1. Repeatedly plugging his book. Instead of simply answering questions, he prefaced nearly every answer with "As I say in my book..." After awhile this beame obnoxious. The in-your-face plugging leads one to wonder if the man is broke.
2. Criticizing the 1/6 committee as biased. Here Pence was way off base. Tapper had to interject and remind Pence that the Democrats had proposed a bi-partisan committee to investigate, but "McCarthy killed it".
3. Not answering questions. The most outrageous example of this was in response to a queston on abortion. Instead of speaking to the substance of the question, which was about a nationwide ban on abortion, Pence gave a speech about how he has reverence for life. He said nothing about why his religious beliefs should apply to the whole country. After this non-answer, I began to realize that there was a non-responsiveness to most of the questions put to him.
4. Testifying. Pence has repeatedly said that "The Committee has no right to my testimony", referring to the 1/6 committee. He has also said his appearance would be "unprecedented", which ignores Gerald Ford's tetimony before a Copngressional committee seeking to put to rest claims that his pardon of Nixon was part of a quid pro quo. It also ignores the role of the Congress in its oversight function of the administrative branch. Pence rants and raves about "separation of powers", failing to understand the oversight role assigned to Congress.
Pence has an image of a dull, drab campaigner, and I don't see any signs that this will change in the coming election cycle. I think a good comparison would be to Dan Quayle, who ran for the GOP nomination in 1996, after losing the 1992 election running with George H.W. Bush. Quayle never got any traction at all, and his campaign went nowhere. Pence wil suffer the same fate if he runs in 2024, as he is clearly considering doing.
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