No liberal person anywhere can pity Mike Pence. He battled abortion rights as Indiana's governor. He's an evangelical Christian, which invites blazing hostility among many. He follows quaintly inexplicable rules that infuriate the sane, such as refusing to meet with women who are not his wife unless his wife (or some other chaperone) is with him. Worst, he failed to put up any resistance against the worst howlers of the worst president of all time for almost a full four years.
The thanks Pence got for his fealty was a crowd of thugs chanting "Hang Mike Pence!" as they hunted him in the halls of the U.S. Capitol -- and all because he defied Trump once by refusing to throw the election.
He can't even go home, word has it, because he's under too much danger from volunteer hit men from his own party. Pence has surprisingly little support for a campaign for President of his own. At this point he might as well move to Canada.
Instead, he was invited to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), that combination of backslapping, handshaking, wheeler-dealering chitchat summit punctuated with speeches and, in this case, ending with a exhortation by none other than the man who wants Pence's head, former president Donald Trump. Is it any wonder Pence turned the opportunity down?
Pence has got his future work laid out for him -- never mind that it may not involve another election campaign. He'll join the Heritage Foundation (a right-wing think tank) as a distinguished visiting fellow. He's going to speak, talk, and write for groups that actually want to hear from him. He's even going to be a traveling, speechifying Mr. Cool for the Young America's Foundation (sic) as its Ronald Reagan Presidential Scholar, a position apparently invented just for him.
For Pence, a new life is calling. Maybe it’s a pretty good reason to say bygones to the mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers who make up his former boss's fans.
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