Jesus, these people

Vice President Mike Pence arrived at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in an eight-vehicle motorcade Saturday, prompting cries of "sacrilege" on social media.

Cars are generally banned on the island, and that century-old ban is integral to its charm.

When President Gerald Ford visited the island in 1975 — the only sitting president to make such a visit — he and first lady Betty Ford traveled by horse-drawn carriage.

Pence, who spoke at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, is the first sitting vice president to visit the island. He traveled to and from the airport with a cluster of monster SUVs shipped to the island Friday night.

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"It's both the existence and size," said [Ron] Fournier, now president of the Michigan public relations firm Truscott Rossman. "No security expert would claim it's necessary."

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Pence flew to Michigan Saturday morning before taking a helicopter to the small Mackinac Island airport. He then traveled by motorcade to and from the hotel.

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"It's the nature of the security these days," said state Sen. Wayne Schmidt, whose district includes Mackinac Island and who said he stood by the road to wait for the motorcade mostly because a vehicle on the island is such a rare sight.

"Any time we can get a high-ranking official, of any political stripe, up here, I welcome him," Schmidt said.

  Detroit Free Press

Suckup.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.