Mike Pence Is Having a Moment He Doesn't Deserve

[Hamlette]

With rioters calling for his hanging and Trump tweeting that Pence lacked “the courage to do what should have been done,” the vice president turned to the aides and family members with him in an underground loading dock at the Capitol. “It doesn’t take courage to break the law,” he told them. “It takes courage to uphold the law.” It is an inspiring scene, marred only by Pence then asking his daughter to write down what he said.

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Most damning, Pence failed to tell the president or the public, without hedging or softening the point, that the Trump-Pence ticket had lost the 2020 election, even after Pence had reached that conclusion himself. Americans should be enormously grateful that the vice president did not overstep his authority and attempt to reverse the will of the voters on Jan. 6. But you shouldn’t get the glory for pulling democracy back from the brink if you helped carry it up there in the first place. And, so help me God, Pence did just that.

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Note those slippery, wiggle-room formulations. Pence does not directly state that he believed the election had been stolen, yet his rhetoric still appears fully in line with Trump’s position. The ovations at his speeches were “deafening,” Pence notes. So was his public silence about the truth. Less than a week after the election, Pence had already admitted to Jared Kushner that “although I was sure that some voter fraud had taken place, I wasn’t convinced it had cost us the election.” Why not share that conclusion with the public? Why stand by as the big lie grew bigger and Jan. 6 grew inevitable?

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[ColinC]

1. Kinda why I hope he gets the nomination

So we can bludgeon him with these facts and make clear to everybody that currently there are no good Republicans

[Sky Jewels]

4. I don't know who would vote for him, though.

MAGAts hate him and literally want him killed. Moderate Republican voters (all five of them) are turned off by his religious lunacy. I think he's going to get Jeb Bush numbers in the primary.

[Solly Mack]

2. He gets no credit for anything from me.

He's not a single moment, he is an entire time period of supporting Trump and being a POS in his own right.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. A Profile in Courage....

that he will never be known by. Run for President, Mike, I'd love to see you humiliated some more.

[grumpyduck]

5. Makes ya wonder what's holding up his ribs in back.

[Hamlette]

6. his ego is holding him up

can you imagine, in your wildest dreams, asking your daughter to write down what you said because you think you are that good?

I'm humiliated for him.