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What Kamala Harris can learn from George H.W. Bush
Bostonglobe ^ | 07/31/2024 | Scot Lehigh

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.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bush; election; harris; learn
STHU Scot. You can't compare the two.
1 posted on 08/02/2024 7:21:13 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well she has already learned to lie and make promises she has no intention of keeping, so what else can Bush Sr. teach her?


2 posted on 08/02/2024 7:22:45 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


3 posted on 08/02/2024 7:26:54 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Bush Sr won in 1988 largely from Reagan's immense popularity.

Kamala can win in 2024 largely from immense voter fraud.

4 posted on 08/02/2024 7:27:14 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“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.


5 posted on 08/02/2024 7:34:42 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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Mondale?


6 posted on 08/02/2024 7:42:26 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

avoid the broccoli


7 posted on 08/02/2024 7:49:31 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Boogieman
"Well she has already learned to lie and make promises she has no intention of keeping, so what else can Bush Sr. teach her?

Get us into unnecessary wars in the Middle East?

8 posted on 08/02/2024 7:55:36 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople ( "Never thot I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones"-Johnny Rotten)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fighter pilots and c*%&suckers learn differently.


9 posted on 08/02/2024 8:06:51 AM PDT by Salvavida
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“What Kamala Harris can learn from George H.W. Bush..”

Let’s see...gun free school zones, firearm import ban, denigrate the NRA...


10 posted on 08/02/2024 8:08:03 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Salvavida
She has a hard (no pun intended😎) time keeping her round mouth shut.


11 posted on 08/02/2024 8:14:10 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

"Read my lips."


12 posted on 08/02/2024 8:37:28 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


13 posted on 08/02/2024 8:46:43 AM PDT by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"What Kamala Harris can learn from George H.W. Bush"

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.

14 posted on 08/02/2024 9:10:51 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, they are both globalists.


15 posted on 08/02/2024 9:19:29 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


16 posted on 08/02/2024 10:03:38 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Ah yes, that’s one way to distract the voters from a failing economy.


17 posted on 08/02/2024 1:46:12 PM PDT by Boogieman
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