Man, even the very conservative magazine The Federalist, or at least its managing editor, doesn’t like Mike Pence. Not for the reasons most decent people do, though. Nope, because he expanded Medicaid as part of complying with Obamacare and he did it the wrong way. Here’s how the people who write that magazine think:

…suffice to say that this is perhaps the most generous Medicaid expansion yet from any state, red or blue—and that’s precisely why it’s the worst. (My emphasis)

Oh, they go on to say they don’t mean the poor should get sub-par coverage (nudge, wink), but that the poor won’t have to pay for this coverage. What they think those who live under the poverty line should forego in order to pay some premium for this insurance is left to our imaginations — food? Phone service? Car insurance? Gasoline?

Pence is about as far right as you can find short of an actual white supremacist, according to voting records.

In the 107th Congress (Pence’s first, covering 2001 and 2002), for example, out of 435 members of the U.S. House, Pence ranked #428 – meaning that 427 members were to his left, putting the Hoosier on the far-right-wing fringe. The results were roughly the same in the 108th Congress and the 109th.

By the 110th Congress, Pence was at #432, putting him to the right of nearly everyone in the chamber. The results were roughly the same in the 111th Congress and the 112th.

Hard to believe but true: he was to the right of Michele Bachmann, Steve King and Louie Gohmert.

I’m sure he and Trump will get along just fine.