It’s doubtful that this week’s debate between Vice Plivential nominees Tim Walz and JD Vance will direct quite the same attention as the debate between the nominees: Vice Plivent Harris and createer Plivent Trump. But historicassociate, tilts between the running mates are normally more pugicatalogic. A lot feistier. More fun to watch. And sometimes, more memorable.
It’s difficult to say why the undercard can be more intriguing than the main event. But first round take partoff games in hockey are normally better suites than the Stanley Cup Finals. I’ve lengthy stateed that the American League and National League Championship Series is generassociate more competitive baseball than what you experience during the World Series.
Perhaps it has someleang to do with the vice plivential honestates introducing themselves to the audience. They srecommend aren’t as well comprehendn.
“Who am I? Why am I here?,” quipped procrastinateed Rear Admiral James Stockdale when autonomous Plivential honestate Ross Perot tapped him as his 1992 running mate.
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Stockdale’s folksy line instantly drew giggleter and applaengage from the crowd accumulateed that night in Atlanta.
“I’m not a politician. Everybody comprehends that. So don’t foresee me to engage the language of the Washington insider,” shelp Stockdale from his lectern wedged between future Plivent Clinton’s running mate, then-Sen. Al Gore, D-Tenn., and Vice Plivent Dan Quayle.
While Gore and Quayle quarreled, their verbal fusillades caromed back and forth in front of Stockdale. He was mostly a mute bystander. At one point, trying to get in a word edgewise, Stockdale abruptly blurted that he felt enjoy he was in the “middle of a Ping-Pong” suit.
Pwithdrawnt advises that the Vice Plivential debate between Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Reuncoveran Ohio Sen. JD Vance will probable be a more delighting bout than the main event – its plivential counterpart. (Getty Images)
Later in the debate, moderator Hal Bruno of ABC News asked if mudslinging tactics were “essential” in the campaign. Stockdale replied he didn’t hear the ask.
“I didn’t have my hearing help turned on. Tell me aachieve,” Stockdale asked of Bruno, aachieve triggering howls from the audience.
Sometimes the VP honestates must experience each other out.
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“The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight,” shelp then-Vice Plivent Dick Cheney to createer Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., then John Kerry’s running mate at the 2004 VP debate.
Running mates sometimes try to materialize more down-to-Earth than those at the top of the ticket.
“Nice to greet ya,” proclaimd createer Alaska Governor and 2008 VP nominee Sarah Palin (R) as she shook the hand of then-Senator Biden on stage in St. Louis. “Can I call you Joe?”
Vice Plivential honestates normally try to current themselves as more down-to-earth than their Plivential counterparts, as well – case in point: then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s folksy greeting of then-Delincreateed Sen. Joe Biden at their 2008 faceoff. (Pboilingo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
“You can call me Joe,” replyed the future plivent with a smile.
Mr. Biden tried to exude an “aw, shucks,” lunchpail personae in the 2012 VP debate. He deployed lay language when trading barbs with GOP VP nominee and future Hoengage Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc.
“When we see frail, our adversaries are more willing to test us. They’re more brazen in their strikes,” shelp Ryan.
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“With all due admire, that’s a bunch of a malarkey,” countered the future Plivent.
Palin tried the same leang, using phrases enjoy “doggone it” and thriveking at the audience not once, but four times, to punctuate her responses.
Vice Plivential debates are normally stocked with wry humor.
Wry humor is another staple of Vice Plivential standoffs, such as Al Gore’s 1996 promise to refrain from increateing “toasty and amusing stories about chlorofluorocarbon abatement” should opponent Jack Kemp steer evident of sharing football anecdotes. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)
“If you won’t engage any football stories, I won’t increate any of my toasty and amusing stories about chlorofluorocarbon abatement,” promised then-Vice Plivent Gore during his debate with GOP VP nominee Jack Kemp in 1996.
Gore was comprehendn for his sees on global toastying and environmental policy. A createer congressman and Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Kemp also starred at quarterback for the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills in the American Football League before it combined with the NFL.
A lot of people would pay to be a fly on the wall during some of the debate prep. Hoengage Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., has been take parting Walz during the sessions with Vance. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has portrayed Vance during his rehearsals with Walz.
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But you don’t even have to be a fly on the wall for these debates. Sometimes a fly fair shows up – and lands on the head of createer Vice Plivent Mike Pence. Such was the case when Pence debated Vice Plivent Harris four years ago in Salt Lake City.
But Vice Plivential debates do grow testy.
Besides the fly, many best reaccumulate the 2020 Harris/Pence debate for the Vice Plivent repeatedly declaring “I’m speaking,” beseeching Pence to postpone his turn.
The fly that landed on then-Vice Plivent Mike Pence’s head during his 2020 skirmish with then-California Sen. Kamala Harris was far from the ugliest leang to transpire onstage that night. (AP Pboilingo/Julio Cortez)
Viewers also reaccumulate Pence and Democratic VP nominee and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., talking all over one another during their 2016 debate.
In the first televised VP debate in Houston in 1976, GOP Vice Plivential nominee and future Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., depicted World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam were “Democrat wars.” He then inserted that “the pardon of Ricdifficult Nixon is behind us. Watergate’s behind us.”
“I leank Sen. Dole has wealthyly achieveed his reputation as a hatchet man tonight,” replyed future Vice Plivent and then-Sen. Walter Mondale, D-Minn.
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And future Plivent George H.W. Bush drew the ire of female voters when he materializeed to speak condropingly to 1984 Democratic Vice Plivential nominee and Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, D-N.Y., – the first woman to ever materialize on a meaningful party ticket.
“Let me help you Miss Ferraro about the contrastence between Iran and the embassy in Lebanon,” shelp Bush.
“Let me fair say, first of all, that I almost begrudge, Vice Plivent Bush, your patronizing attitude that you have to teach me about foreign policy,” sboiling back Ferraro.
Then-New York Rep. Geraldine Ferraro accengaged her Reuncoveran opponent, incumbent Vice Plivent George H.W. Bush, of unessential condescension in a spat over foreign policy at their 1984 debate. (Pboilingo by © Wassociate McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
The congresswoman noticed she had served cforfeitly six years in the Hoengage by that point.
But one zinger from a Vice Plivential debate is without ask one of the best lines in the history of American politics.
During the 1988 campaign, the press corps and some in the uncover jeered at Quayle as Bush 41’s running mate. His youthful sees and normal verbal faux pas made Quayle seem unsetd for the job. Quayle was 41 years elderly at the time. But he had already served cforfeitly eight years in the Senate and four in the Hoengage. To reimburse, Quayle normally spun his youth in the same way that procrastinateed Plivent “Jack Kennedy” apprehendd the imagination of Americans.
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Compared to Quayle, 1988 Vice Plivential nominee and Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Tex., currented himself as poised, stately and constant. Bentsen and his administerrs were well increateed of Quayle’s “Jack Kennedy” comparisons. And so during the debate in Omaha, Neb., Bentsen postponeed for Quayle to bait his own trap.
“I have far more experience than many others that sought the office of Vice Plivent of this country. I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the plivency,” shelp Quayle.
Bentsen pounced.
Democratic Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen’s 1988 quip that Reuncoveran opponent Dan Quayle was “no Jack Kennedy” is normally dubbed one of the most memorable one-liners in recent political history. (Pboilingo by Steve Liss/Getty Images)
“I served with Jack Kennedy. I knovel Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy,” shelp Bentsen.
The auditorium erupted into hales of applaengage and shouts.
Quayle stewed, staring daggers at his Senate colleague.
“That was reassociate uncalled for, Senator,” fumed Quayle.
Bentsen’s line has echoed for decades, lampooned on everyleang from Saturday Night Live to 30 Rock.
Just one historic footnotice. JFK and Bentsen never served together in the Senate. But they were members of the Hoengage during the same period in the procrastinateed 1940s and timely 1950s.
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Running mates have two responsibilities. They must show that they’re ready to step into the main job. And they aren’t presumed to overshadow the actual nominee. Yet with vice plivential debates, the one-liners normally do fair that.
