12 in 2012: Pence's Focus, Delivery of Message Has Supporters Looking at White House

Fox ^ | 11/17/10 | Bret Baier

[pissant]

A former radio talk show host, Indiana Republican Rep. Mike Pence knows how to stay on message -- a skill he proved during the final push before the midterm election earlier this month when he spent three days bussing around the Hoosier State in support of local candidates.

Since 2008, Pence has been the Republican Conference chairman, the third ranking member in the GOP House leadership and the member charged with keeping Republicans unified against congressional Democrats and President Obama.

He demonstrated that ability on several occasions during a congressional term in which every House Republican voted against the stimulus bill and every House Republican opposed the Democratic-sponsored health care bill.

"I believe House Republicans are back in the fight," Pence told Fox News' Bret Baier. "And we're back in the fight for fiscal discipline and reform."

Pence insists the federal budget can be balanced without raising taxes, but not without cutting entitlement spending. And he wants to do it without the "usual demagoguery of politics."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/17/pences-focus-delivery-message-supporters-looking-white-house/#ixzz17S2yzfuN

[wtc911]

Pence is strong on ideas but lacks real world and executive experience (his CV is nothing but a lawyer or congress-critter). That’s not enough for me, at least at this point.

[JSDude1]

Agree, Pissant (of course we have for a while). BTW, incase you didn’t know (or forgot). I interned for Pence in Washington Summer of 2004 (is on my FR Bio).

J.S.

[JSDude1]

I don’t think you’ll be dissapointed FrankR, but who knows..

[reasonisfaith]

Based on Rush Limbaugh’s record and his continuing ability to offer an insightful perspective that nobody else can give, I can only continue to think of him as an authentic voice for true conservatism.

But I can’t get past the way he talked up Romney (without officially endorsing him) during the 2008 primaries. Maybe the same kind of inexplicable scenario is happening with Pence.

Pence’s foot inside the beltway has the potential to overcome any and all of his tea party instincts.

If Pence is such a good conservative leader, why doesn’t he help get real conservatives into committee leadership positions?

Instead, we get Upton and Rogers. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2639069/posts

No, I would say now is the time to hold inside the beltway Republicans to a degree of scrutiny matching the intensity of threat we face from the rino-progressive movement.