Mike Pence wants Statehood for Puerto Rico. Why?
Posted on 12/10/2010 11:25:58 AM PST by pissant
On a midweek afternoon in February 2009, a month into the Obama presidency, Republican Rep. Mike Pence arrived at Columbus in his east-central Indiana district for a town hall meeting, the sort of event that usually attracted a few dozen constituents. Surprised to see the hallway outside the room crowded with people, "their arms folded and brows furrowed," Pence shouted down the hall to an aide, asking him to get a janitor to open the room. The aide shouted back that the room was open - and overflowing. Congress had just passed the stimulus bill (Pence voted no), and Hoosiers were stimulated to anger. Soon the Tea Party would be simmering.
Five months earlier, on a Friday, TARP had been proposed. The original three-page legislation sought $700 billion instantly, no time for questions; Pence's staff figured the cost would be about a billion dollars a word. On Saturday, Pence announced his opposition but thought the bill would pass the House 434 to 1. On Monday, however, other members started approaching him, almost furtively, "like a secret society." A week later, the House rejected TARP, 228 to 205.
Four days later, the House passed TARP's second, 451-page, pork-swollen iteration, 263 to 171. That weekend, Pence, who voted no, was at a Boy Scout jamboree at the Henry County Fairgrounds. He was approached by a man who had no scout there but wanted to thank Pence for opposing TARP. The man said that although he had lost his job the day before, "I can get another job but I can't get another country."
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omg- does this mean we’re supporting the same guy this time?
Yikes- times indeed are strange my FRiend :)
What is it with you and congressmen as presidential candidates? Wasn’t Abraham Lincoln the last man elected president with only a stint as a House member on his resume? And he only won due to a freakish four-way race that’ll probably never happen again. Neither Duncan Hunter nor Mike Pence will be the GOP nominee in 2012, but knock yourself out!!
Posted yesterday, by you...
Why Mike Pence will run in 2012
Wash Post ^ | 12/9/10 | Jennifer Rubin
Posted on Thu Dec 09 2010 18:10:57 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) by pissant
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2640311/posts
I had no idea Jennifer Rubin and George Will were the same people. THough I’ve never seen them in the same room together.
So if Pence is the nominee you won’t “raise 2 million dollars” for his campaign?
Maybe: I would have to know much more about him. My point is that he won’t be the nominee. We don’t nominate House members. See Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich and a dozen more examples.
Yep!
That’s exactly what he is doing.....he is probably running for VP, many potential candidates or people keeping their names out there in the news are running for the second spot
Well, I don’t know about everybody else, but Nick Popaditch keeps popping his out.
Possibly. DeMint/Pence/Bolton/Rounds right now are my favorites that have been talked about as candidates. I don’t think Hunter is interested this time, and I don’t see any others talking about it that I like. If an Odierno or some attractive surprise candidate jumps in, then great, I’ll take a look.
Could I vote for a Daniels, Thune, Palin, TPaw, Huck, Santorum or somesuch? Yes, but not in the primary. And only if they come out 100% against any amnesty.
Could I vote for a Perry or Newt or Mitt or Bloomberg or Pataki or Trump? Probably not.
IMO, the smartest thing Pence could do is stay in the House. When Palin is elected president, we’ll need him there to do some heavy lifting. Same goes for Bachmann, Ryan, DeMint, etc. I am going to guess that Gov Perry of TX will be her choice for veep.
All faux conservative Obama worshippers in the press are the same. Jennifer Rubin = George Will = Katherine Parker = David Brooks = Peggy Noonan = William Kristol.
Do you agree with Pence’s advocacy and support for the “Puerto Rico Democracy” act? Do you really agree with Pence that Puerto Rico should be our 51st state?
Pence is an OPEN BORDERS and STATEHOOD for PUERTO RICO faux conservative.
That’s why he’s being pushed by Rove-Romney as a stalking horse and possible VP for the Romney campaign.
Mike Pence is a nice guy and as such, I believe that he should be invited to attend Palin’s Presidential Inauguration. It’s the right thing to do.
Run Sarah Run!
But precedents eventually get set for anything, and 2012 promises to be strange enough already for me to think that coming from the House won't be nearly as big an obstacle as Palin's worshippers seem to hope it would be.
And I think that Pence is probably the sort of guy who could do it. He's smart, articulate, and comes across as both competent and grown up. He's got a solid political record and has emerged as a conservative leader within the political arena. He's been an effective member of Congress and knows how things work. He can take a stand, and can offer good reasons for sticking to it.
He's able to write and give speeches like the one he gave at Hillsdale College.
He's the sort of guy whom George Will can quote as saying, "Moynihan writ large," and you know that he actually understands what he's talking about, and how it applies to the problems of government.
He's well-spoken, calm, and rational.
If one looks toward a general election campaign, he'd stand a much better chance than some of the current crop of prospective candidates -- especially Sarah Palin.
He isn’t going to stay in the House for himself or anyone else.
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