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Think the GOP can’t do worse than Trump? Meet Mike Pence
Sacramento Bee ^ | July 14, 2016 | Erika D. Smith

Posted on 07/15/2016 6:01:21 AM PDT by artichokegrower

As I write this, signs are pointing to the politically logical, but civilly frightful: Donald Trump picking Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his vice presidential running mate.

Nothing is certain, of course. The presumptive Republican nominee is predictably unpredictable.

But if Trump makes the announcement everyone expects, it will be my nightmare, and it should be yours, too.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: pence; trump
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It’s true, Indiana has a $2 billion budget surplus, but it was built on cuts in social services, which allowed one of the biggest HIV outbreaks in decades to erupt in a small town near the Kentucky border.


With my limited medical knowledge I don't think that budget cuts cause AIDS. I heard that it is spread through other methods.

1 posted on 07/15/2016 6:01:21 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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Another liberal from the State of Fruits & Nuts weighs in.

Erika Smith doesn’t care one whit about some little border down between Indiana and Kentucky having an increased rate of HIV, but that statistical anomaly is convenient for wailing and shrieking about Trump.


2 posted on 07/15/2016 6:04:35 AM PDT by mkjessup (Tie Hillary to the tracks, the TRUMP TRAIN is comin' !! (wooo wooo, you b*tch, wooo wooo!))
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If this liberal “ho” and the rotten pro left wing Sac Bee is against Pence, I am for Mike.


3 posted on 07/15/2016 6:06:11 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Obama Immigration Policy-Bring Terrorists to Our Neighborhoods-Take our guns away-Make us feed them!)
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.. if Trump makes the announcement everyone expects, it will be my nightmare ...


4 posted on 07/15/2016 6:06:22 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (Globalism = Terrorism)
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So if they want Trump to lose and Pence is terrible, shouldn’t they be celebrating?


5 posted on 07/15/2016 6:07:30 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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Wow, Ghostery shows that when you go to the Sac Bee site, there are 20 yes 20 cookies gathering data from/about you.


6 posted on 07/15/2016 6:08:40 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Obama Immigration Policy-Bring Terrorists to Our Neighborhoods-Take our guns away-Make us feed them!)
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Think of it as life insurance for Trump. If he’s assassinated, then somebody the Left likes even less steps up.


7 posted on 07/15/2016 6:09:44 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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Erika Smith


8 posted on 07/15/2016 6:09:47 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama, representing Islam since 2008)
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What really enrages the Democrats is that Republicans are no longer letting them chose their candidates. Trump doesn’t beg for their approval.


9 posted on 07/15/2016 6:12:02 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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That pic says it all.


10 posted on 07/15/2016 6:12:26 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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With my limited medical knowledge I don't think that budget cuts cause AIDS. I heard that it is spread through other methods.

According to Obama's own CDC, heterosexual white men are not considered "at risk" for AIDS. (Clearly, the HIV virus defers to "white heterosexual male privilege".)

11 posted on 07/15/2016 6:12:44 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Black buffalo ass bitches opinions don’t matter, well, at least to this white guy.


12 posted on 07/15/2016 6:13:24 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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But he signed it anyway, surrounded by religious leaders who, like Pence, believe marriage is only for straight people.

Homosexuals have always been allowed to marry. They just have to marry a member of the opposite sex.
13 posted on 07/15/2016 6:14:14 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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Staunch conservative?
Reagan Republican?

Ok, obammy crazy?


14 posted on 07/15/2016 6:16:03 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Go Trump, Give em hell BABY.)
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But he signed it anyway, surrounded by religious leaders who, like Pence, believe marriage is only for straight people.

Homosexuals have always been allowed to marry. They just have to marry a member of the opposite sex.
15 posted on 07/15/2016 6:16:12 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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past wisdom from Erika D Smith:

http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article41979042.html

BY ERIKA D. SMITH

I remember the first time I muttered, “I hate Christmas.”

I was sitting in my car watching the snow fall in bumper-to-bumper traffic on a Black Friday. The sun had just come up and I was trying to find a parking spot – the third stop on my tour of shopping plazas to interview sleep-deprived shoppers. My feet hurt from getting stepped on by moms desperate to buy that year’s hot toy, and my ribs hurt from getting elbowed by a burly man closing in on a stack of video games.

Yeah, I hate Christmas. Years of covering holiday shopping will do that to a person...


16 posted on 07/15/2016 6:17:07 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama, representing Islam since 2008)
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Erika D, Smith - leftwing Democratic agitator:

http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/erika-d-smith/


17 posted on 07/15/2016 6:17:36 AM PDT by ZULU (Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
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She appears to be a reject from Black Brains Matter.


18 posted on 07/15/2016 6:19:00 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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more inspired reporting from Erika Smith:

http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/erika-d-smith/article68730027.html

“Up until that moment, I couldn’t put my finger on exactly what I found so intriguing about a pot tax in Sacramento and, at the same time, what I continue to find so troubling about other, larger efforts to bring the drug into the mainstream.

It’s not that I’m a hater. I support legalization.

Because of this long march toward saner drug policies, few people in California get thrown in jail for years for smoking or possessing small amounts of weed anymore. The stigma of the drug is going away, too, as more people begin to see it for what it is: a freakin’ plant. Even my aging mother, with her aches and pains and her tendency to trip and fall, now swears by the medicinal qualities of cannabis oil.

But for all of the positive steps that California and other states have taken, there has been unfairness, too. A recent investigation by Buzzfeed, which, in addition to time-sucking, mind-numbing online quizzes, actually produces some good journalism now and then, makes this point all too clear.

It found that “fewer than three dozen of the 3,200 to 3,600 storefront marijuana dispensaries in the United States are owned by black people.” That works out to about 1 percent.

That’s a percentage so low that it should be criminal. Instead it’s a percentage that’s largely ignored by the overwhelmingly white politicians, lobbyists and Silicon Valley investors who are driving the public policy conversations about cannabis, and how and by whom the industry should be brought from shadows into the light.

The people hurt most by the decades-long war on drugs – poor black people and brown people – are being locked out, forced out, bought out and even fearfully opting out of an industry that is one of the fastest growing in the country.

With all of that money floating around, one would think someone, somewhere would keep official statistics on diversity within the industry. But no. ...


19 posted on 07/15/2016 6:24:03 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama, representing Islam since 2008)
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The sheer stupidity of the article speaks volumes about the paper that published it...


20 posted on 07/15/2016 6:24:16 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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