(03-27-2020, 02:29 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(03-27-2020, 02:14 PM)MalabarJag Wrote: Since when has anyone chose a VP running mate based on being the best person for the job? The only name I can think of in the last 70 years of a running mate who wasn't chosen in the hope of bringing in crucial votes is Dick Cheney. But his selection was more about the role of a trusted advisor rather than someone who'd make a good replacement president in the event of the president's death.

I don't know, I'm pretty happy with the job that Mike Pence is doing.

But Pence was selected to broaden Trump's appeal to evangelicals. I don't know exactly who Al Gore and Dan Quayle were supposed to appeal to. Gore wasn't a far out environmentalist yet, and Quayle was...well...Quayle. I would agree with Malabar that Cheney was the only VP candidate selected because he was the best man for the job, and even then I'd argue that it was at least as much because he was expected to do the job was it was for him to be ready to do it.

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