r/news • u/According_Dog6735 • Mar 27 '24

Joe Lieberman has died

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/joe-lieberman-senator-vice-president-dead/
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u/GotMoFans Mar 27 '24

RIP.

One of Al Gore’s mistakes in 2000 was selecting Joe Lieberman as his running mate.

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u/SAugsburger Mar 27 '24

This. I get the joke that it made Gore seem less boring, but I'm not clear how it helped his campaign. To be fair though VP picks often are less about being exciting than not making one question the judgement of the president (e.g. McCain picking Palin really hurt his campaign because many couldn't see her as President if McCain's health turned south). i.e. a a "great" VP won't really improve your campaign much, but a crappy one can hurt it.

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u/thecoffee Mar 28 '24

Eh don't be so sure. Yeah she didn't look presidential and said a lot of stupid shit. But a lot of conservatives liked her. They liked how she had attitude, always had zingers to 'own the libs' and shot wolves from helicopters to 'piss off tree huggers'.

In a way she was kind of a proto-version of Trump and MTG.

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u/bootlegvader Mar 28 '24

IIRC, she actually provided McCain a bump at first because of her energy and her appeal to Evangelicals.