I didn’t like saying it, but I told you straight.
I don’t know any other way.
Likewise, it is my pleasure to report that Mike Pence kicked Tim Kaine’s interrupting little butt all over his home state of Virginia in the one and only vice-presidential debate.
What I saw on that stage was one distinguished and articulate gentleman make his case respectfully for his running mate, while another pompous, arrogant blabbermouth talked over his opponent time and time again with a fusillade of lies, distortions, mischaracterizations and mean-spirited attacks.
All this took place before a Big Media “moderator” who either ineptly lost control of the debate or decided ahead of time to allow one of the participants to make up his own rules – which meant his opponent rarely got to finish a thought.
At least once she scolded both candidates for talking over each other. At other times, she interrupted Pence herself to ask Kaine a question while Pence was still finishing a point.
It was utter chaos.
Nevertheless, Pence didn’t protest. He didn’t whine. He didn’t moan. He just hammered away on Hillary Clinton’s abysmal record as secretary of state and her role in setting the foreign policy of Barack Obama’s administration.
It was effective.
It was probably the first chance many Americans have had to see Pence and Kaine. Not so for me.
Pence has long been a rock star among conservative Republicans. He is the gentleman Americans met during this debate.
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Kaine, on the other hand, is a phony. When he ran for governor of Virginia, he didn’t campaign as a Hillary Clinton radical who seeks to repeal every legal restriction on abortion at both the federal and state level. Instead, he told Virginians he was “personally opposed” to abortion but would uphold the laws of the state. He claimed he was a big supporter of the Second Amendment, not the gun-grabbing, power-hungry supporter of Hillary Clinton’s plan to ban firearms by any means necessary in her first 90 days in office as president.
What came across in the vice-presidential debate was this: The choice facing Americans is clear. It’s a choice between business as usual in Washington and a fresh start, a chance for bold new leadership capable of changing the status quo, challenging the establishments of both parties.
Pence painted that picture – calmly, persuasively and forcefully.
It was a stark contrast to Kaine the chatterbox.
I suspect most Americans saw it the way I did. Kaine was annoying. I wanted to tell him to shut up and wait his turn.
In seeing Pence’s performance, I believe Americans will agree that Trump will surround himself with good people. Trump doesn’t sweat the details of policy. Instead, he calls on experts to help him. Pence was his No. 1 choice. I think that speaks highly of Donald Trump and reflects well upon his leadership and decision-making ability.
I don’t know if a vice-presidential debate can help the Trump campaign recover the momentum it lost in the first presidential debate, but it will surely stop the surge of the Clinton campaign.
In other words, Pence has set the stage for the next head-to-head showdown between Clinton and Trump.
I don’t think anyone could have set the expectations any higher than what Pence accomplished.
Again, I call ’em the way I see ’em.
We’ll just have to watch the polls after this to see if my take is right.
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