[IrishBrigade]

‘Well, while we hate Mike Pence here on Free Republic...’

and that hatred is completely misplaced; Donald Trump knew full well that Pence couldn’t simply overturn election results without provoking a contitutional crisis...are you dense enough to think the democrats would have sat on their hands saying ‘well, I guess that’s that...’?

while you’re so busy hating Pence, think back to the election of 1960, when Richard Nixon, sitting where Pence sat, certified the election that ensured his own defeat; and no one was such a poor loser as Nixon...

I suppose that in 2016 Joe Biden, the sitting veep, failed to certify Trump’s victory on the grounds of,say, partisan perceptions of Russian interference, you would be okay with that, since you say that Pence should have done so based on similar partisan perceptions of electoral shenanigans...

[MayflowerMadam]

“no one was such a poor loser as Nixon...”

What is today, Backwards Day?

Nixon won the LEGITIMATE vote; JFK cheated and was installed as President. NIXON WALKED AWAY because didn’t want to put the country through the chaos of a challenge.

You call THAT being a “poor loser”?

[volunbeer]

Your position is not popular here on FR, but I agree 100% and took a lot of flak for saying it back then.

Blaming Pence for what happened is like football fans blaming a kicker for missing a 60 yard field goal with 2 seconds left on the clock to tie or win.

I have no enthusiasm for Pence but it has very little to do with what happened on Jan 6th.

[Dr. Sivana]

while you’re so busy hating Pence, think back to the election of 1960, when Richard Nixon, sitting where Pence sat, certified the election that ensured his own defeat; and no one was such a poor loser as Nixon...

I understood his certifying the election, though I disagreed with it. I do NOT understand him attending the inauguration instead of seeing his President on the last day.