Regardless of our quadrennial fascination with the Vice Presidential dog and pony show, it’s still a statistical truism that America doesn’t vote for its Vice Presidents. But screw it up, and you could queer your patch but good, and wind up going from the top of every newshour on MSNBC to virtually ignored in the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Veeps/Almost-Veeps - Hall of Fame’
January 14, 2008
Gerry Girl, Part 2
So in 1984, while my friends in the dorm were abusing themselves to pictures of Vanessa Williams and Heather Locklear, I was adorning my dorm room with pictures of Gerry Ferraro with Walter Mondale cut out. No, don’t even go there. I had too much respect for Gerry to degrade myself like that to her [...]
January 13, 2008
Gerry Girl, Part 1
So, I didn’t have my “Live Free or Cry” post on Hillary up eight minutes before one of my ex-girlfriends emails me and tells me I haven’t changed–that I’m the same sexist miscreant I always was (no, it wasn’t Kacie, and I can’t say who it is because her uncle is a District Attorney with [...]
