Mike Pence: Statesman or Politician?

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We are at a watershed moment in our history. Tomorrow, Vice President Mike Pence will have a choice, a choice between loyalty to President Donald Trump, and loyalty to our Constitution, and our country.

President Gerald Ford had the same choice, after the resignation of President Nixon. He had a choice of whether to pardon Nixon, or not. Choice one is pardon him and lose votes when he runs for President. By pardoning Nixon, the entire Watergate issue goes away, and the country can go on with out the corruption from and center in an embarrassing way. Which was good for the country. or Two, he could not pardon him, and prolong the issue until the middle of the next decade, in court.

Ford chose to save the country further embarrassment. In doing so, he gambled his political future that the voters would be o with it. Come 1976 they were not. Ford did what was good for the country, knowing it may cost him. He did it anyway, that is a statesman. No other politician, in the last half of the 20th Century can be called a statesman.

Mike Pence has a chance to do the same. he has a chance to do his Constitutionally enumerated duty, and nothing more, which would anger the sitting President. Or he can bow to politics, and loyalty to a person, not the Country or Constitution. This is one of those times that character, and ethics should be the bedrock of his decision. Let us see if Pence has the ethical, and Constitutional character to make the right choice. Not necessarily the moral choice, but the right choice. As the old saying goes, a moral man knows what is right, and an ethical man does what is right. I like

I like Vice President Pence, I would vote for him. only time will tell if I will vote for him after tomorrow. Actions have consequences, and in politics perception is reality. God Bless Mike Pence, and God Bless the United States of America.

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