Trump’s VP pick is a governor in search of his Republican identity

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The mocking began shortly after a memo leaked from Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s office revealing plans for a state-run news agency to distribute prepackaged articles for local papers.

“Pravda on the Plains,” some called it, likening the idea to a Soviet-style propaganda machine. The state House speaker, a fellow Republican, brought a Russian dictionary to a news conference to poke fun at the plan. When Pence appeared on a popular conservative radio show to tamp down the controversy, the host begged him for assurances that nothing that “smells, sounds, tastes or looks anything like this is going to pop up again.”

Pence soon withdrew the proposal — one of several politically damaging moments that pointed to a bigger problem of his tenure as governor. A series of reversals, such as championing and then pushing to change an anti-gay “religious freedom” law and changing his mind on whether to reject federal education money, chipped away at his standing with voters. And although Pence had run for office in 2012 as a restrained wonk focused on jobs and business despite his earlier reputation as an ideologue, he instead picked fights over conservative causes that strained relations with lawmakers.

While Donald Trump introduced his new running mate Saturday as “a highly talented executive leading the state of Indiana to jobs, growth and opportunity,” the picture of Pence that emerges from his gubernatorial tenure shows a man who struggled under the spotlight to find his identity as a Republican within today’s fractured versions of conservatism.

Pence’s standing in his home state was so shaky that polls showed him in a neck-and-neck race for reelection in his heavily Republican state, with voters’ memories of the religious freedom controversy that has come to symbolize Pence’s tentative leadership.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-vp-pick-is-a-governor-in-search-of-his-republican-identity/2016/07/16/852f5024-4ab8-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Believe him when he says he's Christian 1st, Conserv. 2nd, Republican 3rd. 'American' not on list.

[CallMeCrazyMikePence]

2. or when he says we can call him "crazy", "global warming is a myth", etc.

1.From his congressional campaign website in 2000: “Global warming is a myth. The global warming treaty is a disaster. There, I said it…I know Monica Lewinsky seems like the most important issue in America but, call me crazy, I think the quiet expansion of the liberal environmentalist agenda by Al Gore and Clinton White House that will cost thousands of jobs could be more important. Say no to the global warming treaty.” (via Buzzfeed)
http://www.bna.com/indiana-governor-mike-b73014444775/


Thats Crazy.

C-R-A-Z-Y

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longgggggggg "E"

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That kind of crazy.

[Hortensis]

3. I do, Bernardo. Him and many others in government.