And Now the 'Good News': AT LONG LAST YOU DO HAVE A VERY REAL CHOICE...AS SAMWISE GAMGEE MIGHT HAVE PUT MATTERS, TO SHOW YOUR QUALITY, MR VICE-PRESIDENT...By Simply Saying A(n Ever Respectful) Polite But Firm and Unyielding "NO!" To Your Earthly Boss...Counting/Esteeming, As That Great Man of God, Moses, Once Did, 'The Reproach of Christ More Precious Than the Riches of [This World], Choosing To Suffer With God's People Rather Than Enjoy the Passing Pleasures of Sin'...However Misunderstood - Like Your LORD and Saviour - By Fellow Human Beings...

Yes, Vice-President Pence, you have one and only one chance, a single opportunity left, one you will doubtless never have again, to show your true quality to one and all - not only to Mr Trump - a golden opportunity moreover, if admittedly simultaneously somewhat of a poisoned chalice...

An opportunity to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, a skerrick of a suspicion even, that you are not just one more political partisan among too many to number, but rather a truly principled politician - clear and obvious oxymoron notwithstanding. For as that great hymn writer James Russell Lowell so eloquently expresses matters,

Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide,

...

And the choice goes by forever, 'Twixt that darkness and that light.

Or as another famous wag so aptly expressed matters, I came to the forking of the road, and I chose the road less travelled, and that has made all the difference...

Show your bipartisan quality, Mr Vice-President...

the choice will not come again...

...but you can save yourself being an historical footnote in an infamous chapter in American history.