In the human house that we cats live in reign over, there's an interesting gewgaw in the dining room hutch (kept away from prying paws). It's a souvenir bowl commemorating the 1937 coronation of King Edward VIII — in short, the British equivalent of a McGovern-Eagleton button.
Our humans have kept this because it's a fun historical oddity, but also — well, Nazis are a hot topic these days, aren't they?
Anyway, since the Biden campaign's masterful rollout of Kamala Harris, with nary a hint of what was coming and a pair of speeches that suffered not one iota from the lack of a crowd*, we've been thinking about the respective Presidential tickets and have pondered anew the question of whether Trump-Pence will continue to be Trump-Pence.
Will Benedict Donald be so rattled by the polls and by the excitement (and money) that Kamala has generated that he'll give Mikey the heave-ho to shake things up? Picture a Republican, a woman of similar Asian-American descent, like Nikki Haley, waiting in the wings. But see, here's the thing: For many reasons, despite her ambition, taking Pence's place on the ticket might not be good for the Nikster.
The Trumpsters are no-way, no-how capable of a flawless Veep debut like the one Biden-Harris pulled off. Nothing leaked out of Wilmington, whereas we all know that Benedict Donald's White House and campaign have more holes than a giant sieve. If Pence were in danger, his people would, in fact, probably be the first to slip it out. That would do Haley no favors, whether or not Trump backtracked: Either she'd be jumping squarely into an environment of anger (Pence people), frustration (Trump allies) and paranoia (Trump himself), or she'd be saddled with an unforced Trumpian Veep error going into 2024.
That's just one scenario, and we obviously have no idea what Haley would do if Trump called on her. (Pence is such a toad, he would probably campaign for Trump anyway.) But they need to act fast: There are campaign gewgaws to produce. We cats PURR.
*Speechifying with no audience makes you focus a lot more on what the candidate is saying — which puts Benedict Donald in big trouble. No wonder he's insisting on a crowd.
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