Talk about a change in perception:

Matt Yglesias about Mike Pence in 2008:

I can tell you this about Mike Pence: he has no idea what he’s talking about. The man is a fool, who deserves to be laughed at…

He didn’t know anything at all, in short, about investing, financial markets, or, seemingly, the basic terms of public policy. And yet there he was speaking on the topic at Heritage. He’s a total fraud…

the Pence far-right crisis “plan” which, as you’ll see, is also utterly fraudulent.

thinkprogress.org

Yglesias in 2014—7 Reason Mike Pence will be the GOP nominee in 2016

Pence was a solid supply-sider as a member of Congress, and took Reaganesque fiscal thinking to new heights in his draft proposal for Social Security privatization…this kind of thing is the time-tested way to sell conservative economic policy and freed from the constraints of Obama-era debates about Keynes, Pence is the ideal person to bring it back.

vox.com

Wonder what Matty thinks about Pence today.