Mike Pence is said to be Donald Trump’s choice for Vice President.
The Indiana Governor brings his comparative youth at age 57 compared to Trump who is 70.
He brings 12 years of Congressional experience and leadership of the Republican Conference for two years, as well as four years as Governor of a potential “Swing” State, which went to Barack Obama in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012.
He is a less dynamic person, not the type to seek controversy, and very different in that sense than Chris Christie and Newt Gingrich.
But his hard line social conservative views, which make him popular with the Christian Right, is not going to help Donald Trump win the Presidency.
Pence allowed the passage and signing of a bill that discriminated against gays and lesbians in public accommodations, and then had to ask for a revision of it, when corporations decided to oppose it and moved to stop expansion into the state, a blow to the Indiana economy. In backing off a bit, he alienated the most extreme social conservatives, who are anti abortion, anti gay rights and anti gay marriage, deny climate change, and work against women being equal in a family unit to their husbands.
We are not going back to the 1950s, or to a white supremacist America, where minorities have little input or concern, and where whites claim they are being discriminated against.
This election will be the 1950s white dominated America pre civil rights, pre woman;s rights, pre gay rights, pre environmental movement, pre immigration reform America against 21st century America with all of the advancements in human rights and science that have occurred in the past half century!
I hear Trump had some hesitation about his choice at the last minute.
Trump made his announcement. He couldn’t help but ramble.
Professor,
Pence is a monetary unit in Britain. There was once a half penny coin.
So if Pence cannot be a full asset, perhaps he can be continue to be what he has always been in his political philosophy–half ass…
HAHAHA! 🙂 Paul, I love your humor! LOL