{"id":51199,"date":"2023-07-17T09:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T13:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51199"},"modified":"2023-07-17T09:26:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T13:26:26","slug":"i-cant-believe-he-said-that-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51199","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Believe He Said That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think that Mike Pence was one of the good guys. Now I believe that he is part of the Washington swamp. On Sunday, an article appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2023\/07\/16\/not-my-concern-will-help-narrow-gop-field\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Greatness<\/a> that confirmed my suspicions. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Mike Pence made a statement that is truly cringe-worthy.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Who won the Republican\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2023\/07\/14\/watch_live_tucker_carlson_grills_gop_2024_candidates_at_blaze_media_summit_in_iowa.html\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2023\/07\/14\/watch_live_tucker_carlson_grills_gop_2024_candidates_at_blaze_media_summit_in_iowa.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1689527229038000&amp;usg=AOvVaw30kpuSIitdXe-Oi7Lx2e3z\">blow-out interview lalapalooza<\/a>\u00a0with Tucker Carlson in Iowa Friday night? Besides Tucker himself\u2014who was on the Q side of this extended Q &amp; A\u2014the participants were South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, former Vice President Mike Pence, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;But even though Tucker emerged as one of the stars of the evening, the show was not about him but about that clutch of GOP hopefuls. Who among that gang of six won?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It\u2019s probably easier to start with the loser, chief among whom was Mike Pence, who might just as well have used the occasion to perform an act of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_political_self-immolations#\/media\/File:Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c_self-immolation.jpg\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_political_self-immolations%23\/media\/File:Th%25C3%25ADch_Qu%25E1%25BA%25A3ng_%25C4%2590%25E1%25BB%25A9c_self-immolation.jpg&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1689527229038000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1hqvfM1eayC-1pV6V-0HKg\">self-immolation<\/a>. The key moment came in an exchange about foreign policy, in particular U.S. policy with respect to the war in Ukraine. Pence said he was distressed that we had yet to send Ukraine the promised Abrams tanks or train Ukrainian pilots to fly F16s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cYou are distressed,\u201d said Tucker, \u201cthat the Ukrainians don\u2019t have enough American tanks. Every city in the United States has become much worse in the last three years. . . .and yet your concern is that the Ukrainians . . . don\u2019t have enough tanks? Where\u2019s the concern in the United States in that?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cWell, that\u2019s not my concern. Tucker, I\u2019ve heard that routine from you before, but that\u2019s not my concern.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cNot my concern.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Bang. \u201cNot my concern.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am sure that the comment was not what it seemed; however, his handlers should have better prepared him for the interview. I personally would rather vote for someone who is more concerned for America than for Ukraine. He is running for President of America&#8211;not Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link to the article to read the &#8216;rest of the story.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think that Mike Pence was one of the good guys. Now I believe that he is part of the Washington swamp. On Sunday, an article appeared at American Greatness that confirmed my suspicions. In an interview with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51199\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11800,2281,7318,2212,7146],"class_list":["post-51199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-greatness","tag-iowa","tag-mike-pence","tag-tucker-carlson","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51200,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51199\/revisions\/51200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}