# What did Mike Pence mean by this remark? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 24, 2022, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716 "2022-10-24T20:58:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [October 24, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/21 "2022-10-24T23:57:30Z")
I feel he meant there is someone he’d support, but won’t name them til they announce. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/22 "2022-10-25T00:18:22Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > **Kenobi\_65** didn’t answer the question. I absolutely did. In your OP, you asked: > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > So what’s your opinion? What do you think he meant? And, you intentionally placed your thread IMHO. I gave you MHO. You’ve now restated your question as: > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Question: when Pence said the words “someone else” did he mean himself? Maybe. I am 95% certain that he would _like_ to be President. But, he’s equivocating on his answer to the question, and absolutely refusing to give a straight answer. For all we know, his answer might actually be “anyone else but Trump.” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/23 "2022-10-25T00:33:47Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > > > **Kenobi\_65** didn’t answer the question. > > I absolutely did from a certain point of view ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/24 "2022-10-25T00:35:03Z")
Your problem is that the subject line question is open-ended. _“What did Pence mean?”_ is an open-ended question. Since you wanted a specific answer to a specific question, you should have asked that question right in the subject line: > When Pence said, “Well, there might be someone else I’d prefer more,” WRT the 2024 nominee, did he mean himself? ---
**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:** [October 25, 2022, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/25 "2022-10-25T00:41:08Z")
Who can know the mind of Pence? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/26 "2022-10-25T00:43:49Z")
The Shadow knows! ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/27 "2022-10-25T01:02:24Z")
He’s trying to walk a tightrope and not commit to anyone at this point, including himself. It’s an effective smoke screen to keep everyone guessing. Does anyone really care who Pence is ultimately going to endorse? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/28 "2022-10-25T01:08:56Z")
**Modnote** : stop Jr. Modding. Stop being obnoxious to posters offering their opinions in IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/29 "2022-10-25T01:16:38Z")
The weird thing is the context of the premise. It was that Trump is the nominee. So that eliminates any scenario in which Pence is the nominee (or DeSantis or some other Republican). The only other person who would be there for Pence to vote on would be the nominee of another party; either the Democratic nominee or some third party candidate. So what Pence could have been hinted at is “If Trump wins the Republican nomination, I might vote for Biden.” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/30 "2022-10-25T01:20:09Z")
Okay, this was funny. > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > > > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > > > > > **Kenobi\_65** didn’t answer the question. > > > > I absolutely did > > from a certain point of view ---
**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:** [October 25, 2022, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/31 "2022-10-25T01:52:57Z")
Within the confines proposed by the OP as acceptable scope of answers to his questions … My view is Pence said “I want someone other than Trump to be the nominee. In fact I would like the nominee to be me. I rather doubt it will be me, but a guy can hope. But I’ll take almost anyone other than Trump as the nominee.” That’s what he _said_. But what he _meant_ was: “I refuse to answer the question asked. I am therefore providing a Sphynx-like mostly meaningless pronouncement that others can search endlessly & fruitlessly for any real meaning”. But of course he’s crap at that level of sophisticated wordplay, so it came out as my prior paragraph said ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/32 "2022-10-25T02:02:06Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > No, because it’s not what I asked. > > I will try to make this simple for you. > > Pence said “Well, there might be someone else I’d prefer more.” > > David Pakman and Farron Cousins have mentally added " … and that person is me" to the statement. > > Question: when Pence said the words “someone else” did he mean himself? > > **You** haven’t answered the question. **Chronos** hasn’t answered the question. **Steve\_MB** didn’t answer the question. **Kenobi\_65** didn’t answer the question. **pullykamel** answered, but just said “yes” and gave no basis for the answer. Why in the world would you expect anyone on this board to be better at reading Mike Pence’s mind than you are? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/33 "2022-10-25T02:02:30Z")
It is impossible to know what he meant without being able to read his mind…which I can do. LSLGuy turns out to be absolutely right- congratulations! ---
**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 25, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/34 "2022-10-25T02:07:21Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > Why in the world would you expect anyone on this board to be better at reading Mike Pence’s mind than you are? Well, there might be someone else he’d prefer more. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/35 "2022-10-25T02:17:11Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > It is impossible to know what he meant without being able to read his mind…which I can do. > … I’m not sure you and I can take great pride in being mind-melded with the likes of Pence. But I for one am honored to be mind-melded with the likes of you. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/36 "2022-10-25T02:18:23Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Okay, this was funny. I admit, I did laugh. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/37 "2022-10-25T11:43:43Z")
Based on the OP’s actions in this thread, this is closed. In the future, do not berate others for simply trying to answer your question as stated. Treat other users with respect in all forums (except the Pit, of course). ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-mike-pence-mean-by-this-remark/973716/38 "2022-10-25T11:43:49Z")
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