I've been thinking about the return of Paul Ryan...
I'm sure that thought makes you 
as much as it does me. But, if 45 leaves office before the end of his term, we'll get Pence. Ugh. But who would be VP? I had a horrifying thought that it might be Paul Ryan to position him to run in 2020 or 2024.
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for secretary of state -- by Pence, who was instrumental in filling most high offices -- until, according to that second Steele "dossier," Russia asked them (Trump only, Pence involved?) to choose someone else because Romney was too hard line.
Romney shares Pence's intense religiosity and Christian supremacy goals. He's Mormon, though, and here in the south, although acceptance took a big step forward when Romney ran for president, suspicion and bias against Mormons is still very strong. Evangelical Pence would be received so happily, though, that he could choose Hillary as his VP and they'd still support him. That shooting someone in the street authoritarian loyalty thing.
I wonder about Pence, though, more than ever after witnessing his intense, seemingly unwavering self discipline as VP. How long has this been going on? He's been hiding the depth of his religiosity for some time now, just slipping unavoidably out in his actions as governor of IN. And he doesn't badmouth people, including of other religious, ethnic or racial groups. Does that mean this intense religious conservative is wonderfully free from bias, or has he been hiding it since his college days, when someone who knew him then said Pence believed he would be president someday?
Pence believes god is directing his life to impose Christian government on this nation (not his description, of course). Would he position a very ambitious Mormon to be elected or succeed to the presidency, knowing the Mormon church fully expects them, not evangelicals, to rule the U.S. on behalf of god? Very possibly, but there are plenty of other intensely religious evangelicals a President Pence could get confirmed. It would seem he wouldn't actually need Romney and wouldn't need to create a future problem.
Just stream of thought. 
These religious supremacists too close to power always push my buttons.
