"This may end Kamala's political career"

vraiblonde

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Um, what political career? She wasn't much of a Senator, only got elected because of that D after her name and because she screwed a Boss. Got tapped (ha) for VP because she checked some demographic boxes - Joe Biden mispronounced her name several times when announcing her as his pick.

Not to mention, failed VPs don't typically go on to bigger and better things; they fade away into oblivion and occasionally pop their head up like gophers - "Give me attention!! No? Huh....fine...I'll try again in another year or so..."

Yet the bullshit fake news media just can't quit her. "Oh, she can run for this and this and this..." She can run for Town Drunk and be the black female Otis. That's about it. She and Hillary can do a reality show - Real Housewives of Box Chardonnay. They can compete to see who has the biggest douchebag for a husband. She can take a permanent seat on The View, which will guarantee that televised exorcism* finally gets canceled. She can get a show on MSNBC - get her a bunch of wigs and it will be like Joy Reid never left. She could be Jon Stewart's sidekick to laugh inanely at all his dumb unfunny "jokes" - "Oh Jon, you're so clever! A-ha-hic-ha-hic-ha!"

But what she's NOT going to do is be Governor of CA. You heard it here first. She may run, because she's stupid like that, but even Commiefornia isn't going to actually elect her to anything. Maybe they'll let her be Clerk of the Circuit Court or something. School Board in Loudon County VA would be a good place for her.








* I didn't make that up, I read it somewhere and stole it.
 

WingsOfGold

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US stage the whore is done, Land of fruits and nuts........ she can be elected to anything she ran for, they're that phucked up.
 

SamSpade

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Tell that to Nixon.
Well I was referring to someone who ran as VP on a ticket that had NOT won before.
Where the VP candidate had NOT served as VP.
Who ran on a LOSING ticket.

1960 - Lodge
1964 - Rockefeller (although he was appointed VP briefly)
1968 - Muskie
1972 - Shriver
1976 - Dole (although, since we're talking about career ending in politics - he enjoyed a LONG career as Senator)
1984 - Ferraro
1988 - Bentsen
2000 - Lieberman (another who remained in the Senate a long time)
2004 - Edwards
2008 - Palin
2012 - Ryan (who WOULD actually serve in the House 3 more times, Speaker for two of those)
2016 - Kaine (STILL Senator)
2024 - Walz - is there anyone who DOESN'T think he's done?

None of those VP candidates would ever get elected - you can lose as VP after BEING VP - and come back. Some of them have lost after BEING VP - and quickly faded into oblivion. Dan Quayle, Mike Pence for example. But several disappeared from the political scene completely after losing. Shriver, Ferraro, Bentsen (who served briefly in Clinton's cabinet, and then disappeared). Dan Quayle was GONE after running in 92.

It seems - generally - NOTHING is more toxic in Washington politics than to run AS VICE-PRESIDENT on a ticket - and lose.

It may be that presidential candidates tend to choose VPs who don't shine as big as they do. They tend NOT to pick people who have the ability to eclipse them. In my memory, maybe George Bush in 1980 - who ran AGAINST Reagan - might come close.
 
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phreddyp

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Well I was referring to someone who ran as VP on a ticket that had NOT won before.
Where the VP candidate had NOT served as VP.
Who ran on a LOSING ticket.

1960 - Lodge
1964 - Rockefeller (although he was appointed VP briefly)
1968 - Muskie
1972 - Shriver
1976 - Dole (although, since we're talking about career ending in politics - he enjoyed a LONG career as Senator)
1984 - Ferraro
1988 - Bentsen
2000 - Lieberman (another who remained in the Senate a long time)
2004 - Edwards
2008 - Palin
2012 - Ryan (who WOULD actually serve in the House 3 more times, Speaker for two of those)
2016 - Kaine (STILL Senator)
2024 - Walz - is there anyone who DOESN'T think he's done?

None of those VP candidates would ever get elected - you can lose as VP after BEING VP - and come back. Some of them have lost after BEING VP - and quickly faded into oblivion. Dan Quayle, Mike Pence for example. But several disappeared from the political scene completely after losing. Shriver, Ferraro, Bentsen (who served briefly in Clinton's cabinet, and then disappeared). Dan Quayle was GONE after running in 92.

It seems - generally - NOTHING is more toxic in Washington politics than to run AS VICE-PRESIDENT on a ticket - and lose.

It may be that presidential candidates tend to choose VPs who don't shine as big as they do. They tend NOT to pick people who have the ability to eclipse them. In my memory, maybe George Bush in 1980 - who ran AGAINST Reagan - might come close.
OK I got it.
 

SamSpade

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Teddy Roosevelt changed that, he was governor of NY and his adversaries wanted him gone so they convinced whoever to tap him as VP to get rid of him.
Oh yeah - Sen Mark Hanna hated the idea of putting him there.

About a year earlier, Senator Mark Hanna had been discussing with other high-powered Republican leaders whether or not to enlist New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt to be the Vice-Presidential nominee for President William McKinley’s second term. Hanna made no bones about his opposition, “Don’t any of you realize there’s only one life between this madman and the presidency?” But, other political leaders from New York state wanted the head-strong reformer out of their governor’s office, and most felt he would be rendered harmless as VP.


Of course it was massively prophetic, since he ascended to the Presidency when McInley - that "one life" - was assassinated, leading the famous quote from Hanna

“Now look! That damned cowboy is President of the United States!”

Gotta say, though - LOT of parallels between Trump and TR, although TR was hugely remarkable outside of being President.
 
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