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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is Trump's Achilles' heel??? Easy, it's Pence, he can't be fired and
Trump is planning to be chairman of the board and rely on Pence to be the day to day CEO, doing all the heavy lifting.
Well lets put the spot light on Pence and expose his ideas and weirdness.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)has only had two...This reminds me of Dubya's presidency, when Cheney was really in charge.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)of being an attack dog towards the Presidential candidate and gone after Pence instead in the debate. I thought so at the time. I think the pardon situation was set up perfectly to highlight how little the Republicans care about little people. A man can't get improve his job prospects because he has been waiting years for a pardon that he deserved since he was proven completely innocent.
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)We had no attack themes, or not enough. Donald J. Trump was weird,
a misogynist. When Bill Clinton waged his campaigns against the Contract
for America, voters knew who was going to steal their Social Security and
Medicare. This time, not so much.
The GOP and their affiliates closed strong. "Hillary for Prison" posters,
"Crooked Hillary" speeches, the NRA sent mass mailings of HRC as a
witch behind bars coming for your guns.
A woman has a tough time attacking. She's viewed as a witch if she does.
Kaine is not an attack dog, he's a schmoozer and ironically Christian compromiser.
Taking nothing from Kaine, I think Sanders would have sailed the ship farther, but
those two had a history of attacking one another.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)so they didn't want to expend any political capital at all going after these people.
In retrospect, it was a very narrow decision BUT at the time, it really seemed like the correct decision.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)Trump isn't. Trump is a bumbling fool of a human.
On some reflection and I'm not sure of it but Trump is perhaps so incompetent as to make this job of opposing him like taking candy from a baby. (No insults to babies. One of whom I am extremely fond.)
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)The Surprisingly Easy Way to Get Rid of Donald Trump
How to remove a maniac president from officewithout having to get Congress to impeach him.
canetoad
(17,167 posts)But I disagree with the comments, towards the end, about British examples of unseated leaders being pertinent.
Parliamentary democracies work in a completely different way to the US system, by design. There is no direct election of a leader in a parliament, so I hope Keith was being funny when he said that.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)Pence is worse than Trump. Not only is he more right wing. He would have the backing of congress to do things Trump wouldn't.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)let everyone know how bad he will be.
Pass the word to his followers that he will be running the office not Trump.
The DNC cannot ignore this and think it will go away. The media needs to be primed, Trump will ignore them, but Pence will gladly face the camera and drive Trump bonkers.
The only think Trump can do to Pence is not give him any assignment, but then Trump has to then step in and do the job.