ReprePenceable

Timothy Birdnow

I've thought poorly of Mike Pence from well before he was Trump's Vice President and running mate. He was both stodgy and at the same time self-righteous and yet weak. He caved over signing Indiana's bill to protect pizza parlors and bakers from being forced to bake "wedding" products for gay  couples because there was a fake outcry on Twitter.

Well, Pence has shown he's not only not the right man to be President but he has shown himself a liar to boot.

From ABC;

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday called on Republicans to choose classic conservative principles over "the siren song of populism" he sees pervading the party, a movement largely inspired by his former running mate, Donald Trump.

"The future of this movement, of this great party, belongs to one or the other -- not both. That is because the fundamental divide between these two factions is unbridgeable," Pence said in a speech at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College.

More than halfway through his speech, Pence directly named rivals Donald Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy, and also swiped at Gov. Ron DeSantis with comparisons of populism and progressivism, which he called "fellow travelers on the same road to ruin."

"Donald Trump, along with his populist followers and imitators – some of whom are also seeking the Republican presidential nomination -- often sound like an echo of the progressive they would replace in the White House," he said. "Like progressives the Republican populists insist government should dictate how private businesses operate. The Governor of Florida even used the power of the state to punish corporations for taking a political stand he disagreed with."

First, there is no actual definition of populism, and I doubt Mr. Pence could explain it if he tried. The fact is "populism" is a catch-all phrase for something that appeals to the general public. The HORROR! That the voters actually like the policies advocated by those in government!

Do we have a democratic republic or an oligarchy ruled by self-styled intellectuals? That is the choice Mr. Pence seems to be offering us - and he's chosen the side of the Ruling Class here. The public's desires do not enter into it.

I would also point out Mr.  Pence voluntarily chose to be on Donald Trump's ticket in 2016. Nobody forced him to do that. So, was Mr. Pence himself a populist before turning into Ben Stein from Ferris Buehler's Day Off?  Or did he never believe any of it but rather just, uh, lied the whole time?

What does that make him?

I find it completely infuriating that Pence would say that about Ron DeSantis and what he did in  Florida. Pence knows full well what happened there; Disney launched a campaign against DeSantis over the  "Don't Say Gay" bill, which simply protected children from sexualization. Disney fought against this bitterly, So DeSantis got rid of a subsidy given to Disney which included their right to run their own internal affairs in their park.

In other words DeSantis ended corporate welfare - and THAT is what Pence is calling "punishing corporations who disagree with him".

They never should have gottent he sweetheart deal in the first place. That is crony capitalism.

In other words Mike Pence is part of the Establishment, who want to maintain the "partnership" between big corporations and big government. That is fascist economics.

I'm so glad Pence has little to no chance of winning the nomination. I would find it hard to pull the lever for so two-faced a man.

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