It's a white middle-aged male social conservative from the midwest

[RgrF]

Any pressure is self-inflicted, he could have filed for re-election anytime before this. Bet there are more than a few bridesmaids really angry, he's holding up the (Indiana) wedding, probably has some successor in mind he's directing things toward.

[pdq]

Vox has an interesting tidbit on Pence:

...this year he signed an anti-abortion bill that even some pro-life Republicans thought was too extreme...

The wording of the burial provision meant that technically, even if a woman had a miscarriage at eight weeks of pregnancy at home, she would have to keep the blood and tissue, take it to a hospital, and have it buried or cremated by a funeral home.

And since about half of miscarriages happen shortly after a fertilized egg is implanted, and occur at roughly the same time a woman would expect her period, many women could be having a miscarriage and not even know it — and thus, technically be violating the law if they didn’t cremate or bury the resulting tissue.

Women who opposed the law started a Facebook group called "Periods for Pence" and started calling Pence’s office in droves to tell him about their periods in graphic detail...

This is just usual pro-life shenanigans where posturing (a fertilized egg = human being; therefore, they should have funerals) is taken to its (il)logical extreme. Here in MN, the pro-life folks pushed through a law some years ago that all miscarriage and/or abortion tissue received in a hospital or clinic must be sent to a funeral home for "cremation". Some pro-life folks said this was "just common sense", and no one was willing to take these folks on, so it passed.

In reality, most spontaneous miscarriages (as well as elective abortions) usually occur in early pregnancy, so what you usually receive is a pint-sized container of blood and uterine lining, with or without a speck of fetal tissue. But the law is the law, so these containers get a special label to separate them from all the other specimens, and these numerous little buckets of blood get sent to the funeral home so they can incinerate them there, instead of at the hospital, where all the other tissue specimens are incinerated.

I've never seen anyone add up what this adds to medical costs, but I'm sure it is a not-inconsiderable expense. But who cares? Those sorts of medical expenses are no object when it comes to placating the anti-abortion lobby.

[samintx]

Are the lemmings supposed to jump on the bandwagon now that Pence is in the bag? It makes Trump as a candidate Okey Dokey now?

[RgrF]

This goes on every election when the Presidency is open. It's the minutia of electoral politics that some people are enamored with and most people find easy to ignore. The Major League Baseball All Star Game is more interesting and I don't watch even All Star games of any sort.

You might just as well put it all on the shelf until after Labor Day, that's when the real campaign starts.

[OWC Jamie]

liberals abhor racism, bigotry and profiling
you can tell by this thread title

[mrbigstuff]

Pence will be a credible backup when Trump abdicates the throne.

[silvarios]

Lemon Drop wrote:
Pence is a much stronger pick than Gingrich anyway; younger people would have said: who?

57 year old conservative white guy will appeal to the younger people? I'm not even forty and know more about Newt than Mike. Either way, I don't see the appeal here.

[Speedy]

silvarios wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
Pence is a much stronger pick than Gingrich anyway; younger people would have said: who?

57 year old conservative white guy will appeal to the younger people? I'm not even forty and know more about Newt than Mike. Either way, I don't see the appeal here.
You'll just have to listen to recordings of his old radio shows. The guy is a slightly less lying Rush Limpbaugh.

[rjmacs]

Failed governor will 'help' his candidate win a red state he was going to win already. What a bumpf for Drumpf.

[silvarios]

Yeah, I still don't get it. Trump was already skewing right...