Pence continues to massage Trump’s controversial remarks

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press

SATURDAY, OCT 22, 2016 03:30 AM EDT

RENO, Nev. (AP) — It’s become a familiar routine for Mike Pence.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says something headline-grabbing, dubious or outright false, and his mild-mannered running mate sets out to refashion the boss’s argument. It’s happening again this week with the campaign’s most fundamental question: whether Trump would accept the legitimacy of election results that make Democrat Hillary Clinton president-elect.

Finding the right balance will prove critical for the Indiana governor in this election and beyond. His aim for the next few weeks is to rally wary Republicans, from evangelical Christians to fiscal hawks, without alienating Trump’s core supporters who distrust the party establishment that Pence still calls home. And should Trump lose, Pence’s delicate, sometimes-impossible dance could leave him as one of the few high-profile Republicans with credibility across competing strands of a fractured party — a position he could occupy with an eye toward the 2020 election.

For now, the Indiana governor must translate Trump’s repeated claims that the electoral system is rigged against him —unsubstantiated statements that leave Republican and Democrats alike fearful that the GOP nominee might undermine a President-elect Clinton by flouting the American tradition of graceful concessions by losing candidates.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2016/10/22/pence-continues-to-massage-trumps-controversial-remarks/

[groundloop]

1. This makes Pence sound almost like a sympathetic figure - hardly the case

Pence's political views are very close to tRumps, he just has a lot more political savvy.

[Trust Buster]

2. Pence has so damaged his "family values/constitutionalist" phony front that he will never be able

To decouple himself from Trump.

[Achilleaze]

3. Pinnochio Pence likes to do the Holier-Than-Thou RepubliKristian Scam

Just like Jimmy Swaggart, Ted Haggard, and a Basket of Other Deplorable alleged 'Christians.'

But Pence's blatant & systematic repudiation of honesty and integrity in this campaign for Comrade Casino (R) are Monumentally Foul & Completely Discrediting.

Gag me. Gag America.

[madaboutharry]

4. Mike Pence is not a good person.

He waves the Bible around to justify his hateful political views. He is the worst type of phony.

He deserves whatever humiliation comes his way.

[RKP5637]

5. Pence AKA Donald's butt hole cover, now an ass wipe! I can't stand Pence, his true colors

are coming out again, yep, Pence and his family values crusade. Pence, another deplorable.

[mdbl]

9. always has been

[yardwork]

6. You could say that Pence is "bleaching" Donald's remarks.

Or maybe acid washing them.

[NastyRiffraff]

7. We're supposed to feel sorry for Pence?

Sorry, that's a non-starter. Pence's paper-thin veneer of civility hides a seething pile of religious and ideological rigidity and disdain for women, Blacks, gays...like Trump, anyone not a straight white male.

The minute anyone waves a Bible around I'm immediately suspicious.

[susanna]

8. Should read...

Pence continues to dress DT's word salad.

[Paladin]

10. "Massage" is such a charitable description of what Pence is doing.

Kiss your political future good-bye, governor.