Mike Pence Says His Role Model for Vice President Is Dick Cheney

[babylonsister]

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Mike Pence Says His Role Model for Vice President Is Dick Cheney
By ines de la cuetara
Sep 18, 2016, 9:04 AM ET


GOP vice presidential candidate Mike Pence said his role model for the number two spot is the last Republican to hold the job -- Dick Cheney.

“I frankly hold Dick Cheney in really high regard in his role as vice president and as an American,” Pence said on ABC’s "This Week."

Pence said that, like Cheney, he hoped to be “a very active vice president.”

“Vice President Cheney had experience in Congress as I do, and he was very active in working with members of the House and the Senate,” he said.

Asked by ABC News' Martha Raddatz about criticism that Cheney had too much influence over President George W. Bush, Pence said that he admires vice presidents who are “able to take the vision of the president and champion that on Capitol Hill. “

“I would hope that my relationships over my 12 years in Congress and my four years here as governor of Indiana would help carry Donald Trump's vision to make America great again to people who would be crafting the legislation to put that into practice,” he said.

Pence often touts his experience in Congress on the campaign trail and just last week was on Capitol Hill to meet with Republicans in both the House and the Senate.

[Vinca]

1. Dick Cheney - the biggest waste of a donor heart in the history of transplants.

Figures Pence thinks he's wonderful.

[JHB]

2. Cheney became VP because he vetted Bush's VP picks...

...which gave him dirt on anybody else and then took the role of President by Proxy for himself.

Sorry Mike, Vlad had you beat before you even started.

[yardwork]

3. That's actually laughably pathetic.

Cheney is evil incarnate but Pence wouldn't have a clue how to plan and implement the things Cheney masterminded.

Pence is pathetic.

[kacekwl]

4. How Christian of him.

A liar and murderer for your role model.

[BlueTsunami2018]

5. Cheney wasn't a gutless, fawning sycophant.

He was the exact opposite of Pence. This statement is beyond absurd.

[Funtatlaguy]

6. Figures that he would pick a dick. Who will tell Mother?

[IADEMO2004]

7. He chose....poorly

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Neither has an OEM heart.

[Freethinker65]

9. Everyone knows Pence is a delusional religious zealot just happy to play the part of Veep

He was chosen because he lacked character to upstage Trump but he had the demeanor and look to complement Trump. Pence's political career was nearly over in Indiana and he was willing to go all in, even with someone as horrendous as Trump, for the opportunity.
Pence is a dick but he is not Dick Cheney. Pence has little input in Trump's WH. Pence's power is in his his vote as tie breaker in the Senate.

[PCIntern]

10. His role model is actually

Gregg Marmalard from the film Animal House

[Meadowoak]

11. More like Dan Quayle!

[C_U_L8R]

12. Please take your boss hunting

[yellowcanine]

13. Doesn't work because Cheney wasn't Bush's Toady.

If anything it was the other way around.

[Javaman]

14. so my suspicions are correct. pence does bathe in blood. nt