Remember way back in March of this year when Rep. Mike Pence condemned teabaggers' use of racial slurs directed at Rep. John Lewis at a teabagger event in DC? While many of his fellow Republicans accused Lewis of, well, lying, Pence nobly defended (sort of) Lewis's integrity and condemned the racial slurs:
“A couple of weeks before the alleged incident occurred, I was walking across the bridge in Selma, Ala., with John Lewis,” said Pence. “I take at face value what John Lewis said. If John Lewis said he heard it, I believe he’s a man of integrity. And I would denounce those kinds of statements in the strongest possible terms.”
Well, that was March, and this is July, and now Pence is ready to join a new Tea Party Caucus in Congress, founded by the Queen of Batshit Crazy herself, Michele Bachmann.
At a press availability this afternoon, Pence was enthusiastic. "You betcha," Pence said when asked if he'd join.
"I come out of a background -- I was chairman of the Republican Study Committee, I was chairman of...the House Conservative Caucus," he added. "My hope is that this Tea Party caucus...will be an avenue for bringing some of the energy and the enthusiasm and the focus that I've seen, from the National March on Washington where I spoke on 9/12, to traveling around Indiana and all around the country, deeper into the well of Congress."
In April, I gave Mike credit for having slightly more class than his fellow Republicans because he actually gave a fellow member of Congress the benefit of the doubt and condemned the teabaggers' racism.
My bad.