Palin/Pence Pence and anybody, Palin and anybody. These two are the only true conservatives out there (excluding DeMint) that I am encouraged enough to engage in. I hope he considers it. I hope she considers it, I hope for change.

Several months ago I set up the twitter name PencePatriot after hearing Pence speak at the FRC convention in DC. I have never believed in any politician before like I do Pence. He is a real conservative that does not play games,& is always civil even while being firm in his beliefs, He gives the best speaches I’ve ever heard and backs them up with conservative votes. Anyone who isnt sure Pence should be our president, needs to read more about him. I would love a Pence/Cantor ticket. I could not think of any better team. Pence does not have the baggage of the other Republicans running. Romney is moderate and did healthcare in MA. Huckabee is too nice and to much of a compromiser, Newt has tons of baggage from the 90′s. Christie and Palin wont run. American needs someone with experience that isnt the typical politician and I pray daily Mike Pence will run. I’ll work every day to help him in TN if he will just say yes!!! American needs Pence.

to convince candidates to run for office, but, Pence himself has previously expressed an interest in running for the Presidency. I pray every day that he decide on a Presidential run. 2012 is critical in getting rid of Obama, and, Mike Pence is the one to accomplish that. He has no baggage, he has never allowed Washington to change his conservative principals, even when some of his votes were against party, and he has leadership abilities like no other.

Go Mike Pence. That’s for you Aaron!

Mike Pence has a decade long record in the Congress as a principled pro-life conservative who may be fully trusted with leading America back into a preserving rightward direction. His record of dependable service is longer than that of Sarah Palin and after dealing with the Congress for a decade I have no doubt that he will be able to effectively deal with the conflicts and responsibilities that arise in the presidency. He won the straw poll at the Values Voters’ Summit most recently and if you listen to his speech online you will understand why that was the case – he IS the principled conservative our nation needs at the helm of the nation in these troubling times, which is why I do not hesitate to suggest him enthusiastically for the presidency next year!

Okay, so we are conservatives. Conservatives respect and appreciate traditional values. We tend to take a very traditional approach to situations.

Plenty of people could look at this situation and say to themselves “traditionally speaking, people who have executive experience have a better chance of being elected into office”, etc. And to a certain extent, I agree with this statement because it is a valid statement.

But every so often, a situation arises in our lives where we could actually accomplish and achieve more in the long run to break away from our traditional approach than stick to it. And I’m becoming convinced with each day that passes this is one of those moments.

Mr. Pence knows the kind of environment that exists in Washington, D.C. He knows the kinds of games that can be and are played for the sake of “politics”. He’s taken a strong stand for conservative principles time after time. He’s proven that he will stand by those principles, come what may come.

I can and do support his running for President. Please, consider it, Mr. Pence. We need someone with your strengths, sir.

in every way. We definitely need to oust the tired, old blood that has been rooting around the Presidential camping grounds (Huckabee, Newt, Romney) for too long. Pence brings with him an enervation of bright, intelligent, thoughtful energy which is what we need right now. The two men that I have long admired for possible Presidential runs are Mike Pence and Steve King of Iowa but it looks as though Pence has already acquired quite a bit of headwind to make it happen. Pence for President!

I just went back and listened to Mike Pence’s 2010 CPAC speech. It’s great, and I encourage everyone to listen to it. Towards the end, he has a great quote:

“This is our moment. Now is the time. It’s time for all of us to do all that we can to preserve what makes this country great. If you can give, give. If you can speak, speak. If you can write, write. And if you can run, run.”

So Congressman Pence, now is the time for you do do what you can to make this country great. You can run, so run!

After the events of last week, I personally don’t see how Sarah Palin could possibly win the nomination.

However, she has said that if a strong conservative candidate joined the race that she would do all she could to help them get elected.

I believe Mike Pence is that strong conservative candidate.

Pence and Pawlenty
Pence and Christie…or
Pence and Allen

All good choices.

already reserved. I know that if candidates have the first notion of possibly running for anything, they reserve a website just in case. I hope this site becomes active very soon.

http://repmikepenceforpresident.com

The link just says that the site is unavailable at this time.

I like Pence-everything I’ve heard about him is positive, but I think to be ready to be president you need real executive experience of a large organization. Look at our past presidents and find a good one with no real executive experience. The only one that comes to my mind is Lincoln, and he is the exception that proves the rule.

There is a reason conservatives like tradition-

because tradition is another word for learning from the past, and we’ve learned that going straight from legislator to president doesn’t usually work out well.

Pence, Christie, Rubio, Haley and Jindal (and others) are all a great farm team, for presidential candidate in 2016 and beyond but they all need more experience as leaders..

For 2012 we need someone with a solid record and experience to contrast with Obama-someone like Gov. Mitch Daniels. A two term Governor who broke the public sector union on his first day in office, who has balanced the budget and capped property taxes.

I like Pence-but for 2016 or 2020 (hopefully ’20…).

. . . that Pence runs for president.

Every time Gallup or PPP says Pawlenty’s the guy it makes me gag. I don’t want to hold my nose when I vote this time around.

If you, Congressman Pence, do not run for President, we might be stuck with somebody unacceptable to conservatives, like Mike Huckabee or Mitt Romney.

Run Mike Run!

Pence gave an inspiring speech on The Constitution and the Presidency at Hillsdale College last year (read it here).

“The president is not our teacher, our tutor, our guide or ruler. He does not command us, we command him. We serve neither him nor his vision. It is not his job or his prerogative to redefine custom, law and beliefs; to appropriate industries; to seize the country, as it were, by the shoulders or by the throat so as to impose by force of theatrical charisma his justice upon 300 million others. It is neither his job nor his prerogative to shift the power of decision away from them, and to him and the acolytes of his choosing.”

The speech is brilliant. He doesn’t attack Obama – he attacks his political/ideological philosophy, keeping the rhetoric civil rather than personal. That’s a strategy that will appeal to independents without compromising conservative principals.

Someone asked what Pence has accomplished? How about a 100% rating from the American Conservative Union and National Right to Life? How about voting against his party on such issues as NCLB, TARP and the rest of the bailouts? Ill take that over a big-spending governor with executive experience. He would utterly dismantle Obama in a head-to-head debate.

And, perhaps most important, he has the ability to appeal to both strict fiscal conservatives and die-hard social conservatives without being offensive to either. When both George Will and Tony Perkins can like the same candidate, we have a winner.

Pence also recently spoke on C-SPAN . His comments in the aftermath of the AZ shooting were well-measured, warning about the dangers of limiting free speech in an effort to make the discourse more civil.

Seeing as how this is more of a top down than a bottom up movement, I predict it will go nowhere. I would bet Cain gets farther than Pence, although neither has enough experience to win the primary in the end.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/signs_point_to_mike_pence_bowi.html

Too bad. He was my first choice.
If he goes, I will look at Paul Ryan, real close.

He’s a young man. Be governor of Indiana, gain executive experience, and avoid this primary which promises to be brutal.

I have no idea why Pence would want to run the gamut of risks this primary offers when he can easily wait in the wings.

In 2016 he might have to fight Huntsman and Rubio, but this year he’s going to have to deal with Palin, Romney, Huckabee, Gingrich, Barbour, and every other heavyweight that has higher name recognition and more favors to call in.

Pence will be this season’s Fred Thompson. A candidate pushed in before he was ready by an enthusiastic, but small minority of the intelligent base.

of potential GOP nominees. I’m a little more inclined to favor governors more than congressmen/senators for the office of the Presidency, but someone principled like DeMintt or Pence would be more than okay with me.
Unfortunately, as much as I love and respect Sarah Palin, there is NO WAY she can mount an effective campaign with all of the media trash thrown at her, so I have to think she’s out.
I’m still thinking Mitch Daniels is the guy, but I’m also liking Chris Cristie the more I see him and Herman Cain will turn A LOT of heads if he goes through with running.

of potential GOP nominees. I’m a little more inclined to favor governors more than congressmen/senators for the office of the Presidency, but someone principled like DeMintt or Pence would be more than okay with me.
Unfortunately, as much as I love and respect Sarah Palin, there is NO WAY she can mount an effective campaign with all of the media trash thrown at her, so I have to think she’s out.
I’m still thinking Mitch Daniels is the guy, but I’m also liking Chris Cristie the more I see him and Herman Cain will turn A LOT of heads if he goes through with running.

In light of recent events she can’t be protected. And neither can her family.

I’d love to have a chance to vote for him in the primary now, but this field will be a mess for a guy like him starting behind in terms of name recognition, money, etc

The 2016 field will be wide open, and arguably with no one remotely electable on the Dem side also.

I think he sees the path of least resistance as waltzing into the Governor’s mansion, building a bigger national profile over the next 4 years, and being a strong, if not the top, contender in 2016 with 4 years as Gov now on his resume, and a lot less intimidating primary field

I will vote for him in a second if he runs, but the stars seem to be aligning for him to be Gov now and be a big player in 2016, possibly even the man to beat then.

I never his name mentioned as a potential presidential candidate, yet he is a rising star who is getting more exposure each day. His roadmap, although not perfect, is more than I have seen from any other candidate. He was outstanding debating Obama during the “bipartisan” healthcare debate at Blair House.

My fear is that the RNC will support another McCain sort instead of the young gun that we need.

It’s also that he’s never won a statewide office. How hard is it to maintain a “pure” conservative voting record when you represent an R+10 district in rural/ex-urban Indiana? The guy votes his district’s views, makes a couple of good speeches, and now he’s qualified to be the standard bearer for conservatism and the Republican Party in 2012?

With Lincoln being the exception that proves the rule, it’s not accidental that Governors have made the best Presidents, and, barring that, Senators.

The Party has already cleared the field for him for the Indiana Governor’s office. The logical thing for him to do would be to run for that, make his mark as both a statewide winner, and an executive officeholder, and then we can check back in with him in 2016 and see how he’s making out.

I believe Erick Erickson first posted not even two weeks ago that he loved Palin but she has been made “radioactive”.

I think that’s a really bad reason not to support someone. If the left has proven anything, it’s that as soon as a real conservative becomes a serious threat to them that they will stop at nothing to attempt to destroy them.

Does anyone honestly think that if Pence became a serious POTUS contender that the left wouldn’t make him “radioactive” too?

I don’t think we should be intimidated into who we support by the left.

We have a good selection of Conservatives for our next candidate for President of the United States. We will compare and contrast them, we will listen to them debate and wiegh their views. I see no reason in this rich Conservative climate to violate the ‘Reagan Rule’ which simply states, ” thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican.”

If the (R) stands for RINO, maybe there is an exception but I am not seeing that in our front runners. Pence, Palin, Cain etc. Alll will get my support if nominated. Team them up in any combination you like; Pence/Palin, Pence/Cain, Cain/Palin, Palin/Pence…you get my idea. No offense meant to other good men/women.

Focus on making our historic President Obama, history.

I am making arrangements to actively support Heman Cain. Love Sarah, and no problem with Mike. Let’s just be honest and ….wait for it…..civil.

“I like Mike…My bike likes Mike…”

Look, I know conservatives like “tradition.” But occasionally you have to dispense with tradition and think out of the box.

In my gut, I feel that Pence “gets it.” He “gets it” about the left and he “gets it” about what’s at stake over the next decade.

Those other guys? Sorry, I’m not feeling that they get it, no matter how experienced they are at management.

The next president will have to wage war to restore our republic. Perhaps without pyrotechnics, but certainly in substance. Too much is at stake to elect a squishy manager who will allow the left to get away with murder as usual. This must not come to pass.

All of the repeated detraction of Palin is killing the topic at hand. Discussion of Palin deserves an independent diary post.

Sarah Palin scares the dems and left more than any other individual in history. She is taking on the job of promoting and support in ways the RNC and other entities have dropped the ball. She resigned to stop a left political attack policy that AK rules forced legitimacy on every possible complaint against the office. She did not quit a fight. She ended the fight in avenues that handicapped her effectiveness in every successful campaign she participates in.