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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Who?
Regardless where poor old Pence stands, I would not give this leftist rag the time of day......
They smile in your face
all the time the wanna take your place...
Was he a favorite of the Right, just slightly better than the rest of the clowns he was amongst or just someone who was good at hiding who he really is?
Because he sure does suck now. And that not something that happens overnight.
No one likes a turncoat.
The people who attended were probably told they couldn’t touch the pizzas until Mikey finished speaking.
LOL
Great insights.
Do you realize that on their worst day all the grandparents there are much more alert and aware of their surroundings and able to perform cognitive tasks than the President of the United States?
I like him as Gov Pence before he caved to the gaystopo.
Boo hoo.
Whenever he tries to justify himself, he just digs himself a deeper hole. If he would just shut up about Trump, I might be able to forgive the guy in 20 years.
“Favorite of the right?” Really, when was that? I didn’t like him from the day he was chosen for VP. Way too bland; we needed someone much more dynamic to carry the conservative message. That said, the multiple denouncers on this thread of Pence for being a traitor are full of crap. That reading of the Electoral Count Act of 1887 was a tortured reading authored by John Eastman, full fledged member of the Guiliani-Powell “promise too
much and deliver too little” gang. Give it up FRiends. He’s indesible because he’s a boring dishrag, not because he’s a traitor.
Wrong man wing man. The country now knows it.
Pence, a total Piece of Schiff.
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Mike Pence, the next President.
Look at that support indicator!
Even more than Biden could get to come.
Biden got 81 million ballots.
Pence sure to get 100 million ballots.
The pizza looks good. Other than that, all I can only quote Nelson Munz from the Simpsons cartoon show: “Hah hah.”
At least Pence was speaking at a place than had separate bathrooms for men and women.
And look! It’s Billy Corgan in the Adidas jacket!
That’s how sad it has gotten.
It’s over, loser.
He should just quit and save himself the trouble.
He was never a favorite of the right.
I never trusted him.
Even for free pizza I wouldn’t go see/hear him!
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