Say Adios, Mike Pence...GOP Pushing You Offstage...

 

By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas | Look at him and see a man without a country. Well, maybe nothing that extreme, as his native Indiana still claims him. But Mike Pence, shown in photo above, is on two presidential lists these days: one as a candidate for the job and another as an unworthy one for the party's initial debate.

Pence has not made the cut.

And what an unkind cut it would be if he doesn't make it to the Republican Party's first candidate debate this August 23rd in Milwaukee. The 64-year-old Pence, vice-president of the United States in the dizzying Donald J. Trump Administration, is not polling high-enough to get invited. And he has yet to amass the needed number of contributors to his on and off, four-cylinder-powered campaign.

That's like eight cylinders below what frontrunning Republican candidates Trump, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott are wheeling around in on the coast-to-coast oval track that is a run for president.

Pence seems a candidate from a different era, like from the 1800s.

He is not good in front of a camera and his interviews are always slowed by his ice-cold personality. Grim is another word writers are using to describe his outlook for the country. Hardly positive material, eh?

This is the same Pence who found himself thisclose to being hanged at the National Capitol when angry insurrectionists charged the hallowed building seeking to keep him from certifying Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

You'd think he'd be damning everybody involved, cursing them all as dumbass fuckers and asking to be allowed to bitch slap a few. Not Mike Pence. He's the prim & proper dude in this campaign, the one whose pale face looks as if it's been embalmed.

He plays the calm & collected wimp in this movie...

-30-