Kerry/Clinton 04 Get ready for it!!

[Capitalism2003]

No...NOT Hellary folks...

BILL!

I swear..I can say it coming...The dems are so anxious to get Bubba back in the WH...This is a dream come true for them...the most liberal senator and most morally bankrupt ex-president...together

a left wing dream team.

like it or not, the Clinton/Mcauliff team, combined with the Kerry/Dean/moveon.org/George Soros machine will bring in tons of money from lefty whackos and they will be able to compete with Bush on the money side...

Get ready folks.

[Keith in Iowa]

What's the point? I don't think the sinkmeister is constitutionally able to be president again.

[Capitalism2003]

Bill can be VICE-President.

..now law against it.

[Keith in Iowa]

I think there'd be a firestorm of criticism of Kerry if he picked the Sinkmeister as veep - because he could not become president if Kerry suddenly 'fell ill' or something...this scenario would make the Speaker of the House second in line for the throne. No demonrat would be dumb enough to do it.

[Qwinn]

No way.

The Clintons don't want to see any Democrat win under any circumstances. That's why Hillary just endorsed him - she's perfectly aware that he is -completely- unelectable, even less than Dean was, hell, even less than she is.

The Clintons are waiting for 2008. At that time, they will be in an infinitely better position if a Republican is coming out of office and the Democrat field is wide open, then if it's Kerry coming out of office (because, just like Bush for the Republicans, Kerry will be the automatic nominee)

As for the law against Clinton being Veep (not that I think it'll happen, but just as a point of law), the Constitution states that no one may be "elected President" for more than two terms. Now, it depends on how literalist you want to get. If he's elected as a VP, and then the Prez dies, was he "elected President"? If you want to get highly technical, no, he was elected Vice President, not President. If you're looking at the obvious spirit of the law, he was elected into a position that is a heartbeat away from President, which should count as the same thing.

If Democrats were to try this, you can expect them to suddenly become strict Constitutional literalists. For this issue. Then it's back to inventing and destroying the Constitution without a single shred of backing.

Qwinn

[leadpenny]

Amendment XXII

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.

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Interesting thought but I believe the Office of the President includes the Vice President. Not sure.

[Lion in Winter]

Pure BS.

[Capitalism2003]

new AOL poll...pops up on the main screen when people sign on...

election held today: Kerry or Bush?

68% Kerry
32% Bush

nearly 100,000 responses...

[Grut]

There's an op-ed in the NY Times today which proposes exactly this. Did you know about it or are you prescient?

[dyed_in_the_wool]

All from people dumb enough to use AOL...
;-)

[longtermmemmory]

Since the deomocrat party has officially become the "Gay!" Party, does this mean Hitlary will finally come out of the closet?

[Conservative Infidel]

I guess it would all revolve around parsing the meaning of the word "elected." (A la the meaning of the word "is").

[maggief]

If the election were held today, who would get your vote?
John Kerry 62%
George W. Bush 38%
Would Edwards make the best running mate for Kerry?
Yes 68%
No 32%
Total Votes: 109,779
Note on Poll Results

[longtermmemmory]

I think the clintons have set up their shadow democrat party with their 527 organizations. It does not matter how the rank and file votes, the clintons are operating under the golden rule, the man with the gold makes the rules.

Perhaps McAuwful is leaving the DNC in order to run the 527's outside the view of the public.

Hitlary and Bill are working to solidify their control. Bush and Rove are working to obliterate the Democrat party.

[longtermmemmory]

could you please elaborate. What note? Is this a poll of democrats? This makes no logic at all. source?

[William McKinley]

I would love to see the Democrats try that stunt, trying to pull a "depends on the meaning of the word 'is'" over the meanings of the various amendments which limit a President to two terms.

We would absolutely crush that ticket. It would remind independents of everything bad about the Clinton presidency and would rally our base like nothing you have ever seen.

[dawn53]

Well, that sounds like good news to me.

It doesn't seem to me that Clinton on the ticket would do anything but energize the Republican and Independent voters that were disgusted with him to turn out and vote for Bush.

It's only been 4 years and all the events around his "leaving office", i.e. pardons, taking things from the White House, would be hashed up.

I think Clinton on the ticket (either Clinton for that matter) would secure a Dem loss.

If the Clintons thought Bush could be defeated, Hillary would be running!

That's MHO.

[MEG33]

Is this a humor vanity?

[Amelia]

What makes you think there's even the slightest possibility of this happening? (Other than in your nightmares, perhaps...)

[maggief]

I was responding to post #5, the AOL poll.

Here's the note:

NOTE: Poll results are not scientific and reflect the opinions of only those users who chose to participate. Poll results are not reflected in real time.