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Why does Mike Pence bother?
WaPo via MSN ^ | June 28, 2023 | T.A. Frank

Posted on 06/28/2023 3:59:43 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA

People tell the story in different ways, but they agree on this much: In 1979, at Hanover College, the boys of Phi Gamma Delta threw a party with girls and booze. Hanover, a small liberal arts school perched high on the Indiana side of the Ohio River with views of Kentucky, is a Presbyterian institution with strict rules on alcohol, and an event like this was far out of bounds. Word came to the revelers that someone from the dean’s office was headed their way. Everyone scrambled. Women were hustled out, floors swept and mopped, and kegs tossed down a steep wooded slope behind the house. In minutes, the administrator arrived, combed through the rooms, and failed to find anything incriminating. The boys of Fiji, as the frat was called, seemed to be in the clear. Then the administrator approached Fiji’s president, a sophomore by the name of Mike Pence. “Did you have a party in here tonight?” he asked.

“Yes, sir,” answered Pence. “We did.”

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Quick humorous story: when I was in college my roommate and I threw a dorm party in our room. Beer and booze was flowing. People were in and out of the room. Slowly the volume of the stereo increased. Then it occurred to me to turn the music down. I yelled, “turn the volume down before the f&@&ing Dean shows up.” I turned around and in the doorway the Dean stood, saying “I’m f$&@ing here.”

He was actually pretty cool about it. Although he walked away with our libations, which everyone assumed he personally consumed.

1 posted on 06/28/2023 3:59:43 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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To: ConservativeInPA

” Limited Government” means play nice while the Marxists continue to advance.


2 posted on 06/28/2023 4:05:31 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! there is no coexistence wi)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Probably on the off chance that Trump drops out for one reason or another. All of the under 5% candidates are either vanity candidates or just wanting to be in place and ready, even if even then they have little chance. Consider that they are traveling, eating, and get publicity on the campaign money. Living rent free.


3 posted on 06/28/2023 4:06:47 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Pence could have waited until 2028.

Another stab in the back like from Ron DeSantis.


4 posted on 06/28/2023 4:07:04 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Putin Stooges totally lack self awareness.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

i have no problem with telling the truth. it’s always the best policy if you’re going to say anything.

but at one point a decade or so ago, i actually thought this guy might be an option for president. that is until he showed his true colors by attacking real tea party christian candidates like Akin and Murdoch.

i knew he was a horrible pick for VP.


5 posted on 06/28/2023 4:10:17 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: ConservativeInPA

I thought Pence was a decent guy, though not really all that much of a bright thinker.Then the way he dismissed the indications of election fraud in 2020 showed me that he’s not up to the task of taking on the Washington elite. He’s the last guy we need in the Oval Office.


6 posted on 06/28/2023 4:12:16 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: ConservativeInPA

When Trump was first running for office and held a debate with someone, Pence ‘n Ryan purchased a PenceRyan internet domain name to run for office, assuming Trump would or was failing the debate. When he didn’t fail the debate, the website was scrubbed. (I posted pics of the domain name registry about 4 years ago to FR)

Then a whistleblower said Pence felt resentment because Trump won what was to have been Pence’s seat as President.

Then recently, someone claimed that Pence was offered the Presidency or a Presidential campaign in exchange for not contesting the 2020 stolen election when he went to certify the results. I didn’t see proof of that, but the man does seem obsessed and entitled so I think it likely.


7 posted on 06/28/2023 4:16:22 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

” ... the way he dismissed the indications of election fraud in 2020 ... “


Pence pushes false election fraud claims in denouncing Democratic reform bill

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/03/politics/mike-pence-false-claims-voter-fraud/index.html


8 posted on 06/28/2023 4:17:37 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Reno89519

Follow the money.


9 posted on 06/28/2023 4:17:48 PM PDT by kabar
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To: ConservativeInPA

I’d love to see Pence’s campaign end soon in defeat. He deserves that !

He never really served Trump, he was serving himself ! says so in the article he has been planning (strategizing) for decades about being Prez.

Musta been eating Pence up inside to have to be nice to Trump.

so dim witted Pence helps sabotage the country then thinks he can get enough votes to win !??


10 posted on 06/28/2023 4:18:26 PM PDT by b4me
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To: ConservativeInPA

Mike Pence.... is Romney, Paul Ryan, John McCaine, Orca Christie, all the Bushes,.... he’s the Washington Senators to the Harlem Globetrotter, He’s the Susan Lucci of soap operas,.... the Buffalo Bills, Chicago Cubs, the New York Jets......

He’s Craig Morton and Tony Romo trying to be like Roger Staubach or Troy Aikman.

He’s a loser. A spineless, gutless, testicular deficient, poser.

I look at him and see Ted Knight in Caddyshack.... I’m gonna puke... but he believes his own BS and is the MSM news bubble.

Have a nice little test.... have Ted Knight...er I mean Mike Pence hold a huge rally in his home state.... four months from now....... then 24 hours before his rally say that Trump will hold a rally in a nearby football stadium.......

that would be f’ing hilarious. In fact Trump should be doing that whenever one of the deep state RINOs and lovable grifters announces a rally.....hahahahahaha


11 posted on 06/28/2023 4:19:48 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 "deo duce ferro comitantes" <p><b><i></I><i> </i><p></B><P> <img src=""> )
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To: ConservativeInPA

“Do not be excessively righteous, and do not be overly wise. Why should you ruin yourself?” -Eccl. 7:16


12 posted on 06/28/2023 4:20:01 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Seriously.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Pence is just another politician that trots to a podium, delivers well-crafted speeches that in the end are just meaningless words intended to fool the rubes in Republican party.


13 posted on 06/28/2023 4:21:04 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Casey DeSantis? No thanks. I've already voted for too many Bushes.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Why does he bother? I’m assuming why does he bother to run for Prez? Because the deep state needs to have the appearacne that there are good guys and bad guys on both sides of the aisle...and Donald Trump is a bad no matter what. That’s why.


14 posted on 06/28/2023 4:21:16 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: ConservativeInPA

Something creepy about Pence, IMHO:

At President Trump’s SOTU, cameras were trained on Pence and Pelosi as they stood in chambers, waiting for Trump to arrive. Naturally a lip reader put out a video claiming to have decoded what was said. I watched the video and believed it to be a faithful lip reading, as the cameras were close enough on the pair to make that a reasonable accomplishment, allowing viewers to decide if it seemed to match.

In that clip, Pelosi seems overawed and anxious, nervously telling Pence, “Well, we were never going to impeach YOU.”

It was as if Pence had revealed something about himself, perhaps the people supporting him, to Pelosi which so startled her she wanted to explain herself. Her body language was that of a subordinate! Well - that’s what it looked like. I found it odd that Pence had gone below radar long enough to be able to shock Pelosi like that.


15 posted on 06/28/2023 4:21:22 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: kabar

Even if have no chance, you can borrow against your campaign
donations. By law, you can’t just take your campaign donations, but can take out loans using campaign donations as collateral.


16 posted on 06/28/2023 4:23:29 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: ConservativeInPA

I remember in 2004 at a luncheon for pro life delegates at the Republican Convention, he went from table to table and shook every single person’s hand. He was a congressman at the time
I remember thinking he had much higher ambition.


17 posted on 06/28/2023 4:24:16 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert ( )
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To: ConservativeInPA

Funny story fo’ sure.


18 posted on 06/28/2023 4:24:29 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: ConservativeInPA

Pence wants to self-righteously bloviate, then drop out at just the right time and endorse the prevailing non-Trump (likely Desantis).But

So predictable.


19 posted on 06/28/2023 4:24:37 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: ConservativeInPA

The SMARTER candidates should not attack Trump, since he WILL be the Republican nominee (unless the Ukraine War supporters get their way), so they should be more like Vivek, and be looking for the VP slot.


20 posted on 06/28/2023 4:25:47 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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