For former talk-radio host Pence, repeating talking points while deflecting questions is second nature. The smooth routine made it inevitable the punditocracy would deem him the winner.
And to a casual viewer, Pence may seem calm and reasonable. Sure, there was projection (accusing the Dems of running an "insult-driven campaign"). And outburst ("You whipped out that Mexican thing again!") But there certainly was no attention to his extremism; from tengrain's post—
Mike Pence is the kind of theocrat who scares me. Unlike Huckabee or Santorum who are essentially Elmer Gantry wannabes using the Rubes to their own advantage, the Pence's of the world are true believers, the sort of evangelists who can lie with impunity because they are lying in service to what they believe is a greater good. Mike Pence has signed into law in Indiana not just the terrible We Don't Serve Your Kind LGBTQ discrimination laws, but he has all also worked dilligently to defund Planned Parenthood and to add insult to women who do seek abortions, he has signed a law that requires women to have funerals for their fetuses.Pence as "2020 GOP frontrunner" is the other pundit pronouncement. So much positive attention to Pence; can it only lead to tweet-rage from a jealous 2016 nominee?
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