https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/gods-plan-for-mike-pence/546569/ Really good read. Him and Condi Rice would have been an interesting ticket. Lock if already posted.
two other interesting bits from that report.. Pence told RNC he could replace Trump on ticket after 'Access Hollywood' tape came out: report http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...he-could-replace-trump-on-ticket-after-access MIKE PENCE’S WIFE THINKS DONALD TRUMP IS ‘REPREHENSIBLE’ AND ‘TOTALLY VILE’ http://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-...e-donald-trump-access-hollywood-sexual-735181
The opening line is cheeky yet jarring, "One man cannot be ruled by two masters" fits so perfectly. It seems innocuous but it sets the stage for the dilemma of Pence and the Republican party as a whole. I would love to be a fly on the wall and listen to what Pence is thinking about all this Moore drama. Not what he says to the public, but what he says to his wife right before bed.
It just goes to show that he is a snake just swimming around in the swamp that trump claimed to be draining.
Ah. I supposed, then, that the Vice President is aware of his bible... "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Mammon." — Matthew 6:24
I know it's from that, hence why the other half is about Pence trying to. At first glance it reads like a slam piece, but if anything it makes me feel more connected to Pence than anything. The left feels like were being held hostage by a madman, and the evangellic right feels much the same way. The fact that Pence considered taking over for Trump or dropping out after pussygrabbergate makes him a bit more human to me. I still don't agree or stand with him on almost anything, but it's a start.
...ultimately I feel it's unwise for any human being to simply be "good" or "evil"...or simply perceived as exclusively one or the other... ...but for the sake of the here-and-now, I would offer that at the end of the day, all any of us can say with any degree of certainty and consistency is that actions beget consequences. Another saying (more colloquial perhaps) is that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. It satisfies our particularly human quandary of self-awareness to examine a perspective on action-in-relation-to-consequence, in hopes of somehow premeditating an outcome we would tend to believe or readily accept as good or right or necessary. We are all the heroes of our own stories, after all. My feeling is also often found in something quotable...and biblical, as it were..."As he thinketh in his heart, so is he”— Proverbs 23:7. Or, if you prefer your "cowardly" French..."I think, therefore I am". — Descartes I can never really know what a man thinks or why he thinks it. And very often, I find myself not especially concerned with trying. Wouldn't be much of a trolling liberal Negro with just a smidgen of arrogant reverse-racist victimization if I didn't do that. But what I can know is what a man is willing to accept and even incur by what his actions wrought. And a man undisciplined (or misaligned) in his thoughts will ultimately be undisciplined or misaligned in his actions. "Good" and evil ( or even "justice") are concepts, no matter how many platitudes are offered or dissertations rendered, that can only be observed and measured after the action is taken on its behalf or in its stead. And the only measure that matters, to me, is the measure of the man.
Pence is pretty lucky. He'd be vilified as president, but with Trump raising the bar of indecency, there'll be some rebound among the American public for a potato head looking dufus that doesn't speak crassly and does all the evil **** on the back end.
