I like remembering Trump's family name in the old country, "Drumph." Thank you Linda. Perhaps it seems cruel, but Trump is all about giving nicknames that are derisive and with Kamala taking seeming joy in mispronouncing her first name.
But to Vance, VP's do matter, or can matter. Just think of John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Teddy Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson. Removing Agnew before Nixon spared us that discomfort. I know that Ronny Jackson told us that Trump might live to 150, but somehow, I think not. At his age the VP matters as it would and did with Biden. So Vance? We look at what he started with the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. Let's be clear, he told Dana Bash last two days ago that "If I have to create stories, that is what I am going to do." I read primarily non fiction. How can it be interpreted as anything but fiction. He didn't say "if I'm going to pass on non verified rumors from constituents to focus on the larger issue, Immigration, that's what I'm going to do. Hold him to what he said, not what was in his head.
I don't know what happened to Vance post Hillbilly Elegy and today, but it seems to me that not much of it is good. I would like to counter Vance to Ohio's conservative governor, Mike DeWine. I lived in Beavercreek, Ohio, for most of the 1990's. It is near Dayton, roughly midway between Springfield and Middletown where J.D. Vance grew up. I recall DeWine running for the U.S. Senate against the loved John Glenn ("Godspeed John Glenn"). He, or his campaign, ran an ad making fun of Glenn as an astronaut. Recall that Glenn orbited the earth three times and retuned to earth but there were major worries about his heat shield and he might be incinerated on re-entry. He and his capsule survived. DeWine lost, but his political career did not end. To cut to the chase I am a birdwatcher by hobby and profession and I loved to birdwatch at Shawnee State Park along the Ohio River near Portsmouth. There is naturalist there that takes some 5000 kids on the trails every year. The busses come nearly every weekday. Not long ago, Mike DeWine came to see the state park and she led him about. The visit was to be for a few hours, but it lasted for much longer. He wrote her a hand written letter and not long afterwards he visited the park where she guided him. He wrote another personal note. Who does that, especially a politician. Note how DeWine campaigned against the abortion initiative in 2023. He didn't agree with it, but tried to find common ground. I would have voted for the initiative. All I'm trying to say is DeWine is thoughtful, appreciative and decent and is now decrying what Trump and Vance are doing and is standing up for the immigrants. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump will tweet that "I hate Mike DeWine" as he is upsetting the narrative. Shouldn't DeWine as governor and their mayor know more than Trump, or even DeWine, whose job is carrying Trump's water and salving his gaffes. Here Vance started it, or Trump's conspiracy lady in-chief, Laura Loomer.
As for the danger Vance might pose, let's remember that he wrote the foreword to Kevin Robert's "By Dawn's Early Light, scheduled to come out in a few days but now delayed until just after the election. The reasons for its delay seem obvious to me, it's damaging to the campaign. I write books on birds, I write forewords. I always carefully look at the content in advance to make sure I want to promote the book. I assume Vance did this too and in fact he celebrates and repeats Robert's incendiary statement that it's fine to be more neutral in the times of daylight, but as darkness approaches and the wolves howl (wolves were extirpated from Ohio in about 1840), it's time to circle the wagons and load the muskets (or now AR 15's). Rhetorical, maybe, but let's remember that Vance is buds with Roberts who is President of the Heritage Foundation and the funder for Project 2025. He writes off Project 2025, but his dismissive brush-off is hardly convincing that look back on Vance's recent history.
By the way we as Americans don't pronounce the name of the country right as the Haitians do. It is pronounced like the letters I and T. I always try to be respectful to say the name of the country, or city as they do. It is simply the decent and respectful thing to do. I did not vote for DeWine, but respected what he has done in recent years. For Trump and Vance, not so much. DeWine stood up prominently for what was wrong. Where are the rest of the GOP who seem to have gotten their tongues caught by an uneaten cat.
I like remembering Trump's family name in the old country, "Drumph." Thank you Linda. Perhaps it seems cruel, but Trump is all about giving nicknames that are derisive and with Kamala taking seeming joy in mispronouncing her first name.
But to Vance, VP's do matter, or can matter. Just think of John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Teddy Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson. Removing Agnew before Nixon spared us that discomfort. I know that Ronny Jackson told us that Trump might live to 150, but somehow, I think not. At his age the VP matters as it would and did with Biden. So Vance? We look at what he started with the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. Let's be clear, he told Dana Bash last two days ago that "If I have to create stories, that is what I am going to do." I read primarily non fiction. How can it be interpreted as anything but fiction. He didn't say "if I'm going to pass on non verified rumors from constituents to focus on the larger issue, Immigration, that's what I'm going to do. Hold him to what he said, not what was in his head.
I don't know what happened to Vance post Hillbilly Elegy and today, but it seems to me that not much of it is good. I would like to counter Vance to Ohio's conservative governor, Mike DeWine. I lived in Beavercreek, Ohio, for most of the 1990's. It is near Dayton, roughly midway between Springfield and Middletown where J.D. Vance grew up. I recall DeWine running for the U.S. Senate against the loved John Glenn ("Godspeed John Glenn"). He, or his campaign, ran an ad making fun of Glenn as an astronaut. Recall that Glenn orbited the earth three times and retuned to earth but there were major worries about his heat shield and he might be incinerated on re-entry. He and his capsule survived. DeWine lost, but his political career did not end. To cut to the chase I am a birdwatcher by hobby and profession and I loved to birdwatch at Shawnee State Park along the Ohio River near Portsmouth. There is naturalist there that takes some 5000 kids on the trails every year. The busses come nearly every weekday. Not long ago, Mike DeWine came to see the state park and she led him about. The visit was to be for a few hours, but it lasted for much longer. He wrote her a hand written letter and not long afterwards he visited the park where she guided him. He wrote another personal note. Who does that, especially a politician. Note how DeWine campaigned against the abortion initiative in 2023. He didn't agree with it, but tried to find common ground. I would have voted for the initiative. All I'm trying to say is DeWine is thoughtful, appreciative and decent and is now decrying what Trump and Vance are doing and is standing up for the immigrants. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump will tweet that "I hate Mike DeWine" as he is upsetting the narrative. Shouldn't DeWine as governor and their mayor know more than Trump, or even DeWine, whose job is carrying Trump's water and salving his gaffes. Here Vance started it, or Trump's conspiracy lady in-chief, Laura Loomer.
As for the danger Vance might pose, let's remember that he wrote the foreword to Kevin Robert's "By Dawn's Early Light, scheduled to come out in a few days but now delayed until just after the election. The reasons for its delay seem obvious to me, it's damaging to the campaign. I write books on birds, I write forewords. I always carefully look at the content in advance to make sure I want to promote the book. I assume Vance did this too and in fact he celebrates and repeats Robert's incendiary statement that it's fine to be more neutral in the times of daylight, but as darkness approaches and the wolves howl (wolves were extirpated from Ohio in about 1840), it's time to circle the wagons and load the muskets (or now AR 15's). Rhetorical, maybe, but let's remember that Vance is buds with Roberts who is President of the Heritage Foundation and the funder for Project 2025. He writes off Project 2025, but his dismissive brush-off is hardly convincing that look back on Vance's recent history.
By the way we as Americans don't pronounce the name of the country right as the Haitians do. It is pronounced like the letters I and T. I always try to be respectful to say the name of the country, or city as they do. It is simply the decent and respectful thing to do. I did not vote for DeWine, but respected what he has done in recent years. For Trump and Vance, not so much. DeWine stood up prominently for what was wrong. Where are the rest of the GOP who seem to have gotten their tongues caught by an uneaten cat.