Ignore establishment GOP criticism cycles entirely unless they result in concrete legislative action, coalition formation, or institutional resistance with enforcement power.
This is intra-party political criticism with zero governance mechanism or institutional lever. Pence's statements are newsworthy commentary but create no constitutional damage, policy change, or enforcement action. The event generates media-friendly panel discussion content (high media_friendliness) with moderate outrage-bait, but represents political theater rather than distraction strategy since it's externally initiated.