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Regrets It Now
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Republicans once argued that a president who lied to the American people and was unfaithful to his wife should be removed from public office an opinion the GOP seems to have abandoned sometime after President Bill Clinton left the White House and before President Donald Trump moved in.
But evidence of their previous opinions persists and there's no one for whom that fact is more awkward than Vice President Mike Pence.
As CNN revealed Monday, Pence wrote two op-eds back in the 1990s arguing in favor of removing Clinton from office because of his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Those op-eds were posted on the website for Pence's now-defunct radio program, but CNN reporters found them in the internet archives.
In one of the op-eds, Pence argued that the affair, the lying, and the attempts to cover it all up were particularly troubling. Unfortunately for the now-vice president, Trump himself has been accused of multiple affairs, multiple instances of sexual misconduct and assault, and multiple efforts to cover up these events.
Bettie
(16,109 posts)that all of that stuff is out there.
It doesn't go away.
LandOfHopeAndDreams
(872 posts)And that is the only news they watch.
braddy
(3,585 posts)malaise
(268,998 posts):evigrin:
safeinOhio
(32,677 posts)I love it
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Pence doesn't give a fuck if he's a hypocrite - it was only for expediency. He never believed it. He probably never even read it.
Regardless, he'll never be in a position to be confronted about it by the press. If, by some mistake of his PR staff he is, he'll just duck it - maybe by pretending his phone isn't working.
"Hello? Hello?" -Donald Trump Jr.
We're past debate in this country. Only Power counts.
DFW
(54,379 posts)Enshrine them for all time so that Republican hypocrisy can be on record for future generations to see and quote.
malaise
(268,998 posts)DFW
(54,379 posts)Although I'd take Louie Gohmert or Mitch McConnell as long as it were in there.
Not those two
DFW
(54,379 posts)We can't be choosers!