vice president — Pen is mightier https://www.penismightier.com/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:52:46 +0000 en vice president — Pen is mightier en VP Pick https://www.penismightier.com/discussion/1088/vp-pick Wed, 07 Aug 2024 07:00:13 +0000 General Clme 1088@/discussions So I've been avoiding getting too deep into the "is Biden too old" debate because, well, I thought he was. His campaign had dropped at one point in 2020 that he was going to be a one-term transitional president, and then he pulled back on that.

That said, I wasn't part of the crowd that thought he was suddenly suffering from dementia after the debate, but rather that he was just acting like an 80-something year old man. Which was, quite frankly, a concern.

So... I was fine with Harris stepping in. Not happy with the pick, but fine with it. She'll be fine. Especially since she didn't pick the candidate everyone was pushing her to... Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania. He had some skeletons in his closet and probably would have lost her the tenuous support of some of the anti-Netanyahu folks.

Speaking of the VP pick... what does everyone think of Tim Walz? He probably doesn't give Harris any leverage in battleground states.

My own opinion is that at least he doesn't hurt Harris at all. He isn't just boring centrist/conservative Democrat like Tim Kaine or 2000-era Lieberman either. However, I'm not sure if he does anything for Harris's ticket unless he really blows away J.D. Vance in a debate. Which... well, maybe he will.

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