By DEXTER DUGGAN
PHOENIX — Was that Barack Obama trying to rain on Donald Trump’s parade?
As Republican Trump’s vice-presidential running mate, Mike Pence, came to Arizona’s capital city for an evening campaign rally, a drenching summer rain soaked this desert metropolis that often goes for months without a drop of Heaven-sent moisture.
Rush-hour traffic crept along as the downpour left some streets sloshing from curb to curb on August 2.
Earlier that same day, haughty Democratic renegade Obama at the White House presumed to tell Republicans to drop Trump as their presidential candidate because the successful Manhattan billionaire is so unfit and unprepared.
Obama’s unconscious irony probably elicited more snickers across the nation than there were raindrops drowning Phoenix. Talk about being trapped inside a D.C. bubble, if not a raindrop.
The bumbling, lying former community organizer who makes a mess of whatever he tries is telling Republicans who deserves to be in the White House?
Trump might want to make a campaign commercial from callow Obama giving this characteristically grating lecture, impatiently instructing voters on who’s no good. Boomerang City on Obama and his Democrats.
And the growing daily fury of the dominant media against Trump reveals a corrupt establishment that will resort to anything to maintain its power and control.
Think back to Todd Akin running for a U.S. Senate seat for Missouri in 2012, or George Allen running for re-election to a Virginia U.S. Senate seat in 2006. Both Republicans sank after a hurricane of slanted, unrelenting coverage against them by dominant liberal media that would love to drown Trump, too.
In his August 2 talk at the Phoenix Convention Center, Indiana Gov. Pence evoked knowing laughter from the audience when he cited the day’s news about Obama calling Trump unfit.
Obama “knows something about being woefully unprepared to serve” as president, Pence said to appreciative merriment.
The wet weather also was mentioned at the lectern, including by Pence himself, who thanked people for “fording the rivers” to get to the hall to hear him.
Some people who didn’t get to the convention center in time because of the weather still waited hopefully outside at doors reportedly ordered locked by the Secret Service when the event was scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.
Small knots of people were disappointed but didn’t seem angry that no official allowed for their being delayed by the rare rain seriously slowing traffic.
It was almost as if they expected that the power Trump seems to have at drawing supporters to him also could make those sealed doors swing wide.
Inside, Pence could have been talking about them, too, as the ordinary people supporting Trump.
“Donald Trump understands the frustrations and hopes of the American people like no leader in our lifetime since our 40th president, Ronald Reagan,” said Pence, who added that people are “tired of being told, ‘This is as good as it gets’” in Obama’s backsliding America.
Trump has “never forgotten the men and women in this country who work with their hands, who grow the food and build our roads and our bridges and our buildings, who tend to our sick or teach our kids,” Pence said.
“. . . He’s constantly asking people questions,” talking to taxi drivers and elevator operators, going to the loading dock before going in to the lobby, to see how things are running, Pence said.
“He has that connection to the American people that’s truly unique and rare,” the Indiana governor said.
It was obvious Pence couldn’t have been referring to the glowering White House incumbent, who fancies himself better than human, closer to divine.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, both Republicans, helped introduce Pence. As soon as Brewer mentioned the name of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, the audience briefly chanted, “Lock her up,” referring to the punishment they wish for the lawbreaking ex-secretary of state.
Brewer warned, “The Clinton campaign will stop at nothing to get Bill and Hillary back in the White House.”
The crowd chanted, “Build that wall,” a familiar call to protect U.S. security that Trump brought into daily political discourse — unless audience members were thinking of a prison wall that Hillary belongs behind.
Early in his remarks, Pence poked at the dominant media for thinking of themselves as the real rulers.
“The party in power seems helpless to figure out our nominee — and of course I’m referring to the media,” he said.
Apparently thinking of Trump foes who say it won’t matter if Hillary Clinton is elected president, Pence said the results of the current presidential election probably will define the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court for the next 40 years.
For the sake of the rule of law, for the sanctity of life, for the sake of the Second Amendment, Trump must be elected the next president, Pence said, adding that the current U.S. leadership has focused more on what divides Americans than unites them.
Citing the Bible, Pence said that if people humble themselves and pray, God will hear them from Heaven, “and He will heal our land.”
One of the first things Trump will do as president — something that people in Arizona know more about, Pence said — “He’s going to build a wall” for national security.
Also, “We’re going to repeal Obamacare, lock, stock, and barrel.”
Proceeding to take audience questions, Pence was asked what the plans are to attract Hispanic votes.
Pence said Latino and Hispanic Americans care as much about safety, security, and jobs as anyone else in the country.
On another topic, the Indiana governor said Trump is “incredibly passionate about” education, and parents being able to send their children to the school they want, regardless of their income or neighborhood.
Another questioner asked about a Phoenix City Council vote coming up in late August that would give taxpayer-provided benefits to illegal aliens.
“Donald Trump has been very, very clear about opposing sanctuary cities,” Pence replied.
A story posted August 2 by the Phoenix-based Arizona Republic added that Pence said: “We simply have to be a nation of borders again….But we are going to be a nation of laws, and we are going to enforce the laws of this country.”
A Terrific Choice
In an August 1 telephone interview with The Wanderer, conservative former California Republican Cong. Robert Dornan said, “My first choice was Mike Pence” to be Trump’s vice-presidential running mate. “…He is absolutely a terrific choice.”
The pro-life Pence is a powerful contrast with Democrat Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential pick, pro-abortion Catholic U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, Dornan said, describing Kaine as “a tortured soul.”
Pence, raised a Catholic, puts Kaine and other prominent pro-abortion Catholic Democrats to shame, said Dornan, who now lives in Kaine’s home state of Virginia.
Dornan said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Vice President Joe Biden, and Secretary of State John Kerry are “a triumvirate of Judases,” now joined by Kaine, who all use “the same deadly line” of being “personally opposed” to the massive abortion they promote.
However, the U.S. Catholic Church hierarchy allows these Democrats to continue to get away with this, the former congressman said. “There’s no price to pay with the bishops.”
Kaine recently has flipped and flopped about where he stands on the federal Hyde Amendment against taxpayer funding of abortion.
A July 29 news release from the Susan B. Anthony List, a Washington-based pro-life activist organization, said Kaine changed his stand on Hyde five times in a month.
The organization’s president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, said: “Hillary Clinton’s plan to repeal Hyde is profoundly unpopular — even among Democrats. That’s why Tim Kaine has flipped his position on taxpayer funding of abortion five times in the last month. Voters should not be fooled.
“We know how he would vote on this issue if it comes to a tie in the U.S. Senate. He will not stand up for the conscience rights of taxpayers. Kaine’s charade on abortion is getting old, and he’s only been on the ticket for a few days,” Dannenfelser said.
Her mention of a tie in the Senate referred to the vice president — the position Kaine is running for — having the power to break a tie vote in that legislative chamber.
The Wanderer asked Dornan about one of Kaine’s reported positions, that the Virginia senator privately told Hillary Clinton that he’s with her on repealing Hyde, but publicly claims to support it.
“I have heard the same thing,” Dornan replied, “and I think what we’re witnessing is the torment of Judas Iscariot, of throwing the 30 pieces of silver back in the faces of the Sanhedrin” after that apostle betrayed Christ for that money.
Dornan speculated that one of Kaine’s family members or someone else close had asked, “How can you desert the Hyde Amendment? . . .
“That’s why we see this agony of his going back and forth,” Dornan said.
“. . . It’s unbelievable what’s happened to the Democratic Party,” Dornan added, with the number of pro-life Democrats in the House dropping from “at least 100” in the late 1970s to only one or two now, depending on the vote.
If Clinton isn’t elected president, Dornan said, Kaine “goes back to the Senate as a wounded person. . . . I don’t ever expect to see this man deal with life again.”
On the other hand, if Clinton wins and appoints Supreme Court justices, Dornan asked, “how will we ever undo what Clinton and Obama have done,” with their “assault on traditional morality”?
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