I have C-Span streaming on my computer right now and I just have one observation to make.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Mike Pence is so, so, so, so incredibly boring.

He has all the charisma of a piece of Wonderbread soaked in water for a day.

The guy is duller than dull.

So anyone wringing their hands thinking, "But if we impeach and remove Trump, we'll get Pence!" I just have one thing to say:

Bring him on.

[dhill926]

1. he was gonna lose the guv race in Indiana...

for chrissakes...

[DemocracyMouse]

18. Don't be fooled. I have it from a friend on the inside...

...of Indiana politics and banking... Pence is a grifter. He's a phony, a lier and a crook when he can get away with it.

[FakeNoose]

2. He'll never say anything to upstage Chump

That's why Pence is so boring, because Chump won't allow the TV cameras on anyone but himself.

[lunatica]

8. Evidently C-Span is streaming Pence so Trump

isn’t in the picture.

[Hortensis]

33. Yes, it's a posture. He was once a right wing radio

host. He knows how not to be boring at all. This creep’s patience and self-discipline are scary.

With any luck, his years of posing as a Trump acolyte and self abnegation will bring him nothing but disgrace and banishment, though I still hope for prison. Maintaining complete plausible deniability in the middle of the Trump swap seems unlikely.

[dalton99a]

3. Pence has the charisma of a funeral director and is not electable on his own.

[LiberalArkie]

14. Dan Quayle?

[spanone]

4. He's a pompous ass.

[Ohiogal]

5. But, Karen Pence fell in love with him at first sight!

Here's a real stomach turning article from the NYT.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/us/politics/who-is-karen-pence.html

Mr. and Mrs. Pence met at church, according to reports, and spent their first date ice skating at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.

“It was love at first sight,” Mrs. Pence said in a campaign ad for her husband’s run for governor.

She was so sure of their relationship that she began carrying a gold cross with the word “Yes” engraved on it for when he proposed.

[Moostache]

6. Think about how creepy THAT is...

First, you have to have found an engraved cross that said "yes"...
Then, why the fuck would ANYONE be carrying that in inventory?
Is there really a market of Christian women carrying around crosses that say "yes"?
And why?

Does the generic "yes" mean they too want to be crucified?
Does it mean they are affirming that Jesus was crucified?
Does it mean that everyone should believe as they do and accept a crucified savior?

Or is more likely just a BS story that Karen Pence MADE UP OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH to appease the idiots in the voting block that thinks that kind of horseshit is real?

I know which way Occam's razor would point...

[Ohiogal]

24. Or she bought a cross

and had it engraved? then carried it around with her everywhere hoping he’d pop The Question? When he did, did she whip it out and show it to him in answer? Isn’t that, like, blasphemous?

Either way, it’s just beyond nauseating.

[JudyM]

25. Good points.

[Chin music]

34. Fundies do weird stuff. WEIRD stuff.

But it does sound made up. Who produces a cross that says yes?

[mountain grammy]

15. Well that's a whole new level of

[Mars and Minerva]

26. OMG! They had their 1st date at an ice skating rink? I'm guessing he didn't show her his Zamboni!

No pre-marital rink maintenance!

[spooky3]

28. Hey, it was good enough for Rocky and Adrian. Nt

[The Genealogist]

31. Ugh. Made me throw up a little in my mouth

Sounds like a Brady Bunch reunion movie script that got tossed out for being too saccharine even for that lot.

[madaboutharry]

32. That engraved cross story is flat out weird.

I will say that the Mr. and Mrs. Pence actually to seem to love each other and appear to have an actual marriage, as opposed to the Trumps who have some bizarro thing of convenience going on.

That said, Mike Pence is so repressed and uptight it is uncomfortable to listen to him speak.

[captain queeg]

7. totally agree

Pence is no doubt far smarter than Trump and has many equally dangerous ideas, But he'd never motivate the base the way Trump does. He'd be DOA.

[brooklynite]

9. The risk isn't Pence giving a speech; it's Pence and "mom" governing.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Pence and mom will likely be considered lame ducks if Trump is removed.

And Pence and mom are not anything close to resembling an inspiring candidate if put up on a ballot.

[brooklynite]

11. Like Ford was considered a lame duck from 74-76?

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Nonsense, it'll be easy for Republicans to rally around him.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Ford was essentially a lame duck.

Tried as much as they did, Republicans could never wash the Nixon stink off of him.

[DoctorJoJo]

16. It Is "Mother," I'll Have You Know!!

They are a real freak show!

[ksoze]

13. He was picked because he was boring - no spotlight stealing

All the attention need to be on Trump. anyone who steal the limelight, gets axed, Pence is happy to play a nodding putz to Trump - exactly what he wants.

[yaesu]

17. he is void of any human thought or intelligence. nt

[Collimator]

19. Pence is not the cartoon character that Trump is.

So, he probably wouldn't embarrass us on the world stage with regularity. However, Pence, like so many others who embrace fundamentalist thinking, is a genuine danger to democracy and a thriving--hell, surviving world.

Anyone who looks at this world and life in it as a "secondary" experience that is only meant to prepare oneself for another, "superior" existence should not be in charge of policies that effect the future.

[TNNurse]

20. Trump has not moral compass.

Pence however is sincere in his twisted pretend Christian beliefs. There are people who would support him in his bigoted false "Christian" beliefs. Then there are those who will support him because he has Trumps boy. It is a cult.

[kairos12]

21. Boring like a fascist scheduler of trains.

[2naSalit]

30. +1

[Honeycombe8]

22. Is it over? I don't see it on CSPAN 1, 2, or 3. ??? nt

[patphil]

23. How boring is he?

Watching Pence speak is more boring than watching paint dry.
Hearing Pence speak is more boring than getting trapped into a conversation with Uncle Fred, who always tells the same story about the time he met Mike Pence.
Getting trapped in a conversation with Mike Pence makes you wish you were back with Uncle Fred.

Pat Phillips

[Mars and Minerva]

27. Two words... Dead Eyes.

The man has no pupils. Just coal black holes.

[rurallib]

29. Problem is republicans don't care if their candidate is even human

Can he (or unlikely she) sign legislation and nominate the judges they are told to. Their base would vote for whoever they are told to and accept whatever they do even if it costs them their livelihood.

So some advertising company can take a lump of shit named Pence and polish that turd into what resembles a human close enough to not make the base question voting for him. And they can fill his mouth with enough dog whistles to call the base to do their duty.

[Chin music]

35. Mrs. Pence, the VP beard.