Compassion goes well beyond those you see as family. The fact that they actually complained about children getting free breakfast at school, of all places, proves that they weren't compassionate. They take care of the people close to them, and ONLY the people close to them.
Sheer stupidity is the only thing I can think of. Rather than thinking of parties, I'd just get out of politics altogether, but maybe folks like Pence are just in too deep to be able to escape.
Poor fool exposed themselves as another cog in the Reddit machine with that one.