When it comes to condemning Donald Trump for coddling dictators, Mike Pence's PAC has a perfectly good message. The trouble, as stevebenen writes, it that Pence is a deeply flawed messenger.
A new television ad reached Iowa airwaves this week, and at first blush, it seems like the sort of commercial the public should expect from any of Donald Trump’s many critics — in both parties. The spot slams the former president for coddling foreign dictators, while making the case that the Republican’s foreign policy was fundamentally wrongheaded.
Soon after, the ad features an on-screen quote from Pence — “Weakness arouses evil” — while cutting to a speech in which the former vice president said, “There can be no room in the leadership of the Republican Party for apologists to Putin. There can only be room for champions of freedom.” In other words, this is a relatively straightforward message for GOP primary voters: Pence sees Trump as an apologist for some of the nation’s most dangerous and dictatorial adversaries, so the super PAC supporting Pence’s campaign hopes voters will reject the former president and support for the former vice president.. Should this be an area of vulnerability for the Republican frontrunner? I’d certainly like to think so.
And with this in mind, we’re left with an awkward dynamic: Pence was Trump’s vice president, and he seemed perfectly content to support the administration’s foreign policies for four years. Trump, but Pence refrained from taking similar steps. If Pence was appalled by Trump’s willingness to stand by dictators, why did Pence stand silently by Trump?
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