MIKE PENCE WITHDRAWS
Written by on October 30, 2023
CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY OCTOBER 31, 2023
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE HAS WITHDRAWN FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE. HE NEVER HAD A CHANCE BECAUSE HE HAD MADE ENEMIES ON TWO SIDES.
AS A WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL NOTED: “BY TEMPERMENT AND EXPERIENCE, MR. PENCE WOULD MAKE A GOOD PRESIDENT. BUT HIS CAMPAIGN OF TRADITIONAL CONSERVATIVE POLICIES AND CIVILITY NEVER CAUGHT ON. MAGA VOTERS WOULDN’T FORGIVE HIM FOR STANDING UP TO MR. TRUMP’S ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION, WHILE ANTI-TRUMP VOTERS WOULDN’T FORGIVE HIS FOUR YEARS AS MR. TRUMP’S NUMBER TWO.”
WHAT BOTH SIDES DON’T KNOW IS HOW MIKE PENCE KEPT TRUMP FROM MOSTLY GOING OFF THE RAILS. MANY OF TRUMP’S POLICIES WERE THE RESULT OF ADVICE GIVEN BY PENCE. PENCE IS AN EXPERIENCED POLITICIAN, HAVING ALSO SERVED AS A CONGRESSMAN AND GOVERNOR OF INDIANA.
TOO MANY REPUBLICAN VOTERS HAVE CAST MORAL INTEGRITY AND CIVILITY ASIDE. EVANGELICALS WHO SAID INTEGRITY MATTERED WHEN IT CAME TO BILL CLINTON FORGOT ABOUT INTEGRITY WHEN IT CAME TO TRUMP.
PENCE WILL CAMPAIGN FOR OTHER GOP CANDIDATES, BUT IT WOULD APPEAR HIS POLITICAL CAREER IS OVER. IT’S A CLICHÉ TO SAY HE WILL BE MISSED, BUT HE WILL. I’M CAL THOMAS.
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