I say Biden-Clinton in '24, even though there's no chance

I appreciate that this isn't possible, but my druthers for President Biden's running mate would be Hillary Clinton.

Whatever one's sentiments about Veep Kamala Harris, there can be no reasonable dispute about Clinton's superior qualifications for assuming the higher job, should Biden succumb to illness or worse before 2028. Less wife than co-worker of a president for eight years, service in the Senate and then as secretary of state. The last position could prove especially invaluable in today's unstable world.

I've been meaning to express my v-p preference for some time. I just never got around to it. Today's Daily Beast story on Clinton's MSNBC interview last night rattled my memory banks, so there — I have completed the mission, notwithstanding its hopelessness.

The interview's chief topic oddly appears to have been Clinton's opinion of Tucker Carlson and his more-than-Lindberg-like visit to Russia, where he's swooning over the pristine virtues of its bloodthirsty, mass-murdering dictator. This makes as much sense as anything else Tucker has said or done, so it's not much of a news story. Just Tucker being Tucker, buffoon being buffoon.       

His sojourn in the icy land of soulless corruption "shows me what I think we’ve all known," said Clinton. "He’s what’s called a 'useful idiot.' I mean, if you actually read translations of what’s being said on Russian media, they make fun of him. I mean, he’s like a puppy dog." With a touch of rabies, I'd add.

Clinton also sees Tucker as, perhaps, Putin's homeboy Sean Hannity someday. "I would not be surprised if he emerges with a contract with a Russian outlet. He says things that are not true, he parrots Vlamidir Putin’s pack of lies about Ukraine."

If an American electoral apocalypse comes in November, lying and repeating a leader's lies will be the exclusive White House job requirement as much as it now is in the Kremlin. So Tucker may want to stick around and see how things go here.  

But back to my veep choice. "I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope," opined T.S. Eliot in one of his typically cheerful poems. (That one ended with the agony / of death and birth.) I'm not even waiting, let alone hoping. To wait for a Biden-Clinton ticket would surpass my usual foolishness, even though I believe the ticket would be a boon for Biden.

There's little enthusiasm for Harris, while there are millions of 2008-disappointed Clinton supporters who, I've no doubt, would love to see her have another shot at the White House. Regrettable it is, then, that cutting a less appealing Black woman from the ticket would nevertheless rock Biden's already shaky coalition, offsetting, somewhat, "the boon."      

So yes, it's hopeless, the Clinton alternative. But think of what else we'll be missing, something so priceless it cannot be bought. The right would positively freak out if Biden chose her.

Comments

[Uncle Billy]

Everything the Dems do these days freaks out the GOP. So unless their heads were literally exploding (something I'd pay to see), how would we know they were freaking out any more than usual?

[ren]

How about an AOC-Michelle Obama ticket?

[PM]

I'd prefer a Michelle Obama-Stormy Daniels ticket, ren, the veep just to remind voters throughout the four years.

[Anne J]

What about a Hillary Clinton Stormy Daniels ticket. 2016's revenge.