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** Joe Biden might also have been picked for this reason, as despite his serious case of [[Open Mouth, Insert Foot|foot-in-mouth]] [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?|disease]], he had run two (kind of half-hearted) campaigns for President (in 1988 and 2008) and was seen as something of an elder statesman in the Democratic Party.
** Joe Biden might also have been picked for this reason, as despite his serious case of [[Open Mouth, Insert Foot|foot-in-mouth]] [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?|disease]], he had run two (kind of half-hearted) campaigns for President (in 1988 and 2008) and was seen as something of an elder statesman in the Democratic Party.
** There is some speculation that Mitt Romney may do this with [[Ron Paul]] to prevent a third-party or independent run from Paul.
** There is some speculation that Mitt Romney may do this with [[Ron Paul]] to prevent a third-party or independent run from Paul.
** Former Indiana state governor Mike Pence is an unusual combination of both the first and second types for President-Elect Donald Trump, being both a ticket-balancer (Pence is a strong conservative while Trump is a New York classical liberal) and a political advisor (Trump has never before held elective office while Pence is a former governor, and Pence has also been made chief of President-Elect Trump's presidential transition team).


[[John Adams]], the very first vice president, described his office as "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." John Nance Garner, Franklin D Roosevelt's first Vice President, was [[Brutal Honesty|more direct]], describing the vice presidency as "not worth a bucket of warm piss". (Ironically, FDR is one of the few presidents to have died in office, although Roosevelt had ditched Garner long before.)
[[John Adams]], the very first vice president, described his office as "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." John Nance Garner, Franklin D Roosevelt's first Vice President, was [[Brutal Honesty|more direct]], describing the vice presidency as "not worth a bucket of warm piss". (Ironically, FDR is one of the few presidents to have died in office, although Roosevelt had ditched Garner long before.)