Mike Pence, no hero. Josh Hawley, ditto.

 Pence is the less humorous situation. FIRST -  An op-ed online. (With a link - but the Pence speaking item dead-linked when checking it while writing this post). It states the argument re "hero status." While the link failed, the op-ed quotes Pence's talking points:

 Trump is still around and will never let his supporters forget Pence and his refusal to do the right thing, according to Trump.

At least we forget Pence’s three-minute 14 points of praise for Trump at a Cabinet meeting. In the Cabinet meeting, Pence praises Trump once every 12 seconds for three minutes straight.

Here are just a few of his fawning remarks

• Thank you for seeing, through the course of this year, an agenda that truly is restoring this country.”
• “You’ve restored American credibility on the world stage.”
• “You’ve spurred an optimism in this country that’s setting records.”
• “You promised the American people in that campaign a year ago that you would deliver historic tax cuts, and it would be a ‘middle-class miracle.’ And in just a short period, that promise will be fulfilled.”
• “I’m deeply humbled, as your vice president, to be able to be here.”
• “Because of your leadership, Mr. President, and because of the strong support of the leadership in the Congress of the United States, you’re delivering on that middle-class miracle.”
• “And you got Congress to do what they couldn’t do for seven years, in repealing the individual mandate in Obamacare.”
• “Mostly, Mr. President, I’ll end where I began and just tell you, I want to thank you, Mr. President. I want to thank you for speaking on behalf of and fighting every day for the forgotten men and women of America.”
• “Because of your determination, because of your leadership, the forgotten men and women of America are forgotten no more. And we are making America great again.”

If Mike Pence were a true Christian, he would have dropped out of the race for Vice President the first time right after the Access Hollywood tape came out with “Grab them by the pussy.”

WaPo, a second source with quotes, but no video. The video was located, Twitter  - where the poster unfortunately interjects a comment repeatedly, lessening the impact of the shameful Pence self-demeaning showing, with Trump's "skeptic" body language an added plus.

SECOND - CNN reporting Betsey DeVos having had discussions with other Cabinet members about 25th Amendment removal of Trump after Jan. 6. Pence demurred. DeVos resigned. Overly cautious? Overly loyal? Keeping it private, options open? This was after the "Hang Mike Pence" chant while marching and at the Capitol Jan. 6. After the Trump and insurgent allies had leaned heavily on Pence to join the team. Biding time may be more planning than heroism. Pence, back in his talk radio days probably planned the show segment by segment to focus upon what he believed his audience wanted to hear from him.

 

Josh Hawley, fist pump for show, earlier, outside. Then the video of Hawley's quick gimmie-shelter dash (w/o any fist pump encore, no give the fans a curtain call). 

 

Marley.

 

Not a Stand Your Ground advocacy chap, with chips down.