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Originally Posted by Tactitus
But as FDR himself so aptly demonstrated, the Vice-President is only a cerebral hemorrhage away from the Presidency. Vice-Presidents have become far more important and far more engaged than they used to be. Witness the fact that a number of Democrats want to impeach Dick Cheney--they obviously seem to think he's doing something! Consequently, I would argue, the Vice-Presidency has proven to be a very significant qualification for those who would be President. So much so, in fact, that Vice-Presidents are now the presumptive Presidential nominees for their party when their terms end (assuming they don't accede to the office directly and that they actually want to run for President). In my lifetime, only Dan Quayle has failed to parley the Vice-Presidency into at least a Presidential nomination.
Possibly, yet we see a lot of Vice-Presidents becoming President. Radio Shack managers--not so much.
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To be fair Cheney is a special case. It is perfectly natural that even the usually irrelevant office of VP becomes important when the President can't tie his own shoe laces