Have to say, I'm a little surprised if it's Pence.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Sure, he's right-wing crazy, but he's boring right wing crazy. Extremely boring and milquetoast. I have a feeling that the RNC highly approves but it's not like Trump to go out of his way to please the RNC.

And Donald Trump thrives on attention. He needs it. He needs to dominate the news cycle. So picking a boring, predictable VP candidate just doesn't seem like him. He'll get some attention out of it on Friday and then people will move on. True, he'll be front and center again next week, but if he got someone really....Palinesque.....he'd continue on the entire "Greatest Show on Earth" thing that he's been doing the past year.

I know he might not want to be upstaged, but if Trump were to pick someone as equally unpredictable and volatile as himself, I think he'd like it because it will still be his name at the top of the ticket.

[geek tragedy]

1. he looks the part, like Warren G Harding did

That's probably enough for Trump

[patricia92243]

2. Trump wants to dominate the news cycle - not his VP or anything or anybody else. The person

accepting the VP spot has to know that kissing up is the absolute must for the job.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. True.

But I would think Donald would have gone with his own stooge, and not someone so RNC centric.

[Warpy]

3. Trumpy didn't want to be upstaged by another strong personality

and Pence is supposed to bring the religious nutjobs back into line.

Good luck with that one, Donny.

[FLPanhandle]

5. It's not like Trump could pick the cream of the crop

No one with any political future would take that VP slot. It's political death.

[eleny]

6. Trump needs boring to balance his own crazy

[guillaumeb]

7. Perhaps this is a sign to the money people who run the GOP

that Trump can be a team player?

[OldHippieChick]

8. I made myself watch Joe Scumbag this morning

and they had Sen McCaskill on. She predicted this because she said Mike Pence was the best looking of all the candidates and that is all Trump cares about. He is that superficial. Spot on.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Maybe he's decided he needs someone to reassure Republican donors like the Kochs

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has a strong credential as a vice presidential candidate: His deep ties to some of the Republican Party’s biggest donor networks.

Several former Pence staffers have taken on prominent roles with the corporate and political organizations tied to billionaire industrialist Charles Koch and his brother, David.

Marc Short, a former Pence aide, until recently ran the Kochs’ umbrella group, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce. Matt Lloyd, Pence’s deputy chief of staff, was a top communications executive for Koch Industries.

But Pence’s possible addition to the Donald Trump ticket doesn't seem to have swayed Charles Koch, who has sharply criticized Trump’s harsh rhetoric and policies. Koch has opted to focus his federal political activity on helping Republicans retain their Senate majority instead of the presidential race. (In an interview with Fortune this week, Koch said choosing between Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton was like picking “cancer or a heart attack.”)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/07/14/indiana-gov-mike-pence-has-close-ties-charles-kochs-money-network/87083956/