VP spot on a ticket, any ticket, is a dead end job. If you lose your career is mostly over, if you win you’re career WILL BE over once your president is out. Only time a VP can generally expect any success is if his ticket wins and his president dies in the first term. Any politician that’s not looking at hanging it up soon should say no, that’s been true for ages.
Tell that to FDR and Richard Nixon. ;)
................ If you lose your career is mostly over, if you win you’re career WILL BE over once your president is out. ...................
I don’t totally agree with that:
George H W seemed to make out ok. Al Gore became a multimillionaire spewing his bullshit whilst standing on an ex VP soapbox. Cheney is a very well respected pubbie VP, who could have gone back to a successful businessman if his ticker was strong enough.
Yeah, alot hit the dustbin, but many of them were already destined for the dustbin, ie Quayle.
I guess one of the problems is that once you’re elevated to that VP slot, are you willing to be a politician in a lower post, or are you smart enough to make a career shift and do something productive for a change??
“VP spot on a ticket, any ticket, is a dead end job. If you lose your career is mostly over, if you win you’re career WILL BE over once your president is out. Only time a VP can generally expect any success is if his ticket wins and his president dies in the first term. Any politician that’s not looking at hanging it up soon should say no, that’s been true for ages.”
Post WWII Truman, Nixon, Johnson, GHW Bush were elected to the Presidency after serving as VP. Only Ford and Mondale failed to be elected.
GW Bush probably did the GOP no favor by keeping Cheney, since Cheney wasn’t a good prospect to run for Potus due to health concerns.
So the modern evidence is that VP IS a good springboard for Potus.