Aaron Burr – The only VP to kill a man in office. He shot the Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, in a duel after Hamilton (reportedly) deliberately shot wide.

They accepted a duel, those were the consequences. That is hardly anything that would qualify as “worst VP” material.

rokemronnie on December 24, 2008 at 1:08 PM

At least you say who they’ve sold their office to after their party name.

Feedie on December 23, 2008 at 10:55 PM

Or it’s an easier way to slip your desired candidate in while they criticize Miers, the decoy.

leetpriest on December 24, 2008 at 10:28 AM

Reagan’s mess is finally being cleaned up, a few years too late. The only parts that remain are in the South. That’s what you get when you have practically every golf cart transplant owning a member of Congress.

Panama, Iran, and activist (lifestyle) environmentalism are the only faults I’d put with Carter. FDR – he cleaned up the mess Hoover built up with credit.

IMO, it was the Democrats, particularly southern Democrats, who delayed the Civil Rights era by a half century in America. Had it not been for the Democrats, the post-WW2 Civil Rights era would have probably been the post-WW1 Civil Rights era.

Before he changed parties to get access to committee appointments when the Democrats lost control of the Senate, big Dick, Shelby (R., Mercedes/Toyota/Honda/Hyundai) was a Dixiecrat.

umm, I think you’ll find some disagreement and some other history on this one by some southern conservatives bushwackers / dead-enders.

FIFY

Bush and Cheney are the worst U.S. President and V.P. respectively who were elected and served in this millennium.

malclave on December 23, 2008 at 5:48 PM

Again, Spiro Agnew was a convicted criminal, and worse by far than Cheney.

Jimmy Carter was worse than Bush, FDR was worse than Bush. Here’s why: while there are bad Bush policies that will affect us for a few years, the moonbats that are coming in office will eradicate those policies, as well as a few good ones. FDR has been dead for years, and is still boning the American public.

The only reason Carter doesn’t get as bad a rap as he deserves is because Regan cleaned up after Carter’s mess.

Go out and pick up a book instead of buying the garbage that CNN shoves down your throat.

What does ‘worst’ mean? If you consider the fact that he had to cover for a complete incompetent for 8 years he can hardly be considered the ‘worst’.

Vernon Hardapple on December 23, 2008 at 10:43 PM

By that standard, wouldn’t Mondale be number one?

Somebody knocked Bush in the head over Harriet Miers and I can only imagine that it was Karl Rove.

A man can be hard to find in the mountains, Dick Cheney, your welcome at my fire anytime.

I hope to hear more of him in the future. He’s a man of substance.

If the VP’s job is to support administration policy, Thomas Jefferson may have been the worst VP in history. He pretty much did everything that he could to undermine John Adams.

My collie says:

Which just goes to show that it’s a good thing that a presidential candidate gets to choose his running mate in our current system.
CyberCipher on December 23, 2008 at 1:58 PM

I think the Founders got it right in the original Constitution prior to the Amendment regarding VP. When the VP was the runner-up to POTUS, there was more of a counter balance and less was done. When the government does less, we typically benefit.

If the VP’s job is to support administration policy, Thomas Jefferson may have been the worst VP in history. He pretty much did everything that he could to undermine John Adams.

My collie says:

Which just goes to show that it’s a good thing that a presidential candidate gets to choose his running mate in our current system.
CyberCipher on December 23, 2008 at 1:58 PM

well, as you know, back then the VP was the runner up to POTUS, prior to an Amendment to the Constitution….. Personally, I wish we had kept it the way the Founders intended it to be. Having the VP as a counterbalance would generally result in less getting done, and when government does less, we usually benefit.

Typical answers ……

“I don’t know.”
“Is that FDR?”
“Was he on Hogan’s Heroes?”

They voted him worst ever? They do even know who he is.

fogw on December 23, 2008 at 11:18 AM

When we were first married, we had 2 cockatiels. You could repeat almost any word to them and they eventually started to repeat it / speak it. It’s the same with many consumers of the MSM.

Of course, given those criteria, they were also the best.

I ignore polls like that. Too much angst.

“Worst ever” from people who almost certainly have no historical perspective? Sounds like a teenage girl’s diary when she writes about the boy she likes asking someone else to the dance.

Cheney is the best VP ever. He took an office that was generally regarded as a joke and turned it into a productive, useful, dynamic position that helped to strengthen our government – all well within the confines of the Constitution, which is what really ticks off his critics.

Much of this credit must also go to George Bush, who allowed Cheney the room to make the VP a serious position in his administration, but Cheney was instrumental in realizing the potential.

Dick Cheney will be sorely missed. I always felt better with him serving in the government. History will be very good to Dick Cheney. Very, very good.