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By ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN WASHINGTON©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
88 Comments
Nemo
Mike says the utterly obvious and angers the base by dissing his old boss and the sane by dithering about a failed coup for more than 2 years.
See ya, Mike. You could have been someone. Now you’re just another politician saying the sky is blue in pursuit of a job you’ll never have.
Bob Fosse
Too little too late.
Cards fan
You had a chance to raise this point before Congress and chose not to. Coward.
bass4funk
No anger. Pence can say what he wants, he’s polling at 2% so let him run and let him have his fun. It’ll be short-lived and that’s it.
Yup.
dagon
Pence is a religious fundamentalist that would probably turn the US into something out of the Handmaid's Tale, but this shows he at least has some sense of humor. He did work closely with the former President for 4 years after all.
Nemo
The fly in his hair knew before even we did that he was a political corpse, lol.
sunfunbun
The insurrection leading Trump and the guy he wanted to hang. Almost succeeded.
They're both running for the GOP nomination? Bring it down, I mean, on. haha.
lincolnman
Good 'ole Mike Pence - a hero of the right, the Trump loyal lapdog, the darling of MAGA-world for over four years - all the way up until 2:00 pm on Jan 6th...
Well, heck, that didn't take too long - just two years for Mike to finally speak out against the guy that sent the crazed mob of MAGA-terrorists to hang him and his family...
Your statement might have a little more credibility Mike if you hadn't turned down testifying before the Jan 6th committee and fighting your current subpoena from the Special Counsel...
Want to hold Donald accountable? Then go under oath and tell the truth about what led up to the "disgrace" of that day...
bass4funk
Pence can run, but he’ll fade out in the early primaries very fast.
wallace
Telling it as it was. How quickly the republican supporters abandon their own when they don't like the truth like Pence stating the 2020 election wasn't a fraud.
No one was more loyal to Trump than Pence.
Mark
NOT just your family Sir, Trump endangered the whole nation including his own family. Trump is a clear and present danger to all of us.
Mark
Mike could have done the nation a favor by voicing his concerns when he was in office but he did NOT, he went along with Trump and dragged the nation straight up to Jan. 6th.
Nemo
Yep. But before that, the US Justice system will have its say and I think it will have rather a lot to say about the actions of one Dotard Insurrectionist in Chief.
He seems to think he is going to just walk away from it like nothing happened.
Yeah, that is NOT what is going to happen.
lincolnman
I'm ready for the next Dominion - Fox News e-mail dump....
The one where Carlson says in private that he loves Mike Pence but still "hates Trump passionately"...
ROFL..
bass4funk
Not at all, most Republicans and conservatives I personally know just never thought Pence was Presidential material and speaking of eating their own….
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/bernie-sanders-debbie-wasserman-schultz-criticism-223318
Yes, and?
Strangerland
Most Republicans and conservatives you know believed Fox News that Trump won in 2020, so it's not like you're dealing with intelligent people able to sort right from wrong.
I think you should stop believing people stupid enough to believe Fox News. After all, you also got sucked into Election Denial.
Superlib
He's just another GOP loser like the rest of them.
wallace
bass4funk
How quickly Trump and his supporters throw people under the bus. Just like all the looters and rioters jailed for Jan 6.
Strangerland
To be fair, MTG is working on getting them a pardon. A pardon for sedition.
dagon
Another non sequitur, false analogy, illogical link from the right.
Bernie Sanders is an Independent, sometimes participates in Democratic primaries, is very critical of the Neo-liberal Democratic establishment etc etc.
Would not be a lap dog VP of Clinton or Biden like Pence was for Trump.
Total what-aboutism failure.
Blacklabel
Mike is just another 3% of the vote candidate to take votes away from everybody else but Trump.
wallace
Some posters have to dial back to 2016 to find something.
Strangerland
The more the conservative vote is split, the better.
I'm curious where you got your 3% number from though, believing Fox News again, like when you believed them that Trump won in 2020?
Blacklabel
The better for Trump, yes.
Strangerland
Yes, it will help him win the primary.
I remember when you guys thought he could beat Biden last time, do you think he can this next time?
Oh wait, you still think Trump beat him in 2020, can't forget we're dealing with an Election Denier.
I'm not sure how we're supposed to have a rational argument even when you still believe Fox News after they admitted under oath they were lying to you guys.
Blacklabel
Splitting the vote has actually become a Democrat problem:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/the-newest-political-party-on-the-ballot-in-three-states-has-democrats-terrified
Strangerland
And do you feel that you, as someone who believed Fox News when they told you Trump won in 2020, have any credibility left on, well on anything, after having it been proved you aren't able to tell when you are being lied to on a massive scale, even with all the evidence out there available to you?
lincolnman
Citing Fox News? You still believe them? Even after Hannity, Ingraham, and Pirro said Trump's election fraud claims were all "BS" in private but lied to you on air saying they were true? And Tucker making out like he was a true MAGA warrior when he was texting his bosses that he "hated Trump passionately"?
You going to continue to let Fox play you for a sucker?
dagon
Pot, kettle..
Any thoughts about Pence criticizing socialism while his Trump/Pence admin loved socialism for the rich?
https://theweek.com/articles/936534/trump-bigger-socialist-than-biden
Okay thought not...
wallace
Trump will destroy the GOP, blame someone else, and then ask for donations.
Strangerland
To be fair, the higher-ups at Fox are actively censoring any reporting on the lies of their "journalists", so it's likely he hasn't actually heard the truth. He would have to actually partake of non-fake news to be able to have heard the non-fake news.
Strangerland
Ideally.
Blacklabel
Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Left display media bias in ways that moderately align with liberal, progressive, or left-wing thought and/or policy agendas
Strangerland
You guys said those were all fake news though. Are you saying we can trust them now?
Can we trust your beloved Fox News do you think?
dagon
Weak deflection.
https://www.aei.org/articles/trumps-corporate-welfare-problem/
Here is a far-right corporate stooge source with the same theme.
The whole Republican Party from RINOs, fundamentalists like Pence and MAGA lack any intellectual rigor for any of their positions.
agondocz
Former Vice-Presidents Mike Pence and Dan Quayle saved American democracy. Period.
Nemo
The idea that Donald Trump would ever win an electoral college majority much less a popular vote majority is so farsical as to cause one to question the cognition and, dare I say, "sanity" of anyone that would postulate it.
Believing that would be as dumb as believing that 2020 was stolen from him.
Oh, wait.....
Strangerland
That's mean, we know both Bass and Blacklabels still swear by their gods that their god on earth won in 2020.
theFu
Trump endangered every family in the USA with his stupid covid anti-vaccine stance and covering up of data for political reasons. Had both parties put politics aside as it related to Covid, the US would have been vaccinated similar to Canadian rates with 600K more people likely NOT to die had that happened. The liar-in-chief caused that through continuous misinformation.
lincolnman
Trump will soon be indicted - maybe this week - the first of multiple indictments...he's toast...finito....done...with exception of which federal pen he'll end up at...
DeSantis knows this - that's why he has his new book out and is traipsing around Iowa rather than Tallahassee...
Pence sees his path as the RINO/establishment choice...with the others; Haley, Pompeo, Graham, et al, all trailing behind him...
The MAGA-minions are all already switching their loyalty to "The Groomer"...so it will all come down to who the big Repub money donors support - Ron or Mike...
My guess is DeSantis wins, the RINOs get behind him, and Trump throws a fit and declares himself a third party candidate from behind bars and rails against DeSantis as a "phony"...which splits the conservative vote handing another term to Biden/Harris...
The question will be, does Ron yell "rigged" when he loses? Given the current anti-democratic bent in the GOP, I'd say yes...
Nemo
No, it won't.
This isn't then.
Even the rubes know what a loser (as well as a felon in waiting) he is.
Low-energy Don isn't more erudite. He's just low energy.
stormcrow
Trump endangered a hell of a lot more than just your family that day, Mike.
plasticmonkey
Pence is as conservative as can be. Except he broke the current First Commandment of the GOP: “I am the Lord thy Trump. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” He has also taken the name of the Trump in vain.
That’s not a joke, by the way.
Democrats hate Pence because he’s an odious theocrat. Republicans hate Pence because he doesn’t lie enough.
Anyway, we’re all in agreement. Pence ain’t going nowhere.
Bob Fosse
45 will never become 47. It’s laughable fantasy.
Yes you can quote me on that later.
bass4funk
I stopped believing liberals back in 1984
Nemo
Thank goodness for "citizen journalists", eh?
bass4funk
Nothing to throw, he was the VP
Summer of 2020 Democrat riots?
Naw, that’s the Dems weed smoking version of it. We think more like…”you want to run? Ok, got for it!”
That’s not a joke, by the way.
Yes.
No, because like Biden he’s nowhere near close to being Presidential, throw Kamal in as well..
True that.
Wrong…
Strangerland
And yet you believed Fox News when they told you Trump won in 2020.
Whoops, that sure makes you look bad in hindsight. Really, really bad. Especially since you still claim Trump won in 2020.
Strangerland
Do you think Biden should try to overthrow democracy like Trump did, if he loses in 2024?
wallace
GOP supporters only fool themselves.
Rodney
Like Harris, he is just a stupid fool with no charisma. America needs a new leader who is smart, and understands the way the world works.
bass4funk
Not when it comes to Pence.
Strangerland
If Pence loses in 2024, do you think he should follow Trump's lead and try to overthrow the government in a coup?
dagon
So the GOP supporters fool themselves in every other respect except when it comes to the personage of Mike Pence?
I could agree to that.
I have noticed a lack of mastery of basic syntax among GOP supporters which makes them easy to be manipulated.
bass4funk
No, just when it comes to Pence.
Dunno, seems like the Dems have been manipulated quite a bit.
bass4funk
He has and still might.
So far he’s rising in the polls which basically means that the majority of people agree with him and support what he says and how he accomplished a lot of things as governor.
Democrats???
I don’t think he’s trying.
Not sure about that, we have been down this road in 2016 and Trump crushed the competition, and was loved for it.
Hmmm…you think so??
Not according to the haters and his growing rock star status.
Nemo
You may not be "cognitively equipped" to recognize this, but the haters are mocking him (and his rubes).
And his schtick isn't going to play outside of MAGA-land. Especially with younger voters. Your boy's fan-bois? They are litterally dying off in God's waiting room (AKA the "great" state of Florida).
wallace
Unlike the GOP supporters here, Pence served the republican party for 40 years. Guess he should have stayed a Democrat.
bass4funk
Democrats???
Thats ok, we hate the establishment just as much as they hate him, they can vote for RINO Pence.
Depends
Not so sure about that. There are 26 other states that put Trump way ahead of Ron, but either way, both are great.
bass4funk
Yes, and?
hmmm…
bass4funk
The Dems and this administration calling Trump voters LIVING losers, wrong, but goes both ways.
wallace
plasticmonkey
What makes Pence "not presidential material"? I'd like to know what makes MAGA people think so. Is he not conservative enough? And if so, how so?
bass4funk
Compare him to Cory Booker then you’ll realize why.
nishikat
Trump will not allow Ron to run for president. He will forbit it. It has to be Trump and only Trump. Stewart Rhodes for running mate.
Trump's proud boys wanted to hang him for betraying Trump.
how he accomplished a lot of things as governor.
Rom is a socialist. Proof:
DeSantis signs bills seeking to stabilize the insurance market.....This has led to homeowners in Florida now being charged a 2% DeSantis property insurance tax through 2023.
(news quote)
Ron is using Florida tax money to fund the homeowner's insurance disaster in Florida. Trump will have something to say about that.
Hillary did not order this. It was organic trashy people bombing Starbucks and KFCs. No threat to the federal government like what Trump did. Trump ordered Proud Boys to storm the capitol. Proud Boys stand by (Trump). Also Patrick Crusius was influenced by Trump and shot up and killed many people in a Texas Walmart. Trump is a violent president and 99% of FOX viewers think that Biden stole the election. Clinton/Obama/Hunter/Biden never did any such thing. Then FOX fans obsess over Hunter's laptop.
plasticmonkey
That makes no sense whatsoever. I guess you can't come up with an answer.
Unless you can convince me otherwise, I'll keep assuming MAGA people hate Pence for one reason only: he went against the Lord 'n' Savior.
nishikat
Yes, they wanted to hang him.
bass4funk
The left sadly never, ever do.
I did, but you seemed not satisfied
Then that is what you want to do.
nishikat
Trump wants to be dictator and why he idolizes others like Putin. Putin has the pee tapes on Trump so Trump is at Putin's mercy.
wallace
If the truth is told. Trump endangered tens of millions of people's lives.
lincolnman
Well, one "hater" is a resident of Florida who has said that Ron is a "fat, whiny, phony"....that he bungled his state's COVID response, and most damaging, engaged in "grooming" underage high school girls...
You say he's a "rockstar", this Florida resident says he's a "pedo"....
What do you think about that?
plasticmonkey
You really think you're clever, don't you.
It's not what I want to do. There simply is no other explanation. Pence refused to overturn the 2020 election, and MAGA cultists hate him for it.
End of story.
Nemo
The truth sometimes hurts.
They are (by and large) losers, also-rans and whiners filled with white-grievance.
And unlike soldiers that gave the last full measure of devotion to their country, MAGA voters are net-takers who contribute little if anything to society.
So, NOT the same thing and not going both ways.
bass4funk
Yeah, the left continue to say that….yawn
bass4funk
For Democrats?
Is that what the left thinks now?
Ahhh…lol
I disagree
bass4funk
Yes, indeed
Hmmm…ok
No, it’s not.
Nemo
Well you believe in things for which there is absolutely zero evidence so your opinion is "less valuable."
Trump called dead soldiers losers. That is documented fact.
It's not the same thing. Not by a long-shot.
bass4funk
As do the left.
And the left called Trump supporters deplorable
It very much is.
wallace
bass4funk
I'm not on the left. Already told you that....yawn
bass4funk
I doubt it
wallace
"In the days leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, Trump pressured Pence to overturn President Joe Biden's election victory as he presided over the ceremonial certification of the results. Pence refused, and when rioters stormed the Capitol, some chanted that they wanted to “hang Mike Pence.”"
Trump owns it.
Murdoch admitted the fraudulent election news on Fox was all fake.
Trump owns it.
Nemo
Yeah, not the same thing. Not by a long shot.
And Trump supporters who engage in election denial and insurrection ARE deplorable.
wallace
bass4funk
You can't prove it. I'm into co-operatives that are not left or right.
bass4funk
Just going by what you say and how you act.
bass4funk
I disagree
Hmmm…
wallace
bass4funk
You have no idea how I act or what I say other than here. You have no idea who I am.
bass4funk
Just make sure not to judge others so easily as you always tend to do