Pensive Pence
by digby
If there has ever been a more unctuously sanctimonious politician than the hard-core right winger Mike Pence, I’d love to know who it might be. The man’s perpetually furrowed brow and insistence on his own purity and righteousness seems to have convinced many Villagers that he’s a mainstream politician, a moderate even. He’s been mentioned many times as one of the most promising of the dark horse candidates for president, largely because of his undeserved reputation for compassion. (He decided to take free money for Medicaid once so …) Today he may have smudged that image a bit with his truly terrible performance on This Week trying to defend his state’s decision to explicitly legalize discrimination against gay people.
The thing is that he’s not unusual. If they were to ask any of the GOP presidential candidates about this issue it’s hard to imagine any of them taking a different stand than Pence. Considering just how vehement the opposition to Indiana’s new law (shared by numerous other states…) at this point in time, and the media’s shocked reaction it seems to me this would be an excellent thing for Democratic activists to take up if the press fails.
Ask your favorite Republican candidate if they support Indiana’s new law. And then watch them try to dance on the head of a pin.
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