Insiders are torn on whether ‘nepo baby’ Andy Beshear should be Kamala Harris’s running mate

There’s a tradition of people with famous names getting into national politics by way of what John Adams called “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived,” also known as the vice presidency of the United States.

Both George HW Bush and Al Gore each served in the second-highest office in America after coming into politics as the son of a famous father, using their family reputation as a stepping-stone.

So if Kamala Harris chooses Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear to be her running-mate — and if she defeats Donald Trump to become the 47th President of the United States — Beshear would find himself in good company.

The Bluegrass State’s chief executive is a second-generation politician, what some might call in today’s parlance a “nepo baby,” having grown up the son of Steve Beshear, who served as Kentucky’s governor from 2007 to 2015.

The elder Beshear also held two other statewide offices in the Commonwealth, having served as Attorney General from 1980 to 1983 and as Lieutenant Governor from 1983 to 1987.

His son was just three years old the first time his father won a statewide race, but for most of his life his dad was simply a former office holder who held a job as a high-powered Louisville lawyer.

That changed in 2007 when Beshear was lured back into electoral politics by a corruption scandal-plagued Republican who was seen as a possible target by Democrats.

Steve Beshear emerged from a large primary field to defeat the GOP incumbent, Ernie Fletcher, and was re-elected four years later.

He left office in 2015 as a relatively popular Democrat who was contstrained by term limits. But Andy, his son, was already getting set to follow in his footsteps.

In 2016,