Mike Pence's Towering Hypocrisy

[Martin Eden]

This column by Steve Chapman is from July 2016, but is always relevant whenever this hymn singing hypocrite rears his duplicitous head.

Chapman's column was prompted by Pence supplicating himself before the most amoral narcissistic POS ever to become POTUS -- which brought to mind the sanctimonious speech delivered in a 2010 not so veiled attack on the character of then-president Barack Obama.

Excerpts from Pence speech:

The presidency’s “powers are vast and consequential, its requirements — from the outset and by definition — impossible for mortals to fulfill without humility and insistent attention to its purposes as set forth in the Constitution of the United States,” declared Pence, his gaze steely and his jaw firmly set. Of power, he said, “Those who are entrusted with it must educate themselves in self-restraint.”

“A true statesman lives in what Churchill called a continuous ‘stress of soul,’” Pence informed his audience. “And that’s why you must always be wary of a president who seems to float upon his own greatness.”

Pence told a story to illustrate the humanity and humility of Calvin Coolidge. “A sensibility like this — and not power — is the source of presidential dignity, and it must be restored,” he said. “It depends entirely upon character, self-discipline and an understanding of the fundamental principles that underlie not only the republic but life itself.

“It communicates that the president feels the gravity of his office and is willing to sacrifice himself, that his eye is not upon his own prospects but upon the storm of history, through which it is his responsibility to navigate with the specific powers accorded to him and the limitations placed upon them not merely by man but by God.”

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Pence is a very weak man with no backbone

[Martin Eden]

2. More likely no principles other than self promotion and political power

He'll lie through his teeth -- like any "true" rethuglican these days.

[FakeNoose]

3. Poor Mike Pence still thinks he has a political career that needs saving