unwritten WW snippet

[wearemany]

This has gotta be the third or fourth time I've packed and unpacked my desk to move and saved this battered cocktail napkin from a JetBlue flight with the scribbles of a West Wing snippet on it. We all know I'm never going to finish it, and also that I was probably medicated out of my mind when I wrote it.



My note at the top says: The delicate dance of powerful men having to submit to each other.

SAM
I'd be your veep.
JOSH
Don't be ridiculous.
SAM
What, I'm not good enough?
JOSH
You're too good looking.
SAM
It's because I'm not a southerner, isn't it.
JOSH
Seriously, you're bordering on the absurd.
SAM
What's really absurd is how we've been through all this and now I find out you don't think I'm qualified to be your wing man.
JOSH
Sam.
SAM
It's kind of insulting, actually.
JOSH
Sam.
SAM
Do you think insulting is more, I don't know, insulting than absurd? Which is worse? To be rude or a fool?
JOSH
You're a fool.
SAM
Thanks.
JOSH
You're overqualified --
SAM
Good fools are hard to come by these days --
JOSH
But you're not too good looking.
SAM
A handsome fool, perhaps, but --
JOSH
You're just not VP material, Sam.
SAM
Well, who are you going to pick, then? Is there an ugly rude southerner in the wings I'm not seeing?
JOSH
(finally)
Time comes, you're gonna pick the right guy.
SAM
I'm gonna.
JOSH
Yeah, you will.
SAM
But you could --
JOSH
Nah. But you will. One day.
SAM
I --
He stops. There's no good exit strategy for this conversation.
JOSH
You got those Q&As done for the steelworkers thing?