+1
But adding – maybe my mind is in the gutter, but whenever someone accuses a man of whipping out a thing, I think they’re talking about him whipping out his dick.
Granted, Kaine isn’t Mexican (so his dick can’t be), but he speaks fluent Spanish so maybe Pence thinks he’s part Mexican.
And, after all the times Pence ran away from Trump with zip that would make the Flash look like Snail-Man, this is the point on which he draws the line and defends him?
And of course he didn’t, so, uh, I guess Nostradamus I ain’t.
Use it or lose it, or something like that.
I do wish these mooks would stop trying so hard to come up with just the right catchphrase, as if they were Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando.
The Clinton folks would be smart to emphasize (in ads and in what Hillary and surrogates say) that Pence did exactly as you observed: ran away from Trump. Failed to defend or back Trump in, what, six (or more?) challenges. Failed to be loyal…again and again and again and again and again and again (etc.).
Word is, that’s something Trump doesn’t care much for. It should be rubbed in his face as often as humanly possible.
Do men of the religious right even acknowledge that there *is *such a thing as a dick? I assumed they doublethink themselves into believing it’s all Ken Doll down there.
And Obama at the time pointed that outand retorted we also had fewer horses and bayonets.
(Besides, so does virtually everybody that counts)
Maybe Barack missed a golden opportunity in 2009 to start his inaugural speech with this immortal line.
Eh, it’s why the debates happen in the first place, or at least one of them.
These people aren’t there to give completely focused answers to specific questions with citations and appeals to relevant authorities. That’s called policy debating, and if you really get into it at a high level, it’s a very technical skill which demands a lot of time and effort per debate, and it simply isn’t worth it. If a politician comes to a debate with a box full of three-by-five cards with quals and crits and everything else, they’re a moron. They prepared for the wrong thing, and they’re likely to lose, and will deserve to. It’s a terrible way to convince people and it’s a terrible way to convey information.
So the debates are less formalized (stylized?) and more about personalities and arguments, as distinct from deep analysis. You can’t do deep analysis in a ninety-minute format. What you can do is give enough facts and arguments to convince the more intelligent of the undecided to look more closely at your detailed platform, and get the kinds of jabs in that your side can use in ads after the debate. The best is to have them hang themselves, by forcing them into errors you can use against them, as happened here.
Debates show personality. Personality is important. Trump’s personality, as revealed by the debate, is “semi-senile old codger who can’t be bothered to prepare for important events and can be baited into shooting his feet off up to the thigh”, which is something we basically knew already but is important to reinforce. Kaine is on the “yappy little dog” end of the spectrum, which is a bad thing for a middle-aged man, but he did get Pence to try to abandon his own campaign and whip out that idiotic thing he came up with, so it wasn’t a total loss.
#ThatMexicanThing is gaining traction finally. I bet Hillary will use the phrase in the next debate.
She’ll try to associate Trump with something his running mate said? That’s underhanded. They’re in no way associated in any political context. Pence made that very clear.
Thanks, all.
Yes, we learned that Pence never heard any of the things Trump said. And Trump is so fixated on attacking Miss Universe, he doesn’t have time for Pence or studying up on NATO, nuclear proliferation, or anything more complicated than insulting people based on their appearance.
I think you’ll agree that a key skill for any potential President is the ability to prioritize.
My take on that “whipping out the Big Mexican Thing” was that Pence was making a dick joke.
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there I first read that as “I think you’ll agree that a key skill for any potential President is the ability to patronize.” 
So do I. I think it’s pretty clear by now that virtually everyone on Trump’s campaign team is either a shameless mercenary or, like Pence, is in it for personal political gain. None of them believe in anything Trump is doing, except for the white supremacists, and none of them have even a shred of ethics. It’s quite the team, really. I wouldn’t be surprised if the wheels start coming off before the month is out.
If there’s any justice in the world Pence’s feeble efforts to distance himself from Trump will just reveal him for the scheming opportunist that he is.
Yes!! I was getting tired of the shaking head “he never said that” and finally, Pence can’t do it any more – “look, he’s not a polished politician”. And there it is.