When you have a choice between an opportunist and a true believer, always go with the opportunist. The opportunist will move and bend, but the true believer will lead you right over an ideological cliff.
The Republican platform calls for rolling back the right of gays to marry. Trump, I’m reasonably sure, doesn’t give a hoot about that issue. On the other hand, Pence, religious fanatic that he is, really believes that gays will be going to hell.
When the auto industry was collapsing in 2009, Pence opposed a rescue. “Simply handing $15 billion out to Detroit today, however popular it may be with some Americans, I believe, in my heart, it would ultimately be a disservice to the American taxpayer, to our children and our grandchildren.” Note the “in my heart.”
In 2008, with the economy about to go into free fall, Pence voted against TARP. He said the country should deal with “...this crisis with resolute courage and faith in God and the principles of freedom and free enterprise.” Note the “faith in God.”
Pence really is a true believer. If Trump wins, hope he doesn’t die.
The Pence quotes are taken from today’s New York Times, “On Same Ticket, But Not Same Page,” by Andrew Ross Sorkin, p. B-1.
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