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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Yes. And a moderate. Either Obama wants to grand bargain, or he's basically putting pressure on Republicans:
"Here, I'm putting a center-right nominee as the option. And he's from your party. Your move, Repubs."
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
If they do it, they face backlash from flip flopping with the base already worse than they do.
If they don't, they face the Dem or Trump option, and the media will eviscerate Republicans for refusing to take a reasonable deal.
edited 24th Feb '16 11:32:11 AM by PotatoesRock
Here's a recent article on the guy.
To wit:
This really makes him sound like a RINO.
edited 24th Feb '16 11:37:31 AM by DrDougsh
Except then the theory holds that the media will light the GOP on fire for being the Party of No and Do Nothing, and keep screaming about it until the election.
And Mc Connell will have to consider this or Donald Trump's sister (who's Pro Choice!).
And then, Barack Obama stabbed the GOP to death with Morton's Fork.
Trump, Sanders, Chavez and Mao, and idiological Necrophelia
How will Sanders make sure we have the welfare state of a European country, and not the abysmal growth and employment rates of most of those countries, hell even the Nordics are beginning to slow if I hear correctly.
This woman
, so it seems to me.
Come on! Dubya may have been Stupid Evil, but he wasn't freaking Caligula!
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.So Trump is looking for a politial insider as VP
, possibly even one of his also-rans.
"I do want somebody that's political, because I want to get lots of great legislation we all want passed," Trump said Wednesday in a Q&A at Regent University. "We're going to probably choose somebody that's somewhat political."
Trump declined to name any names, saying it's "too early," although he did say some of the other GOP presidential candidates might make the short list. "Some of the people I've dealt with, I do have a lot of respect for," he said the day after he won the Nevada caucuses by a landslide.
Trump said the "main quality" he would seek in a running mate would be someone who could be a "great president" if something were to happen to require that person to step in — but after that, it's about balancing his political outsider status. "I'd want someone who could help me with governing," Trump said. "You want somebody that can help you with legislation, getting it through."
Trump did note that while his background is in business, that doesn't mean he's never dealt with politics. "I'm also very, very political," Trump said. "When you can get zoning on the West Side of Manhattan to build almost 6,000 units of housing and you have to go through New York City politics, believe me, that's tough."
He compared the difficulty of that business deal to that of brokering a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. "It's about as tough a deal," he said. But the "Art of the Deal" author said that presidential achievement would still trump any he's negotiated as a businessman.
"I view that as the single toughest deal," he said. "We're going to give it a shot ... A lot of good people have gone down trying to give that one a shot."
Meanwhile, the GOP is already rejecting Sandoval
even though he hasn't even been nominated.
If this story is true, what does it all mean, and what is President Obama trying to accomplish? Sandoval, who served on the Nevada district court from 2005 to 2009 following a unanimous Senate confirmation, is what passes for a "moderate" in the GOP these days, if only because he's not an anti-abortion extremist and permitted Medicaid expansion in his state under the Affordable Care Act. But Sandoval also has a record of hostility to organized labor, and there's no reason to believe he'd side with liberals on a wide range of issues that will soon come before the court, like voting rights, campaign finance, or affirmative action. He's not, in other words, an option many Democrats would find appealing.
However, if Obama's intent in floating Sandoval's name was to box Republicans in to looking even more unreasonable than they already have, then it seems his ploy is already working. A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell instantly said his boss won't consider Sandoval, explaining, "The Leader didn't say the Senate would act 'if' it was a certain type of nominee." Presumably, that means Mc Connell wouldn't take action even if Obama nominated the ghost of William Rehnquist.
Sen. John Cornyn, the second highest-ranking Republican in the Senate, likewise immediately told Politico that his position on not allowing a nomination to proceed was unchanged. And anti-tax radical Grover Norquist opined, "Obama might nominate the guy who taxed Burning Man. Ugh." Not Burning Man! (Norquist did notoriously attend the desert festival a couple of years ago.) Freshman Sen. Deb Fischer may have summed it up best, though, when she declared, "It's not about the person."
Well, it is about the person, except in this case, the person is Barack Obama, whom the Senate GOP evidently intends to obstruct clear through January. We'll see if any vulnerable Republican senators up for re-election express any warmth toward Sandoval as a way of wriggling out of their embrace of maximal dysfunction, but no matter what they say, a Sandoval nomination appears to be deader-than-dead on arrival—and the GOP looks all the worse for it.
X4 She wasn't a judge-y type person, she was never a judge and apparently did sod all actual lawyering, being more of a manager.
X2 No he was a pushover, he tried to nominate the person he out in charge of finding someone to nominate, same as when he picked his VP.
edited 24th Feb '16 12:59:17 PM by Silasw
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But he pulled it off! That means he will be the one to resolve the Israeli conflict! Probably by forcing Israel to finally and decisively annex the West Bank and drive millions more refugees into the region! I can't wait to see him barter with Bibi! The two most shameless, guiltless, chutzpah-endowed men on the planet!
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edited 24th Feb '16 1:04:53 PM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Somehow I doubt Bush has anything other than a simmering contempt for Trump at this point, considering Trump went out of his way to insult Bush's family. Bush wasn't one of the ones attempting to kiss Trump's ass at any point, either. Anemic as it was, he was one of the ones openly opposed to the guy, so I doubt that either of them would play well with each other on at Presidential/VP ticket.

His decisions as a lawyer seem to be pretty good but his economic decisions as a governor are the usual tax breaks and supply side nonsense.
Oh really when?