Posted on 10/16/2017 12:31:44 PM PDT by EdnaMode
OOn September 14th, the right-wing pundit Ann Coulter, who last year published a book titled “In Trump We Trust,” expressed what a growing number of Americans, including conservatives, have been feeling since the 2016 election. The previous day, President Trump had dined with Democratic leaders at the White House, and had impetuously agreed to a major policy reversal, granting provisional residency to undocumented immigrants who came to America as children. Republican legislators were blindsided. Within hours, Trump disavowed the deal, then reaffirmed it. Coulter tweeted, “At this point, who doesn’t want Trump impeached?” She soon added, “If we’re not getting a wall, I’d prefer President Pence.”
Trump’s swerve did the unthinkable—uniting Coulter and liberal commentators. After Trump threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea, Gail Collins, the Times columnist, praised Vice-President Mike Pence as someone who at least “seems less likely to get the planet blown up.” This summer, an opinion column by Dana Milbank, of the Washington Post, appeared under the headline “ ‘president pence’ is sounding better and better.”
Pence, who has dutifully stood by the President, mustering a devotional gaze rarely seen since the days of Nancy Reagan, serves as a daily reminder that the Constitution offers an alternative to Trump. The worse the President looks, the more desirable his understudy seems. The more Trump is mired in scandal, the more likely Pence’s elevation to the Oval Office becomes, unless he ends up legally entangled as well.
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Jane Mayer: the creepy journalist who got Linda Tripp’s stepmother to reveal that Linda, as a young woman, was caught taking property from a friend.
Personally, I don’t fully trust Pence.
He was in the House leadership with Ryan, Boehner, Cantor and the rest of the Cheap Labor Express Republicans.
Johnson may have been a gambler, but not an honest one. He stacked the deck.
I don’t remember The New Yawkah ever discussing the dangers of a Barack Hussein Obama presidency while America was lucky to survive 8 years of his Marxist bull**** presidency.
Hillary 2020!
Hillary 2024!
Hillary 2028!
LOL.
Pence is a good and loyal man.
He would be a worthy successor to Trump in 2024 or later.
Good—let them be so afraid of Pence that they are afraid to really go after Trump.
And he scored a well planned royal flush in Dallas.
"royal flush" -- good one! Sick, funny, and true.
Later on he scored similarly on MLK.
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