Saw part of an interview with Pence on ABC last night.
They're trying to make him out to be a hero because he wouldn't give in to orange Hitler's treason. They let him ramble on about how he 'stood up to' the fraudulent fuck and told him 'how wrong it was' and 'God this and God that'. I couldn't take more than a few minutes. 
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Reminds me of the line from the They Might Be Giants song (not ironically titled "Racist Friend"
, "You can't shake the devils hand and say you're only kidding."
even for a few seconds. He can try all he wants to distance himself from Trump but there’s a reason why he got the nickname “Trump’s fourth ex-wife.”
He was subservient to Trump at levels that would have embarrassed a person who wasn’t singularly focused on his political ambitions.
And now, when there seems to be (finally) some turning of the tide against Trump, Pence suddenly discovers a small reservoir of courageous defiance? I don’t think so. The guy is a complete fraud.
If this isn’t a perfect image of what the young people today call a “simp” then I don’t know what is:
and has the RW uberclass God sent to direct and prop him up? He has his faith and earthly authorities to serve.
I can't get into the minds of people like him, but I'm just grateful for whatever genetic linkages saved me from being one; and, given what's on display right now, wondering (in my easy chair) that the human race managed claw its way this far up out of the mud.
yet when push comes to shove, he weasels out.
He had moments during the excerpted interview with David Muir when I had hope. Where Pence acknowledged the truth and when he spoke of his anger over the January 6 insurrection.
But he could not maintain an allience with honesty and reason (or "righteousness" . He was given the opportunity, and he deflected instead.
He has some serious character issues, if you ask me.
an authoritarian personality, and likely the "double high" religious leader type. Double highs will be subservient to authoritarian leaders more powerful than them also, and tRump fulfilled that role. As did billionaire authorities like Charles Koch. Pence has been valuable in embodying both far-right religious and plutocratic economic interests to the electorate. (..."hypocrisy is practically their middle name." )
Despite his passive manner as failing-Christian-politician-become-tRump's-VP, I'm sure he'd become a ruthless, religiously zealous despot if he had the power. We have some examples from his time as governor of Indiana, when he abandoned his moderate campaign persona to start imposing his far-right/religious beliefs. And from when he was a RW political radio host. BAD character, all right!
But a Double High has the best chance of attracting this army of yearning and loyal supporters. He comes packaged as "one of our own," one of the in-group. He not only shares their prejudices, their economic philosophy, and their political leanings, he also professes their religious views, and that can mean everything to high RWAs. ...
He'll appear to believe everything "all the good people" believe about Satan, being born again, evolution, the role of women, sex, abortion, school prayer, law and order, "perverts," censorship, zealotry, holy wars, America-as-God's-right-hand, and so on. Given this head start. you can expect to find a Double High leading most of the right-wing authoritarian groups in our country. ....
Despite their pronouncements about freedom-this and freedom-that, high RWA lawmakers would like to pass laws that restrict freedom of the press, the right to protest, the right to privacy, the right to belong to the political organization of one's choice, and they certainly would trample all over freedom of religion once they made the teaching of Christianity compulsory in public schools.
The Authoritarians” by Bob Altemeyer
at watching for the "tells" beyond verbal evasions, and as you say, being mealy-mouthed.
In his evasiveness and dishonesty, and extreme religiosity, he makes me think of Mitt Romney, who I believed was running because his god called him to preside over his agenda. Though bone-deep dishonesty and evasiveness are characteristic of nearly all Republican politicians these days, even those about as religious as our cats.
I don't get live ABC shows. I have to watch them "next day" on Hulu. No new episode of "The Good Doctor" when I got up this morning.
Pence [with an "awww, shucks" look on his face]: No, I didn't have any fear. I felt [long pause] indignation. 
Indignation was such an odd word to use in that context. He could have said, "I didn't feel fear for myself, but I feared for the safety of my wife and daughter who were in the room with me." Much more believable.
