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MrScorpio

(73,630 posts) Thu Dec 22, 2016, 01:18 PM Dec 2016

Worst Vice President Ever - Past, Present and Future Edition.

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	Dick Cheney
	5 (83%)
	Spiro Agnew
	1 (17%)
	Mike Pence
	0 (0%)
	George H.W. Bush
	0 (0%)
	Richard Nixon
	0 (0%)
	Dan Quayle
	0 (0%)
	Calvin Coolidge
	0 (0%)
	Andrew Johnson
	0 (0%)
	Millard Fillmore
	0 (0%)
	Other
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Worst Vice President Ever - Past, Present and Future Edition. (Original Post) MrScorpio Dec 2016 OP

I'm confident that with a little conversion therapy Mike Pence could turn out just fine Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2016 #1

nonsense! some people are just born that way! unblock Dec 2016 #3

So far, I'd say Dick Cheney, with Spiro Agnew close behind. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2016 #2

No VP has taken as active a role as Cheney, and he was actively doing terrible things MrPurple Dec 2016 #4

Spiro Agnew, definitely Spider Jerusalem Dec 2016 #5

Agreed Vogon_Glory Dec 2016 #6

Pence strikes me as a Spiro Agnew type. hunter Dec 2016 #7

I first read that as "Worst President Ever" Ron Obvious Dec 2016 #8

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,174 posts)

1. I'm confident that with a little conversion therapy Mike Pence could turn out just fine

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2016, 01:21 PM

Dec 2016

unblock

(52,199 posts)

3. nonsense! some people are just born that way!

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 22, 2016, 01:28 PM

Dec 2016

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,681 posts)

2. So far, I'd say Dick Cheney, with Spiro Agnew close behind.

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2016, 01:24 PM

Dec 2016

Nixon didn't really break bad until he became President. Pence obviously has a lot of potential but you have to be weapons-grade evil to beat Cheney. We'll have to wait and see.

MrPurple

(985 posts)

4. No VP has taken as active a role as Cheney, and he was actively doing terrible things

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2016, 01:30 PM

Dec 2016

Andrew Johnson was probably the worst VP to become President, but it wasn't until after he became President that he held back Reconstruction. Cheney was the most active VP ever, and none of it was good.

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)

5. Spiro Agnew, definitely

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2016, 01:36 PM

Dec 2016

he was corrupt and so crooked he had to screw his trousers on in the morning. Cheney's whole "power behind the throne" thing was...something, but I don't know that it's necessarily in the category of "worst"--it does stand out among Vice Presidents whose job is basically to be on hand in case the President dies, or is impeached, or resigns, and otherwise to preside over the Senate and only vote in the case of a tie; as John Nance Garner famously said, "the job isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss".

Vogon_Glory

(9,117 posts)

6. Agreed

Reply to Spider Jerusalem (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 22, 2016, 01:40 PM

Dec 2016

If it had been possible, Spiro would have gotten a second vote.

hunter

(38,311 posts)

7. Pence strikes me as a Spiro Agnew type.

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2016, 01:46 PM

Dec 2016

I think there's some nasty shit in his closet.

That's probably how he got the job. The Powers That Be can pull the plug on him at any time and replace him with another knob.

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

8. I first read that as "Worst President Ever"

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2016, 01:57 PM

Dec 2016

And was about to cast my vote for Cheney until I noticed the other names on the list.

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