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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat if it's PENCE??
What if the author of the NYT piece is PENCE.
Think about it.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Would take it from him.
TeamPooka
(24,238 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)I'm staggered at the thought.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)And the things that would bother him most would involve women.
Cary
(11,746 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)It would be fuckery. A deception. And the NYT publishers would not do it.
Oneironaut
(5,517 posts)He seems like the type, and he has all the motive in the world.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)sounds like a military/national security guy
Keith Kellogg is Pence's highest national security adviser.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,791 posts)All the talking heads are emphasizing that the NYT wouldn't have accepted an anonymous editorial unless the writer was a very high-level official (they know who he is, obviously).
techne7319
(173 posts)So the NYT knows who Anonymous is?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,791 posts)who he was. They have their own reputation to protect and they wouldn't have published an anonymous piece by someone claiming to be a WH official unless they knew for sure who it was.
techne7319
(173 posts)Makes complete sense. I just wanted to clarify my understanding of the op-ed process
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,791 posts)This piece sounds like it's someone who's involved regularly in high-level policy decisions of the sort that vice-presidents don't usually get involved in. And Pence would probably include some kind of reference, even if veiled, to religion or God or social conservatism (he can't help himself).
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)that's your reference
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,791 posts)That's the way religious nuts look at anything they don't agree with. "Amorality" is too objective.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,791 posts)In any event, most people don't know what their own tells are.
Midnight Writer
(21,778 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)They would love to plug Pence in and ditch the crime boss-in-charge I bet.
That way Kavanaugh and Pope Pence could really get the ball rolling on the Holy Amerikkkan Empire.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)The WH reporter on the live shot blinked and swallowed when he said it.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Trump has his pink panther birther squad interrogating the denizens in the White House, watch out VP personal lol
Gothmog
(145,435 posts)trump will not like this
Sienna86
(2,149 posts)Its hard to wait.
Gothmog
(145,435 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,791 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)...into things they write, in order to hide identity.
oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)I mentioned that in another post somewhere. I can't recall who it was that said they do that, but Bannon comes to mind.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)kentuck
(111,106 posts)and all chances at being elected in 2020.
Enoki33
(1,587 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)kevink077
(365 posts)Pence is too much of a coward. kellyanne is proven to be a slick liar and you can bet she lies to Trump too...her tell-all payday is down the road a little ways yet...
The empressof all
(29,098 posts)Unless he's covering his butt by claiming he would be fired... Until they come forward we won't know for sure. Perhaps a mid level staffer whose name we don't know. If it is one of the "big guys" my vote would be Mattis, Coats or Pompeo. Dark Horse would be Boulton... Now doing this anonymously is chicken shit IMO unless it is priming the pump with the public for the hatchet coming down on Trump in the immediate future. A way to soften the blow with his supporters....
Autumn
(45,120 posts)McConnell's wife Elaine to give her hubby cover.
NanceGreggs
(27,816 posts)oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)but I DO think it's someone who might want to run for the presidency him/herself. I just read the article and find it offensive. Especially the idea that there are "unsung heroes" running around the WH "undoing" or undermining the acts of 45. HEROES??? I think there is enough obsequiesness to the party and to others in the party that this writer is not as high level as we might be thinking, and also that he/she is highly ambitious. No idea who that is.
ecstatic
(32,720 posts)the naysayers who want to hold on to trump because "pence is worse" would be silenced, and we could finally move forward in cleaning this disgusting GOP mess up.
DeminPennswoods
(15,289 posts)Why shouldn't Dems play some mind games with Trump?