Just a week ago, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was considered one of the few Republican presidential prosp

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Governor in a political firestorm over Indiana law

By STEVE PEOPLES and TOM DAVIES at AP

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/bb3bb3ff1f0f4a22b3562e30d3aa339c/indiana-debate-exposes-republican-divisions

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a week ago, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was considered one of the few Republican presidential prospects who could unite the GOP's business wing with religious conservatives.

Today, his standing with both groups is threatened as the national backlash intensifies over his state's law on religious freedom.

Pence spent much of Wednesday behind closed doors to pursue "a fix" to legislation he signed six days earlier. Business leaders have been among the most aggressive critics of the law, which was cheered by the GOP's evangelical wing as a needed protection for business owners should they refuse services to same-sex couples on religious grounds.

Pence, lesser known than some Republican White House prospects, has become the central figure in the contentious debate, offering him both opportunities and risks just as the 2016 presidential primary season begins and he decides whether to run. Yet so far, the debate is deepening the very divisions within his party that he hoped to bridge.



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[Gothmog]

1. Governor Dense blew it with both groups

[libdem4life]

2. Not. Going. To. Happen.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. No Tea, No Sympathy

I have no sympathy for Mike Pence. He thought he was signing on to what he thought was politically-harmless gay-basing and found that there was a body of opinion beyond the right-wing bubble that vehemently disagree with him. If his political career is wreckage, that's too (darn) bad.

I wish similar blowback would consume the political prospects of Republican pols catering to social reactionaries from coast to coast.

[Thinkingabout]

4. I have heard his name mentioned before but he can probably kiss that goodbye.

[summerschild]

5. Mike Pence displays the typical

ignorant bullheadedness of republicans.

Glad it was put under the national spotlight.

Can they not see what they look like? All those 2016 contenders that tripped all over themselves to get in his line to the toilet -- did people see that real good?