With all the new revelations, can we say, then, that Pence saved the Republic?

[question everything]

[phylny]

1. Only because he HAD to.

[empedocles]

2. I liked a prior DU poster suggesting that pence the turkey, saved himself

from Thanksgiving.

[agingdem]

11. he tried like hell to serve his master..

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that's why he called Quayle...he whined that he was in a shit position...he wanted to please Trump but constitutionally he could not...in the end he didn't have the balls to obey the orange idiot and he paid the price...you can bet Trump would have loved to see Pence hanging from a rope

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Pence wants a one party Christian Republic of the United States.

[ConstanceCee]

4. Or Maybe

Or maybe Dan Quayle.

[Kaleva]

5. Who'd have thought that some day, history may look kindly on Pence and Quayle

[question everything]

8. Quayle was in a similar position in 1992 declaring that his ticket lost

But I am not sure: Did Pence ask his advice?

Of course, compared to Whinny Donny, Bush Sr. was an honorable statesman.

[dsc]

9. yes that came out in the last big revelation about this a month or so ago

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. I think Dan Quayle would get more credit.

And I can't believe I would have ever have posted this.

Who knew that Quayle would be a voice of Republicanism past? He was an idiot back when Bush felt sorry and picked this clown. I remember thinking. why would you pick a moron as your second....what if Bush died while in office?

[dflprincess]

13. I always thought Quayle was insurance against impeachment

Should HW ever be called to account for crimes committed during the Reagan Administration.

[Takket]

7. mostly because he didn't actually have any power to do anything

the electoral college doesn't need his approval of their votes.

i think if the constitution said something like "the vice president can throw out any state's electors if they feel they are corrupt", then drumpf would have pulled off his coup.

[question everything]

10. And yet, supposedly legal eagles wanted him to do so

Somehow I cannot see Pence with much of legal knowledge, mostly following instructions.

[Kaleva]

17. some here were convinced he had that power and were quite vocal about it.

Even after it was explained to them that Pence had no such power, they'd repeat the claim in later threads.

[ecstatic]

23. True but optics matter. nt

[Javaman]

12. Here's a picture of Pence all fired up to protect the nation

[question everything]

14. Remember in another meeting, whenever Whinny Donny took a sip of water, so did Pence?

[Shermann]

15. Somebody just needed to wind him up again nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. If this account is realistic, then he gets credit for refusing to leave the Capitol

because that was an option be could have taken without being "part of the coup", but which would have delayed the proper process.

Tim Giebels, Pence's lead security agent, asked the vice president "twice" to evacuate the building, the book says. But Pence did not want to bow down to the rioters and flee the scene, according to the book.

"I'm not leaving the Capitol," he told Giebels, according to the book.
...
Pence refused to get in the car. "I trust you, Tim, but you're not driving the car," Pence told Giebels, the book says. "If I get in that vehicle, you guys are taking off. I'm not getting in the car."
...
"We need to get back tonight," Pence told top lawmakers and defense officials on a call, according to the book. "We can't let the world see that our process of confirming the next president can be delayed."

https://news.yahoo.com/mike-pence-refused-leave-capitol-205925651.html

It's not that he was special in doing that (as the article says, Pelosi and McConnell wanted to finish that day too), but it was vital that he be there.

[ecstatic]

22. Agreed. nt

[Fyrefox]

18. So one turkey consulted another...

Isn’t it a sad state of affairs when anyone would turn to Dan Quayle for advice?

[UCmeNdc]

19. We were just lucky this time.

Trump tried to push pence into doing the wrong thing. But it should not ever have come to this.

[Iggo]

20. Everybody who did the right thing saved the republic.

Including me, you, and Pence.

[ecstatic]

21. I'll give him a little credit but in the days after the insurrection he blew it

He knew tfg was too unstable to continue to be president but still refused to "25th" him.