{"id":24825,"date":"2023-07-17T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=24825"},"modified":"2023-07-16T21:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T01:44:11","slug":"asking-the-hard-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/asking-the-hard-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking the Hard Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched Tucker Carlson\u2019s interview of Mike Pence<\/a> in Iowa.\u00a0 It was extremely hard to watch.\u00a0 In fact, I turned it off more than a few times because it was just too painful to watch this man say one stupid thing after another.\u00a0 But stupid doesn\u2019t really capture it.\u00a0 It was as if he were lying and yet unaware of just how poorly he was lying.\u00a0 When he talked about the 2020 election, he said that the voting irregularities would have had no impact on the outcome of the election.\u00a0 And then he claimed that changes that have been instituted have strengthened election integrity.\u00a0 I refuse to believe he\u2019s that stupid.\u00a0 I think he\u2019s just lying and when he makes his case that\u2019s exactly what it seems to be, a very poor liar.\u00a0 When Tucker presses him on the various weak points in his story it\u2019s like a little kid who has been caught doing something wrong and you ask him about it and you can almost see the wheels turning as he makes up a pathetic story that is patently absurd.<\/p>\n

And then came the coup de grace.\u00a0 While Pence is complaining about Joe Biden not getting Abrams tanks to Ukraine fast enough, Tucker asks whether with all the terrible problems that now plague our country; crime, drugs, violence, inflation; shouldn\u2019t Pence be more worried about those things than Ukraine\u2019s access to more American weapons.\u00a0 And Pence\u2019s answer was, \u201cIt\u2019s not my concern, it\u2019s not my concern.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Now he tried to bury this answer by claiming that as president he\u2019d handle both domestic and foreign policy issues simultaneously.\u00a0 But all that anyone will ever remember is that he said that crime and homelessness and suicide and fentanyl overdoses and inflation were not his concern.<\/p>\n

Well, Mike Pence will never be the Republican candidate for president.\u00a0 My question is, with his breathtakingly awful communication skills, how was he ever a successful politician?\u00a0 I\u2019m aware that being vice president doesn\u2019t require much in the way of talent.\u00a0 But he did manage to become the governor of Indiana.\u00a0 Is the bar that low in Indiana that a man without any discernible rhetorical abilities could become governor?\u00a0 I\u2019m going to give Pence the benefit of the doubt and that he used to be a very honest man and that in Indiana an honest man can accomplish a lot.\u00a0 And that what we see now is what happens when a simple man is thrown into the cesspool that is Washington DC and tries to swim with the rats there.\u00a0 Inevitably he gets eaten alive.<\/p>\n

I watched Tucker\u2019s interviews with the other candidates too.\u00a0 Asa Hutchinson was equally hopeless as Carlson hammered him over his veto of a ban on pediatric transitioning and also on his tepid response to closing the southern border to drugs and illegal immigration.\u00a0 So, what I see is that Tucker is acting as the voice of the normal Americans who are fed up with the GOP establishment candidates.\u00a0 What he is doing is preventing the candidates from giving their lame rah-rah speeches and instead addressing the very painful fact that they don\u2019t have solutions for the most pressing problems in America today.\u00a0 In fact, he exposes the fact that they want to make believe that these problems don\u2019t exist.\u00a0 Or if they aren\u2019t allowed to ignore them, then they just handwave them away as, \u201cWe\u2019ll put our top men on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mike Pence is hopeless.\u00a0 Asa Hutchinson is hopeless.\u00a0 Nikki Haley is hopeless.\u00a0 But even the candidates who make some sense like DeSantis and Trump can\u2019t answer the most important question, \u201cWhat are we gonna do if and probably when the Democrats steal the election in 2024?\u00a0 That\u2019s what we should be talking about with the men who want to be president.\u00a0 And they should be talking to the red state governors about the contingencies that they should already be putting in place.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been occupied for over three years now by a rogue regime.\u00a0 Enormous damage has already been done.\u00a0 Taking concrete steps to begin reversing the damage and protecting people is long overdue.<\/p>\n

So, good for Tucker for asking some hard questions.\u00a0 But I think the harder questions remain to be answered.\u00a0 That\u2019s the debate that still needs to take place.\u00a0 Maybe Tucker can work on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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