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Trump picks Pence and then Vance: An ode to short, strong words

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Trump has said he likes short names like his own, words just one part at a time
Swap the P for a V and the e for an a and there you have it. Not Pence this time but Vance.
There was a sign from the start. It came the first time Trump did this, eight years past, when he said he had a thing for short last names like his own. Tough and clear, he said. That was a good thing for Pence then, and it is a good thing for the young man who wrote a tale of woe kind of from his poor fam and hood in the hills. But it was bad for all the rest of the not quite made men. Only Tim Scott had a name tough and clear, but he was not thought to be in the last cut.
This new pick went by a first name that was best yet, just two strokes of the pen, J and D. And it was just his luck that his name took a change to Vance years past his birth, when at first it had a Bow and a Man to it but then his mom and dad split and his mom went back to that French thing you see when folks wed or die — nee Vance.
So now is the time to make the short word great once more, in this city of Bucks and the Crew, where they love a brew, and the state of the Pack and brats and cheese. No words of two or three or four parts, just one.

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