South Carolina congresswoman Nancy Mace has been floated as a potential vice presidential pick for Donald Trump. If her remarks at a prayer breakfast this week are anything to go by, she’d be a great fit, as she shares the Donald’s knack for scandalizing evangelicals.
“I woke up this morning at 7,” Mace told the group Thursday morning. “Patrick, my fiancé, tried to pull me by my waist over this morning in bed and I was like, ‘No baby, we don’t got time for that this morning. I gotta get to the prayer breakfast, and I gotta be on time.’”
An online furore followed, with some puritans pearl-clutching over the fact that Mace, a divorcée, was bragging about having premarital sex. “I go to church because I’m a sinner not because I’m a saint! Glad those in attendance, including @SenatorTimScott and our pastor, took this joke in stride,” she tweeted in her defense. “My fiancé is not upset but he did suggest I go to church twice this Sunday. See y’all at the 8:30 and the 11:30!”
Cockburn, however, is grateful to Mace for ushering in DC’s summer of love. Hopefully the reading on Sunday is from the Song of Songs…
As America’s Newspaper of Record reports: Nation’s Wives All Announce They Too Have To Get To A Prayer Breakfast. “Husbands have noted a drop-off in wives having headaches coinciding with the sudden explosion in prayer breakfasts. ‘Ashley’s evening headaches just suddenly stopped, right as she’s had this apparent spiritual awakening,’ said Mr. Jones. ‘I’m really grateful she’s rediscovered her prayer life, but the timing of these breakfasts has been the absolute worst.’”