Who should Gore have selected in 2000 for Vice President?

[mndemocrat_29]

Hindsight is 20/20, I know, but since I was wondering who everyone thought Gore should've selected in 2000. I personally think he should've picked someone else, but there are many on this board who I've heard defend his choice.

[rucky]

1. Richardson or Graham n/t

[CSI Willows]

2. Edwards

No question about it

[kodi]

3. bill bradley, would have salved a lot of wounds

lieberman was a joke.

[jerryster]

17. I totally disagree

Lieberman was definitely the right choice. Remember, WE WON!! Or did you forget that a lot of the justified anger on DU is about the election being stolen? Tin Russert said of the choice: It's bold. It's historic". He was right. Being Jewish myself I can assure you that Lieberman's place on the ticket was a HUGE help in Florida. Many of the people there are displaced Jews from other places and they voted for Gore AND Lieberman. Lieberman's speech at the convention was well received. Also, remember that after the VP debate a lot of people felt that the Lieberman and Cheney (sorry, but it's true) performed better than Gore or Bush. And certainly Lieberman didn't hurt us the way Gore did with that STUPID STUPID STUPID sighing he did in the first debate. Lieberman in his debate articulated the Dem positions very well. His presence on the ticket did not hurt. It helped.

As for Bradley, have you forgotten what an absolutely horrible campaigner he was? He was pathetic. I don't have the picture to show you but there was a very telling one of him on the Staten Island Ferry on his way to a debate. He was holding on to a strap and TALKING TO NOONE!! How the hell do you run for President, get on the Staten Island Ferry and go mute?!?! I talked to someone who had worked on the Bradley campaign and I brought up that photo. He told me that EVERYONE he knew on the campaign couldn't believe it. They knew at that point that he was dead meat. This is the guy you think should have been there? No thanks.

[Jim Sagle]

4. Harkin.

[leftist_rebel1569]

5. Wellstone

n/t

[geniph]

24. You beat me to that

Wellstone was my first thought, too. I'd have been a lot happier voting for a Gore/Wellstone ticket than Gore/Bassethoundman.

[RandomUser]

6. definitely NOT Lieberman (n/t)

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[jerryster]

18. Response

Please see my response to post #3.

[dae]

7. Hindsight would point to Graham.

[Shakespeare]

8. I'm with Kodi...would love to have seen Bradley as VP

n/t

[jerryster]

19. Response

Please see my response to Post #3.

[lcordero]

9. Wellstone, Feingold or Graham I think

I think that each of them could have gotten him 40 to 50,000 more votes in Florida.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Bill Clinton

Man, that would have been totally cool!

[nuxvomica]

15. Awesomely cool but would that have been legal?

He can't run for President again because of a Constitutional amendment that I'm too lazy to look up right now. Wouldn't that also have prevented him from running for vice-president as well because he would be first in the order of succession? This issue may seem moot now but who knows what might happen. ;-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. I don't know. I was wondering about that as well.

I wondered if it means that Clinton could never run as VP, or that maybe if he were VP, and the president somehow couldn't remain in office, if maybe then Clinton would have to be skipped, remain VP, and the speaker of the house become the president.

I can't see any reason from barring a former president from being a VP, but there might be a constitutional provision against it.

Anyone have the answer to that?

[pansypoo53219]

11. if he wanted a moral jew

a less sanctimonious fighter for clean government., go with Russ Feingold.

[bookman]

12. I picked Graham

And he was a favorite before Gore picked Lieberman.

[Cloud]

13. Anybody but Lieberman

I remember in the 2000 elections I wasn't really into politics. I was only 17 so I missed voting by one year.

I liked Gore only because I liked Bill Clinton. I thought Bush was alright but came across as arrogant and didn't speak very well. Of course back then I had a lot more respect for Bush than I do now since there was no Iraq war and corporate scandals.

I thought Lieberman was going to take away my violent video games if elected. My Quake, Metal Gear Solid, and such.

Gore could have done much better.

[Awsi Dooger]

14. Anyone whose name didn't resemble a political party

Little known fact that helped doom Al Gore:thousands of Gore voters in Palm Beach County apparently mistook the word Libertarian for Lieberman, and double voted on the infamous butterfly ballot.

The ballot indicated "vote for group" and many unsophisticated voters thought that meant a punch for vice president as well as president. Election officials were baffled over the number of double punches for Gore and Libertarian candidate Harry Browne. The names were far apart on the ballot, unlike the well chronicled case of the butterfly votes for Pat Buchanon that were obviously meant for Gore. An elections expert from Cal Irvine surveyed the gaffes and immediately concluded the voters had mistook Libertarian for Lieberman.

[Bossy Monkey]

16. Bradley, Graham or Edwards, in that order n/t

[freespirit2003]

21. gore 2000

Who cares, he lost.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

22. No, he won. The Supreme Court SELECTED Bush

Have you no grasp of history, disruptor?

[geniph]

25. That feller didn't last long, did he?

12 posts isn't a record, but it's close. How many of us sent alerts on his posts? I'll cop to one of 'em.

[denverbill]

23. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sylvester Stallone. John Wayne.

Any celebrity. Living or dead.

If people are stupid enough to vote for Ahnold and Ventura, why not have John Wayne on the ticket?