Abcarian : Reports of a rift between Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren play into Republican hands
But no tactic is more tiresome than trying to exploit a rift between two major political figures who happen to be women.
Seems like a reasonable if somewhat bumbling response from one politician trying to avoid being put on the spot by predicting what another politician will do. But, of course, no vice president is indispensable. Lack of indispensability is practically a requirement for the role. The job of the vice president is to stay alive, and to assume the presidency if something terrible befalls her boss. That’s it. Which is why FDR’s vice president, John Nance Garner, famously quipped that the office “is not worth a bucket of warm piss.”
Sarah Palin and Mike Pence were sops to the conservative Christian wing of the GOP, which deemed John McCain in 2008 and Donald Trump in 2016 insufficiently pious. Biden in 2008 was a sop to those who thought Barack Obama lacked foreign affairs experience. The bland Tim Kaine was a sop in 2016 to the voters whose heads would have exploded if Hillary Clinton had chosen a person of color or another woman. Dick Cheney, George W.
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