I said he had a little mousy voice, meaning that his speeches inspire no one, and, I’m still being quoted for my opinion, about his “little mousy voice.” My meaning was that who ever is the next pres. needs to make a strong message, with a voice that matches those strong words.

There was an article at The Hill in which several House Republicans say “he will likely launch a bid for higher office.” One said he believes Pence will dip his toe into the water of the 2012 presidential election. Some others think he may run for the IN Governor’s seat that Daniels will be leaving.

http://thehill/homenews/house/120719-pence-is-likely-to-seek-higher-office-say-fellow-republicans

Mike Pence gave a speech at Hillsdale College in September. The speech was on the role of the American President. It is a knock your socks off speech. Here is the transcript.

http://www/spectator.org/archives/2010/09/20/hillsdale-speech-on-the-presid

One of the problems that some have with Pence was with his “alternative immigration plan” that he proppsed at the time of the Kennedy/McCain immigration debacle. Some called it “stealth amnesty.” He was interviewed not long ago by John Hawkins at Right Wing News, and, John asked him about his current position on immigration. This is what he said-

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Now let’s go into a few other areas here. You’re very well liked by the base in general, but your immigration plan — there are quite a few people that weren’t exactly excited about that one. Of course, that was awhile back, so I just want to ask you: Some politicians have changed how they feel about the issue; how about you? How do you think we should be handling illegal immigration today?

Well, I think the issue of proposals that we brought forward with Senator K. Bailey Hutchison four years ago continue to be a source of enormous satisfaction to me. I simply believe that some day down the road we can find an intersection between the rule of law and the deep compassion of the American people — but in the intervening years, what’s become clear to me is that we must focus on border security and internal enforcement first.

I think that the American people have understandably grown so frustrated by a failure to secure our borders and a failure to enforce our laws in this country that the possibility of introducing any kind of a new guest worker program, where people could come into the country and work for a period of time and be able to return home, is frankly not possible today.

We have to restore the confidence of the American people in our commitment to border security and our commitment to internal enforcement. Then and only then do I believe that we could have a thoughtful debate over how we could meet the needs of our economy going forward.

For me amnesty was then and remains completely off limits. I just think it is wrong to, you know, grant amnesty to people whose first act in this country was a violation of our law. But I continue to believe that if the day came that we restored public confidence in our commitment to secure borders and internal enforcement, that we could have a national discussion, a national debate, and come up with national solution to meet our needs with a 21st century guest worker program…

Pence voted against many of Bush’s bills including, Medicare Part D, No Child Left behind, and TARP. He is a FISCAL HAWK, MUCH LIKE pAUL rYAN.

We’d already have Cap and Trade, and every illegal would now be legal, including those walking across the border today and tomorrow. Didn’t he say the illegals were all God’s children too? Wouldn’t that be “crazy spending” and a “wild expansion of the federal government”? You are probably correct on the wars though.