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Mike Pence is upset.

”Hillary Clinton’s low opinion of the people that support this campaign should be denounced in the strongest possible terms,” he said.

“Hillary, they are not a basket of anything — they are Americans and they deserve your respect. No one with a record of failure at home and abroad, no one with her avalanche of dishonesty and corruption and no one with that low of an opinion of the American people should ever be elected president of the United States of America.”

You see, according to Pence, using politically incorrect terms to put into words what many people may already think is totally unacceptable.

Like the time Trump said that all that Mexico sends are its drug dealers, criminals, and rapists.

Apparently acceptable.

Remember that time Trump waved his arms making fun of the disability of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski who has a chronic condition, Arthrogryposis, which limits the movement of his arms?

Apparently acceptable.

Remember when Trump retweeted the put down of  Iowans’ intelligence after polls showed Ben Carson rose above him in the Iowa polls> His tweet included.

“Too much #Monsanto in the #corn creates issues in the brain?”.

And his statement about Carson doing better than he was in Iowa,

“How stupid are the people of Iowa? How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?”

Apparently acceptable. No basket fulj of anything there.

Remember his totally unverifiable claims that from his penthouse in Manhattan he saw American Muslims celebrating the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, in New Jersey, which, he said,  would require surveillance of mosques, shutting some down, and establishing a national database to register Muslims.

Apparently an acceptable misrepresentation of a group of people, many of them citizens of the United States.

“Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president … I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?”

he said when objectifying his opponent, Carly Fiorina, during a nationally televised Republican primary debate,

Totally acceptable.

When speaking on John McCain he said,

“He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, OK? I hate to tell you. He is a war hero because he was captured.”
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There are his insults, overt and covert, directed toward veterans, like the time Trump claimed he had made sacrifices equal to combat vets when he explained,

“I’ve worked very, very hard. I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs … I’ve had tremendous success. I think I’ve done a lot.”

Or the time he went after the Gold Star mother of a young soldier who died to protect his unit when his father, Khizr Khan, spoke at the Democratic Convention by saying,

“If you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say, she probably — maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say, you tell me. I’d like to hear his wife say something.”

And then accepting a Purple Heart from the veteran and cheerfully exclaiming,

 “I’ve always wanted to get the real Purple Heart. This was much easier”,

when people are aware of his multiple deferments during the Viet Nam War while playing tennis and baseball in spite of a medical deferment for bone spurs in one of his feet, although he cannot remember which one.

But insulting veterans is acceptable.

When it came to Roger Ailes being accused of sexual harassment, he dismissed the victims by saying,

 “He’s such a great guy. Roger is — I mean, what he’s done on television, is in the history of television, he’s gotta be placed in the top three, or four or five. And that includes the founding of the major networks. So, it’s too bad. I’m sure it was friendly.”

 “I can tell you that some of the women that are complaining, I know how much he’s helped them. And even recently. And when they write books that are fairly recently released, and they say wonderful things about him. And now all of a sudden they’re saying these horrible things about him.”

Demeaning those victims was acceptable.

Remember when  attending “A Conversation About America’s Future with Donald Trump and Ben Carson”, a private meeting with over 400 of the most bigoted, most homophobic and most influential anti-LGBT advocates in the United States, he gave legitimacy to the anti-Gay rhetoric of such groups as the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family?

But supporting those who malign a whole segment of the population of the United States is acceptable.

When Trump did not like that a judge allowed the case against Trump University to go ahead, he went after the judge,

“Everybody says it, but I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump, a hater. He’s a hater. His name is Gonzalo Curiel. I think Judge Curiel should be ashamed of himself. I think it’s a disgrace that he’s doing this. The judge, who happens to be, we believe, Mexican…I think the Mexicans are going to end up loving Donald Trump”.

The judge was born in the United States, but implying that he was the same as all those rapists, criminals, and drug dealers sent by Mexico was acceptable.

Apparently, according to Mike Pence, even though these are “Americans and they deserve your respect”, demeaning them is acceptable as long as you do not label what you are doing.

 

 

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