My opinion does not matter.
And yet you stated that you think that she was the best person for the job here:
Let’s face it: by explicitly saying that he would be looking for a VP who was black and female, he actually soared the fragile feelings of white men everywhere who cannot deal with the fact that the best person for the job was black and female.
And you claimed that anybody who opposes restricting VP selection to black females has "fragile feelings".
She was selected to be Joe Biden’s running mate—by Joe Biden, no doubt with a lot of input from a lot of people. Because that’s how VP candidates are chosen: for their qualifications ( prior experience, education), their character, and for what they bring to the ticket.
And in the case of Joe Biden, for their race and gender.
The US electorate voted for that ticket.
Sure. I voted for that ticket too. That does not mean that people who voted for the ticket thought she was the best choice Biden could have made, or that it was wise of him to
The election was close - not looking at the final EV tally but by margins in several of the battleground states - Pennsylvania was 0.2%, Arizona 0.4%, Wisconsin 0.6%. . And it could easily have ended with another Trump victory.
Trump pledged to replace RBG with another woman and he did—albeit a woman who by many measures, is not qualified given that she had rarely tried any case in a court of law. Unfortunately she was confirmed for that position.
As you say, Trump replaced a woman with another. I think it was wrong to restrict his selection to women only, but at least it is understandable from that standpoint. Biden restricted eligibility not just by gender but also by race, and replaced a white man. Note also that now blacks are overrepresented on the court (22% representation vs. 14% population) while there have not been any white men placed on the court by a Democratic president since 1994.
As to the "Notorious ACB", we both disagree with her politics and her decisions, but it is wrong to say that she is unqualified. JD from Notre Dame (a solid school, but good for SCOTUS justices not all be from Harvard and Yale!), she clerked for a DC Court of Appeals judge and Antonin Scalia at SCOTUS. She was a district court judge. So how is that unqualified?
I did not say that in my opinion, she was the best person for the job. In my opinion, there exists no single best person for that or any other job or office.
That's what you said. You said that "[Biden] actually soared the fragile feelings of white men everywhere who cannot deal with the fact that the best person for the job was black and female".
I agree that there is no objective way to say that one person is THE best for the job. It will always be a matter of opinion to some effect. How do you weigh certain qualities for example. However, I think you run the better chance of selecting somebody better if you are open to all qualified candidates rather than restricting selection to only one race and gender.
Every candidate for POTUS selects ( in conjunction with the party who nominates them) selects as their running mate someone who fulfills whatever demographic needs and whatever personal characteristics ( ie: is this someone I can work with effectively fir the next 4-8 years) and who I can trust.
Yes. Both Obama and Reagan picked running mates who were experienced insiders for example. But Biden first restricted himself to only consider women and then circumstances (i.e. the George Floyd riots) led him to only consider black women. But that shut him off from ~93% of the population.
I should say almost every candidate—I am pretty certain that Pence was chosen specially because he seemed to have a mo I re steady, conservative disposition and lacked a personality that would compete with Trump.
Also, it helped with Evangelicals who were nervous about Trump's personal qualities.
In a very different way, I think that’s how Vance was chosen as well. Trump agreed to it but I doubt he had much more of a hand in selecting a running mate. Given his desperation, he likely acquiesced to whomever Peter Thiel told him to chose.
Do you have any evidence of that?
I feel extremely confident that had Biden not explicitly stated his intentions and still chose Kamala Harris from among all of the candidates who were qualified, the same people would still be harping on Harris as a DEI hire.
I would not, but I would also not think she would be a wise choice. For that reason I do not think she would have been chosen save for Biden's pledge and the 2020 riots.
