# Which VP's would have made good Presidents? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 30, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vps-would-have-made-good-presidents/428373 "2007-11-30T22:07:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vps-would-have-made-good-presidents/428373/21 "2007-12-01T02:25:55Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] I am not totally convinced that losing the race didn’t have a lot to do with making Al Gore the man he is today. [/QUOTE] Horseshit. It was his experience hosting _Saturday Night Live._😉 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vps-would-have-made-good-presidents/428373/22 "2007-12-01T02:44:09Z")
[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF] Oh, come on. It was at least a little funny. You smirked. Admit it. [/QUOTE] Okay, I did smirk. You got me. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vps-would-have-made-good-presidents/428373/23 "2007-12-01T02:52:33Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Okay, I did smirk. You got me. [/QUOTE] You must admit, anyone who can select their staff to such a degree that their speechwriter can come up with the nugget “nattering nabobs of negativism” can’t be all bad. I’ll note that old Spiro was simply following tradition; he was in a string of three or four consecutive Maryland governors to get indicted. And, since I’m on my third scotch and in the mood for a non sequiter, I’ll also note that it was in this neck of the woods that while hitch-hiking across Canada in the summer of 1972, that I saw on an outhouse wall the inscription, “Don’t change Dicks in the middle of a screw. Vote for Nixon in seventy-two.” It’s probably bedtime for Bonzo here after that. Which forum is this again? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vps-would-have-made-good-presidents/428373/24 "2007-12-01T04:44:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Plus two years after beating Mariette Rheiner in the primaries for county judge, he married her. A lot of people talk about “winner takes all” elections but down in Texas they really mean it. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vps-would-have-made-good-presidents/428373/25 "2007-12-01T08:56:58Z")
[QUOTE=Wilson] John Nance Garner, FDR’s first vice president, always struck me as an interesting man, despite him being from Texas… in the House for close to three decades, including a stint as Speaker. Ran against FDR in the primaries in 1940, of course didn’t stand a chance. Plus two years after beating Mariette Rheiner in the primaries for county judge, he married her. Imagine something like that happening today? [/QUOTE] You gotta remember that Cactus Jack was from West Texas at a time when that really meant something; you shouldn’t confuse West Texas then with Texas now. He would have been a good President. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vps-would-have-made-good-presidents/428373/26 "2007-12-01T12:09:49Z")
Humphrey would have been a vast improvement over Tricky Dickie had he been elected in 1968 and Mondale would have certainly been better than Reagan had he been elected in 1984. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vps-would-have-made-good-presidents/428373/27 "2007-12-01T14:33:26Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] “Don’t change Dicks in the middle of a screw. Vote for Nixon in seventy-two.” [/QUOTE] Seen on a 2004 Bush/Cheney bumper sticker: “Don’t change horses mid-apocalypse!” ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vps-would-have-made-good-presidents/428373/28 "2007-12-02T01:12:00Z")
Richard M. Johnson is from my hometown. That’s good enough for me. And Aaron Burr tried to overthrow the government. That’s gotta count for something, right? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vps-would-have-made-good-presidents/428373/29 "2007-12-02T03:12:40Z")
[QUOTE=Mayo Speaks!] And Aaron Burr tried to overthrow the government. That’s gotta count for something, right? [/QUOTE] He was never convicted of it. Besides, what he did wasn’t really treason against the US, he just wanted to start his own country. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-vps-would-have-made-good-presidents/428373.md?page=1)