Dear U.S., get ready to experience the Mike Pence rash

[ehrnst]

And now Pence will collect his satchel stuffed with $7.6 million in campaign cash and head to Trump Tower, where he'll be locked in the playroom with Chris Christie like children whose parents are hearing a timeshare pitch.

In a normal election year, Pence wouldn't even sniff the vice-presidency. In March 2015, in the "Mad Max" fallout of RFRA, Mike Pence went on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" and dribbled pudding down his chin. All talks of a Pence presidential run ceased, and Mike slinked back to Indiana.

But in an election cycle ruled by a man who's alienated entire nationalities and religions, an embarrassing TV appearance doesn't seem so bad anymore. And hey: Pence's backward thoughts on homosexuality are downright rainbow-infused compared to recently passed amendments in the burgeoning Republican platform.

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A failed governor with the magnanimous personality of beige carpet will smirk in his new national spotlight and count down the seconds until his fickle boss realizes that the presidency is a job, shrugs and says, "here's the key to the Oval Office, Mikey. Go ahead and nominate Joel Osteen to the Supreme Court."

http://www.courierpress.com/columnists/jon-webb/dear-us-get-ready-to-experience-the-mike-pence-rash-36989537-0a30-4fff-e053-0100007f8ce2-386839771.html

[Laurian]

1. Dan Quayle (another former Congressman from Indiana) comes to mind.

Anyone else see similarities?

[tonyt53]

3. One huge glaring difference - Quayle's family had lots of money, enough to buy the VP position.

Pence does beat out Quayle in the asshole category though.

[Hortensis]

4. Pence told his friend he was awaiting "a call"

to decide. Of course, the very real prospect of the people of Indiana handing him a permanent yellow slip could be taken as the message from on high he wanted. He's a knuckle-dragging, authoritarian, strong socioreligious conservative of the type who can never be trusted to handle power properly in a secular democracy, or any other kind for that matter.

But, that's not the resemblance that leaps to mind. He shares a basic incompetence, extreme unsuitability, and inability to meet a call to be great with so many malignant theocratic social/religious cons who are prominent in today's Republican Party, people like Sen. Ted Cruz, Mitt Romney, Gov. Perry, Marco Rubio, Sarah Palin, shockingly numerous Republican members of Congress, and unfortunately on and on and on.

[ehrnst]

2. He has a page on Politifact

And it's not pretty:

http://politifact.com/personalities/mike-pence/statements/