Mike Pence Has Nowhere to Go

[babylonsister]

womp womp

https://politicalwire.com/2021/01/18/mike-pence-has-nowhere-to-go/

Mike Pence Has Nowhere to Go
January 18, 2021 at 9:24 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Peter Nicholas: “The vice president’s swift journey from acolyte to outcast was head-spinning. This is someone who would pause after mentioning Donald Trump’s name during an address so that the audience had time to clap—and who would then stand silently at the lectern when it didn’t. Editing Pence’s speeches, aides would cut references to Trump when they didn’t believe there was any reason to mention him. Reviewing the changes, Pence would take his Sharpie and add Trump’s name back in, a former Trump-administration official told me.”

“But Pence will see no reward for his fealty, or for his actions on January 6, when he resisted pressure from Trump to toss out the election results. The springboard to the Oval Office that so many vice presidents have used is gone. Not only has Trump’s base turned on him, but Pence is complicit in the Trump administration’s most egregious actions.”

[malaise]

1. No tots, no prayers

Mother can handle his problems

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Just thugs and players. . . . nt

[malaise]

8. LOL

and they are thugs and (well) ex-players in 50 hours

[MLAA]

16. Poor little Pence, Mother wouldn't dream of 'handling' his 'problems'. 😬

[malaise]

18. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaj

[cynical_idealist]

56. He can have a pocketful of tater tots for consolation

His guilt is proportional to pino's

[malaise]

57. lol

I don't care do you

[Yonnie3]

2. I know where Pence can go! n/t

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Sleeping with DOGS.....FLEAS....

Pence is damaged goods.

Not even a book deal will save him.

[pandr32]

36. True!

Who the hell would want to read a book by Mike Pence?

[fwvinson]

41. OHHH...He will have a tell all book out soon. And, it had better be truthful. Lots of people are

looking at him and waiting for him to f##k up.

[gibraltar72]

5. Hell!

[In_The_Wind]

6. Womp Womp

[Hotler]

7. Mike didn't pray hard enough. Now the only thing left for him to do

is start pulling on them bootstraps.

[essme]

9. Oh, Mother has probably already bought a charming split level

in Terre Haute---

They'll be fine.

[DFW]

10. Indiana?

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Isn't there an old Vice-Presidents' home somewhere? He can sit on the veranda and reminisce with Dan Quayle.

[Wicked Blue]

21. Good one!

[Jetheels]

32. Potatoe

[AwakeAtLast]

37. Indiana doesn't want him

We tried to get rid of him when I lived there! Then along comes Cheetolini....

[KY_EnviroGuy]

51. Letterman would like to have a word or two with him.

KY........

[DFW]

54. Whether one word or two, I doubt he would understand either one. n/t

[yellowdogintexas]

55. how embarrassing that Pence and Quayle are both from Indiana

I lived in Evansville for 6.5 years, and it was solid blue then. Lots of union activity from Whirlpool, ALcoa and probably others. That Congressional district sent Democrats to the House regularly.

This was early 80s. I moved there in April 1983 and left in November 1989; Democrats and distinguished trustworthy Republicans (Bayh and Lugar) went to the Senate . Those days are gone.

[onetexan]

67. Let's face it, most of the inner midwest are deep deep red, IN included

Take a look at the electoral map: https://www.270towin.com/

Save IL, NM & CO which for the most part are now reliably Blue, GA, & AZ were dogged fights which Biden won by slim margins.
In 2016 Hillary lost the Rustbelt states big time. I believe it was Biden's appeal to the unions and the Black vote that really helped him there. In GA & AZ the Black, Latino & Asian votes helped push Joe over.

As for the rest of the midwestern & southern states, it will be years before Democrats make headway. The root of the problem is clear - racism. Until the nation as a whole can reckon with it, racism will rear its ugly head in every election, in every shape and form - gerrymandering, voter suppression via tougher voting registration requirements, voting location closings in minority areas, etc. - all designed to disenfranchise Black and Brown Americans socially and economically, and stifle their collective rights and voices. This is the divided America we live in now, the racists emboldened by the Con the last 4 years.

[Maru Kitteh]

11. perfect

[Solly Mack]

12. I remember him in Congress and his time as Governor before his time as VP.

Pence is a POS and I truly hope he has been ruined beyond repair. I want him to slither back into the ground and never ever come back out.

[babylonsister]

13. I remember, too. He was despicable then,

even more so now.

[Solly Mack]

14. Yep

[theneworiginal]

15. Pence KNEW. He did nothing to stop it.

Same with Barr. At least Barr was smart enough to get out of dodge and not risk his life and that of his family.

[Escurumbele]

27. I have to think that Barr's paws are all over the place in the corruption that will be found

I would think, and hope, that Barr will not get away with his crimes...His exit strategy was too late, he did a lot while he was there.

[crickets]

59. Agreed. No way Barr should get to walk off scot free. nt

[Eyeball_Kid]

60. Barr's crimes:

My guess is that Barr's crimes were in pursuit of power. Idealized power. Some would commit crimes in pursuit of money.

Barr projected his need for power onto the "unitary executive" concept. He evaded the feeling of shame by converting personal greed for power into an a-priory theoretical construct. It's a Catholic thing.

[OnDoutside]

17. Pence NEVER had a future. HE lacked the personality and in fact overshot his ability. Plain Mike.

Trump needs a pardon, and the only way I can see Trump not resigning, so he can be pardoned by President Pence, is if he doesn't want Pence to be on an equal level with him. In that situation, Trump will announce a self-pardon and it will be challenged and overturned even by a Conservative SC.

[Eyeball_Kid]

61. IMO, Pence looks frightened all the time. In moments when he's

not supposed to be projecting a public figure persona, he looks absolutely terrified.

[lindysalsagal]

19. What? the trustee boards of fortune 500 companies aren't going to roll out the red carpet for him?

[chriscan64]

20. This morning I watched his speech from before Jan. 6th to supporters.

He chose his words carefully, trying to build a rickety offramp from the delusion to the inevitable certification of Biden's win. Sorry I don't have a link at the moment. The gist of it was that by debating the objections, their lie would have its day to be heard. He seemed to be gently easing the mob toward acceptance of the results, in a feckless and ultimately failed way.

[Wicked Blue]

22. Sweeping floors at Mar-a-lago? nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

23. back to the department store window.

rejoin his fellow mannequins

[marble falls]

24. The highlited paragraph is as sweet and sucinct political epitath I've ever read.

[lillypaddle]

25. Ain't That a Shame

[patphil]

26. For all of his self-serving, boot licking, ass kissing, unwavering support of Donald Trump,

I give him credit for doing one right thing in his entire political career.
He took a stand against the overthrow of the Republic.
Which shows that even an asshole like Pence has his limits.

I don't praise him for this. After all he took an oath to uphold the Constitution and defend the Republic, so this was him just doing what he should be doing.
But it was the one right thing, at the right time, to put and end to Trump's attempt to re-create Nazi Germany in the United States.
Oh, by the way Mike, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

[Escurumbele]

29. "He took a stand against the overthrow of the Republic.", he had no choice there is nothing he could

have done...His job was simple, open envelopes and count votes, that is it...trump is just an ignorant who thought Pence could, by one stroke of the pen, give him the presidency back, but a Vice-President does not have the authority to do that.

[patphil]

43. He did have a choice.

He could have refused to do his job. He could have thrown gasoline on a raging fire and spoke out against the certification of the election from the House floor. He could have stood with Trump one more time and let chaos rain down on the Capitol; even harder than it did.
It could have been a lot worse if he had remained steadfast with Trump to the end.
He could have been like all those Representatives and Senators who planned to object to the certification of the election; who continued to claim the election was stolen.

But he didn't.
His choice was to actually do what his position of Vice-President required of him.
But, he could have chosen to do otherwise like so many members of Congress.

You could argue that when the invasion of the Capitol failed, and it did fail, the insurrectionists were the ones who helped Pence, and the Congress finally make the decision to do the right thing. It certainly brought everything into focus and tore away the last veil to expose Trump and his supporters as the seditious creatures that they actually were.
At that point you either stood for the Republic, or against it.
Everything got very real.

[JI7]

62. lol, he doesn't get credit for being decent enough not to kill someone personally.

[patphil]

63. I fully agree. He really isn't a decent man at all. But fortunate his depravity did have a limit.

[kiri]

48. you forget

what damage he could have wrought if he stood there and declared "the Electoral College vote from Pennsylvania are invalid. I refer the matter back to the PA Legislature. Their 20 votes are not to be tabulated."

This would have created the exact chaos Trump wanted. And a huge Constitutional crisis.

And NOBODY could have stopped Pence. Points of order, parliamentarians, shoutings, chaos.
After an hour, Pence would have just moved on to the next state. Repeat in Wisconsin, et al.

Biden would not have been certified. And would most likely have lost in the Alito-Thomas-Barret Supreme court.

[Escurumbele]

28. Ex-President for hire to stand behind CEO watching him with adoring eyes while he/she gives a speech

That is the job he is going to apply for.

[Klaralven]

30. Pence will probably continue in the evangelical wing of the Republican Party

I could see him as the President of some conservative religious university.

With six terms in the House, a term as Governor of Indiana, and his pension as President of the Senate, he's probably pretty well set.

[DallasNE]

31. That Issue Goes Far Beyond Pence

Nearly all US Senators have the same problem. The 2024 Republican nominee will come from the Governors ranks. In fact, Nixon was the last Republican President to have also been a US senator. To find the last sitting Republican US Senator to win the presidency would take you back 100 years.

Enter billionaire Joe Ricketts to start a media company as a platform for his Governor son Pete to run for President. See how that works. And with Iowa right across the river, bingo, a leg up.

[aikoaiko]

33. I wouldn't count Pence out. He has a olay.

Depending on how things go he could sell himself as the Replicant that saved democracy.

Of course a lot of dominoes would have to fall first before that would work.

[NCjack]

47. He will become president of a small Xtian college.

[Blue Owl]

34. Silhouette Night with mother from here on out

[dchill]

35. My heart bleeds...

...but not for Pence. Any fate that leaves him a free man is too good for him.

[bringthePaine]

38. so the low-flow toilets work ok after all, huh?...

[LiberalLovinLug]

39. One could predict that in 2016 for whomever took the VP job

I suspected it. No way Trump would ever allow his VP to take any spot light away from him. And he'd also have to be a smiling clapping zombie for him, praising him whenever possible. And it wasn't hard to predict whomever took that job, the association with the orange grifter, would be tarnished for good.

[Turbineguy]

40. Narcissists suck out your soul.

Pence is smart enough to know that and not be proof of it.

[lutherj]

42. He can be a carnival barker for the evangelical crowd. N/t.

[logosoco]

44. He would be a great spokesperson

for a flypaper company!

[KayF]

45. he won't know what to do

[keithbvadu2]

46. Pence was never accepted as a team member.

Pence was never accepted as a team member.

Just a useful idiot.

He was not a blood relative.

[Captain Zero]

49. He can go run his brother's flea market since his

Brother is in Congress. Haha.

[BobTheSubgenius]

50. There are other things he could do.

Standing in a cornfield back in Indiana and showing off his dead-eyed stare for hours and hours comes to mind. I'm sure there are others things, as well.

[DeeDeeNY]

52. He should be grateful he is alive

If reports are to be believed, he came within a minute of being captured by the “Hang Mike Pence” mob.

[argyl]

53. He was an extremely unpopular Indiana governor headed for defeat.

Then along comes a guy he can look adoringly at and could maybe even make him him president.

Here's another option:you may justifully go to prison.

[FakeNoose]

58. I'll bet Jeff Sessions knows exactly how he feels too

Chump will never appreciate anything that anyone has done for him. Ever.

[Demovictory9]

64. it was embarrassing,,, watching him kiss ass

[Mike 03]

65. The Christian far right will accept Pence back, but the good news is he will

never be president and likely won't run.

He's idolized by the Christian Nationalists and they won't break with Pence over what's transpired these last weeks. In fact, the Christian far right is fully aware that it sold its soul to support Trump in the first place. That marriage was always tenuous, forced and rocky. They might go back to supporting Ted Cruz or someone else more sincerely devoted to their cause.

Over the last few weeks we've seen those headlines suggesting the RW Christians are trying to estrange themselves from the Trump debacle: "Christian Evangelicals in a moment of soul-searching..."

[Martin Eden]

66. Even the flies have deserted him

They had a taste of his head and decided they like feces better.