Walter Mondale Is DEAD To Me!

Errr....I guess he was the Vice President. Before my time.

Sad!

It happened in Minnesota. Probably killed by white cops.

I think he would have a great president and Geraldine Ferraro his VP.

Both Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter were still alive forty years after leaving office!

I'm sure that's the record!

Well, shit...I thought he was already dead.

Mondale became much more conservative after he left government and tried to open a business.

His collapse is complete. He'll never be president.

So much a part of my youth. Makes me sad. RIP

[quote]So much a part of my youth. Makes me sad. RIP

The first presidential candidate I ever voted for.

Are there any Walters still living?

But Quayle, Cheney, and Pence are still with us.

[quote]Are there any Walters still living?

Barbara.

Wow. Jimmy Carter is still with us at 96.

He was a good civil servant, if not the most exciting one.

But I remember earlier this year seeing a clip of him from 1980 counting the votes as they were certified, and when he counted his home state, which voted for him, the whole chamber stood and applauded. Back when our government still had a semblance of dignity and purpose, before all was sold to the highest bidder.

[quote] I think he would have a great president and Geraldine Ferraro his VP.

Her....not so much.

wow I had no idea that Klobuchar interned for him during her college years

[quote] Are there any Walters still living?

Not me.

R12) only in your mind.

He was so magnetic..

Where's the beef?

He outlived his wife Joan and daughter Eleanor.

Apart from his lesser charisma compared to Reagan (who had Alzheimer’s for much of his second term), he lost decisively because he promised to eliminate the deficit through increased taxes. He was even mocked on game shows for saying he would raise taxes.

That defeat locked in American’s belief that they could get more military and social services without being asked to pay for it. Americans like fantasies, especially if they involve getting something for nothing.

Hillary Clinton’s loss was another for in the road for America. When faced with a tough choice, we always choose wrong.

.......

So sad that he didn't become President. He would have been so much better than that senile old fart Reagan. But America still bought into Reagan's "Morning in America" bullshit. Dumbasses.

[quote] He would have been so much better than that senile old fart Reagan.

If Mondale had been elected, America would have quickly become a Soviet client state. But I suppose you would have liked that, Boris.

R27 As compared to a corrupt corporate-owned state.

The Soviet Union was a shell game, which you would know if you studied history rather than inhaled right wing ideology, r27. There is no way the US could have been subservient to the USSR. You embarrass yourself suggesting that, but looking foolish does not seem to be a major concern for you.

R27 Well, a comment like that and YOU are the Boris, kid. Mondale was a solid, social democrat - who was also that kind of Democrat that hardline against Russia. You don't know your history.

But Reagan, completely duping "Reagan Democrats" into electing him to change all of the structures that had created the middle class from 1932 to the 70s. Our country has been sliding into complete dysfunction since and because of Reagan.

Rest in peace in WM.

He outlived his daughter Eleanor by a decade.

R27 has a problematic relationship with a point of view. The shit here about "Boris" and "Soviet client state" are far out of bounds of rationality.

Reagan was the completion of a 20+ year movement to drive the Republicans back where they were with McCarthy, except for the always-on-both-sides Eisenhower and a few Congressional leaders. Reagan handed the country over to the clique whose abominable descendants have overrun state houses, SCOTUS and Congress. Trump was the best friend Russia ever had. It's just the petite Soviet Union now but the same old military, tech. and intelligence components run it, under the paw of the oligarchs who gangstered into power.

So R27 is having fun or is just another debased turd dropper.

I had no idea Eleanor Mondale died. She simply dropped off my radar and I completely forgot about her.

He died in 1990.

R33, Monica Lewinsky was convinced Bill was fooling around with Eleanor and she was livid.

[quote]When faced with a tough choice, we always choose wrong.

Wrong. Neither 2016 not 2020 were tough choices, but in one the country did make the right choice.

[quote] Wow. Jimmy Carter is still with us at 96.

Nobody wants to have to give the eulogy for him and pretend he was a good president.

[quote]Wrong. Neither 2016 not 2020 were tough choices, but in one the country did make the right choice.

Yep. A shame about 2020, though.

Eleanor was a real good time gal. E! host who had four husbands. In the '90s, conservatives were adamant that she was fucking Bill Clinton in the White House.

Walter was a warm and decent guy (I met him once because a college friend had an office next door to him at the Dorsey law firm). And I interviewed wife Joan for my college paper; she would have been a lovely First Lady. Really bright, and "classy" in the old-school sense. Very tolerant of how different their children ended up being.

[quote]In the '90s, conservatives were adamant that she was fucking Bill Clinton in the White House.

With what, Michael Robinson's penis?

r15 Is he in poor health?

Has Susan Dey commented?

What is the State funeral protocol for Former VPOTUS? Will there be a Hearst? Will there be a Choir?

Is this Meghan Markel’s chance to attend a BIG FUNERAL?

R6 Same.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex will be allowed to wear full Admiral uniform to the funeral.

"Former President Carter honored his former vice president, Walter Mondale, after Mondale died on Monday at the age of 93.'Today I mourn the passing of my dear friend Walter Mondale, who I consider the best vice president in our country’s history,' Carter said in a statement shared on Twitter by The Carter Center. 'During our administration, Fritz used his political skill and personal integrity to transform the vice presidency into a dynamic, policy-driving force that had never been seen before and still exists today,' Carter continued. 'He was an invaluable partner and an able servant of the people of Minnesota, the United States, and the world.'"

“Couldn’t nail a shingle worth shit,” the Former President muttered.

I only knew about Walter Mondale because my teen television crush, Brandon Walsh, named his car after him.

RIP to the car & its namesake.

Can the Carters manage to attend this funeral?

R49 meet R34.

We've met, R51- I have him blocked.

[quote] What is the State funeral protocol for Former VPOTUS? Will there be a Hearst?

By federal law, Patty Hearst is required to attend the funeral of every Vice President. It was a condition of her parole.

I'm still alive, bitches!

Fritz was a good man. RIP.

Imagine going through life being called "Fritz".

[quote]He was a good civil servant, if not the most exciting one.

He was the Tommy Newsom to Carter's Johnny Carson.

He had a blandly pleasant ass, but I guess he couldn't live forever.

Get a load of Miss Nancy Reagan at r27...

I love how the new troll tactic from is "No, YOU'RE the Boris!" LOL

[quote] Imagine going through life being called "Fritz".

I can think of worse nicknames.

[quote] If Mondale had been elected, America would have quickly become a Soviet client state. But I suppose you would have liked that, Boris. [R27] As compared to a corrupt corporate-owned state.

A corrupt corporate owned client state of Russia you mean.

Now he is finally free of his obsession to jack up tax rates on other people. RIP

What time it the Larry King show about him?

Gayle King: “did he die of natural causes?”

Who?

Gayle King: "Why wasn't Walter a woman?"

Is Laura still a fall risk?

Laura who? Walter's wife was named Joan.

Monica vs. Eleanor

Has anyone investigated yet whether Mondale knew a Laura?

I thought he died years ago.

. . . ah, Laura . . .

If you read his Wiki page, he knew he was dying and made calls to Biden and former presidents to say goodbye—a day before he died. I can’t imagine...

He’d still make a better president than trump was.

r75 So would my pet amoeba.