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AP: Pence is furious (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2016 OP
Pence should be angry with his own judgment for saltpoint Oct 2016 #1
Precisely! southerncrone Oct 2016 #5
Shake your head Mike... smirk for us. Raster Oct 2016 #12
: ) eom saltpoint Oct 2016 #16
Nothing to do with judgement, imo. babylonsister Oct 2016 #17
Yep. Mike didn't have to be Shanghai'd for saltpoint Oct 2016 #18
Ambition is Pence's downfall nt adigal Oct 2016 #37
Strongly agree, adigal. He's got an even saltpoint Oct 2016 #38
hey mikey! where's that "he didn't say that" attitude? c'mon, you can do it! unblock Oct 2016 #2
;) sheshe2 Oct 2016 #15
Yeah I want to hear him deny this one jberryhill Oct 2016 #29
lol! sarae Oct 2016 #30
Come on Pence, drop out Doctor Jack Oct 2016 #3
He can always leave the ticket. Bleacher Creature Oct 2016 #4
But he will still support Trump Duckhunter935 Oct 2016 #6
GOOD! The more Trump he gets on himself, the better for the rest of us! calimary Oct 2016 #23
Let the Asshole withdraw from the ticket. Agnosticsherbet Oct 2016 #7
Can he stay on a ticket? "Christian, Conservative, Republican, in that order." "Grab em by the..." alcibiades_mystery Oct 2016 #8
Good luck in 2020, asshole. nt killbotfactory Oct 2016 #9
OH FUCK THAT BULLSHIT rufus dog Oct 2016 #10
+1000 sarae Oct 2016 #32
I guess he finally figured out what Tim was trying to tell him was the truth Brother Buzz Oct 2016 #11
If one holds family values important I can not see how they could Thinkingabout Oct 2016 #13
Who cares..they tried to take over our country..I just cannot asiliveandbreathe Oct 2016 #14
In fairness to Pence Blue Idaho Oct 2016 #19
He can't be that dense. He knew ThoughtCriminal Oct 2016 #20
Exactly. sarae Oct 2016 #34
Mike Pence has a high level of creepiness, it's just a different brand. Snotcicles Oct 2016 #21
Homophobic, evolution, climate change and health care denying Pence should be furious Doodley Oct 2016 #22
PENCE, your judgment... hmmm... bad!! Madam45for2923 Oct 2016 #24
Exactly. They can NOT play "who could've predicted" with this degenerate Rose Siding Oct 2016 #27
Mike Pence is an idiot and an opportunist. C_U_L8R Oct 2016 #25
Seconded. eom saltpoint Oct 2016 #26
He's only mad because this hurts his chances in 2020, NYC Liberal Oct 2016 #33
No, he's besides Trump nt geek tragedy Oct 2016 #28
Mess with the bull and you get the horns, asshole! bullwinkle428 Oct 2016 #31
And Chris Christie is still mad about not being chosen Freddie Oct 2016 #35
John Kasich will be the defacto leader of the GOP after this Trenzalore Oct 2016 #36
Pence would only be furious if Trump had bragged about groping men. n/t DefenseLawyer Oct 2016 #39
Bwaahaaa. He deserves every bit of humiliation... cyberswede Oct 2016 #40
I have absolutely NO BlueMTexpat Oct 2016 #41
He is furious? Hav Oct 2016 #42
Can't you see Pence stomping around his office, saying, "he didn't say that, he didn't FSogol Oct 2016 #43
As the deck chairs on the GOPtanic slide around BSdetect Oct 2016 #44

saltpoint

(50,986 posts)
1. Pence should be angry with his own judgment for
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:29 PM
Oct 2016

joining a ticket with a racist moron in the first place.

You ordered it, Mike. You eat it.

babylonsister

(171,066 posts)
17. Nothing to do with judgement, imo.
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:35 PM
Oct 2016

If he had an ounce of integrity, he would not have run with trump. You reap what you sow.

saltpoint

(50,986 posts)
18. Yep. Mike didn't have to be Shanghai'd for
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:36 PM
Oct 2016

this gig. He bolted on board at lightning speed.

Bon voyage, Mikey!

saltpoint

(50,986 posts)
38. Strongly agree, adigal. He's got an even
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 11:47 PM
Oct 2016

more insatiable ego than Trump, and that's no easy task.

He appears to think very highly of himself.

calimary

(81,282 posts)
23. GOOD! The more Trump he gets on himself, the better for the rest of us!
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:42 PM
Oct 2016

I hope our Dems force every last republi-CON, every place and any place from coast-to-coast and Alaska and Hawaii, to wear this catastrophe around like a Donald Trump necktie!

Force them to gag it down. Force them to wear it and own it.

YOU built this, GOP! YOU built it!

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/democrats-donald-trump-record-229021

There should be a heavy price to pay for this. There should be colossal consequences for this.

Oh, and by the way, THIS. For all those still standing with him:

http://www.gq.com/story/a-word-for-donald-trump-voters

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
8. Can he stay on a ticket? "Christian, Conservative, Republican, in that order." "Grab em by the..."
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:31 PM
Oct 2016


The real question is not whether Pence can become the candidate, but why Pence shouldn't immediately resign from this partnership with a sexual predator?
 

rufus dog

(8,419 posts)
10. OH FUCK THAT BULLSHIT
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:33 PM
Oct 2016

You own that 260 pound steaming sack of shit. The racism, the sexism, the entitlement isn't new. It was obvious to anyone who cared to look. So you are either ignorant or a steaming sack of shit yourself.

Brother Buzz

(36,439 posts)
11. I guess he finally figured out what Tim was trying to tell him was the truth
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:33 PM
Oct 2016

'From the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks' - Matthew 15:18

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
13. If one holds family values important I can not see how they could
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:34 PM
Oct 2016

Continue supporting Trump. I have not been hearing much from my RW friends lately. Election day is going to be interesting for me, I will be working in a precinct, if the turnout is low it will be because of Trump.

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
14. Who cares..they tried to take over our country..I just cannot
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:34 PM
Oct 2016

back away from that feeling..they have all been exposed..power hungry - fearmongering, money grubbing, put women back 100 years - war war war...no climate change..hell, it is just a heavy rain storm on the east coast...

ryan, McConnell and the rest of them - including the media..just think about the last 10-16 years..to this???pathetic and deplorable..

what they have done to our President..over the last eight years..disgusting..

Blue Idaho

(5,049 posts)
19. In fairness to Pence
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:37 PM
Oct 2016

He destroyed his political career in Indiana. There was only one place for him to go to try to keep his career alive. So he jumped - and he's screwed - win some lose some. After all - he's interested all women's genitals and controlling their reproductive rights - so he can't be too fussy about Donald being interested in just a few of them.

Ok - bad joke - my apologies to "anyone who is offended." Damn - I did it again...

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
20. He can't be that dense. He knew
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:39 PM
Oct 2016

Come on. Everybody knew that Trump was like this, the deplorables just didn't care or actually liked that part of .

Pence is furious that Trump got caught.

sarae

(3,284 posts)
34. Exactly.
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 11:08 PM
Oct 2016

This wasn't a surprise to anyone with half a brain. The only surprise was that something like this didn't come out sooner.

Mike Pence has to be the phoniest politician I've ever seen (which is really saying something).

 

Snotcicles

(9,089 posts)
21. Mike Pence has a high level of creepiness, it's just a different brand.
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:40 PM
Oct 2016

He is trying to salvage his image so he can take a stab at it if Trump gets bumped off the ticket. IMO

Rose Siding

(32,623 posts)
27. Exactly. They can NOT play "who could've predicted" with this degenerate
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:50 PM
Oct 2016

Donald has telegraphed his proclivity to anyone who had ever read a definition of sexism or of predatory behavior.

C_U_L8R

(45,002 posts)
25. Mike Pence is an idiot and an opportunist.
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:49 PM
Oct 2016

He knew exactly who he was partnering up with.
He's doesn't skip away from this one.

Trenzalore

(2,331 posts)
36. John Kasich will be the defacto leader of the GOP after this
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 11:15 PM
Oct 2016

Of all the primary candidates he was the only one who refused to join on for the good of the party.

BlueMTexpat

(15,369 posts)
41. I have absolutely NO
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:01 AM
Oct 2016

sympathy whatsoever for Pence. He is every bit as bad as Trump and, in some ways, even worse. That he chose to run with Trump shows that he also has excessively bad judgment.

There is also this bit from the link that I found VERY interesting:

Then, there were new signs of unusual links between Trump and Russia. For the first time, the U.S. publicly blamed the Russian government for hacking the Democratic National Committee and accused Moscow of trying to interfere with the American election. Diplomats also told the AP that Russia had lodged a formal complaint with the United Nations over a U.N. official's condemnations of Trump.


I had heard about the first but not about the highlighted second.

Here is one report about that: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/07/russia-makes-formal-complaint-to-the-un-over-speech-criticising/

Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, issued a verbal “demarche” to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a private meeting on Sept 13, according to three diplomats.

It has revived claims Moscow is interfering in the US presidential election.

Mr Churkin angrily protested at two speeches by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN commissioner on human rights, that denounced “demagogues” and specifically targeted Mr Trump and several populist leaders in Europe.

A senior UN diplomat said Mr Churkin specifically “condemned the fact that Zeid mentioned Trump”.


This. Is. Unprecedented.



Hav

(5,969 posts)
42. He is furious?
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:25 AM
Oct 2016

That is hilarious and transparent. That info was absolutely meant to be made public. He is only trying to save himself for 2020 or other political runs.

FSogol

(45,487 posts)
43. Can't you see Pence stomping around his office, saying, "he didn't say that, he didn't
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:35 AM
Oct 2016

say that...."

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
44. As the deck chairs on the GOPtanic slide around
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:38 AM
Oct 2016

The remaining dickheads scramble for a seat with a view -

of the iceberg they could have easily avoided had they a molecule of decency and discretion between them.

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