I hope that ticket won’t happen. Between those two, I prefer Barbour at the top, since he has more political experience, as the RNC chairman. It’s unlikely that the ticket will include two ex-governors. The VP nominee will probably be someone who has been a congressman. Five of the last six republican VP’s were congressmen. Those five were Dick Cheney, Dan Quayle, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon. The exception is Sprio Agnew.
“The VP nominee will probably be someone who has been a congressman. Five of the last six republican VP’s were congressmen. Those five were Dick Cheney, Dan Quayle, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon. The exception is Sprio Agnew”
Not that you’re suggesting anything more than a useful guide for prediction, but I’d like to point out that there were more pertinent reasons for Cheney and Bush’s nominations than their time in congress. It had a lot more to do with having been the Secretary of Defense, in the case of Cheney, and having come in second place in the primaries (not to mention having been a diplomat and director of the CIA), in the case of Bush. In the case of Ford, of course, those were special circumstances, as congress appointed him instead of the electors voting him in/ Big surprise they’d confirm one of their own.
Good point, but I don’t think you can really count Cheney or Bush; after all their Congressional tenures were long gone by the time they were .picked.
You left out one—Nelson Rockefeller. Of course he was never elected to the Vice Presidency, but neither was Ford.