Posted on 03/17/2024 4:13:31 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
A procession of prominent Republicans who wanted to guide their party away from Donald Trump in 2024 have come around to him as the former president became the party’s presumptive nominee. And many have offered virtually the same justification in grudgingly offering support: He’s at least preferable to President Biden.
“I think he’d be better than Joe Biden,” said Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. “It’s as simple as that.”
“I mean, the alternative is Biden,” said New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu.
“The choice before the American people is crystal clear: It’s Donald Trump or Joe Biden,” said Senate Minority Whip John Thune (S.D.).
Trump’s own vice president offered a very different take Friday. In declining to endorse Trump, Mike Pence made a major statement that undercut other Trump-skeptical Republicans who have suggested through their actions that there is no alternative. His decision could also provide a permission structure for others whose endorsements are up in the air, like Nikki Haley, to hold off.
“It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” Pence said told Fox News on Friday.
But it did come as something of a surprise. Pence, after all, had raised his hand at an August debate when he and the other GOP presidential candidates were asked whether they would support even a criminally convicted Trump if he were nominated.
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Pence has become as “historically noteworthy” as Judas Iscariot.
He has had plenty of time to reflect and figure out what happened and why.
Very true.
He portrays himself as a devout Christian but seems incapable of introspection and repentance (which is a big part of the Christian faith).
Curious.
Pence? Who is Pence and why should anyone care?
In many ways Pence is an even bigger weasel than Romney.
As I have said many times, once you are known for having betrayed your own, NOBODY ever trusts you again. Why would they? You have proven to the world, you only care about yourself.
All known traitors impose a permanent punishment upon themselves.
They walk into a hell of their own making and never seem to realize the obvious, expected outcome in advance of their betrayal.
“’I think he’d be better than Joe Biden,’ said Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.”
Except he doesn’t believe that. If he did, the lying crap weasel wouldn’t have done everything in his power to help Biden win in 2020
What’s a Pence? Oh, that fossil that Trump plucked out of obscurity? THAT Pence? Now the WaPost is touting him as some sort of king maker? ....... Bwahaha!! Gufaw!! Roflmao!!! Good one, WaPost. Good one!
With Ivanka and Jared out of his political staff this time around, this might be different. I think those libs might have had too much influence over his personnel decisions. (I could be wrong.)
All the magnitude of a wet firecracker.
Thirty Pence has no future in any party; everyone hates him.
the smallness of his mind and aspirations...
Exactly. But he also knows that saying so publicly would not be a good career move. No, better to publicly support Trump then work like hell, behind the scenes, to prevent his election.
Pence wimped out when he was a governor and refused to stand up for real marriage against costal elite perverts
(((YAWN)))
JFK and Johnson...because of the assassination...Nixon and Ford...Bubba and Gore....Both controversial.
“Another reason this weasel will never be elected again, unless he changes parties.”
Mike Pence, Nikki Haley and all those Republicans who won’t support Trump are really Democrats. The Democrat Party is really the Socialist Party with those further left the Communist Party. The real Republican Party is the comprised of true Conservatives who believe in God, Country and the Constitution.
He is known as a traitor to maga world, he is known as a patriot to the save thier save democracy rat parasites
I don’t think President Trump is a poor judge of character. He was forced to choose pence or some other squash much the same way Reagan was forced to take on bush 1.
We as Americans did not do our part by electing conservative senators and congressmen to work with him.
Wow! What a surprise. The magnitude of this is equivalent to a nick on a gnat’s leg hair. Only MSN would be surprised at this. Oaths or loyalty have no meaning for pence. He was probably one of the leaks in Trump’s office. pence is nothing but a swamp rat.
What insurrection are you referring to?
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