Posted on 10/22/2023 5:47:19 PM PDT by conservative98
The former vice president has gone all out to win Iowa. But is anyone listening?
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Inside Penn Drug, an old pharmacy and lunch counter in rural Sidney not far from Iowa’s southern border, a smattering of retirees gather each morning to gripe about the world’s problems. Today, two dozen of them wearing Mike Pence stickers, had convened. I wondered, had I walked into the biggest room of Pence stans in Iowa since his June announcement? (That event featured about 200 former staffers, relatives and local Republicans.)
Among the crowd in Sidney sat Dave Heywood, a 66-year-old who had “retired from pretty much everything.” He and one of his friends told me that despite the stickers, they weren’t necessarily Pence supporters. But they had received them from one of Pence’s “gals” — referencing either a volunteer or a paid staffer — and in the tradition of Midwestern politeness they stuck them to their shirts.
Heywood told me he had met Pence no fewer than eight times in recent months. “A hell of a nice guy,” he told me — though he said he was “really a Trump guy...
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It’s difficult to find a political prognosticator who is not on his payroll who gives Pence any plausible shot at winning the nomination, a reality he acknowledged on the trail earlier this month. “The media has already decided how all this is going to end,” he told just 13 people at a Pizza Ranch in Red Oak. “But as you all know, I think Iowa has a unique opportunity to give our party, give our country a fresh start.” He encouraged them to “keep an open mind.”
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I wish he’d come around here. I’d go. I’d love to heckle his Judas arse.
They probably made him buy something to stand around.
Who?
LOL, that guy in the front in the first photo is sound asleep. That says it all.
Makes me sick that Rush used to have Pence on his show, and all along he was a Judas.
“That’s not my concern.”
Top photo caption....
White Haired Man Sitting on Left:
“This IS my excited face for Pence. I am all in.”🥳🤸
The fly was trying to tell us something.
Ought not be a turncoat EH?
Go home Mike. Nobody likes a Judas.
Basically you have a bunch of captive elderly people (probably there to pick up their meds) with nothing better to do.
In the background are a few workers who probably have their work truck broken down in the parking lot.
Further to the right, the dude in the blue shirt and shorts is probably on "grandpa duty", waiting for the event to end so he can take his grandpa to the next errand on the list.
I have no idea why Mike Pence is there however. 
He’ll turn it around, don’t worry.
“Influencing the debate while not being recognized for it is a return to form of sorts. In his own telling, Pence made a life of being just ahead of the political moment: “I was Tea Party before it was cool. … I was for ethanol before it was cool. … I was a House conservative leader before it was cool.””
If Pence were ever Tea Party, his is sure Uni-Party now.
Ethanol in gasoline is not a solution.
When did the House EVER have a conservative leader?
There’s no way traitor Pence will be the nominee.
Books about Robert F. Kennedy campaigning in 1968 said his hands were bloody from people trying to shake hands and hold them and people would tear pieces of his cuff or lapel to get a souvenir. One time his security agents caught him just in time as he leaned over to the crowd from above and he came close to being pulled down by fans to fall onto the sidewalk.
History hasn’t repeated so far with Pence.
So out of being polite you give a photo op for a turncoat?........F that noise.
Some seniors will do anything for a free meal.
RE: they had received them from one of Pence’s “gals”
Someone should look into this. Are they his informal harem or just young women who would do absolutely anything for him?
Free pizza? I probably would have been there.
Actually vote for him?
NAH!
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