# Mike Pence in 2024-- please tell me it's not happening **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 5, 2020, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826 "2020-11-05T10:33:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/282 "2023-05-26T02:02:18Z")
[Apparently CNN is planning another rally, this time for Pence.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-pence-cnn-town-hall-mockery_n_646fbbbfe4b0a7554f3dd2e7) I can see trump crashing it in the middle, like Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, or more accurately, Krusty and Sideshow Mel. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QZHCYZ0YULs/hqdefault.jpg "The Krusty Comeback Special") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZHCYZ0YULs) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/283 "2023-05-26T02:05:12Z")
Trudeau has not often reached his earlier heights in recent years, but that’s pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/284 "2023-05-26T02:17:46Z")
This is a very odd comment about US politics if you misread it as Justin. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/285 "2023-05-26T02:20:10Z")
That occurred to me, but I kinda decided I liked it that way. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/286 "2023-06-05T16:35:21Z")
And it is now officially happening - [Mike Pence enters race for President 2024](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/us/politics/pence-2024-president-candidate.html?unlocked_article_code=f2EdNvov4WNQSU12chQvFThhs9ULZjzhoG8RMnZ4lgOdv3U2_XqFRj7qfWsMtc8bS02Y1doASr7IkPb4xwzBZHQcfoYwq1GVX4eJ-z56fO2bwNjJQbEx36KAQ1shFoKpHshLO-d1rvGHLrAiUxgHcyn9eTfBJ67JciSPZUF4kwuG885jAlkip9suXbFpCNzTQ8_HWG3o2f6KBfzkhkrNHhJTBXyPsm6QeIhlg6lyDfPekNPbC8o_ilJc5fi1WEwjbkIJjpdUhEdX2mp3DeERZXmE_6_PMPZUdbCJi9jGqa9aHQZhjr6GCQ63WZ-MAq6_UfYxxHG5bnQo6VAa1PyExbJtgd_8obW_RUgSHA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare) (gift link) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/287 "2023-06-05T16:45:40Z")
Is he going to look adoringly at Trump during the debates? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/288 "2023-06-05T18:23:23Z")
Maybe his campaign song will be I Believe I Can Fly. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/289 "2023-06-05T18:32:32Z")
I always interpreted “happening” as “him getting elected or at least nominated.” The question has a lot less weight if it’s just asking if he’s running. As such, my answer remains the same from 2020. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/290 "2023-06-07T12:13:55Z")
He’s the first guy to run after a sizeable number of his party wanted him murdered. Hope he stays alive but I don’t see where he has a lane to run in. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/291 "2023-06-07T17:12:33Z")
He said in one of his speeches, yesterday I think, that he wants to “push America all the way back, and then some.” I think that’s very evocative, and speaks exactly to the current US conservative movement. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/292 "2023-06-07T18:59:35Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Pence would be better than Trump, I think, but a bipolar chimpanzee with a meth addiction would be better than Trump so that’s not saying a lot. I’d even be tempted to blame some of his worst behavior as VP on having to follow Trump’s orders, but if he was that bad as Indiana’s governor I can’t give him the benefit of the doubt. He was that bad as Indiana’s governor. (Yet another Hoosier speaking out on this). While it is true he lacks overt charisma I’ll just remind everyone he did manage to get elected governor of a state and ride someone else’s coattails into the VP office. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/293 "2023-06-07T19:08:27Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > He said in one of his speeches, yesterday I think, that he wants to “push America all the way back, and then some.” I think that’s very evocative, and speaks exactly to the current US conservative movement. - Sounds like he’s running for Lord Of The Flies rather than President. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/294 "2023-06-07T19:11:04Z")
What, like _Australopithecus_? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/295 "2023-06-07T20:29:52Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > > > He said in one of his speeches, yesterday I think, that he wants to “push America all the way back, and then some.” I think that’s very evocative, and speaks exactly to the current US conservative movement. - > > Sounds like he’s running for Lord Of The Flies rather than President. In many ways, he _is_ running for Lord of the Flies. That’s how far out there the Reactionary Wacko party has become. Or at least how bad many of that party’s voters have become. And therefore a decent fraction of their politicians too. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/296 "2023-06-07T20:31:59Z")
Lord of the Flies was a dead pig’s head, or alternatively a dead fighter pilot. I’m not clear how that parses. Now, if you’re saying he wants to be chief of a savage tribe in the jungle, I would disagree. Far too messy, Mother wouldn’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/297 "2023-06-07T20:57:54Z")
Remarkably, Pence is attacking Trump more strongly than any of the other GOP candidates. In his speech yesterday he said TFG was “unfit” to be president. He says he saved the country on January 6 by refusing to obey Trump. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/298 "2023-06-07T20:57:58Z")
I’m suggesting our society has degraded to a savage tribe in the jungle worshipping a flyblown corpse. Pence is running to be leader of the tribe. So not the Lord him/itself, but the leader of the slavering tribe. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/299 "2023-06-07T21:43:43Z")
Odd that he said nothing for the first 3.95 years of Trump’s presidency, then. Neither his silence on the one hand nor, alternatively, his cluelessness on the other speaks well of him. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/300 "2023-06-07T22:08:19Z")
Sucks to Pence’s ass-mar. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/301 "2023-06-07T22:32:32Z")
Andy Borowitz nails it, as usual: > **[Pence Endorsed by National Association of Ass-Kissers](https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/pence-endorsed-by-national-association-of-ass-kissers)** > > “During his four years as Vice-President, Mike Pence brought flattery and obsequiousness to new heights,” the N.A.A. statement read. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826.md?page=16)