Former Vice President Mike Pence, who announced on Oct. 28 that he is suspending his presidential campaign, may never get the credit he deserves for singular service to our nation. We all should hope his public service, in some significant capacity, is not at an end.
Even before election to Congress in 2000, Pence was a great proselytizer of conservative philosophy through presidency of a state think tank and through a statewide Indiana radio show. In Congress, he immediately became a fierce but always civil leader of fiscal conservatives, bravely but respectfully standing up to a president of his own party (George W. Bush) when Pence thought Bush was spending too much.
On all three legs of the traditional conservative stool — economic, defense, and social — Pence showed one could be a legislative stalwart without being radical or…
