Bland Ambition Tour
by digby
I don’t know if I can make it through this if this happens:
David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network believes that Pence’s energetic support from both the Religious Right and pro-corporate conservatives may turn him “into the ‘Madonna’ of 2012” and predicts that “Evangelicals who don’t know about him may soon fall in love.”
Mike Pence could become the “Madonna” of 2012. Remember the 1980s movie “Desperately Seeking Susan?” starring the pop icon? (Oy, I may be dating myself.) Well, there is a political movement out there that we might want to start calling, “Desperately Seeking Pence” … [W]e should know in the next couple of weeks what Pence plans to do. If he runs, he becomes a legitimate dark horse with a huge upside to surprise a lot of people. He may be the Mike Huckabee of 2012. Evangelicals who know Pence love him. Evangelicals who don’t know about him may soon fall in love.
One South Carolina legislator claimed that Pence could “lead this nation back from the precipice of socialism where we find ourselves today.”
Mike Pence has long been one of my bete noirs. My skin literally crawls when he comes on TV — he combines the unctuous pretense of a used car salesman with the lugubrious sanctimony of a bankrupt mortician. The idea of having to stare at his oh-so-concerned countenance and listen to his “more-in-sorrow-than-anger” phoniness over the next two years is enough to make me lurch..