I’m OK with Harris. Not thrilled, but OK.

It would have been nice to get Warren. Sanders has the same age issue (though is still mentally there in interviews) as Biden, and that window has closed. So many people at the federal level have clung to their positions for so long, it feels like as a country, we wouldn’t be familiar with people in the primes of their life actually running the show.

At 45, I shouldn’t still be waiting for my generation to have any level of power. AARP is coming for me in 10 years.

    • memfree@beehaw.orgEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Biden gave a great State of the Union Address in March. Yes, it was all on teleprompter, but he moved like a normal old guy, not the careful shuffling he’s been doing lately. I’m thinking Biden’s decline has been uneven and rapid. Yes, he’s old, but he wasn’t acting old all the time until very, very recently.

      I’m glad he’s giving himself a chance to slow down. I think he needs it and deserves it.

      I’m glad to vote for Harris. And like you said, I’d also vote for Jimmy Carter or even a Yellow Dog if that’s who’s chosen to go against Trump.

  • memfree@beehaw.orgEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    I’m pysched for a Harris campaign and Presidency. I’d like to see a swing-state white guy as her VP. I feel like two women (like Whitmer) on the ballot scares potential swing voters. I know that’s not fair, but voters aren’t fair.

    Maybe Shapiro? – if he’s not too busy being governor of Pennsylvania.

    Mark Kelly might be a good pick (archive link).

    NOT Gavin Newsom because the VP can’t be from same state as Prez and also: not a swing state.

    EDIT: Vox has a short list suggesting others I didn’t mention include Gov. Roy Cooper (North Carolina), Gov. Andy Beshear (Kentucky), Gov. J.B. Pritzker (Illinois), and Secretary Pete Buttigieg (now D.C., from Indiana).

    Those are the first few that come to mind. Who else ya got to be the VP for Harris?

    • Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Newsom comes with a raft cruise liner of other problems. He’s like choosing a red-meat wishlist for the right.

      I’d be surprised if Kelly isn’t on the short list. I like Shapiro, but it feels like when Dems pick a governor with less than two years in that role, things go poorly.

      But agreed that swing-state White guy is sadly the only option in this environment.

  • sculd@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Elizabeth Warren, she is fiercely against Wall Street and monopolies. It will not happen though.

  • Thevenin@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    She doesn’t have the bona fides for the presidency, but I’d love to see Katie Porter show up to a presidential debate carrying that whiteboard.

  • Lemmeenym@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Elaine Kagen. She can step down from SCOTUS and let Biden nominate her replacement. She has good national name recognition and lots of public writing on every important topic. She would trounce Trump in a debate. It’s basically impossible to challenge her qualifications. She is a little older at 64 but much younger than Trump or Biden. She’s actually a little short of the normal retirement age. I actually prefer Sotomayor and thought of this for her but she’s a little older than Kagen.

    • t3rmit3@beehaw.orgEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      I don’t want a liberal justice removed from the court for any reason.

      Republican shitbags will find some traitor-ass senator to help them block the replacement, the vacancy will ramp up right-wing voters like crazy, and we’ll end up with another Trump term AND a 7/2 conservative SCOTUS.

      • Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Agreed. There’s bad ideas, and then there’s this.

        Have we seriously not learned “never get a liberal justice off the court in an election year”? Only slightly less famous is “don’t get involved in a land war in Asia.”

  • TikoBrown@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Senator Mark Kelley (60 years old)

    • U.S. Navy combat pilot (actual combat experience)
    • U.S. Senator for Arizona
    • NASA astronaut (actually been to space)
    • B.S. degree in marine engineering and nautical science
    • M.S. degree in aeronautical engineering
    • Married to Gabby Giffords (remember her? maga lunatic victim)
    • Both parents were police officers
    • Zero controversy or baggage

    Independent leader whom the middle really like and even republicans respect him. Kamala will probably make him VP pick to block him but I believe with all my instinct he could/would beat Trump