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Monday, June 12, 2017

Congressman Jim Banks picks Bobby Knight over Mike Pence!

Mike Pence continues to lend credibility to the belief in some circles that he is a political masochist who seems to enjoy being humiliated and publicly embarrassed by others. In today's "Behind Closed Doors" column by Maureen Groppe in today's Indianapolis Star reports:

When Indiana Rep. Jim Banks had his first Oval Office meeting with the president his year, Trump had a difficult question for him.

“The president asked me, `Did Bobby Knight or Mike Pence do more good in Indiana?’” Banks recently recounted to The Atlantic in a feature on the Indiana freshman.

Banks chose Knight, the former Indiana University basketball coach, despite the fact that the vice president was standing right there.

“I don’t know if Pence appreciated that,” Banks told The Atlantic. “But the president looked at him and said, `See, I knew it!’”

A spokesman for Banks said the exchange was in jest and a lighthearted moment during a conversation about the president’s affection for the Hoosier state.

When Knight announced his support for Trump shortly before Indiana's primary last year,Trump called it “the greatest endorsement in the history of Indiana.”

Cruz’ inability to beat Trump in Indiana despite the backing of Pence – the sitting governor – effectively ended the GOP nominating contest.


Gary Welsh of Advance Indiana fame in his next to
last blog post spoke about Pence's half hearted endorsement of Senator Ted Cruz wrote:

Gov. Mike Pence will upset many Republican primary voters today by endorsing Ted Cruz's presidential campaign. It will have no impact on the race, which Donald Trump is poised to win, and Pence gains absolutely nothing from the endorsement. The people who support Cruz already make up the backbone of his narrow, electoral support. What it can only do is further alienate him from already disaffected Republicans and aid in the election of John Gregg. Support for Cruz's candidacy has been collapsing for weeks now. He cannot win in open primary elections, only in closed-door, party caucus elections. He has no viable path to winning the nomination. This is another totally bone-headed move by Pence.

IR by no means believes that Mike Pence has much common sense. But he has to be aware that he is only being used by the President. And by continuing to let himself be abused and humiliated he is only further damaging his already non-existent credibility. If Pence wants to salvage anything of his political career he should resign as Vice President immediately. His apparent eagerness to defend the indefensible is only going to hasten the end of his political career. And give those republicans like all of us who have no use for Pence. Even more reasons to want him sent to political Hell.

2 comments :

  1. This "R" voter came late to the party when it involves realizing Mike Pence is a shallow, wooden, low-intellect politician who, like the Clintons and the Obamas, will do anything to obtain political power and retain it. I really had to hold my nose to vote for Trump simply because that gawd-awful phony Mike Pence had a place at a table for which he is wholly out of his depth and unprepared as VP (or POTUS, for that matter).

    I do recall reading the late great Gary Welsh's column you cite. Mike Pence is only where he is because DJT allowed his children to make the decision when it came to the short list of potential running mates. Pence is what you get when DJT allows his liberal, Democrat-like establishment children to make the call.

    What many establishment Republicans and establishment liberals like the Trump children do not understand is that the liberal left Democrats are waging a war and they will fight as dirty, as nasty, and as hateful as they are able. The liberal left Democrats do not want to work with any political party or any politician whose goals are not the goals of the anti-America crowd (these are the real "deplorables") or those who are unwilling to use the foul, unsavory (but effective, sad to say) evils propagated by the dreadful Saul Alinsky.

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    1. We here at IR have never thought much of DJT but we are still scratching our heads as to why he picked Mike Pence to be VP. Mikey can't find his butt with both hands!

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