaten Hillary.
Looking at 2020, I think he may be the only republican who can lose to senile Joe Biden. And I think Biden is a Trojan horse, intended to get his nose under the tent, and then be 25th Amendmented in order to install whatever radical VP candidate he chooses. So I am very fearful of the outcome in November.
With that in mind, I wonder about something. Suppose Trump decided that one term was enough, and republicans nominated someone like Nikki Hailey. I don't think Pence works, because I think his appeal is too narrow, but he could stay on the ticket as VP. You'd have a candidate with much greater appeal to women and minorities, and she'd clearly have the age and dementia issues versus Biden. Do that and return to being the Party of Lincoln, with a platform based around ending the welfare plantation and increasing economic opportunity for people of color. Both the black and hispanic communities are already pretty conservative on the religious front, so you'd have a natural in with them there, and if you offered them something for their pocketbook you might get 30% of their vote. Do that with blacks and hispanics, and this election is a rout.
The one negative I see about Hailey is that I'd really like to see Tim Scott as the VP nominee, and you wouldn't want two from South Carolina in a close election because of the constitutional provision regarding electoral votes. I suppose she could replace Pence with somebody like Conde Rice, but that might be too much of a foreign policy emphasis (former Sec State plus former UN ambassador), so I could see sticking with Pence.

I would hate it if the Republicans got into quotas like the Democrats.

I'm not proposing it as a quota, I'm proposing it as a way to win an election.