OMG--Pence actually mocked Cuban for being just a TV star and sports team owner

[tblue37]

Last edited Sun Sep 25, 2016, 12:40 PM - Edit history (1)

rather than an experienced, knowledgeable office holder!

Pence's ill-considered snark:

Hillary Clinton apparently thinks this is an episode of 'Shark Tank,'” he said, adding, “Mark Cuban has been out there saying some pretty tough stuff about my running mate … [He] knows about as much about national security as I do about professional basketball (emphasis added).”

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/pence-gennifer-flowers-will-not-be-at-debate-228631

Talk about lacking a sense of irony or self-awareness!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Pence is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

He's proved that repeatedly.

[RKP5637]

4. Yep, he's on the bottom shelf in the shed when it comes to sharp tools. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. But he's definitely a tool.

[LiberalFighter]

13. I agree.

[maddiemom]

18. Yet Pence will actually be running the country...

if Trump (God forbid) wins.

[Mamajami]

20. But neither are his supporters.

[BootinUp]

2. Pence will be another debate embarassment, Kaine will clean his clock. nt

[tblue37]

5. Yeah, Pence reminds me of Dan Quayle in that respect. nt

[DFW]

3. Translation of Pence's comments:

"Cuban is a billionaire, and I am a soon-to-be out-of-work footnote of a right-wing politician. No fair."

[AgadorSparticus]

7. God, he's DUMB!! Just as out there as the rest of his fellow surrogates.

[MADem]

8. It is obvious that he's dumb as a box o'rocks~!

If he just stuck to rattling off conservative policy issues, he would be regarded, after this mess plays out, as the standard bearer for his failing party.

Instead, he's painting himself as loony as the guy whose ass he is kissing.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Funny,

Mark Cuban's IQ is possibly double that of the Con Job. Guessing his net worth is ten to fifteen times that of the Con Job. One thing the Con Job has going is,he diffidently has a debt load many times that of Cuban.

Said this before,Con Job is in this to make money and set the ground work for another Reality TV Channel.

[sarcasmo]

10. "you can't be a billionaire if you don't have a billion in the bank" Mark Cuban

Cuban has been great this last year on Twitter.

[tblue37]

12. Yeah--he is funny and smart. I am glad he is *actively* supporting HRC,

because he is the kind of person who can get away with both serious and snarky criticisms of Trump, drawing MSM attention for the same shallow reasons the MSM infotainment complex is obsessed with Trump.

Hillary and most of her official surrogates can't say the sort of things he sometimes says, because they would be excoriated by the punditocracy if they did, but Cuban can, and the voters who want the election to look and sound like a WWE bout eat that stuff up--even though they would slam HRC and her campaign if they stooped to that level.

Too bad, though, that Cuban is libertarian rather than liberal. If he were liberal, I would not have cringed as violently when he initially applauded Trump for opening the door and making it plausible for other billionaire businessmen with no background in politics--meaning Cuban himself, of course--to run for president.

[radius777]

16. Exactly, he's able to "out-Trump Trump"

which is why he's such a major asset for our side, especially in appealing to swing voters, males, young people, moderate Repubs, etc.

Cuban is essentially Trump's 'good twin', i.e. a brash reality tv show billionaire, but instead of ripping people off, is someone who is self-made/entrepreneurial, ethical, generous and an overall decent human being - who although he disagrees with Hillary/Dems on a number of issues, still (like many Americans, of either party) sees this race as unique, where Trump represents an existential threat, and Hillary the patriotic choice.

[tblue37]

17. Well said. nt

[Madam45for2923]

11. Two Big Dummies

[Eugene]

14. Darn it. Just broke another irony meter.

Says Mike Pence, whose candidate's Apprentice and USFL
ownership experiences make him so much more qualified.

Pence must be phoning in his campaign effort.
No serious candidate can be this unprepared
(with the possible exception of Sarah Palin).

[BSdetect]

15. Pence even dumber than Palin

After all he must have seen how that ended?

[athenasatanjesus]

19. Standard trump supporter thinking

Look how often they criticize celebrities for using their status to oppose trump.