The fear of the Cheeto Pudding among GOP contenders is almost funny. But not really.
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Their complacency and servitude is bizarre. I struggle to believe they'd just publicly demean themselves over and over again without being blackmailed or threatened but it looks like humiliation rolls off them like water from a ducks back.
It might be funny but it also makes perfect sense.
Trump is the defacto face of the party now, win or lose, so anyone who wants to take his place on the ballot in 24 has to walk the impossible tightrope of being different enough from him to get moderate Republicans to vote for them in the primary, while also being enough like him to somehow get loyal trump voters to vote for them instead of him.
It can't be done.
It'd be very different if Trump were out of the picture (not running, term limited, convicted and in prison for insurrection, or dead) and the primary field didn't include the OG responsible for the way the party looks and acts now.
In that scenario, you have a field not including trump, with everyone trying their own blend of trump republicanism, traditional conservatism, and whatever else made them unique in the field. But instead, as long as he's in the discussion, they have to somehow be more popular than the party figurehead, and find ways to be different from him while not criticizing anything he says or does, or risk immediately setting his entire base against them.
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"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bullshit."
- W.C. Fields
I mean Pence decided not to leave it to the American people when Trump encouraged them to hang him. He ran away and hid.
Of course he said that because if Trump is disqualified because of J6, then so would also half the GOP's varsity team from Congress. I think if all of Trump's in-government co-conspirators (just to name a few, but not an exhaustive list: Meadows, Scott, Hawley, Boebert, Gaetz, Greene, etc.) were expelled and never allowed to return to government, I'm pretty sure at least half those seats would go to middle of the road Democrats (I mean at least Boebert's seat, minimum) and the GOP would lose their razor thin margin in the Senate.
I think this is one of the many major reasons Pence keeps towing this line for Trump.
Pence must have mob ops on him too. Roger stone we want to see the American mafia crumble. Quit being naive people there's more to politics... It's not just a few bad actors it's organized crime that'll do anything for power and control, while they place blame on petty criminals.
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While Trump is obviously a POS and I'd love for him to be banned from running, not allowing anyone to run for office from prison would set a really dangerous precedent.
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What a coward.
pence has always been an idiot
He is technically correct, the best kind of correct. If convicted of anything he is currently being tried for, he would remain legally able to run for president. Whether or not I morally agree with him running, the constitution doesn't concern itself much with my personal morals.
Say what you want about Pence but he's not going to claim something about the constitution that he doesn't believe is true, even if it helps him. That is like, his whole thing.
I'm gonna say that that's not true, I think it was anyone else he would absolutely say they shouldn't be allowed to run. I guarantee you that if it was Biden or any other Democrat he would absolutely not be giving them this same treatment.