VP Debate

Donald Trump Denial has become as common in the Republican Party as its more famous and slightly sweatier cousin, Climate Change Denial. We’ve now seen some of the hottest denial on record from Mike Pence.

Pence has spent the last few decades proving that he will almost literally defend anything. Up until 2000, he said “smoking doesn’t kill.” In 2002, he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that condoms are "very, very poor protection against sexually transmitted diseases."

In 2004, he went to the floor of the House of Representatives to declare that despite the media's attempt to "minimize" the news, “weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq.” But he was referring to two old munitions containing sarin and mustard gas and dating from before 1991. Stockpiles of weapons suggesting that Iraq had restarted its WMD program, the reason the Bush Administration said we went to war, were never found.

And in 2015, he refused to admit that his state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act allowed discrimination against gay people, even though the law allowed — nay, was designed to allow — discrimination against gay people.

With this impressive array of deceptions in his quiver, Pence bravely attempted and succeeded in doing the nearly impossible — he defended Trump at Tuesday night's vice presidential debate. And he did it by pretending that the Trump we’ve grown to know, and of whom we disapprove at a rate of around 59%, just doesn’t exist.

Pence repeatedly denied things that Trump definitely said, contradicting not only his Democratic opponent but also the existence of videotape itself, the memories of millions of Americans and things Trump will probably repeat tomorrow.

But you don’t defend cigarettes by defending cancer. You do it by pretending that you’re offended that someone would even bring cancer up.

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The Republicans will lose with Pence

Both candidates might be unpopular, (both sides specialize in making you hate the other side), but Trump was more unpopular than Hillary.

Every Republican that feels the need to announce they will not vote for their party's nominee, has a special place in Hell.