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Some Thoughts On J.D. Vance

Politics, Rants

With Election Day just seven weeks away I thought to take some time and talk about the GOP V.P. Candidate J. D. Vance. What I want to talk about is not really his positions on most of the burning issues. Mostly because just like Donald Trump he has not really stated any positions on any. No what I’m going to talk about is just how good a campaigner he is.

To put it bluntly, he is not a good campaigner. In fact I’d rat him as one of the two worst campaigners I’ve ever watched over the last 60 years. He is right down there with Dukakis and Palin. He is not ready for prime time. Unfortunately he is also a very bad conman, unlike Donald Trump. Nor is the Trump team ready to take him in hand and try and get him out of his mistakes . I think this is because the Trump team does not have any mechanism to detect and correct mistakes made by a candidate, be it Trump or Vance.

So when the statements made by Vance about “Single Cat Ladies” came out all he could do is double down. He didn’t even try and use the classic Trump move of saying it was all “fake” and he never said it. Nor was he able to deal with the false story about immigrants in Springfield. Nor did he come to the defense of a town in the state he is the Senator for. No, all he could do is talk about how bad the immigrant situation is. Not even drawing a distinction between legal and illegal immigrants. No, all Vance seems to be able to do is try and be more forcefully angry about the “State of the Nation” than Trump. An I will give him this he does sound a lot more angry than Trump.

An finally I wish to talk about his delivery, how he sounds. Even when he gets angry he is almost monotone, there is very little change in volume or intonation. He actually makes Trump sound good. An now I will say one thing he does do well.

He stays on topic and he doesn’t ramble. He does speak in whole complete sentences that do tie together in some fashion. Not that what he says makes much sense but it is not just words strung together. I will give him that.

I can’t wait to watch the V.P. Debate when he goes up against Couch Walz.

What the VP pick tells me.

Politics,

With the announcement of Gov. Walz as VP Harris’ pick for her running mate I thought I’d take the time to explain what a Presidential candidate’s pick of a running mate tells me. A presidential VP pick can tell us a lot about what kind of President the candidate will be. Not only does it tell us how much influence the party leadership and Influencers have with the the candidate, such as Trump first VeeP Mike Prence but also how good they are at putting the right person in the right job. This can tell us a lot about their coming administration, if elected. So lets take a Quick Look at the VP picks this election.

First let’s look at J. D. Vance. First thing right of is that the behind the scenes ‘influencers’ have more pull this time around with Trump. It shows they now have a good feel for how to work him to get what they want. J.D. is a first term senator with little to no experience. This means he has little or no ability to work the system as in he has no favors he can call in. He has few, if any, workable contacts. So he has very little usable political capital. So what does he have?

First, J. D.; Vance is a Central Casting pick. On camera he looks like what people think a Vice President should look like. The problem is no one ran him by the casting director to see if here can read the lines. As long as he just stands there and keeps his moth shut everything is fine. The minute he starts speaking all bets are off. An I’m not talking about what he is talking about. While his subject mater is bad enough, it is how he delivers it that sucks. He really needs to take a few classes in public speaking. First he has a very dry and uninflected voice. Second he can not read his audience well. He doesn’t know when to stop and let them emote, he just keeps talking over them. In like DJT he has no clue how to just wing it and give the audience what they came for. He just drones on.

J.D. also show how the Trump campaign deals with negative news, as if we didn’t know already. The problem is that J.D. does have a clue either. He just goes to the Trump playbook and denies everything. Also we can see how well the Trump machine vets its selections and prepares for thing that will be trouble. Just one example is just how well the comment J.D. made about “Cat Ladies” was taken up by the Harris campaign to hit Trump over the head. One of the ancient truisms of politics is you can handle being shouted at but it is ‘death’ to be laughed at.

So what does Harris’ selection of Gov. Walz tell me. First she knows how to select a good campaigner. Walz is good at the comeback to nasty comments. His response to his being white haired is a case in point, he turned it back on them by using his 20+ years as a teacher. He also shows that she backs people who can do the job in a way she approves. I will have to wait to see what else Walz pick will show as it has been less than a week since we found out.

So keep watching the VP’s to see what they can and are doing. It just might be a game changer.