[ChicagoConservative27]

Who would have been a better VP?

[Zhang Fei]

[Who would have been a better VP?]

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Just about anyone else, provided the pick was media savvy. In Indiana, Quayle was a big fish in a small pond. Nationally, the guy was extremely inept at media appearances. Cringe all the way. Stuff that’s amusing at the local and statewide level (e.g. potato vs potatoe) just doesn’t have the same ring to it when you’re dealing with the next in line for the football.

In politics, you’re acting all the time. You can never turn that mask of command off. Tom Cruise can use Oprah’s couch as a trampoline without affecting his career because everyone knows he’s not really the characters he plays. Whereas Howard Dean screaming “Yearggh” once euthanized his own political career.