Posted on 08/02/2024 7:21:13 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Modern history holds more bad news than good for Kamala Harris as she tries to ascend from the vice presidency to the nation’s top public post. Three quarters of those who have tried in the post-World War II era have failed. But she can find some solace in an unlikely example: George H.W. Bush.
Ronald Reagan’s vice president, Bush won the presidency in 1988, against what initially seemed like long odds. Not so three other vice presidents who tried but failed to make the same transition: Richard Nixon in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968, and Al Gore in 2000.
Some important lessons can be drawn from each experience.
In 1960, Nixon suffered from a problem typical of those who serve in the number-two post: stunted stature, though not in comparison to his opponent but rather relative to his boss. Dwight Eisenhower, the war-winning former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, carried the aura of a statesman who existed above the domestic political fray. By contrast, Nixon, a red-baiting Republican, was viewed as a shifty and divisive partisan. As he tried to emerge from Ike’s formidable shadow, Nixon, running as a man who would continue the peace and prosperity the United States had enjoyed under Eisenhower, needed a beneficent boost from his boss.
Well she has already learned to lie and make promises she has no intention of keeping, so what else can Bush Sr. teach her?
I’m sick and tired of the constant denigration of Nixon. He wasn’t as conservative as most of us would have liked but he was a decent man and decent President.
Kamala can win in 2024 largely from immense voter fraud.
“Nixon, a red-baiting Republican”
Pejorative much? He was a staunch communist fighter, something we need today to fight the commies in our own government. They are inside the gates and killing us.
Mondale?
avoid the broccoli
Get us into unnecessary wars in the Middle East?
Fighter pilots and c*%&suckers learn differently.
“What Kamala Harris can learn from George H.W. Bush..”
Let’s see...gun free school zones, firearm import ban, denigrate the NRA...
The reason 41 lost the election was because he promised Bubba Clinton he would make him POTUS if he let them run Narcotics through Mena, AR to pay for Arms for the contras. Don’t forget 41 was a Director of the CIA in 1976.
You mean like immediately dismantling the legacy of the President for whom she was VP? If that was a gurantee, I would go along with it.
Well, they are both globalists.
Dumb comparison: Bush Sr. followed an immensely popular and successful two term POTUS. Harris is trying to follow a failed illegitimate president who can’t even complete one term.
Perhaps Harris could learn from Hubert Humphrey what happens when a VP tries to succeed a failed one-term Democrat of questionable legitimacy.
Ah yes, that’s one way to distract the voters from a failing economy.
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