Monday, August 14, 2023

Op-ed:
Traitor Thy Name Is Mike Pence
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio
The Op-ed posted here is my opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com  

Let me begin by saying two things...first, I never liked Mike Pence from the moment then candidate Donald J. Trump introduced him as his running mate back on July 15, 2016 and second, I am about to break the great Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment about never speaking ill of a fellow Republican. And while this usually references that those running for office should not speak ill of their fellow Republican opponents, it has of late been applied to one's fellow Republicans in general. But sometimes commandments of all kinds are and should be broken, and here I must break Reagan's for I believe Mike Pence, in his attacks on now fellow candidate Donald Trump, has indeed crossed the line into deliberate and slanderous spewing of lies, innuendos, and deceit to such a degree that, to me, it borders on the traitorous...traitorous to both country and to the man he once served under and called friend.

There was something about Mike Pence...something that just did not sit right with me, a sense of foreboding if you will. Maybe it was his overly whitened toothy smile coupled with the way he carried himself...sort of reminiscent of Obama's overly self-confident sauntering across the stage at Billy-Boy's nominating convention. Or maybe it was the fact that I knew it did not look good for the former congressman running for reelection to a second term as Indiana's governor...which meant that if he did lose the governors race that he would be leaving office as a fairly...outside the mid-West...unknown politician who would forever be thought of as a loser. Whatever the feeling was that day know that feeling has never left me for Mike Pence has indeed turned out to be not only a loser but now an American nightmare bar none.

But this is not to say that Mike Pence did not do at least one good thing as vice president...he did. One thing near and dear to my heart...and personal as well...is that Pence took the lead in not only rebuilding our nation's space program including the all important garnering of $8 billion in new funding for “Space Force,” but that he spearheaded the call for a U.S. Mars mission. Other than that, it's my opinion that Mike Pence was but second rate window dressing for larger than life President Donald J. Trump, the man whose very presence literally sucks all the air out of the political room and most especially so when the Democrats started in earnest their still ongoing nefarious witch hunt against our 45th president.

Second rate window dressing for sure as Mike Pence has always appeared, to me, to be a milquetoast of sorts, a direct opposite of Donald J. Trump...the man...which makes me wonder why Trump tapped him to be his running mate. 

 

Three possibilities come to mind.

First, was it because Indiana's former congressman and then possibly its soon to be former one term governor remained popular with so-called “social conservatives” and the uber religious far right...aka the Evangelicals...two large blocks of votes that Trump desperately needed if he was to beat Obama-backed Hillary Clinton in 2016? A possibility for sure.

Second, did Trump choose Pence because the Republican hierarchy itself suggested that he do so feeling that Pence was his best bet to shore up support with both Republicans still on the fence about Trump's now running as a Republican and embracing his then new found conservatism? Remember, throughout most of his adult life Donald Trump was a registered Democrat, so maybe that was the reason.

 
And third, could it be that the then Republican hierarchy, unbeknownst to candidate Trump, deliberately pushed easily controlled establishment shill Mike Pence on him... basically planting him as their eyes and ears...a mole if you will...in what would surely be a very unconventional administration. Mike Pence would be not only their easy to manipulate counter-balance to the man who claimed not to be a politician, but his presence on the ticket would hopefully make said ticket more palatable to mainstream Republicans and the aforementioned uber religious far right, while at the same time bring the all-important independents over to the uncontroversial, drama free Mike Pence and therefore the Republican ticket as well. Could this be the reason Pence became Trump's VP nominee...not to be discounted I'd say.

Simply, any of these three scenarios are distinct possibilities for I cannot imagine Donald Trump himself picking a man...a wanna be career politician...a milquetoast...like Mike Pence to be his running mate especially for his second go round. Why so...because it's my belief that Mike Pence was then, is now, and will probably always remain a somewhat shady character for when one's comments and actions...especially with Pence now knowing what President Trump is facing...still seems to relish in spewing backstabbing nonsense which has me wondering just which side of the political aisle Mike Pence's loyalty really lies with. And now with Trump becoming a much heralded political martyr of sorts...a martyr through no fault of his own...how it must pain him to see his former vice president actually digging the proverbial knife ever deeper into his back.

But maybe Trump should have seen this coming...maybe we all should have...for a red flag as to Pence's character should have been, if not raised, at least noted for it has long been suspected that a traitor was embedded within the Trump camp. Could that traitor be Mike Pence...to me that answer is maybe. And why...here's one scenario that has led me to believe so. On May 17, 2017, just one day after the appointment of a special counsel to investigate “supposed” Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Mike Pence registered what became the “Great America Committee”...a PAC... which on its altruistic surface seemed like a good thing. And why wouldn't it seem so for in it's first two-years in operation said PAC raised more than $4 million to help Congressional Republicans during the 2018 mid-term election. But what most don't know is that PAC's of this nature are usually set up as a precursor to one's own presidential run.

Simply, I now believe, especially after reading and hearing Mike Pence's recent comments regarding what many of us still believe to be the stolen 2020 election, is that this PAC was also set up to test the waters, if you will, for Pence's own 2020 presidential run, especially being that Pence would become president if Trump was removed from office. Sometimes traveling the country using PAC monies on what Pence has claimed to be government business, my question is why did Mike Pence feel the need to use PAC monies for some of his travels when he had full use of Air Force 2, especially for government business? Just something to think about...think about and not only question but demand answers to.

It seems Mike Pence has always had veiled presidential ambitions which I believe he has kept hidden until now...ambitions I deem dangerous to our republic for certain aspects of Pence's politics and his far right religious beliefs...he has stated on numerous occasions that not only did, “I gave my life to Jesus” but that his devout religious beliefs are the center of his very identity...beliefs which do lean towards someone who would welcome our becoming a theocracy. So it now makes sense his running for the nomination in 2024 as social issues...the key focus of said religious far right...do at times dominate the current political discourse. 

But it's not that Mike Pence has any chance of winning said 2024 nomination...his extremely low poll numbers prove just that...but Pence is smart enough to know that the only way to set himself up for 2028, is by doing the bidding of the swamp laden Republicans hierarchy now...a hierarchy who'd rather, I believe, see Joe Biden as president in 2024 than Donald Trump or even (my choice) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

And maybe this was Pence's plan all along, as in to take an election he knows well was stolen...after all he watched, as did we, the rightful brouhaha about thousands of uncounted ballots “miraculously” being found in the middle of the night while only being tallied after poll watchers/observers were told to leave. And surprise of all surprises, when counted, not only were all votes cast for Biden/Harris, but what were winning numbers in swing states already tallied and announced for Trump/Pence suddenly were lowered to allow for a Biden/Harris win. Simply, this makes no sense unless the numbers were somehow manipulated and/or switched...sort of like what happened back in 2000 with Florida's “chad” fiasco. 

 

And Pence watched all unfold and said not a word possibly having known all along that 2020 would be lost but that by 2028 our country will be so bad off having then gone through yet another four years of Joe Biden that any Republican...even one selling out to the swamp...like I believe Pence has done...would win come 2028.

Why else would Mike Pence now make up lies that Trump and his advisers pressured him into rejecting the certification of the 2020 election in January...why else would Pence tell FOX News that, “The president specifically asked me, and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me, to literally reject votes, which would have resulted in the issue being turned over to the House of Representatives, and literally chaos would have ensued.” And he said this even knowing well that all Trump asked of him was to delay the Electoral College vote until all the voter fraud claims were looked into and resolved...a reasonable request I'd say. 

So why say what he said...because I believe Mike Pence would lie for his own political gain...as in the presidency...even if it meant a few years wait time to achieve said gain. And in his now appeasing those in the Republican hierarchy of the swamp, Pence hopes it will garner him brownie points” from those who are already working behind the scenes on the 2028 election.

“Our country is more important than one man. Our constitution is more important than any one man’s career. On January 6th, Former President Trump demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution. I chose the Constitution and I always will,” were also Mike Pence's ever so altruistic sounded words said as he tried setting himself up as the defender of truth and honesty...which he is anything but. And so the man who now says that he has no plans to testify at any of Trump's upcoming trials... unless he is subpoenaed to...and knows damn well that he will be...has actually set himself up to be the recipient of kudos and political love from not only RINO Republicans and those who simply don't like Donald Trump, but will soon to be the recipient of mega dollars courtesy of his reportedly soon to come January 6th memoir...a memoir which he hopes will not only sour the independents on voting for Trump in 2024, but will align their votes for him in 2028.

Simply, it's my belief that Mike Pence is not only a politically backstabbing traitor to Donald Trump, but to “We the American People” and our country as well. Case closed.

Copyright © 2023 / Diane Sori  / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.  

 
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