Posted on 09/11/2016 7:20:32 PM PDT by LS
There is a great deal of consternation among both Democrats and Republicans tonight over the health condition of Cankles. There are (unverified) reports that the DNC is holding an "emergency meeting" to look into replacing her if her health deteriorates.
Many Republicans fear a bait and switch with Joe Bite-me, thinking he would be a tougher candidate. I don't think so, but assume the Dems WANT to do this in the first place. There are many, many reasons why it's just impossible and/or so suicidally impractical they will drop the idea.
1) Early voting has already begun in 26 states + DC and and absentee ballots are mailed in almost all. Many have already been returned. Hillary's was the only D name in the presidential slot. Anyone voting for Cankles, and NOT wanting to vote for Tim Kaine or Bite-me would have a lawsuit---and these could be in the thousands. (We'll follow the legality a little later).
2) In ALL the states, ballots are already printed. Only Hillary is on there. It would be possible to recall all these ballots and reprint them, but imagine the chaos. If Palm Beach can't design a basic ballot, how well do you think all 50 states would do at yanking ALL their ballots and replacing them? Even a margin of error of 10% would elect Trump easily (assuming he won't already be elected, which I will assume just for the purposes of argument).
3) As a matter of state law, it is too late for anyone NEW to get ON the state ballots in many states. Not all of these are D states, so many would NOT agree to allow any new name on the ballot.
4) Even allowing for numbskull neverTrumper governors like John Kay-sick, most GOP governors would fight the process tooth and nail if only because in most states the GOP candidates are ahead, especially in the senate races in FL, NC, PA, and elsewhere. In other words, Richard Burr, Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio, and scores of other Republicans who are safely LEADING would not want to risk a "re-vote" and start all over again.
5) Cankles will not be tossed out like waste paper. She would fight, and people might die. There is no way she will just hand this over to Kaine or Bite-me.
6) Practically speaking, I think the Bernie people would tolerate Kaine being substituted, but no one else. After all, he was "legitimately" nominated. But Bite-me over Bernie? No way. Even if this were pulled off, I'd wager that a solid 50% of the Bernie voters (or 25% of the total D vote) would vote for Stein or stay home.
7) But there is no way to put Bernie on either, for reasons listed above. Thus, only Kaine is an even remotely possible choice to replace Cankles.
8) Someone mentioned the Mel Carnahan situation, where he won election even though he died earlier. But he didn't have some other name substituted on the ballot for his, and the state Ds agreed his widow would take his place. A Carnahan for a Carnahan. The matter of "name confusion" did not exist. Herding people to the polls to vote (or worse, early vote) once is tough enough and we already knew that this year's turnout for the Ds would be well below 2012. But twice? Not gonna happen.
9) All this assumes there is no pushback. But Donald Trump is no Minion Romney. Trump would battle this at every level---legally, psychologically, and in terms of propaganda.
10) Ultimately, I predict that two things would happen: practically speaking, whoever might replace Cankles would suffer from the split vote so massively that he would only get, possibly, 35% of the vote, and maybe not even 80% of the D voters. Second, legally, there would be so many lawsuits immediately that it would be expedited to the USSC . . . which is 50/50. I don't think even the traitorous justices on our side would go along with a bait and switch. They would do the safe thing: rely on precedent.
And the precedent? Bush v. Gore, one man, one vote. Wouldn't it be ironic if George W. Bush, who wouldn't endorse Trump, became his unwilling ally and provided the margin of victory in 2016?
--where were you when Kennedy was assassinated?--where were you when Armstrong landed on the moon?
--where were you when Elvis died?
--where were you when the Challenger blew up?
--where were you when Princess Di crashed?
--where were you when 9/11 happened?
--now a generation will be asked...
--where were you when the twin candles collapsed???
The biggest reason Hillary will remain on the ballot is simple... WHO’S GOING TO TELL HER NO?
No one, no one in the DNC has the balls.. if they did, she would have never been the candidate in the first place.
She was a horrible candidate, no retail politicking ability, generally disliked, inauthentic etc... her only prayer of a win all along was the R’s putting up someone she could spin as the boogie man.. because She was never going to be able to convince people to vote FOR her... only vote AGAINST the other guy.
No one in the Democratic party has the balls to take this away from the Clintons... pure and simple... short of her dropping dead or into a coma or something while campaigning... any talk of replacing her is just not going to happen.
Breaking News: Hillary Is Up In The Polls. “Take A Look.”
Diamond and Silk show you the real poll data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfhYiGoxk1E
Exactly... No one in the Democratic party has the balls to take this away from the Clintons... no one.. if they did they would have never let her be the nominee in the first place...
Only way the candidate is changing is if she dies, or if she goes into a coma on live TV.. and even then may not happen.
But, it does use the word elected and it does not use the word ‘hold’.
At last, my patience is rewarded.
Good post. We are on the same wavelength. They are stuck with Huge Ankles.
Well stated.
Exactly. She had a zillion “superdelegates.” They are going to suddenly recant?
And people around her end up dead.
Really nice discussion. Glad to see FR in good form.
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Turn Queen B into a terminator drone eliminating all opposition, or queue the death panel.
Thanks!
There are multiple secondary explosions, her engines have stopped, and it sounds like she's breaking up. :)
The election is when the Electoral College votes.
Yes.
But there’s no vote by either college or people if the VP is selected after the election.
The v p guy can’t be selected after the electoral college votes. He can be elected by the electoral college when it votes, however. The most interesting legal issue would be if the electoral college elects someone president and then said person passes away before being sworn into office.
Hillary is so obsessed with being the first woman president all she wants to do is win the election. But even more so, she does not want to LOSE the election. If that looks more than likely, she’ll drop out due to poor health. Then she’ll die happy knowing history will say “she would have been the first woman elected president had she not fallen ill”. Oh, and all those schools that will be named after her!
Cankles would have to voluntarily step down as the Rat nominee for them to replace her - she likely has the goods on too many Rat Party leaders for them too attempt a Coup D’état and take the nomination from her. If she has FBI files on 900+ GOP types, it would be safe to say she has an equal number of FBI file information on Rat types.
The only way I can see Cankles walk away now and leave the race is if she is promised a full blanket pardon from Obama, should Trump win, for any crimes she may have committed from the time she was sworn in as Secretary of State thru the date of her last sworn Congressional testimony after she left the State Department, so that she cannot be charged for any perjury she committed in sworn testimony to Congress after she left the State Department.
She would likely also seek assurances that slick Willie and her close aides Abedin and Mills also get some protection from any future prosecution by a Trump appointed Attorney General.
This would likely be one of those infamous late night pardons Presidents issue on the 19th of January, just prior to their leaving office on January 20. It would be similar to the full blanket pardon Nixon received from Ford in 1974 after he resigned, for any crimes he may have committed while in office.
It has been said part of the reason she is running is to assure she stays out of prison.
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