"Pence Creates Exploratory Committee To Find More Charismatic Candidate To Attach Self To In 2024"

https://politics.theonion.com/pence-creates-exploratory-committee-to-find-more-charis-1845666678

(yes, I know...)

IIRC, fellow Hoosier Quayle tested the interest of the nation's conservatives for about 17 milliseconds following his own single term at Number One Observatory Circle… It took him only that long to realize there was zero public enthusiasm for his future.

Pence seems to have a little more on the ball, and might well recognize that the Trump Administration is not one which Republicans and other conservative agencies will remember fondly. The vehicle was totaled, and no one will be looking it over for useful parts.

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IIRC, fellow Hoosier Quayle tested the interest of the nation's conservatives for about 17 milliseconds following his own single term at Number One Observatory Circle… It took him only that long to realize there was zero public enthusiasm for his future. ~ Crid at November 13, 2020 11:36 PM

Quayle let them make a mockery of him. Between "You're no JFK" and "potatoe" and wishing he could speak Latin in Latin America, Quayle came across as a rather dim bulb.

Pence, on the other hand, radiates a quiet dignity - despite the left's attempts to mock his rules about dining alone with women and the fly on his head at the debate.

(Maybe it is time to change your anti-spam question?) ~ wambut at November 14, 2020 7:11 AM

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Looks like the police decided to reduce their numbers voluntarily. Enjoy your retirement.

Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said more than 100 officers have left the force - more than double the number in a typical year - including retirements and officers who have filed disability claims, some citing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder linked to the protests over Floyd's death.

In a recent meeting with the Minneapolis Charter Commission, which is studying police staffing as part of the city council's efforts to remake policing, Arradondo told members he had been forced to deactivate several divisions inside the department and put those officers back on patrol because of staffing shortages.

https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Minneapolis-violence-surges-as-police-officers-15724768.php

> Quayle let them make
> a mockery of him

Well, yeah, but it's not like Hoosier Quayle had to give them permission. A favorite anecdote from C-span:

HITCHENS: Let me just say that Modern Times and Paul Johnson is a terrible reactionary British history, pseudo-historian, I'd say. He used to be the Christmas gift of Richard Nixon. He, in the Quayle and Bush era, became a cult figure on the right, and there's a wonderful description in Peggy Noonan's book of walking past Quayle's office and seeing Modern Times portentously opened at a certain page as if Quayle's reading this book, and walking past it several weeks later and seeing it was still open at the same page.Hoosier Pence might not be regarded as quiet so much as keeping his head down. Hoosier Pence avoided most of the ridicule, but I doubt he'll find other serious work. Don't know how much he makes from that office, but it probably means lifetime sinecures for healthcare and physical security. When he was to retire from the Governor's mansion before Trump gave him the nod, he was not leading a respected conservative intellectual cabal.

Did you hear about the Four Seasons thing? Trump team thought they were booking a hotel last week, but wound up hosting a press event in the parking lot of a garden supply shop. There's a serious and similar theory that Trump picked Pence because with his sweaters and gray hair, he thought he was getting famed Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight.

I'd bet it's over.

Pagination fuckup, break indent at "same page."

I'd bet it's over. ~ Crid at November 14, 2020 10:50 AM

I'd agree with that. He didn't generate enough of a head of his own steam for a run after four years in the Biden presidency wilderness; not with serious Republican challengers getting headlines and supporters lined up - e.g., Ted Cruz, Nikki Haley, et al.

He was a loyal foot soldier, defending the president at every turn, but that alone rarely gets one the top spot. He needs to generate enthusiasm as Mike Pence, not as Trump's VP.

Cruz will make the most of his time in the Senate during the Biden years.

Pence will run in 2024, but I don't see him winning the nomination, or even a spot on the ticket.

> Pence will run in 2024

I doubt he'll be even that optimistic. After all, he's typically unremarkable Indiana machine pol and at least something of a Christian— On some level, serving in the circle of such an abject superior must have been wearing on his soul a bit. And I can't imagine there are many god-ol'-boys in Indianapolis gold clubs who'll be cheerfully inquiring about his future.

"Loyal foot soldier" is a great way to put it. MacArthur and Patton probably had great assistants, too.

I thought it was kinda cool that Trump ran with the four seasons thing.

While it makes for a great story that the Trumpers thought they were booking the Four Seasons Hotel while booking Four Seasons Total Landscaping by mistake that, apparently, is not what happened. The landscaping venue was intentionally booked and Trump misunderstood that info on a phone call, thinking it was the hotel.

From a tweet by Daniel Bush:

An answer to the Four Seasons Total Landscaping mystery: the company told me the Trump campaign contacted them today out of the blue ahead of the Giuliani presser and said their location was close to an exit on I95, and was secure, and that’s why they wanted to use it.

The company said that?