Perhaps more than most I have a bit on an insight into pre-Pence by being a late-in-life Hoosier having lived through his underwhelming term as governor of our state.
Let me set the stage. Pence was born and raised as a Catholic (RC). He decided to attend a religious college (same o…
Perhaps more than most I have a bit on an insight into pre-Pence by being a late-in-life Hoosier having lived through his underwhelming term as governor of our state.
Let me set the stage. Pence was born and raised as a Catholic (RC). He decided to attend a religious college (same one as Woody Harrelson - talk about polar opposites). He was originally inspired by people John F. Kennedy (obvious) and Martin Luther King Jr. Easy to state in his hometown that has a 3.7% black population.
While in college, Pence left the Catholic Church and became an evangelical, born-again Christian, to the great disappointment of his mother, when he married once married (also former Catholic) Karen Batten-Whittaker).
Note: parents and siblings had no problem with the Pence businesses profiting from sales of lottery tickets, alcohol, and "loose" cigarettes, which outraged Mike and Karen, while accepting their share of the family business profits (Think Captain Renault from the movie Casablanca).
Mike realizing he has no discernable skills after receiving a law degree, turned to an overwhelming AM-radio "religio-consevatative" radio station in southern Indiana (i.e Northern Kentucky) to offer a Limbaugh type hate-show, except Mike mused he was "decafe" Rush.
That "humorous" throw away says everything about Pence. As governor of Indiana:
~ His ten years of Congressional service offered not one of his introduced legislative bills into law.
~ He "lead" from behind, getting somewhat tepid Republican support, before dying the death of reality.
~ He was willing to get his taking points from actual thinkers, until the populous went batshit. And then he went tepid again.
~He often tried to change his horrific policies stands with a softened versions, explaining why people really didn't understand him!
~ He took credit for popular policies that he stood against!
Pence is an empty vessel that "Mother" fills in order to to use him as a way for her to move up in the hierarchy of 20% (republican percentage of American voters) of the American population. He was on his way to political Palookaville until Trump offer him the role of shoeshine boy.
Why anyone would take this loser in so many ways seriously is mystifying.
From Jane Mayer's book, Deep Money: "Mike Pence, had been Charles Koch’s first choice for the presidency in 2012 and a major recipient of Koch campaign contributions." She goes on to outline both Marc Short's connection, and Mike Pompeo's, to the Kochs. I don't think anything is happening without the Koch machine involvement.
Charlie,
Great analysis of the aspects of Pence's speech.
Perhaps more than most I have a bit on an insight into pre-Pence by being a late-in-life Hoosier having lived through his underwhelming term as governor of our state.
Let me set the stage. Pence was born and raised as a Catholic (RC). He decided to attend a religious college (same one as Woody Harrelson - talk about polar opposites). He was originally inspired by people John F. Kennedy (obvious) and Martin Luther King Jr. Easy to state in his hometown that has a 3.7% black population.
While in college, Pence left the Catholic Church and became an evangelical, born-again Christian, to the great disappointment of his mother, when he married once married (also former Catholic) Karen Batten-Whittaker).
Note: parents and siblings had no problem with the Pence businesses profiting from sales of lottery tickets, alcohol, and "loose" cigarettes, which outraged Mike and Karen, while accepting their share of the family business profits (Think Captain Renault from the movie Casablanca).
Mike realizing he has no discernable skills after receiving a law degree, turned to an overwhelming AM-radio "religio-consevatative" radio station in southern Indiana (i.e Northern Kentucky) to offer a Limbaugh type hate-show, except Mike mused he was "decafe" Rush.
That "humorous" throw away says everything about Pence. As governor of Indiana:
~ His ten years of Congressional service offered not one of his introduced legislative bills into law.
~ He "lead" from behind, getting somewhat tepid Republican support, before dying the death of reality.
~ He was willing to get his taking points from actual thinkers, until the populous went batshit. And then he went tepid again.
~He often tried to change his horrific policies stands with a softened versions, explaining why people really didn't understand him!
~ He took credit for popular policies that he stood against!
Pence is an empty vessel that "Mother" fills in order to to use him as a way for her to move up in the hierarchy of 20% (republican percentage of American voters) of the American population. He was on his way to political Palookaville until Trump offer him the role of shoeshine boy.
Why anyone would take this loser in so many ways seriously is mystifying.
From Jane Mayer's book, Deep Money: "Mike Pence, had been Charles Koch’s first choice for the presidency in 2012 and a major recipient of Koch campaign contributions." She goes on to outline both Marc Short's connection, and Mike Pompeo's, to the Kochs. I don't think anything is happening without the Koch machine involvement.