Which Historical US Vice President Would Have Made the WORST President?

[Hauldren Collider]

Umm, why? I mean, other than the hatchet job Gore Vidal did on him, he wasn't all that bad.

I hope you are being sarcastic, but if you aren't:

1. He ****ing KILLED HAMILTON
2. He tried to get western parts of the US to SECEDE and form his own monarchy, and was tried for treason

[David Floyd]

Why is Calhoun on there? How is he in the same class as Quayle?

The slaveholding Southerner who would have started the Civil War in the 1830s/1840s given any provocation at all? Yeeaah...

Dick Cheney is a hundred times smarter than Al Gore.

Well, agreed. I actually don't mind Cheney. I just included him because he was a constant choice from the other forum.

[DRoseDARs]

Actually I don't think that Al Gore is quite in the class of idiots that I specified.

Dick Cheney is ten times smarter than Al Gore.

I grant you that as well. He was smart enough NOT to run for president. Much better to wield power from behind the scenes.

[David Floyd]

How the **** is Walter Mondale worse than Henry Wallace?

And HC, I'm actually only kinda kidding. I do know that Gore Vidal did a pretty one-sided portrayal of Burr. I am also somewhat aware that he was a far more effective VEEP than, say, Jefferson. But I don't know a ton about the guy.

[Hauldren Collider]

How the **** is Walter Mondale worse than Henry Wallace?

And HC, I'm actually only kinda kidding. I do know that Gore Vidal did a pretty one-sided portrayal of Burr. I am also somewhat aware that he was a far more effective VEEP than, say, Jefferson. But I don't know a ton about the guy.

That's because Jefferson's president was of a different party.

[David Floyd]

Fair enough.

But you do have to admit, that if you are bringing up the treason/secession charge, John C. Calhoun would have to be just as bad. He never actually did it, but he would have, and I doubt even he would deny it.

[Hauldren Collider]

My point was more that Burr was corrupt, power-mad and above all a murderer.

[Patroklos]

The slaveholding Southerner who would have started the Civil War in the 1830s/1840s given any provocation at all? Yeeaah...

Thats funny, because that provacation existed yet he never did any such thing. And shall we catalogue the long list of slaveholders held up as the great statesmen of our nation, starting with Jefferson?

You obviously know nothing of the man's career. Having served as the Secretary of War, Secretary of State, and Vice President twice each under a different president puts his qualifications a bit higher than Quayle. Even if you disagree with him he was hardly an intellectual light weight as any history of the time will atest to.

[David Floyd]

Ummm, I never called him stupid.

[Ben Kenobi]

How the **** is Walter Mondale worse than Henry Wallace?

Good question.

He's Carter's VP for pete's sake.

That's like being the on-call backup short bus driver.

You seem to be putting a priority on evil not stupid.

[SlowwHand]

Dan Quayle

[David Floyd]

I can't believe you people think that Dan Quayle (or Al Gore) would be worse than Spiro Agnew (an actual criminal) or Henry Wallace (a communist Soviet shill).

[Solomwi]

I hope you are being sarcastic, but if you aren't:

1. He ****ing KILLED HAMILTON
2. He tried to get western parts of the US to SECEDE and form his own monarchy, and was tried for treason

Own goal. Even if the Burr Conspiracy didn't exactly come to fruition, all you've shown is that he HAD VISION and GOT **** DONE.

[Solomwi]

I can't believe you people think that Dan Quayle (or Al Gore) would be worse than Spiro Agnew (an actual criminal) or Henry Wallace (a communist Soviet shill).

I'll give you Wallace (my vote, incidentally), but all VPs are politicians, so the "actual criminal" charge doesn't go very far.

[David Floyd]

Well, true. Let me rephrase: He got caught. Which, incidentally, was Nixon's only crime when it came to Watergate - the Kennedy's had been doing it for years.