Writes Jeff Taylor:

re: “If Trump Is Considering VPs”

Trump could do far worse than Joe Scarborough.  Don’t forget that he voted for Ron Paul in the Florida primary in 2012.  I saw Scarborough in Tampa at the Republican National Convention that year.  I told him I was a Paul delegate from Iowa and asked him about Paul.  He replied, “I was angsting about for whom to vote until I got into the voting booth.  Then it took half-a-second to mark the ballot for Ron Paul.”  Also, Scarborough was very public in calling out Gingrich on his phony conservatism in 2012.  

I saw Ted Cruz up-close in Tampa when he was a Senate candidate.  He and Rand Paul came to the Iowa delegation breakfast together and each spoke.  I liked much of what Cruz said.  For example, he told us that overspending was a bipartisan problem, that Republicans were also to blame.  He said he didn’t know any conservatives who did not leave the polling place in 2008 feeling like they needed to take a shower (after voting for McCain).  He said the best thing for Republicans was losing in 2008.  Looking back, I think he was playing to the crowd in the room.  He would not criticize the Romney-Ginsberg rule changes.  At the time, I wrote, “Pretty slick–too slick?”  I sensed what I now know: he’s a smarmy, power-hungry fake.  I don’t know why Amash doesn’t see it.