Mere hours after Donald Trump ordered strikes on Iran’s nuclear program last June, his vice president appeared on two separate Sunday shows to hail the success of the mission. JD Vance was so effusive that he used the word “incredible” or “incredibly” four times in less than one minute.
Within hours of Trump’s operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, Vance was on X posting a combative defense of the legality of the operation.
It’s now been two weeks since Trump launched a war with Iran, and Vance has yet to offer anything like these public votes of confidence.
He and Rubio are the nominees for the next Republican convention. The Iran war is slated to be one of the most unpopular wars of our time, that politically & optically will be 10x worse than Iraq.
So to ensure higher viability, he distances himself from the war rhetorically, because Rubio has been critical of the Iran war from the offset.
In short: he wants to ensure that he is competitive against Rubio come primaries & general elections.
Like William Spaniel says: “don’t listen to what politicians say, watch what they do” - and this is purely about optics in the future.
The 2028 GOP Convention is going to be the wildest political shitshow imaginable.
Actual human sacrifice isn’t off the agenda.
Let them fight. Not that it’ll be much of a fight to begin with. You have the most uncharismatic couch fucker running against the shortest turncoat imaginable.
Speaking of short people, I hope DeSantis throws his hat in the ring again and wears heels on the campaign trail.
MTG retired from the Congress at the perfect moment.
I think she’ll be a strong contender.