Now that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is Donald Trump's—ahem—running mate, he is required by Republican common law to abandon any remaining sense of shame. So here he is complaining about President Obama's convention-speech reference to “homegrown demagogues,” which for some reason all of America presumed was a reference to Donald Trump.
"You know, I don't think name calling has any place in public life, and I thought that was unfortunate that the President of the United States would use a term like that, let alone laced into a sentence like that."
At this point you have to ask if Donald Trump puts something in the campaign coffee pots that is pulling even people who once pretended at a bit of dignity into Trump's own vortex of narcissistic delusion. I don't think name calling has any place in public life, says Mike Pence in defense of the man whose only notable domestic policy achievement has been coming up with insulting nicknames for each of the other candidates in his race in the order with which they needed to be dispatched. There was Little Marco and Lying Ted and Crooked Hillary, and while Mike Pence was holding forth on the notion of civility, the top of his ticket was grumbling about how he'd like to hit those Democratic speakers "so hard their heads would spin." Mike Pence signed up for the ticket whose only platform plank is that everybody else but Donald Trump is a “stupid” “dumb” “loser.” Mike Pence woke up this morning to Donald Trump unleashing his standard stream of they-gave-me-my-phone-back invective against “Little” Michael Bloomberg and the “failed” Gen. Allen.
But in the Trump campaign, Democrats' four-day convention was playing to "the politics of fear" and the vice presidential nominee is quite put out that anyone would stoop to "name calling."
Well, fella, at least you're proving Donald Trump picked the right man for the job. And to think we all worried about whether you'd be able to prostrate yourself as readily as Chris Christie had always done.
