We need a "far-left" vice president.
One of the few brilliant ideas that the BushRove mind-meld came up with was picking Dick Cheney as a running mate. The experience of having Cheney as VP has given us at least three object, if painful, lessons:
- Who the VP candidate is does not affect the presidential candidate's ticket's electability. At. All.
- Having a VP that scares the sh*t out of the opposition party is genius impeachment insurance for the POTUS.
- The VP can get away with doing a lot of stuff to advance his own agenda by waving his hands and screaming "Executive Privilege!"
Ergo, to take a page from the right-wing book, the simplest way to advance the left's agenda is to have a left-wing activist vice-president. Similar to how Cheney got oil lobbyists to write the energy policy, our VP could get Greenpeace to write our Global Warming policy, for example. Stuff like that. And if Congress tries to call him to account, he just has to stare them down and say something rude.
Yeah? Yeah? Is it not a brilliant playbook steal?
So let's pick a VP that can make the right-wingers can cower in fear!