Is there a more obnoxiously insincere, sanctimonious, bloviating blowhard than Pence?

[Gabi Hayes]

After forcing myself to watch about ten minutes' worth of his ludicrous shtick with Tapper today, I came away with the notion that he's even more loathsome than Trump.

Think of the worst soap opera actor you've ever watched, vomiting up the most amateurish bathos you've ever witnessed, and that's Pence.

At least Trump has redeeming comic value. Pence is just a pompous, craven thug, of the lowest, most pandering order.

anybody ever try watching that creep for more than 30 seconds?

Today's horror show was my "reward."

[First Speaker]

1. Remember, once upon a time, when the media was calling Pence a "Moderate" Repub...?

...there are no moderate Republicans. Period. They're all crazier than a shithouse rat.

[Skittles]

2. any Texas repuke

oh yeah

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Hoosiers were subjected to him for nearly 4 years as Governor

He gave our state a black eye over a "religious freedom" bill he signed into law that nearly drove businesses/conventions from the state

[radical noodle]

26. He was also in Congress for 12 years

and is a member of the Tea Party. He's terrible. I stayed in Indiana just long enough to vote against him for governor.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

32. I didn't realize he had been in there for so long

I guess that I just hadn't noticed him much.

[radical noodle]

35. Maybe you avoid religious nutjobs!

Because that's where he "shines."

[Third Doctor]

4. Jerry Falwell Jr?

[rusty quoin]

5. I lived in Indiana between 2005 to 2008.

It was a short time, but I found out the state was just shy of Kansas from unmovable Republican extremism. They always elect a Republican as governor without ever considering a Democrat.

It's like a board game with Rebublican Party rules. Evan Bayh was willing to play by those rules. He really sucked.

[AwakeAtLast]

21. I have to disagree on one point

Indiana does not always vote a Republican into the Governor's office. Evan Bayh, Frank O'Bannon and Joe Kernan were Governor before Daniels. All Democrats.

I'm hopeful for Gregg this year! Pence has done his part to help out.

[radical noodle]

27. I lived in Indiana all my life until 2012

The state once elected Democrats. We had some excellent Democratic governors and Democratic Senators and Congressional Representatives. Lugar was GOP but he was more moderate than some (and later he was against the Tea Party crazies). There were a lot of moderates in the state, even Republican moderates. Then everyone went crazy over abortion and Rush Limbaugh. After that it was never the same. You should have been there after Obama was elected. geez...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

33. Funnily enough

Indiana went Blue for Obama in 2008, the first time since the 1960's. Immediately went back to Red for Romney in 2012.

[radical noodle]

34. Yes because Dubya was such a dimwit and crashed the economy

(although the state voted for him both times). The last time was when Goldwater ran when I was in high school.

[Gabi Hayes]

36. haaaaa...my mom took me to see him at the Hammond Civic Center

I thought it was very cool back then

funny thing happened.....I grew up,

alas, my parents remained John Birchers for the rest of their brief lives

love them still....

[radical noodle]

37. My government teacher pushed Goldwater on us

He told us that if Johnson was elected we'd all be communists! It seems funny now, but at that time we were pretty impressionable.

The Tea Party is the Birchers reborn, I think. Have you read Claire Connor's book about her John Birch family, Wrapped in the Flag? Good book.

[Gabi Hayes]

38. no...thanks...will do. I DID read A Choice, Not an Echo, though.

sound familiar?

I was 14-15; read Anthem and The Fountainhead, too

Atlas Shrugged was around, too, but even I knew how bad that one was, and I dropped that brick pretty fast.....no more AR for me.

[gordianot]

6. Give any Republican a TV camera and microphone they spout disgust beyond redemption.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. They think their arroganty refusing to admit they're wrong is the same thing as being right.

[czarjak]

25. And how..

[yortsed snacilbuper]

7. Thanks for the report and taking one for the team.

[Gabi Hayes]

39. I only watched a few minutes. he was SO sickening, so phony, so cloying,

SO transparently obvious in his lousy role playing.

I'm sure he's salivating at the possibility of being the COO of the country, while his ostensible boss just basks in the faux glory of HIS new role

making me want to PUKE while typing this

[Solly Mack]

8. Pence has always reminded me of all the hypocritical preachers I've known over the years.

[czarjak]

9. Propensity for...

Density.

[mountain grammy]

10. I'm trying to be fair and balanced

But 30 seconds is all I can manage of that creep.

[smirkymonkey]

11. God help us.

[Kathy M]

12. The only thing I can think of when seeing / hearing Pence

is a puppet ......... always wonder which string is being pulled , he is obnoxious .

[MADem]

13. They just found footage of him reacting to Trump choosing him as VP.....

[Coyotl]

14. Yes there is, and his name is Trump.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. He thinks condoms are "too modern"

He's a real piece of work.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/07/22/mike_pence_thinks_condoms_are_too_modern_and_liberal.html

[Mc Mike]

18. Smarmy, unctuous, oily, falsehearted bircher repuglinazi Pence.

[roamer65]

19. Pence the dense.

The guy is a fucking idiot.

[napkinz]

20. Governor Dense

[Calista241]

22. Bloviate is such a great word.

[Initech]

23. Paul LePage? Scott Walker?

[Todays_Illusion]

24. He is a typical Koch backed product, they love him.

And please don't think he took the Trump VP job without their support even possibly their suggestion.

[The_Casual_Observer]

28. That idiot Williams had the bastard on tonight

Let him skip past each "tough hard hitting question" and go on and on with his god damn piss on Hillary stump speech without interruption. He had that shit expression on his ugly mug, 15 minutes of free tv campaign time.

[vadermike]

29. And this is

Why we may just end up with orange hitler Cheeto and his rubber stamp red congress Bye bye women's rights minimum wage laws , obamacare , SSI , and Medicare privatized ugh Media do your fucking jobs There's no coming back from a trump Presidency , make bush II look like fun times which they were not and that's my point ! Ok rant off

[Gabi Hayes]

45. Boyoboy

You ever play the lottery?

Or do you own one of these?

[roscoeroscoe]

30. Indiana is beautiful

The people deserve better

[Gabi Hayes]

31. went to college there. as has been said, it's truly the Souths middle finger to the north

some nice spots.....Brown County, but mostly a flat, redneck, ignorant wasteland

sorry, I lived there, got mugged in West Lafayette (only time in my life).

I have a pretty good feel for it.

also been a Klan bastion for decades

[Gabi Hayes]

40. will people see him for the wildly troglodytic extremist he is tonight? media treats

him like QE II, for some reason.....he gets similarly skewed air time over Kaine to what happens w/Trump-Hillary, almost all unquestioningly accepting his smug smarminess

[Gabi Hayes]

41. well...am I right?

or what?

[Gabi Hayes]

42. anybody seeing this? not coming up when I go to GD

???

[Adrahil]

43. This man was my Congressman and Governor....

The answer is no. He is a lying, bible-thumping, and ultimately unprincipaled prick. Fuck him with rusty barbed wire.

[Gabi Hayes]

44. And now for a key update

[Gabi Hayes]

46. That above needs to be seen again

The president show is so much better than the mostly tepid shtick on SNL

[Gabi Hayes]

47. This is the Pence familys quandary. Read the article, too!

“Totally vile!”

[Gabi Hayes]

48. George Will calls him a sycophantic poodle

[Gabi Hayes]

49. Cant stand Will, but here:

Sinister figures lurk around our careless president

With eyes wide open, Mike Pence eagerly auditioned for the role as Donald Trump’s poodle. Now comfortably leashed, he deserves the degradations that he seems too sycophantic to recognize as such. He did Trump’s adolescent bidding with last Sunday’s preplanned virtue pageant of scripted indignation — his flight from the predictable sight of players kneeling during the national anthem at a football game. No unblinkered observer can still cling to the hope that Pence has the inclination, never mind the capacity, to restrain, never mind educate, the man who elevated him to his current glory. Pence is a reminder that no one can have sustained transactions with Trump without becoming too soiled for subsequent scrubbing.