2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWill Trump make the Perot mistake and try to pick a VP to get
through the convention and then find the right person later.
Why not? Will he change after Hillary makes her pick?
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Did Perot go through a convention? What am I forgetting?
CK_John
(10,005 posts)Though he had a distinguished military career, Admiral Stockdale is perhaps best remembered as Mr. Perot's running mate in the 1992 campaign. Mr. Stockdale was first selected as a stand-in on the ticket, since Mr. Perot needed to name a vice presidential candidate in order to qualify for the ballot in several states. Mr. Perot later kept Mr. Stockdale on after he fired his professional advisers, who wanted him to run a more conventional campaign with a better-known and more experienced running mate.
Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/politics/james-stockdale-perots-running-mate-in-92-dies-at-81.html?_r=0
msongs
(67,509 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,511 posts)Ross Perot (Dana Carvey) takes his running mate Admiral James Stockdale (Phil Hartman) on a joyride through the countryside to discuss his erratic performance in the vice presidential debate.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/joyride-with-perot/n10313
Tortmaster
(382 posts)It is easily in my top five, perhaps it is number one? And yet I still felt sorry for Admiral Stockdale. I won't feel sorry for this pick:
Brother Buzz
(36,511 posts)James Bond Stockdale
Admiral Stockdale was in over his head from the get-go, but we learned he may have been experiencing early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease so I'm willing to give him a pass.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)So the suggestion that Trump will emulate Perot and chose one running mate and then another doesn't make any sense at all. If Trump does that, it's not going to be based on a Perot model, but simply something Trump does by himself.
Shrek
(3,986 posts)Stockdale wasn't the only one.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)that I had to look it up online. In any case, he did not select one VP candidate and then switch to another one after the convention. The only time that's happened was in 1972.
Lord Magus
(1,999 posts)They're trying to not even let him pick the running mate.