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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wow, and it looks like pretty good pizza, too!
He would get a bigger crowd at a nursing home mandated booster shot line.
Biden gets bigger crowds even though they are all members of the media.
Judas Pence...he got his 30 coins of silver.
Iowa. Dumb strategy
“LOL, that guy in the front in the first photo is sound asleep. That says it all.”
Yeah, that group is the epitome of Low Energy. 😂
Red Oak is 40 mi. northeast of Sidney
Both in southwestern Iowa
It’s because he’s traitor disguised as an honorable man!
He’s more of a Vidkun Quisling.
Justice.
Those folks look so pleased to see Judas.
That’s the morning coffee meet for the Over-the-Hill Gang. My little town in Kansas has them, a little group at McDonald’s, a little group at Subway, and the 2 local C-Stores. They’ll be there tomorrow when the next candidate shows up.
Hey, there’s nearly 9 people there! (well, probably for free pizza)
One of the great songs by the O’Jays
[The audience’s faces tell it all.]
The pizza people are hungry.
They just wish he’d shut up so that they can eat.
C’mon man!!
Being exposed as a Trump back stabber will do that.
He he no shame? How embarrassing.
A favorite?
yeah, no
And “Mother” is looking especially frumpy.
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