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2022-08-21 Home Front: Politix
Tone-Deaf Pence: ‘Attacks on the FBI Must Stop'
[PJMedia] Former Vice President Mike Pence confirmed on Wednesday that he has about as much chance of being the Republican nominee for president in 2024 as Nancy Pelosi has of joining the Radio City Rockettes. Demonstrating a tone-deafness of Olympian proportions, Pence had harsh words for the Republicans who are appalled at how the FBI has become a tool of the partisan vendetta of Old Joe Biden and Merrick Garland against Donald Trump. In Pence’s world, the stout-hearted G-Men are still of unquestionable integrity, square-jawed, patriotic, non-partisan, and ever-vigilant for truth, justice, and the American way. It hasn’t been that way for a long time if it ever was, but Mike hasn’t noticed.

Pence, who has something of the mien of an upright, taciturn fed himself, said: “The Republican Party is the party of law and order. And these attacks on the FBI must stop; calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong as calls to defund the police.” According to ABC News, Pence added that while he was “deeply troubled” over the raid on Trump’s home, “the party can still hold Attorney General Merrick Garland accountable ‘without attacking the rank-and-file law enforcement personnel at the FBI.’”

Well, sure. There are no doubt a few FBI agents left who are conscientious and patriotic and are trying to do a good job for the American people. If Americans were storming FBI offices in the hinterlands and brutalizing well-meaning agents who had nothing to do with the Russian collusion hoax or the attempt to brand angry parents at school board meetings as terrorists, Pence might have a point. But they aren’t, and he doesn’t.

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“The truth of the matter is,” said Pence after ignoring the major facts at hand, “we need to get to the bottom of what happened. We need to let the facts play out, but more than anything else, the American people need to be reassured in the integrity of our justice system and the very appearance of a recurrence of politics playing a role in decisions that the Justice Department demands transparency as never before.”

Yes, that’s actually true in a sense. We do need to get to the bottom of what happened, but Americans who are paying attention have already seen “the integrity of our justice system” seriously called into question. There is not only the FBI’s involvement in the Russia hoax, but the fact that Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden were not indicted and so much more that indicates that the FBI is not dealing dispassionately and impartially and that the Biden administration is using what is supposed to be neutral law enforcement to play partisan politics in the most dishonest fashion imaginable.

Even besides all that, there is the fact that J. Christian Adams reported about on June 30: Lindsay Capodilupo, the FBI’s “Election Crimes Coordinator” (does she investigate those “election crimes” or perpetrate them?) works closely with the Democracy Fund, which Adams calls “a hyper-funded progressive money source.” Is the FBI’s “Election Crimes Coordinator” also working with some patriotic election integrity group? The chances of that are about zero minus eight degrees.

Has Mike Pence missed everything that has happened over the last few years? Has he missed the deep concern of patriotic Americans that something has gone seriously wrong in Washington, not least with the FBI, and that there is very good reason why the bureau and other agencies are plummeting in the levels of trust they enjoy among the citizens they’re supposed to be protecting?

If the home of any prominent Leftist accused of illegal activity had been raided, Pence might be justified to be so sanguine, but the double standard is glaring. It was with good reason that Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) said that the Mar-a-Lago raid was “a complete abuse and overreach of [the FBI’s] authority.” That’s what it looks like. If Pence wants us all to trust the FBI again, that impression has to be definitively dispelled. But do the corrupt Leftists who are running the FBI now even want to dispel it?

Mike Pence is running for president as if it’s 1976 and he is Gerald Ford, the solid technocrat trying to emerge from the shadow of his disgraced former boss. But the FBI trying for years to frame Trump isn’t Watergate, and Pence is not going to get anywhere by buying into the Left’s vicious caricature of Trump as some kind of arch-criminal. Mike Pence is out of touch. If he really hopes to have a real chance in 2024, he needs to get out of the Beltway and find out what Americans are really thinking.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-08-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 He hasn't figured out yet that the FBI, or at least the upper 4-5 layers, are decidedly not for law and order. Either that or he has and is lying.
Posted by CrazyFool 2022-08-21 00:07||   2022-08-21 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Efrem Zimbalist Jr. outlived his portrayal of an incorruptible FBI...
Pence is outliving his earlier image of a honorable politician...
Posted by magpie 2022-08-21 00:14||   2022-08-21 00:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Never liked back-stabbers like Pence.
Posted by Cletle Shinese1880 2022-08-21 00:20||   2022-08-21 00:20|| Front Page Top

#4 He is living up to his name, and his opinion is worth about the same value: Pence

Pence is the plural of penny when referring to a coin of that denomination. Before decimalization, 12 pence made a shilling, and 20 shillings made a pound. This complicated currency system operated on fractions and had a separate nomenclature for incremental units.
Posted by Vinegar Clunk6928 2022-08-21 02:39||   2022-08-21 02:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Desperate old country club Trunk wishing everything would go back to the 'old days'.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-21 06:25||   2022-08-21 06:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Imagine if every dime that is contributed to loser politicians like Liz Cheney and Mike Pence instead went to something constructive in the US, like paying down the National Debt.

What we need is to require a bond equal to the amount donated to make the donation legal. If your candidate wins, you get your bond money back. If not, it goes to National Debt reduction. Make those PACs and bundlers pay up in a big way.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-21 07:16||   2022-08-21 07:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Pence is the voice of unity that no one is looking for. He is a Barry Manilow album at a garage sale next to a Dollar General. No buyers.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-08-21 09:07||   2022-08-21 09:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Yuge disappointment, his returning to his traitorous colleagues in the caves.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-21 09:43||   2022-08-21 09:43|| Front Page Top

#9 He is a Barry Manilow album at a garage sale next to a Dollar General. No buyers.

As Gene Simmons said, "What kid asks for a Pablo Cruise lunch box to take to school?"
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-21 10:05||   2022-08-21 10:05|| Front Page Top

#10 The Feebs have something on Whitey, the 8-Mile Baptist.
Posted by Knuckles Angomort6922 2022-08-21 10:33||   2022-08-21 10:33|| Front Page Top

#11 ...these attacks on by the FBI must stop...

Fixed it for ya, Mike...not that I think you'll appreciate it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-08-21 10:54||   2022-08-21 10:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Thus croaks another swamp creature. They are too dim to realize that their song gives them away.
Posted by AlanC 2022-08-21 11:10||   2022-08-21 11:10|| Front Page Top

#13 

It's NOT the FBI Rank and File I have a problem with.

It's the Dark Political Ops strike teams that need to be outed, and charged accordingly.

The problem is, the DC swamp is the one issuing them their marching orders. Therefore, the DC Swampers must protect them, or "handle" them in other ways.
Posted by NN2N1 2022-08-21 11:27||   2022-08-21 11:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Au contraire mon frère! Attacks upon our intelligence services much increase. Because those attacks are attacks upon those whom actually rule us.
Posted by Secret Master 2022-08-21 11:30||   2022-08-21 11:30|| Front Page Top

#15 It's NOT the FBI Rank and File I have a problem with.

The one's whose reply "I was just obeying orders" when raiding houses of parents who complain to school boards? Those are not all around the 6 county area of DC.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-21 11:44||   2022-08-21 11:44|| Front Page Top

#16 If a rank and file feeb wants to maintain that status, whose orders will be carried out, no matter how inimical to the Constitution?
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-21 11:53||   2022-08-21 11:53|| Front Page Top

#17 
Posted by Aca Joe  2022-08-21 12:13||   2022-08-21 12:13|| Front Page Top

#18 I think there is an echo-chamber in Washington DC. At some point you hear Fox News is helplessly bias and you give up on it, and then only get the left viewpoint. You start to believe the strawmen versions of conservative opinions, and basically become worthless.

The only defense is to actually have ideals that form and shape your opinions instead of basing them on whats popular or on other peoples arguments.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-08-21 19:40||   2022-08-21 19:40|| Front Page Top

#19 I may be wrong, but I recall that Pence was the first to scream that General Flynn was wrong to speak to Russian counterpart. Pence is dirty.
Posted by Sgt. D.T. 2022-08-21 20:30||   2022-08-21 20:30|| Front Page Top

#20 Major news network 'echo chamber'? I sat in a break room and watched everybody nodding to MSNBC (or CNN) like bobble-heads ...it was surreal.
Posted by magpie 2022-08-21 20:45||   2022-08-21 20:45|| Front Page Top

#21 ^ Problem with this country is that people aren't as smart as they used to be or self sufficient. They are clueless as to "cause and effect" of actions of others in general.
Posted by Shusoger Jereter6930 2022-08-21 23:34||   2022-08-21 23:34|| Front Page Top

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