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2016 Postmortem

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

10. The vice presidency isn't worth a bucket of warm spit, unless your Dick Cheney

Reply to DLnyc (Original post)

Mon Mar 14, 2016, 05:01 PM

Mar 2016

Serving a president as competent as W.

Well, that probably undervalues it as it is at least worth the rent on the Naval Observatory residence and the help getting through DC traffic.

Who is in it, is not going to win my vote. I would question the sensibility of any smart dynamic leader who took it on.

Let some Joe Lieberman-like fellow go for it. Let the good politicians serve where they can really make a difference.

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How would you vote in various scenarios? (new edition) [View all] DLnyc Mar 2016 OP

This party has to get back to its New Deal roots or it is DEAD. PatrickforO Mar 2016 #1

The only thing that would take -this- party back to the ND is collapse of the oligarchy HereSince1628 Mar 2016 #7

I'd rather we expand on that mythology Mar 2016 #11

Clearly. A 21st Century New Deal, complete with BOTH racial/social justice PatrickforO Mar 2016 #12

Who will choose Elizabeth Warren, the woman who voted for Reagan and supported his policies? Metric System Mar 2016 #2

Sanders or Warren. I've had enough of Clinton and Biden (nt) bigwillq Mar 2016 #3

shameless self-kick DLnyc Mar 2016 #4

and on the other hand olddots Mar 2016 #5

sanders 1 warren 2 thats it. it restorefreedom Mar 2016 #6

Issues and political philosophy: FDR Democrats over Third Way Democrats senz Mar 2016 #8

Recommended. Worthy discussion of PRIMARY decisions -- not the GE. senz Mar 2016 #9

The vice presidency isn't worth a bucket of warm spit, unless your Dick Cheney HereSince1628 Mar 2016 #10