Thread: Ann Coulter: My VP Prediction — Donald Trump’s First Mistake

Ann Coulter: My VP Prediction — Donald Trump’s First Mistake



by ANN COULTER
6 Jul 2016

My vice presidential prediction is: Trump is about to make his first mistake. I knew this would happen as soon as he hired campaign consultants, rather than relying on his gut. If these campaign consultants were any good, their first piece of advice to Trump would be, “Fire us immediately!”

Trump’s advisers are undoubtedly telling him he’s got the “outsider” image covered. He needs someone with experience in Washington — as if presidents don’t have staffs — an elected Republican official with solid standing in the GOP, preferably a sitting senator or governor, who will give the ticket gravitas and heft.

This is completely wrong. Trump isn’t a standard-issue GOP, trying to balance the ticket to get his party into power. He’s starting a new party! He’s just blown up the old GOP. Instead of a party for, by and of globalist plutocrats, the new Trumpian party is a party of Americans for America.

How is Trump going to find a decent running mate from among the Republicans who have gotten ahead under the old model of sucking up to donors and lobbyists?

Almost any sitting Republican senator or governor would be total counter-programming to Trump’s message. One searches the country in vain to find a half-dozen elected Republicans who have not supported amnesty, job-killing trade deals, Wall Street bailouts — or all of the above. Trump’s message is: I’m leaving the deadwood behind.

We always secretly suspected Republicans were selling out the country for their own interests, but now Trump has flushed them all out. At least the GOP isn’t being subtle. Their position is: No, we will never allow anyone to be president who wants to do something about the border.

The moment Trump chooses his vice presidential candidate, every person in the media will be handed a personalized crowbar to pry daylight between Trump his nominee.

What do you say about Mr. Trump’s comment 19 years ago in an appearance on Howard Stern? Can we really trust our nuclear codes to a man who likes attractive women?

If Trump picks a typical Republican, the odds are better than even that his nominee will end up withdrawing in order to win the good opinion of The New York Times.

Once a week until the election, there will be some fresh media hysteria about a Trump pop-off, and his nominee will come under enormous pressure to repudiate Trump — destroying Trump’s candidacy and winning himself a lifetime of media adulation. The nominee will have visions of well-compensated board positions, Time magazine’s Man of the Year, meetings with actresses, his own show on Fox News — maybe NBC! — and not one, but two covers on Vanity Fair.

How much pushing would it take for any of the GOP donor shills to sell out Trump for the media’s admiration?A month ago, Newt became a media darling for denouncing Trump’s attacks on a judge who belongs to a Hispanic supremacist organization. You could probably get Rubio for a decent bass boat.

If Trump chooses a vice president who supports cheap labor for the donor class, how long before both parties decide to impeach President Trump?

Gingrich lobbied for the instant legalization of illegals because his benefactor, superglue heiress Helen Krieble, needed cheap labor for her horse farm. Trump impeached.

Pence’s big immigration initiative was mass legalization for cheap foreign workers if they went home first, with any employer request bringing them right back. Trump impeached.

Sen. Bob Corker was one of only 14 Republicans to vote for Rubio’s nation-destroying amnesty bill — and went the extra mile to pass it. Trump impeached.

Chris Christie’s temporary Senate nominee was one of the other 14, after Sen. Chuck Schumer convinced Christie to support amnesty in a single phone call. Trump impeached.

Trump doesn’t need a vice president from the party he’s just buried.

Everyone thinks Trump’s model should be Reagan, who chose his main primary rival as his vice presidential nominee. It’s true that the important thing is for Trump to win. Reagan couldn’t have saved the country if he had lost, and nor can Trump.

But, apart from signing off on amnesty, choosing a Bush for his vice president was Reagan’s biggest mistake, foisting this pestilence on the country for no reason. Reagan won in a landslide. Did he really need to worry about carrying Greenwich, Connecticut?

It took 26 years for voters to correct Reagan’s vice presidential mistake, finally rejecting the Bush brand beginning with the 2006 midterm elections. This year, they are trying to correct Reagan’s amnesty mistake. Why pick a vice president who won’t let the voters do that?

If any of the establishment Republicans brought one thing to the table, it would be a different story. If they brought a roll of nickels — great, Trump should be bowing and scraping to them. Hey, look! Chris Christie has 5,000 unused campaign balloons in his garage — bring him in!

But these guys bring nothing. They’ll only be a drain on Trump’s campaign.

The model shouldn’t be Reagan, but Lincoln, whose candidacy also introduced a new party — one that arose from the exact same battle roiling the party today. The rich wanted cheap labor — slavery — and both parties, the Democrats and the Whigs, were happy to give it to them.

Lincoln’s new Republican Party stood for the soul of the nation against the self-interest of the rich and powerful, just as Trump’s does today.

Lincoln didn’t choose some eminent Whig politician to give his ticket gravitas. He chose Hannibal Hamlin. No one other than a “Jeopardy!” contestant even remembers Hamlin’s name today. He didn’t exactly set the world on fire.

Hamlin was a former Democrat, didn’t meet Lincoln until after the election, served only one term as Lincoln’s vice president, was not liked by first lady Mary Todd and didn’t work closely with the president.

He made no sense as Lincoln’s vice president on any level, except the only one that mattered: Hamlin was ferociously opposed to slavery — the new party’s signature issue. He strongly supported Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, arguing that slaves should be armed. As soon as slavery was ended, Lincoln dropped Hamlin as his vice president.

The official GOP’s opposition to Trump is the modern slavery party’s version of the Civil War, fought by plutocrats with money and media.

For his vice president, Trump needs anyone — from business, academia, the military or the political world — who is Hannibal Hamlin on immigration, a warrior to defend our country from the rich’s predatory demands for cheap foreign labor. His running mate also needs to be smart and courageous and not in love with his own press notices.

Among the possibilities Trump ought to be considering are people like Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo (the latter two are up for re-election this year, but perhaps they can run for both offices simultaneously).

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is one of approximately one elected officials I completely trust to protect Americans from the cheap labor-demanding rich — which is why Trump needs to keep him in the Senate.

The same consultants who would have told Trump to never, ever mention immigration are telling him now that he needs a Christie, a Newt, a Corker, a Rubio — or a woman. (Because that’s how Margaret Thatcher emerged. No one had ever heard her name until the British Conservative Party decided it needed a woman on the ticket!) (That’s sarcasm.)

If the consultants prevail with Trump, our only hope is that the conventional wisdom about vice presidents being irrelevant is correct — at least for the six months of a Trump presidency before impeachment.

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presid...nald-trump-vp/

If Sessions needs to stay in the Senate...the best choice is SCOTT BROWN FOR VP.

Scott Brown for VP!

Considering the fact that he's never served as Governor or in the U.S. Congress, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach would be an interesting pick.

Kris Kobach: The Man Behind the Immigration Crackdown



Tony Dokoupil

January 29, 2011


Kris Kobach: The Man Behind the Immigration Crackdown
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Kris Kobach has written or defended almost every hard-line bill against illegal immigrants in the country. Tony Dokoupil on the lightning rod’s elitist background, ties to John Ashcroft, and charges of racism.

When President Obama skipped lightly over immigration reform in his State of the Union address, wheels surely turned in the minds of local lawmakers nationwide. Frustrated by the federal stalemate, cities and states have crafted their own curbs on illegal residency, punishing businesses and landlords that cater to the undocumented. Arizona even criminalized paperless trespassing, ordering police with "reasonable suspicion" to check people’s immigration status. And last week, it went even further, introducing a bill with the unprecedented aim of denying—or at least attempting to deny—citizenship to children whose parents are here on the sly.


What unites these bills, however, is more than their hard line approach to border control. It’s their ties a single man: Kris Kobach, a Wisconsin-born former law professor who for nearly a decade has been the body and brains of the law-and-order right, especially in the ugly fight over illegal immigration. The blue-eyed 44-year-old has authored, aided or officially defended virtually every controversial immigration stance in the country, beginning with work as chief immigration adviser in John Ashcroft’s Department of Justice.

Following the terror strikes of September 2001, Kobach coauthored a memo—which he has since cited in defense of Arizona policy—arguing that states may act as an arm of immigration control. He also created a now-defunct, much-decried fingerprint program for Muslims and Middle Easterners in the U.S, and won soaring praise from his former boss. "Kris is one of the finest young people I have ever dealt with," says Ashcroft, who calls birthright citizenship "an unresolved legal question" and supports Arizona’s move to make illegal immigration a state crime—adding, "I was surprised the Department of Justice challenged it."

Yet 2011 may be Kobach’s most influential year yet. From a base in Kansas, where he is the newly seated secretary of State, Kobach will help Arizona defend his laws against all-comers, including the Department of Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union (both of which have sued the state, claiming that immigration is solely a federal matter). He’ll also counsel a dozen or so states that are considering copycat laws, including a coordinated assault on birthright citizenship. And he’ll argue at least four ongoing immigration-related court cases, including lawsuits against California (for extending in-state college tuition rates to the undocumented) and San Francisco (for failing to notify immigration authorities before a thrice-arrested alien murdered three people). It’s a "legal jihad," according to a new report the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which calls Kobach’s career "a trail of tears" for all.

Kobach himself appears to be doing just fine. With sticky ideas and Disney good looks, he’s become a fixture on Fox News, godhead to his most ardent followers, and a hard man to dismiss. In fact, his path to public life is so pedigreed it makes John Kerry seem rough hewn: top undergraduate honors at Harvard, a Marshall Scholarship to Oxford, where he picked up a Ph.D., a law degree from Yale, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and missionary work in Africa. He even won two master’s national rowing championships in the men’s double scull.
But even in the heart of East Coast liberalism, Kobach’s conservatism actually deepened over time, according to people close to him, including his mother, high school debate coach, friends and professional colleagues—including Ashcroft, who partnered with Kobach on immigration policy but also joined him on hiking and bodysurfing trips outside the Beltway. The only son of a car dealer and homemaker, Kobach is of French, German, and Nordic heritage, his ancestors passing through New York’s Ellis Island in the late 1800s. ("It was legal," promises his mother.) By high school, he was known as the most right-wing member of the debate team. At Harvard, he led the Republican Club, opposing the in-vogue idea of divesting from apartheid South Africa (though he did oppose apartheid itself), and gravitating toward the conservative lion Samuel Huntington (of "Clash of Civilizations" fame), who became an early mentor. But it was 9/11, and his realization that several hijackers had been in the country illegally, that crystallized for him the importance of border security as a way to protect both lives and livelihoods. "American sovereignty is at stake," he tells The Daily Beast and Newsweek. "You can’t have open immigration and a welfare state."

So in the absence of Congressional action, Kobach is after what he calls the best alternative. "People often see federal immigration policy as a dichotomy between amnesty and deportation," he says. "But the most rational approach is a third one: You ratchet up the enforcement so that people make their own decisions to start following the law." In other words, take away the reasons people come to America illegally—access to education, work, housing and, yes, citizenship for their children—and, Kobach says, they will "self-deport." Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), one of many organizations and individuals who support Kobach, calls it "going home."

It’s a "legal jihad," according to a new report the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which calls Kobach’s career "a trail of tears" for all.

Although they have inspired tens of thousands of people to protest, Kobach’s legal positions are actually plausible, even clever, according to some constitutional experts, who say he is clarifying the fuzzy line between state and federal power, what the government can do, and what it should do. "They’re not crazy, way-out arguments," says Peter Schuck, a Yale law professor who has invited Kobach to lecture on the constitution. But civil liberties groups, immigrant advocates, and others bristle in response. The most unsavory issue is Kobach’s close ties to FAIR—which the Southern Poverty Law Center says is an anti-Latino "hate group"—and firebrands like Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio (who hails Kobach "a hero"), which fuels accusations that Kobach is himself less an Ivy League scholar than a Major League bigot. "I don’t have a racist or nativist bone in my body," he scoffs, although he winkingly understands why people might say so. "In a legal debate, when your opponents turn to name calling, it’s a good sign you’ve already won."

Tony Dokoupil is a staff writer and editor at Newsweek.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kris-koba...82911-892.html

There are possible rumblings that he will select Ivanka.

Originally Posted by joe s

There are possible rumblings that he will select Ivanka.

That most certainly would be the death kneel to his campaign.

Can you actually believe he throws that around? I thought the same thing.....we will know soon enough, it has certainly been worth the wait.

Coulter for VP!

After doing some more research on Kris Kobach, ​I think he would be a great choice.