Mike Pence makes the moral case to remove the President:CNN flashback

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Mike Pence's moral case for removing a president from office

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN

Updated 4:41 PM ET, Mon August 6, 2018

Vice President Mike Pence once argued the president of the United States should be held to the highest moral standards to determine whether he should resign or be removed from office.

Pence made the argument in two columns in the late 1990s, where he wrote that then-President Bill Clinton's admission of an affair with a White House intern and prior lies to the public about the matter, possibly under oath, meant Clinton should be removed from office.

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Pence wrote the columns in the late 1990s when he was a local Indiana radio host and prominent conservative voice in the state arguing Clinton had lost his moral authority to lead the country. One of the columns, "The Two Schools of Thought on Clinton," was posted on his now-defunct website for his radio talk show. Another column, "Why Clinton Must Resign or Be Impeached," was posted on his congressional campaign website. Both columns were archived by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The columns ran in various Indiana newspapers at the time but did not get national attention.

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Here are a couple of gems: [my comment]

"Throughout our history, we have seen the presidency as the repository of all of our highest hopes and ideals and values. To demand less is to do an injustice to the blood that bought our freedoms."

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In one of his columns about Clinton, Pence wrote, "Further, the Presidents (sic) repeated lies to the American people in this matter compound the case against him as they demonstrate his failure to protect the institution of the presidency as the 'inspiring supreme symbol of all that is highest in our American ideals.'"

He continued, "Leaders affect the lives of families far beyond their own 'private life'. In the Bible story of Esther we are told of a king who was charged to put right his own household because there would be 'no end of disrespect and discord' among the families of the kingdom if he failed to do so. In a day when reckless extramarital sexual activity is manifesting itself in our staggering rates of illegitimacy and divorce, now more than ever, America needs to be able to look to her First Family as role models of all that we have been and can be again."

Pence also wrote that Republicans needed to act to remove Clinton even if it meant losing the majority in Congress.
"If our leaders flinch at this responsibility, they would do well to heed the Proverb 'if a ruler listens to lies, all his officials become wicked,'" he added. "Our leaders must either act to restore the luster and dignity of the institution of the Presidency or we can be certain that this is only the beginning of an even more difficult time for our land. For the nation to move on, the President must move out."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/06/politics/kfile-mike-pence-moral-columns/index.html
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WOW. You can read the full columns by clicking the links on CNN's website--if you have a strong stomach. My, how the morally superior and self-righteous have fallen. Pssssst, VP, Hypocrites R'Us is calling you...

[Iliyah]

1. That only pertains to other than GOP.

[struggle4progress]

2. "Democrat gets blow job: a national crisis. Republicans get Russian help to win election: meh"

[Solly Mack]

3. Pence, exactly like his co-religionists, is a hypocrite.

He can find reasons why the same rule, law, or commandment doesn't apply to all people equally. That's how his religion works.

[Gothmog]

4. AWKWARD! Mike Pence once argued a lying, cheating president should be removed from office -- he proba

Link to tweet

[Wounded Bear]

5. IOKIYAR...as usual...