There may be a temptation in the Pence camp to have the governor play good cop to Trump’s bad cop.  But Trump in the first debate was not a bad cop.  Trump was Trump.  He said the things he always says in the way he always says them. Pence needs to forget about being sweet and reasonable, a gentleman and a wonk. Of course Tim Kaine and his tag-team partner Elaine Quijano will try to make the show all about Trump.  Pence can’t take the bait.  He needs to establish at the outset that this debate is going to focus on the long and sorry record of Hillary Clinton and her husband. To set the tone, Mike needs to ask for an apology from Lester Holt. Before he answers the first question, the governor ought to say that he has a statement to make.  It should go something like this:  The two biggest political scandals since the impeachment of Bill Clinton over his lies under oath about the Monica Lewinsky affair are Benghazi and...(Read Full Article)