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J.D. Vance Proved That Republicans Should
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Posted By: Dreadnought, 11/15/2024 12:23:31 AM

As I was reading a column from my colleague-once-removed Guy Benson, I thought again about how right I was to praise Donald Trump's selection of J.D. Vance immediately. You surely recall the moaning and whining coming from the Republican bedwetters after the pick. Democrats immediately attacked Vance, and as a consequence, the Senator's favorability ratings dropped like a stone into a deep lake. Democrats chose to attack Vance as a "weird" guy who had sex with a couch because, well, it is perfectly normal for the candidates of a major political party to run on these bizarre, made-up claims. The Democrats went all-in on attacking Vance,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Lucky5 11/15/2024 12:32:23 AM (No. 1835058)
Good article and sound advice for future Republicans.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: FJB 11/15/2024 1:54:51 AM (No. 1835069)
Leftists, Progressives, Marxocrats, or whatever they're called aren't worth a dime. Probably the best examples are those nasty, useless hags on The View.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: thefield 11/15/2024 1:58:07 AM (No. 1835071)
I can't figure out how harris who had the lowest popularity rating of anybody in u.s. history ended with so many votes.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: mariboo72 11/15/2024 5:39:59 AM (No. 1835100)
I haven't seen J.D. since election night. I miss seeing him challenge and fact check "journalists" on a daily basis.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 11/15/2024 5:51:18 AM (No. 1835103)
"Republican worries that a candidate will get criticized for being honest are wholly misplaced" I love Vance as well but the author's conclusion above has some serious caveats. The first is, what is your character? Vance's character is unimpeachable. How smart are you, especially in on-the-fly moments? Vance is VERY smart and could teach a Master class on speech and logic. Frankly, most people, including many Republicans, are simply not up to Vance's standards. I love Trump and don't want him to change but he sometimes gets himself into trouble over things that would have been best left unsaid OR more thoughtfully considered. Frankly, it's an attractive part of Trump being a real person, but it still gets him in trouble with a media and some of the public who are looking for any excuse to attack. So, what works extremely well with Vance may not work with less capable Republicans. I would suggest that Republicans need to KNOW THEMSELVES, and especially their weaknesses, and then be honest but play to their strengths.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: downnout 11/15/2024 7:49:35 AM (No. 1835183)
J.D. Vance is a rare duck.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: broken01 11/15/2024 7:54:46 AM (No. 1835186)
First off JD Vance is a United States Marine. They don't back away from a fight. Now I was a USN sailor but the ones that I've had the honor and privilege of knowing never backed down from a fight. Secondly, he is so smart and articulate he took on lower IQ buffoons like Kamala Harris', Tim Walz's and Dana Bash's (along with other media democrat cheerleaders) slander of him and made them look like well, buffoons. He put on a master class on how to deal with the beforementioned media. I see him as a great candidate for the top job in 2028.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Corndoggies 11/15/2024 9:00:07 AM (No. 1835224)
Remember when Vance and Harris’s planes were both on the tarmac and Vance strolled over to her press pool? That was a stud move and enforced the idea that skammie was hiding from the press.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 11/15/2024 1:02:22 PM (No. 1835418)
Vance is Trump's best pick... the subsequent nominations have been mostly, progressively downhill.
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