A? No, B. B?

The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza has identified five people Donald Trump might tap for vice president. As a service to our readers (all half dozen), we continue one-minute biographies of these five. Yesterday Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, today . . .

  

No, B. B?

Senator Bob Corker (R – Tenn) was born in Orangeburg, SC, whose first church was established by German Lutherans but became Anglican because that exempted the church from colonial taxation.  Later Corker, who is Presbyterian, made a lot of money in construction. Then he went into politics, put his money in a not-so-blind trust and made a lot more in real estate (something he may have talked with Trump about at their recent meeting at Trump Towers). He has represented Tennessee in the U.S. Senate since he defeated Harold Ford in 2006 (by 3 percentage points), after hiring a white woman to make a TV-spot saying she met Ford, an African-American, at a Playboy party, and inviting him (Ford - nudge, nudge, wink, wink) to call her, also after changing his stand on abortion from saying that the government should not interfere with an individual woman’s rights to being agin’ it (period). He’s for guns, though and war when it’s working. (That is he was in favor of the Iraq war, now he's not so sure). What he is sure of: Corker’s an adamant don’t-tax-and-spend Republican.

     The senator’s greatest political gift is in appearing to reasonable people to be reasonable himself.