Governor Mike Pence is out trying to be act like Dr. Jekyll to Donald Trump’s Hyde. On a campaign stop in North Carolina, the audience was allowed to ask Pence questions. An 11-year-old boy named Matthew took the microphone and had this to say:
I’ve been watching the news lately, and I’ve been noticing that you’ve been kinda softening up on Mr. Trump’s policies and words, is this going to be your role in the administration?
What follows is a “hearty laugh” from Governor Pence that can only be called “excruciatingly pained.” Pence begins, like some kind of alien reading out of a handbook on how to be a politician, the slow march into the annals of history.
Let me tell you Matthew, number one: this boy’s got a future [laughs]…
I’m still trying to understand the joke. The joke is that this 11-year-old boy can be considered “precocious” because he asked Governor Pence a question not made out of cotton candy? Is the joke that even though a Trump/Pence administration would most likely mean the end of days, this young kid will still be alive “in the future?” Maybe that’s the take-away: A vote for Donald Trump and Mike Pence isn’t going to lead to the actual end of the world.
Let me tell you what, I cannot be more proud to stand with Donald Trump and we are shoulder to shoulder in this campaign, my friend.
He says that Matthew will learn someday that “sometimes things don’t always come out like you mean.” Which is a terrible thing to tell a young person. Sometimes things don’t always come out like you mean, but if you continuously have to say that things are not “coming out” like you mean, you need to do a serious accounting of yourself.
