There was some real potential in showing Vanessa’s misadventures in politics for quite a while, and audiences would ultimately forgive if she wasn’t the most outstanding politician out there.
It was an anticlimactic end to what may have Last Man Standing’s most entertaining storyline of Season 8.
Sure, it was very clear that while Vanessa had great ideas on how to transform the education system she was an awful politician, but this show is a comedy.