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The Thought Of A Potential President JD Vance Is Horrifying!

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At a time when America has an unstable, authoritarian oriented President, who often gives evidence of dementia, we are cursed with a Vice President, JD Vance, who does not engender confidence.

Instead, we have a Vice President who has made multiple inaccurate statements, and has demonstrated a lack of being able to be genuine in his interactions with news media and the general public.

Vance has also been a total sycophant to Trump, after having years ago called Trump a “Hitler”.

Now, it has been revealed that Vance used a Marine One Helicopter to take his young son to a golf lesson, an outrageous abuse of government costs, when he could have been taken by automobile to the appointment.

Also, Vance had claimed, during the Presidential campaign of 2024, that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets, an outrageous lie.

Also, Vance has made the odd statement about his “wife’s kids”, as if he is not the father, but meanwhile decided to pursue his wife having a fourth child, as part of the promotion of increasing childbearing among women in America.

Also, in a sign of lack of respect of the fact that his wife, Usha Vance, is of Hindu faith and her parents were immigrants from India, Vance has said publicly that he hopes his wife will become a “good Christian”, after his own weird changes from an Evangelical Christian to an atheist, and now a Catholic.

Vance has incessantly lied on a multitude of matters, and the thought that he might well become President in this term is a horror.

There have been other controversial Vice Presidents, but their competency level was higher, with even Vice President Dan Quayle under President George H. W. Bush, by comparison, seemingly less objectionable than Vance.

The thought that Vance is a heartbeat away from the Presidency, and that there is a reasonable expectation that he might become President during this term is quite disturbing.

By comparison, former Vice President Mike Pence, from the first term of Donald Trump, looks so much better, and the prospect of a Vance Presidency is something unwelcome by intelligent observers.

Horrendous Alternative Vice Presidential Candidates For Donald Trump!

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As Donald Trump seems near to becoming the Republican Presidential nominee in 2024, despite 4 indictments and 2 impeachments, the horrendous thought of who could be, in theory, his Vice Presidential runningmate comes into focus.

Republicans have been infamous for selecting terrible Vice Presidential choices, going back a half century.

Think of Spiro Agnew under Richard Nixon; Dan Quayle under George H. W. Bush; Dick Cheney under George W. Bush; and Mike Pence under Donald Trump!

Also, think of Sarah Palin under John McCain; and Paul Ryan under Mitt Romney.

Compare them to Walter Mondale under Jimmy Carter; Al Gore under Bill Clinton; Joe Biden under Barack Obama; and Kamala Harris under Joe Biden.

Now, the so called “short list” includes South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem; Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene; Arizona gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake; Ohio biotech executive Presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy; New York House Chair of Republican Conference Elise Stefanik; and Florida Congressman Byron Donalds!

None of this list of six would be a safe choice to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency!

The What-Ifs Of History: 10 Vice Presidents And One Speaker Of The House Who ALMOST Became President By Succession!

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Anyone who has studied American history knows that NINE Vice Presidents succeeded to the Presidency because of death in eight cases, and resignation in the ninth case, of the President.

What very few people realize is how many times Vice Presidents missed being President by a stroke of luck, and this is not including those who became President later by election.

In the past century, a total of TEN Vice Presidents and ONE Speaker Of the House, came close to succeeding the President in office, but since they did not, they are pretty much forgotten! Here is the list and the circumstances:

1919-1921–Woodrow Wilson suffered a paralytic stroke, but recovered slowly, and his wife Edith held cabinet meetings, and kept Vice President Thomas Marshall in the dark about the medical status of Wilson. This was, by far, the longest period of medical incapacity of a President, 18 months! Had Wilson died, Marshall would have been President.

1933–Franklin D. Roosevelt was subjected to an assassination attempt 17 days before being inaugurated. Had the assassination attempt been successful, John Nance Garner would have been President.

1944-45–Franklin D. Roosevelt was diagnosed secretly with congestive heart failure, and had he died sooner than he did, Henry A. Wallace would have been President.

1950–A distant assassination attempt against President Harry Truman at Blair House, where he was staying while the White House was under renovation, would have led to Alben Barkley being President. Truman was not in the building at the time of the assassination attempt.

1963–The evening of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, past midnight, newly inaugurated President Lyndon Johnson was almost shot by accident by a Secret Service agent at the Vice Presidential home, which would have led to Speaker of the House John W. McCormack being President.

1965-1969–Lyndon Johnson, who had suffered a severe heart attack in 1955, and had bad drinking and smoking habits, and a gall bladder operation while President, would have had Hubert Humphrey succeed him as President, had he died in office.

1975–Twice, President Gerald Ford was subjected to assassination attempts in the month of September. Had either attempt been successful, Nelson Rockefeller would have been President.

1980–A plot against the life of President Jimmy Carter by John Hinckley, who later shot President Ronald Reagan, occurring in the fall campaign, would have led to Vice President Walter Mondale in office before the national election, and might have led to him defeating Reagan, out of tragedy and sympathy over the assassination.

1991–George H. W. Bush had a heart problem, atrial fibrillation, and had it been more serious, leading to his death, Vice President Dan Quayle would have been President.

1998-1999–When Bill Clinton was under investigation in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and faced eventual impeachment and trial, had he resigned or been removed, Vice President Al Gore would have become President.

2001- On September 11, there was theoretical danger by terrorists against President George W. Bush, as he flew to different locations on Air Force One. Had bad fortune occurred, Dick Cheney would have become President.

Just imagine Presidents Thomas Marshall, John Nance Garner, Henry A. Wallace, Alben Barkley, John W. McCormack, Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, Dan Quayle, Al Gore, and Dick Cheney!

It shows just how important the Vice Presidency is, and who is the occupant of that office!