Breaking News: Geraldine Ferraro , the first female VP candidate ever in us history has passed (CNN)

She ran with Walter Mondale against Reagan/Bush in 1984.

Update with link as its availeble

quote Originally posted by htexans1: Breaking News: Geraldine Ferraro , the first female VP candidate ever in us history has passed (CNN) She ran with Walter Mondale against Reagan/Bush in 1984. Update with link as its availeble

http://www.huffingtonpost.c...d-dies_n_840995.html

I think they would have stood a better chance if they had swapped places on the ticket. Mondale never stood a chance.

rip Ms Ferraro.

.....and?

Never really achieved the fame for it. Basically a shrug of shoulders.

After the news cycle for the day, tomorrow she will be forgotten and never spoken about again.

I do find it fascinating that for a brief period (1-day at most) a has-been is a topic because of their death and only because, when people never really cared in the first place.

Something about death that people want to let everybody know. I guess it takes more of a precedent than any event in the person's life. Somebody died, time to tell the world.

RIP she seemed like a decent lady in the flap she was involved in recently. She came off classy.

Being a democrat, she will still vote in the next presidential election.

quote Originally posted by heybjorn: Being a democrat, she will still vote in the next presidential election.

Cmon, she was a good woman and a role model for a lot of women who were little girls when she was VP candidate.

[This message has been edited by tbone42 (edited 03-26-2011).]

Wow! I JUST saw her on the news in an interview a few months ago! I had no idea...

May she rest in peace.
I haven't heard much about her other than her unsuccessful bid for VP, but she seemed like a decent person and nice enough lady.

(Mike. I knew what you meant. Had no reflection on her whatsoever.)

I think her nomination was as contrived as Sarah Palin’s and many voters saw it that way at the time. Her nomination did make history and was a milestone in the advancement of women in politics. She lost a ten year battle with cancer and died at 75. Sad news.

quote No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. ~ John Donne