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[sluissa]

I think MSH's point is that Trump would benefit from a younger running mate. Also, 'generally one member of a ticket is hot'? Uh, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney..... Neither of those two guys could be considered 'hot' by any standards, Bush is about average and Cheney has been compared to Palpatine.

Take hot by another definition. Cheney shot a guy in the face and told a senator to go fuck himself... while on the senate floor. Dude might have some anger issues.

[Karlito]

I think MSH's point is that Trump would benefit from a younger running mate. Also, 'generally one member of a ticket is hot'? Uh, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney..... Neither of those two guys could be considered 'hot' by any standards, Bush is about average and Cheney has been compared to Palpatine.

This is why America had to double down on the hotness come 2008.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You know what I think the crashing VP revelation is going to be? Marco Rubio.

Think about it:

-Is a political insider, like Trump said.
-Preexisting bromance during debate season.
-Covers several demographics Trump has low-access to, most notably hispanics.
-Generally at least one member of a ticket is hot, Trump definitely doesn't have it anymore but nobody can deny Rubio's tight hot vaguely-brown ass.
-Still out of left field enough to be a Trumpism.

They've been insulting each other an awful lot lately.

If we're talking out of left field... How about a Donald Trump / Elizabeth Warren ticket? Maybe too out there, but I'm reasonably certain he's going to court a democrat.

P.S. Rubio is not particularly hot by Cuban standards.

Let's keep his age in mind here. I'm sure there are plenty of delicious Cuban twinks around, but Rubio is 44 soon to be 45 and still kept it impressively. I can't find many youth pictures of him, and this one is horribly artifacted, but here's him at 20.

John Oliver may have summed up my feelings on Trump thusly: "There's a part of my that likes the guy. It's a part of me that I hate, but it is a part of me."

If Trump picked a Democrat VP....I don't even know. Would they accept? Would Republicans vote for such a ticket? Would Democrats? Would cats and dogs start living together? Would Trump Trump the Trump Make Trump Trump Again?

The nation's mass media reels in horror. Every body from MSNBC to Trinity Broadcasting condemns Trump's mockery of the electoral process (except Prison Planet, on which Alex Jones avows how Trump knows how to defang the globalists and it's all just part of his genius plan). Trump and the unfortunate Dem are eviscerated in interviews, in which they hawk Trump's hairstyle brand in between declarations of bipartisan outreach to the "Democrats that aren't such bad guys". Hilary Clinton herself declares that the traitor will be fed to the Wallstreet Brass Bull after she becomes Woman President.  Every screen in America is awash with the news that this is the end of the Trump train, that this time he's gone too far and destroyed his campaign.

The next week, Nate Silver reports a 2% increase in Trump's numbers.

I think MSH's point is that Trump would benefit from a younger running mate. Also, 'generally one member of a ticket is hot'? Uh, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney..... Neither of those two guys could be considered 'hot' by any standards, Bush is about average and Cheney has been compared to Palpatine.

I mean, Bush sort of had it going on in that nearly-middle aged anglo man way. He's hot by sugar daddy standards, at least.

Also, it was Cruz and Trump that had the bromance, Rubio just stayed on his good side.

Close enough to Seal The Deel.

[penguinofhonor]

George W Bush looks too much like a cute grandpa for me to imagine him as a sugar daddy.

[RedKing]

Tavis Smiley: Black America could get on the Trump Train.


Now wouldn't THAT just take the cake, if black voters delivered the nomination to Hillary and the the White House to Trump? (FWIW, I think Smiley's op-ed is full of shit, but it is an interesting possibility to consider).

[Bauglir]

The only woman I've ever discussed the issue with assures me that, at least during his campaign, Bush qualified as hot. At least by political standards. Take this anecdote for the non-evidence it is.

[Rose]

Trump with Bernie as VP.

[smjjames]

*wonders how common cross-aisle tickets are. Goes to check wiki*

hm, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1796

"The following four years would be the only time that the president and vice-president were from different parties (John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun would later be elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republican party candidates; Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, but Lincoln ran on a combined Union Party ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican). Jefferson would leverage his position as vice-president to attack President Adams' policies, and this would help him reach the White House in the following election."

So, it would be an almost unprecedented thing and in todays deeply divided politics, I don't see that happening.

[Shadowlord]

Trump with Bernie as VP.

This would never happen

[Egan_BW]

Trump with Bernie as VP.

I'd vote for 'em.

[mainiac]

If we're talking out of left field... How about a Donald Trump / Elizabeth Warren ticket? Maybe too out there, but I'm reasonably certain he's going to court a democrat.

Mathematics does not have an answer for how a negative probability for an event can exist.  Yet somehow the probability of that occuring is in fact less then 0%.

Elizabeth Warren is on a crusade in the Senate when it comes to banking regulation.  As far as I can guess, Donald Trump is pretty much the antithesis of her views on banking.  I say as far as I can see because it's pretty freaking hard to tell where Donald Trump stands on serious policy issues.  And that's really the point, this is an issue that she has made it her mission to fight over the tiny details of and he just blithely dismisses the importance entirely.  There's no possible way that Warren would agree to be his VP.

[Egan_BW]

Hmm, Trump/Clinton vs. Clinton/Trump.

[mainiac]

I'm not sure which is less likely.

[WealthyRadish]

Trump/Clinton running as an independent against Sanders/Cruz and Carson/O'Malley.

[nenjin]

Trump/Carson. Seems like an ideal pair. Gets some of the black vote just based on race, they're both loveably goofy in their own ways, both have delusions of grandeur and, I dunno. Carson just seems to have the right mien for being a feckless VP.