Mike Pence: POTUS in waiting?

[Alan B]

What will he be like as a POTUS?

He's keeping very quiet. Hardly on the media radar at all, that is, compared to Trump.

What are his real views - besides the anti-abortion and religious stuff? Because that is all we seem to know about him.

[laklak]

We'll make America Godly Again!

Seriously, Pence is a scary dude, real Dominionist stuff.

[Alan B]

Dominionist? Oh, fuck!

[Svartalf]

That's what he looks like, and IIRC he's a catholic, an evangelical would be ten times worse...

[Animavore]

You're assuming Pence won't go down with Trump.

[Scot Dutchy]

Look Pence is out a well known mould. Every one knows what he will do but unless he has Congress and the Senate behind him he will be a lame duck president. Not all the GOP agree with him.

[laklak]

He describes himself as a "born again, evangelical Catholic". He did the whole "committing to Christ" thing while in college.

Evangelicals with a history of burning heretics at the stake. Great. Just fucking ducky.

[Svartalf]

Oh shit, he's at least as bad as a garden variety evangelical, possibly even worse...

[laklak]

Yeah, combine evangelical zeal with Catholic worship of hierarchal authority and you get the Inquisition.

[Svartalf]

well, good thing you can't have a state religious denomination, or he'd have it for you.

[Strontium Dog]

Standard vanilla evil Republican.

[Rum]

Does anyone think this tsunami of legal action and all the rest of it can really bring Trump down? He seems to just shrug the shit off.

[Svartalf]

unttil the GOP who's in control of both chambers decides he's more an asset than a liability, he's scot free

[Seabass]

He'll get away with everything. This country is fucked. There's too many stupid people who will vote Republican no matter how awful they get.

[laklak]

Don't know. I hope it fails, because it would split our already fractured country like nothing else I can even imagine. Far better for everyone to just ride it out. Positions are far more entrenched today then they were even in 1974 when Nixon resigned. That isn't hyperbole, I was there and remember it well. There is a large, perhaps very large, segment of the right that would see it as literal treason, particularly with the current resurgence of socialist rhetoric from the not-so-far left. Couple that with some big Antifa "demonstrations" an you have a recipe for disaster, don't underestimate these people or minimize what they might do. The best we could hope for is a relatively smooth and non-violent transition to Pence ala Gerald Ford. Of course, the first thing Pence would do is pardon Trump, just as Ford did Nixon, but Pence might go further and pardon everyone and anyone who stayed loyal, but most definitely not Cohen. Not only is he a grass, but he's a fucking JEW to boot and they killed Jebus. I may have to move up our Swaziland schedule, I'd rather be elsewhere when it happens.