"Veepstakes"

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What has come to be known as the "Veepstakes" is the contending among some Republicans to be named as Donnie Trump's running mate, presumably.  The choice is either that Trump will very clearly be the Republican nominee, and will need to name a running mate, or that whoever is named as the VP candidate will quickly be elevated if Trump goes to jail.  So, on the surface, it appears various Republicans are trying to impress their daddy, so they can be chosen to sit on his lap.  But there's a curiosity here.

When Donnie ran before, both times, he chose little Mikey Pence to be his best boy.  Donnie and little Mikey won the first time, but they didn't win the second time.  And the question is why Donnie doesn't choose little Mikey again.  There appears to be a reason.

Donnie blames little Mikey for not independently giving him the victory the second time, which Donnie thinks little Mikey had the power to do.  Little Mikey doesn't think he had that power, because he thinks the law required him to declare victory for whoever got the most Electoral College votes.  If there was any question about the vote count, which there was, the matter could have been taken to the courts, which it was.  Sixty or sixty-one times.  Donnie's wish not to have to accept the vote count failed each time.

So, if the question is why Donnie didn't choose little Mikey again, the reason is that little Mikey refused to break the law.  (As hard as it is to think of as an adult a man who calls his wife "mother," it does appear that little Mikey is more mature than is Donnie.  Or if it's not maturity, per se, at least it's respect for the law.)

If we think again about the "Veepstakes," we can now more carefully ask what it is Donnie wants in a Veep candidate.  And what the Veep candidates are willing to deliver.  Whether it's Elise Stefanik, "little Marco" Rubio, or anyone else, it's increasingly clear that what Donnie wants is someone who, unlike little Mikey Pence, is willing to break the law for Donnie.  The links to Stefanik's interview (on Fox!) and about Rubio indicate that at the very least, they're willing to arbitrarily and inexplicably change their minds, and worse than that, to lie.  Those are good indicators for Donnie.  Someone whose "morals" are that flexible is much more likely to call them as Donnie wants them called.

That seems to be what the "Veepstakes" are about.  How sycophantic, and detached from reality, the truth, and the law, are you?  If you have no foundation at all, except blind and unquestioning fealty to Donnie, you're Donnie's boy or girl.  Sure, you have to make a fool of yourself to show how far you're willing to go, but Donnie views that as an asset, not as a liability.  I mean really, how could Donnie complain about someone who makes a fool of him- or herself?