John, just hang in there. Mitchy and I have your back. And quit crying in public.
Now let's fast-forward to, say, May, June of 2016. Let's say that Mrs. Clinton has withstood all of this email stuff, Elizabeth Warren has not gotten in the race, that Al Gore took the temperature and decided not to go, that it's just Mrs. Clinton and Joe Biden. On the other side, the Republican field has a great list of possible candidates and they will have by that time engaged in a vigorous debate which may have served to educate the country on the foibles and the problems of the past eight years and the country may be looking forward to a dramatic change to Republican in the election of 2016. Obama fully aware of this would go on television and say that the Democrat field is so weak that he's not confident that Mrs. Clinton can win. He might even take steps to get her to, you know, to make sure she can't win, you know, sabotage her campaign, and then call a national speech to the nation in which his main point is that it's beginning to look like the Republicans will win the White House and this is something that he can't risk -- not after eight courageous years of transforming America, we just can't put it all to risk of being unraveled and undone by these racist, sexist, misogynist, whatever else Republicans.
And so as a service to the nation and to his accomplishments he is going to forget the 22nd Amendment and either not leave office or run for re-election himself as the Democrat nominee. Just imagine that scenario -- I don't care how unreal it sounds, how unbelievable is sounds -- imagine it. What would anybody do? What would Mitch McConnell do? What would John Boehner do? Mark Levin would have a heart attack, I would probably have an aneurysm, we'd be done (laughs). What would anybody do?! The Supreme Court would say, nobody has standing here, there's no case yet, Obama hasn't done anything yet. We can't do anything about this until he actually serves a third term and then you've got to bring a case to us.
What would anybody do if he says this? The media would be cheering it. Put all this in the mix. This guy's out there thinking about this. It's hard to believe, it's so unlikely, but don't think -- Obama's planning on staying in Washington part of the time, he's got a plan to continue to live in Washington after he has left office for that exact reason. Whoever the next president, Republican or Democrat, if that next president starts to unravel any of this, Obama's on television every night, he knows he's going to have the media in his back pocket, and whoever the next president is is not going to get away with anything without a huge fight from Obama.
What would the Republicans do? I think the odds are the Republicans might call an emergency constitutional convention and amend the 22nd Amendment, permitting Obama to do this, because their fear of being critical of Obama would destroy their chances of winning with the independents.
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Limbaugh's being deliberately provocative, to be sure, and the scenario he describes remains difficult to envision.
He is using absurdity to illustrate reality.
Certainly not the Republicants.
Well, since Art. II, Sec 1 did not apply to him, why should Amendment 22?
We lost the Constitution when we did not uphold it.
I would not discount any possibility, given the lawlessness of the current administration. OBTW, the Pubbies might as well slit their own throats - they are done.
They have 6 years of practice doing this very thing.
What Rush is saying is:
Soetoro does as he pleases now - and NO ONE lifts a finger to stop him.
WHERE is the line that must (if ever) be crossed before ANYONE does anything to stop him?
This is dangerous because it isn’t just barry. It’s Jarrett and the rest of the ‘cabinet’ and the entire democrat party and now most of the Republican party...
They see that there all in the same club and NOBODY will stop them from doing whatever the heck they want. barry is only paving the way.
Destination = absolute tyranny - SOON.
We’re safe on this one. Baraq is far too lazy to want another 4 years in the WH. He’ll collect a billion in POTUS pardons and move on the the golf course and frequent snippets on PMSNBC.
Liz Warren is on deck to become Baraq 2.0
the retired generals
Not too difficult in this end of Arizona. History...history...history ladies and laddies.
John, just hang in there. Mitchy and I have your back. And quit crying in public.
I heard this live when he said it, I strongly disagree with the premise. Obama will NOT RUN for a third term, no way in hell. That is why we are giving IRAN NUKES, so they can wage WAR, watch for elections to be cancelled.
I need more tin foil!
A couple things..
“...which may have served to educate the country on the foibles and the problems of the past eight years”
They’ll just try to convince the leftist moderator why their technocracy is better than others.
“The media would be cheering it.”
There would be wall to wall coverage on why this is a great “courageous” idea. To heal the hurts of racism, etc.
He’s right. No one would stop him.
Obama is King of the Washington Thiefdom; he will rule as long as he wants...UNLESS we elect a new Sheriff!
CRUZ 2016!
He will Tar, Feather and run obama with his minions clean out of town.
Will there even be a United States of America, as we knew it, remaining after the next two years of Hussein doubling down on the “fundamental transformation”?
Moochelle might.
This is flaw in Limbaugh's argument.
A person who is ineligible to serve cannot run for office. Running is the act, and the other candidates have standing because they are harmed by an ineligible candidate that is running nonetheless.
Then you have the issue of donors giving to an illegal campaign. Can they write off a campaign donation to an illegal campaign? Will the FEC accept filings from an ineligible candidate?
These are all issues that are ripe for the courts during the campaign season. Obama's illegal campaign would be distracted by endless court challenges to the legality of his filings, and donors would be challenged for the legality of their contributions.
-PJ
I’ve been saying it . This communist monster Barack Obama is not leaving .Barack Obama wants to turn America into a socialist state where each individual’s property and all income is confiscated by the government to be redistributed by the state to those in “need” and for lofty goals like fixing the global warming hoax.
The message the courts and the entire system gave us in 2008 was that if the people (or vote counters) will “elect” a person, the Constitution be damned. The ONLY measure of eligibility was 51% of the electoral vote, because no court would EVER “overturn an election”.
If this scenario should happen there are a lot of people right here on Free Republic who will deserve everything they get, because they were afraid to “go birther” and say that we have a Constitution. If we didn’t have one then - and we didn’t, and a lot of “conservatives” called us crazy for pointing that out in 2008 and since - then it’s pretty lame for those same people to say that we should have one now.
Using the arguments cited right here at Free Republic, as long as each state Secretary of State gets the paperwork for Obama’s name to be put on the 2016 ballot there is nothing the states can do but put his name on, as long as he gets the votes the electors can’t do a thing but vote for him, as long as the electors’ votes are lawfully done Congress can’t do a thing, as long as Congress certifies the election SCOTUS can’t do a thing.... and nobody in the entire country has “standing” to say boo, and even if they did the courts would never take the case because eligibility is not a LEGAL/Constitutional issue but a “political” issue. That includes eligibility for a THIRD term, just as much as it includes eligibility for a first term.
Anybody who ridiculed the “birthers” but now wants to say this isn’t how the system is supposed to work can FIRST kiss the arses of every “birther” you ridiculed, and only then have you ANY credibility to say a peep.