At the issue level, the debate meant nothing. Everybody already knows roughly where each side stands, and the real choice is between Trump and Clinton anyway. This debate will help Trump slightly however, to the extent that it will reinforce the reality we have seen thus far, where Hillary’s side has a mentally unbalanced, untrustworthy, career politician, while the other side has an all-American, pro-American outsider who is more honest.

Looking at it, I could not help but feel as if Pence was the guy you would want your daughter to bring home and marry. You could sit on the porch with him all night with beers just shooting the breeze. If your daughter brought home Kaine, however, you couldn’t help but hope she would go back out there, and try to hold out for something a little bit better. With his Hollywood good looks, the only thing Pence was missing was a Marine Corp uniform and a chest full of medals – and in reality he has that in the closet.

Before we begin on Kaine, one of the first things I noticed was that Kaine’s face is left handed. His right side is angry, enraged, and at times almost out of control. His left side is where he consciously raises his eyebrow to look harmless, and tries to lift up the outer corner of the lip into a smile.

I thought for a minute my facial handedness theory was going to be violated, until he picked up his glass to drink, and his pen to write. Kaine is left handed, just like his face. So that would seem to begin to answer that question.

The facial circuitry that causes you to more effectively consciously emote, and try to look a certain way with one side of the face is probably same circuitry that leads you to exhibit increased dexterity with one hand over the other. If you are right handed, you will fake smile with the right side of your face, and if you are left handed, vice versa.

I think subconsciously we pick up on facial handedness, and in extreme forms, it makes us uncomfortable. Pence’s face was unusually symetric, and I think our brain interprets that as his underlying emotions being the same as what he is “showing” us purposely, meaning he is being more honest. As a result, he will be judged more trustworthy, and more likeable.

When we look at a guy like Kaine, and half his face says he wants to rip our throat out, and the other half is smiling, we subconsciously feel like something is up. It puts us on edge, and we tend to not like such a character as much.

I also was struck by how folded under his upper lip was. Folding the upper lip under is a subconscious manifestation of rage. It is interesting both candidates picked running mates who have traits they exhibit.

Below are some of the many angry faces Kaine made.

He even let loose with the crazy eyes:

Here he is asking the debate moderator to let him cut in. It comes off not so much as, “May I cut in?,” as “Let me cut in before I disembowel you right here!”

You don’t have to look this angry all the time to have an effect on perceptions. People who make a face that is incongruous with their internal state cannot maintain it constantly. I saw a video a long time ago, before I knew all of this, of a very pretty celebrity girl being interviewed who was trying to look happier than she was. Even then, I was struck by how as she tried to smile and look as if nothing was up, every so often her face reverted to a look of profound sadness and horror, before snapping back to happy and bubbly.

The theory is that trying to alter your expression takes energy in the brain. You are firing off neurons, which need ATP, the energy molecule, to recharge their membrane energy potentials. As you expend the ATP in the cell, and blow energy potentials, every so often the nerves relax for a split second to recharge and refuel, even if you try to not let them. When they do, like a rubber band, the face reverts to the underlying state, before the nerves come back online and pull it back into your preferred expression.

We have evolved to notice those micro-second shifts when they occur, and they mold our feelings about someone. Though you may not have noticed these faces, you saw them, and they infected your perceptions.

Here, with Kaine, I took away that like many Narcissists, he experienced profound jealousy or hatred growing up for some jock or other in his sphere. Perhaps he had a younger brother who got the looks in the family, perhaps he had a crush on the cheerleader the quarterback swept away. I don’t know. But his expressions of rage as he looked at Pence did not arise from nowhere. Pence was tripping very old, very well-worn circuits in his brain.

It is not a coincidence such a character ends up in the party which wants to take the happy and the successful in our nation and reduce their happiness and success through governmental theft. There is a reason we see this psychology so often on the left. Narcissistic jealousy is the left.

Regardless, Pence was amazingly Presidential. He goes to show that whatever you think of Trump, when Trump takes on a job, even picking a Vice Presidential candidate, he does quality work. That, and it shows that Trump is leaving the Republican Party with perhaps the best conservative candidate for President that we could find, to carry the Conservative mantle forward after Trump’s eight years are up. If Trump gives him a crash course in persuasion, the left can kiss the White House goodbye for the next sixteen years.

You don’t do that if you are a New York limousine liberal.

Trump is conservative.