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Vote for the worst Republican vice presidential nominee from these choices. I picked the 10 I thought would be controversial. (And damn, they sure know how to pick the bad ones.)
120 votes, 3 passes | Time left: Time expired | |
Spiro Agnew (1968) | |
9 (8%) |
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Dan Quayle (1988) | |
2 (2%) |
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Sarah Palin (2008) | |
32 (27%) |
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Richard Nixon (1952, 1956) | |
2 (2%) |
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JD Vance (2024) | |
64 (53%) |
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Mike Pence (2016, 2020) | |
0 (0%) |
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Bob Dole (1976) | |
0 (0%) |
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Paul Ryan (2012) | |
0 (0%) |
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George H. W. Bush (1980) | |
0 (0%) |
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Dick Cheney (2000) | |
11 (9%) |
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3 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
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yourout
(8,095 posts)If you mean evilest it's Cheney.
If you mean the worst candidate and poorest choice ever by a FrontRunner then it has to be JD.
JoeColo
(10 posts)JD is Trump's biggest gift to Democrats!
Trueblue1968
(18,197 posts)mahina
(18,957 posts)His criminal situation was chased out of the news by the impeachment and resignation of Richard Nixon, but prior to that Spiro T Agnew was truly the source of so much of the garbage that we are still living with today.
Listen to Rachel Maddows incredibly brilliant podcast for free and you will never think the same way about that ugly soul again
ificandream
(10,560 posts)Here's one. You can hear where Trump got some of his shit. His "effete corps of impudent snobs" comment here became his trademark.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,888 posts)lastlib
(24,949 posts)even though I never fully realized the scope of his corruption until Maddow's podcast.
"When Richard Nixon needed a Veep,
He looked to Maryland, and got a real creep.
He picked up this dud, some loser named Spiro,
And said that someday, he'd be a great hero.
Well, Agnew called someone a fat ugly jap,
And said to the press, "I'll not take this crap!"
Then Uncle Sam said he had been lax
In telling the truth about his income tax.
He said that the charges were made from thin air,
But at his trial, he said, "Nolo contendere."
Now for his crimes, he'll someday be rich,
He'll be a millionaire, that sonofabitch!
--lastlib, 1974
DBoon
(23,085 posts)In 1973, Agnew was investigated by the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland on suspicion of criminal conspiracy, bribery, extortion, and tax fraud. Agnew took kickbacks from contractors during his time as Baltimore county executive and governor of Maryland. The payments had continued into his time as vice president, but had nothing to do with the Watergate scandal, in which he was not implicated. After months of maintaining his innocence, Agnew pleaded no contest to a single felony charge of tax evasion and resigned from office.
- wikipedia
He wasn't just a stupid right wing ideologue, he was a classic corrupt politician who thought he could get away with continued corruption while being "a heartbeat away" from the presidency
DJ Synikus Makisimus
(730 posts)Chasing Dreams
(525 posts)A whos who of despicable, deranged, disgusting, demented deplorables.
LonePirate
(13,905 posts)Agnew was a common criminal in an uncommon job. He was punished and the country threw him away like the trash he is.
Then you have Cheney who is quite likely to be the most evil man ever to hold the office. I honestly have no idea why he has not given a full-throated endorsement of Trump.
Vance completely lacks a soul and any decent human emotion. He is the perfect example of everything wrong with this country.
However my vote for the worst of them all is Palin simply because she ushered in this era we are in now by dragging Republicans deeper into the muck. She made them openly worship stupidity and hatred by publicly embracing and embodying those values. If McCain had never brought her to the national stage, we likely never would have gotten Trump foisted upon us as he is simply a man giving life to her intellect, personality and viewpoints. She changed the Republican Party and somehow made it worse than it had been during the W years. She was MAGA before it was given a name and date of birth.
LeftInTX
(30,115 posts)I was around during Agnew, but didn't pay all that much attention to him at the time. I thought he was a jerk, but I was in 8-12th grade.
I know he was the first VP who was Greek..LOL
PufPuf23
(9,254 posts)Palin is dumb as a doorknob and Vance is smart and clever enough to be dangerous and makes direct threats.
ificandream
(10,560 posts)Yes, she's dumber than a doornail. Can you imagine what our lives would have been like if she'd been VP? I mean we all believe (I think) that Trump was the worse U.S. president because he's such a dumbass, in addition to everything else he is. Palin would have been a loon as VP.
Freddie
(9,711 posts)Women are pissed off because Hillary lost the nomination so theyll all vote for ANYTHING with XX chromosomes.
mucifer
(24,866 posts)President Lincoln chose a decent VP. But, I guess it is possible President Lincoln would not have won his second term if he chose a different VP.
andrew johnson gets my vote in this poll. Evil racist scum.
SocialDemocrat61
(2,883 posts)So he doesnt qualify. Although I agree he was a racist.
mucifer
(24,866 posts)You are correct.
Gore1FL
(21,933 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(2,883 posts)In 1864, Lincoln and Johnson ran under the National Union Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union_Party_(United_States)?wprov=sfti1
Bobstandard
(1,682 posts)Imagine what the south would be like today if Lincoln had lived and Johnson wasnt around to establish Jim Crow.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,888 posts)Keeping in mind the rules of presidential succession and one of the unwritten rules of the universe: Things can always get worse. "President JD Vance" -- now there's a thought that'd curdle your cookies!
(Thankfully, it's looking more and more like we won't have to deal with that particular sword of Damocles.)
Renew Deal
(82,937 posts)The rest have some political sense.
Xavier Breath
(5,106 posts)Until this year, I would have said Palin. But JD has outperformed her by miles.
Bucky
(55,334 posts)I blame whatever dumbass told Dubya to pick Cheney as VP.
BluenFLA
(162 posts)Was that he wasn't even under consideration for VP. He was supposed to help Bush in picking a VP, but supposedly none of the contenders like George Pataki weren't impressive enough. Who knows how things would have turned out if Darth Cheney wasn't chosen and we wound up with a lightweight instead? Would those years have been as bad without Cheney being a de facto president?
Sky Jewels
(8,823 posts)Cheney started vetting candidates but decided that he was the one for the job.
Bucky
(55,334 posts)Iggo
(48,321 posts)No way that moron shouldve been considered to be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office.
ificandream
(10,560 posts)Jk23
(454 posts)Second worst VP pick in US presidential history.
Wednesdays
(20,315 posts)"Worst" in terms of incompetence? "Worst" in terms of evil?
WarGamer
(15,516 posts)saying that Vance is worse than Cheney or HW Papa Bush is silly.
Cheney was the puppet master of Shrub and the architect of an illegal and immoral war
Papa Bush was responsible for Lord knows how much CIA abuse and neocon nonsense.
uponit7771
(91,830 posts)Bobstandard
(1,682 posts)He led Georgie Boy around by the nose and got us into war in Iraq that destabilized the whole region and turned America into the bad guys there forever more. You see trouble on the international stage today, you can trace it back to Halliburton Dick.
CanonRay
(14,889 posts)CanonRay
(14,889 posts)Do I decide by color, texture, or aroma?
Think. Again.
(18,331 posts)love_katz
(2,830 posts)I was really torn between Agnew and Tricky Dicky.
Both of them contributed mightily to the downhill slide of the Republicans. They gave voice and form to the horrible ideas, the classism, sexism, racism and hateful greed that is the motive power of the GQP.
I hear echoes of Agnew, mainly his tendency to attack and ridicule anyone who opposes him, in Fat Elvis' verbal style.
Jack Valentino
(1,394 posts)Since Vance initally had so many votes, I voted for Dan Quayle---
but I am changing that vote to Sarah Palin....
but Vance seems like the worst of all
orleans
(35,062 posts)MistakenLamb
(788 posts)Sarah Palin had some appeal and definitely had a fan base and a movement of support. JD Vance has none of that, he is a wet limp handshake of a nominee. Its like he has never interacted with a regular person in his political life. He can't talk to or connect to the regular American. Every day there is something else he has said in the past or says then that repels crucial independent voters. He's so unappealing no one will even make a porn parody of him.
Mysterian
(5,193 posts)and still picked her. Picked a fucking moron to be potentially #2 in the USA. Republicans are all fucked up.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,333 posts)Gore shudda picked Senator Tom Harkin or, ANYONE else!