Posted on 12/21/2022 9:37:01 PM PST by Jean2
I read somewhere years ago that while the voter gets to choose their party's presidential candidate; they don't get to choose their running mate. The national committees choose the running mate. Does anybody here know anything about that?
Runningates are formally/legally confirmed at the national convention by the delegates who were elected to it.
That’s “running mates”.
I’ve always heard that Dwight D. Eisenhower did not like his Vice President, Richard M. Nixon. This choice may have been made by The Party deciders of that era.
A candidate for Vice President is expected to bring a ‘dowry’ of electoral votes from their state.
Ross Perot chose shell shocked James Stockdale for his running mate, so there’s that.
Stockdale had more guts than any other politician.
He did.
No disrespect but did you not have civics or government class in school? Or, was it more recent and not covering such topics? I wonder how many people, by age, know the answer?
I’ll never forget Dennis Miller’s defense of Stockdale.
Actually Dennis credits seeing people making fun of Stockdale as one the reasons he became a Conservative.:
Now I know (Stockdale’s name has) become a buzzword in this culture for doddering old man, but let’s look at the record, folks. The guy was the first guy in and the last guy out of Vietnam, a war that many Americans, including our present President, did not want to dirty their hands with.
The reason he had to turn his hearing aid on at that debate is because those f***ing animals knocked his eardrums out when he wouldn’t spill his guts. He teaches philosophy at Stanford University, he’s a brilliant, sensitive, courageous man. And yet he committed the one unpardonable sin in our culture: he was bad on television.
Stockdale makes Biden look like a youngster. Trump is quite similar to Perot in making very bad people choices, which is odd since Trump had a good reputation for picking good employees.
They haven’t taught Civics in school since the 70s, it got replaced with “Social Studies”.
Yep, which has led to lack of constitutional knowledge and an embrace of fascism, socialism, and communism.
Well I might as well post the full Frank Zappa quote:
“Civics was a class that used to be required before you could graduate from high school. You were taught what was in the U.S. Constitution. And after all the student rebellions in the Sixties, Civics was banished from the student curriculum and was replaced by something called ‘Social Studies’. Here we live in a country that has a fabulous Constitution and all these guarantees, a contract between the citizens and the government – nobody knows what’s in it...And so, if you don’t know what your rights are, how can you stand up for them? And furthermore, if you don’t know what’s in the document, how can you care if someone is shredding it?”
Government is a different animal from business. Successful, competent people will generally choose to work in the Private Sector. They don’t want to work in government, and frankly, who can blame them, with all the crap they’d have to put up working for Trump.
So Trump could only hire what was available, which for the most part consister of Deep State Lifers.
Even in 2016, I said that Trump had better have a team in place before he moves into the White House, or else he’ll spin his wheels, and end up with people who don’t have his best interests in mind.
What President Trump needed (and will need when elected) are corporate raiders to reduce the size of government - from the top down.
I have some other suggestions that I will not post out to avoid a NKVD visit.
It was changed (Constitutionally?) so that the vice-president became a running mate of the president.
On top of that, Trump isn't a politician. He doesn't (or, at least, didn't back then) know much about politics from the inside.
Bottom line: Hiring good people in a business you know inside and out is one thing. Hiring people when you are still learning the business is another matter entirely.
The candidate choses
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