# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/162 "2021-06-06T10:51:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Pence on Trump: ‘I don’t know if we’ll ever see eye to eye’ on January 6 With one turning a blind eye and the other’s eyes swivelling, that’s only to be expected. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/163 "2021-06-06T19:29:58Z")
Pence’s recent comment reminds me of a line from a ‘Frank and Ernest’ comic: “My fiance and I can’t agree about the wedding. I want a quiet ceremony with just a few family and friends, and she never wants to see me again”. ---
**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 25, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/164 "2021-06-25T12:55:16Z")
The right thing to say, but it’s _not_ going to get him the GOP nomination in 2024: > **[Pence contradicts Trump on January 6, calling plan to decertify 2020 election...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/politics/mike-pence-donald-trump-january-6/index.html)** > > Former Vice President Mike Pence rebuked former President Donald Trump on Thursday night on the question of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election. ---
**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 25, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/165 "2021-06-25T17:10:47Z")
MAGAbots hate him for not attempting to nullify the election. Sane Republicans hate him for being a toady for 4 years. He has no base of supporters. Put some butter on him, he is toast. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/166 "2021-06-25T17:14:55Z")
Completely agree. I see no meaningful path to the nomination for Pence. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/167 "2021-09-10T20:01:30Z")
Still trying to stay in the game: > **[Pence blasts Biden's vaccine speech: 'Unlike anything I'd ever heard from an...](https://www.aol.com/news/pence-blasts-bidens-vaccine-speech-162410428.html)** > > The former vice president criticized Biden's frustration at those who refuse to get vaccinated for COVID-19. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/168 "2021-09-13T11:06:08Z")
“I have to tell you the president’s speech yesterday was unlike anything I’d ever heard from an American president”, said Mike Pence. By which presumably he meant that Biden didn’t talk about how great he was or how he knows more about vaccines than the doctors do or about people coming up to him with tears in their eyes to praise him or about how terrible the media are or about how the election was rigged, nor did Biden then go off on an incoherent tangent involving assigning kindergarten-level nicknames to random people. Because that’s how presidents talk in Pence’s world. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/169 "2021-09-13T14:27:18Z")
You can see how disorienting that would be for him. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/170 "2021-09-16T14:02:48Z")
Appalling, of course… but as ever, not at all surprising: > **[Donald Trump's laughably childish threat to Mike Pence | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/politics/donald-trump-mike-pence-friend/index.html)** > > Donald Trump is, at root, just an overgrown kid. And not in any good way. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/171 "2021-09-16T14:24:08Z")
Pence is joining Sara Huckabee Sanders and Ben Carlson as key note speakers at “The National Symposium on Patriotic Education”, which is brought to you by College of the Ozarks. Sounds like a hoot. > **[College of the Ozarks symposium will include Mike Pence, Ben Carson, Sarah...](https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/education/2021/08/02/college-ozarks-national-symposium-patriotic-education-speakers-include-mike-pence-ben-carson/5460808001/)** > > The National Symposium on Patriotic Education will be Sept. 16-17. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/172 "2021-09-16T14:38:24Z")
Republicans: “It’s terrible how the left is brainwashing children in schools”. Also Republicans: “Patriotic Education”. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/173 "2021-09-16T14:49:28Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Pence is joining Sara Huckabee Sanders and Ben Carlson as key note speakers at “The National Symposium on Patriotic Education”, which is brought to you by College of the Ozarks. Sounds like a hoot. - > > [College of the Ozarks symposium will include Mike Pence, Ben Carson](https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/education/2021/08/02/college-ozarks-national-symposium-patriotic-education-speakers-include-mike-pence-ben-carson/5460808001/) Who falls asleep first, the audience or the speakers? ---
**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:** [September 17, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/174 "2021-09-17T14:10:57Z")
Ozarks and Symposium aren’t words you ever see in close proximity. I feel bad for Arkansans who will be saddled with the spawn of Satan as their governor. Pence turned out not to be the guardian of constitutional norms that we had previously thought. He consulted Dan Quayle to see if had any wiggle room at all to overturn the results. When Quayle told him that would be even harder than spelling “potato”, Pence told him about all the pressure he was getting. He was a man who, after spending four years licking Donnie’s boots, was desperate to find a way to get another four years of boot-licking. So now he can’t be Donnie’s friend anymore. Worse, Donnie thinks that Pence has cooties. The only way Pence has a snowball’s chance in hell would be over Donnie’s dead body. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/175 "2021-09-17T14:14:07Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Pence turned out not to be the guardian of constitutional norms that we had previously thought. This was always the position I thought Pence held - not that he was acting out of principle, but that there was literally nothing he could do (short of grabbing the box of results and running off shouting “Can’t catch me!”) to stop or overturn the count. And even though he did everything he _could_ do, his beloved Trump sent a mob to kill him for his failure. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/176 "2021-09-17T14:26:08Z")
Like you do. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/177 "2021-09-17T21:10:08Z")
> **[Pence preps for potential 2024 presidential run amid rocky headlines about...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/politics/pence-2024-run/index.html)** > > Mike Pence is adding staffers for his brand-new office in downtown Washington -- inching closer to a possible White House run even as his standing worsens with former President Donald Trump and his base of supporters. What on earth is the point, Mike? The never-Trumpers hate you for being a Trump toady, and the Trumpists hate you for not being a Trump toady. Where on earth do you expect to garner any support whatsoever? Mother only has one vote. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/178 "2021-10-05T19:56:34Z")
“My life was repeatedly threatened, the President did nothing to help and the Secret Service had to hustle me out of there for my own safety, but I sure wish the media would now write about… something else.” > **[Pence: Media's focus on deadly Jan. 6 riot is meant to 'demean' Trump supporters](https://www.aol.com/pence-medias-focus-deadly-jan-141824878.html)** > > The former vice president said that the media's focus on the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot is designed to distract from President Biden's "failed agenda" and to "demean" former President Donald Trump's supporters. ---
**Author:** ![DaveUnknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/179 "2021-10-06T01:04:09Z")
in other words, don’t bring up Jan.6 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/180 "2021-10-06T02:46:18Z")
> [@DaveUnknown](#): > > in other words, don’t bring up Jan.6 I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right. So! It’s all forgotten now, and let’s hear no more about it. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2021, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826/181 "2021-10-06T03:51:39Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > [https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/politics/pence-2024-run/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/politics/pence-2024-run/index.html) > What on earth is the point, Mike? The never-Trumpers hate you for being a Trump toady, and the Trumpists hate you for not being a Trump toady. Where on earth do you expect to garner any support whatsoever? Mother only has one vote. If he runs his campaign will be as forgettable as that of Tim Pawlenty. Who? Exactly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-pence-in-2024-please-tell-me-its-not-happening/924826.md?page=10)