[Robert DeLong]

With just your statement I have no context in which to determine what William F. Buckley, Jr. intent really was. He had to say more than just that, is my point. Lacking what his real intent was makes it impossible for me to respond. other than to say there is no evidence to suggest that that ticket would have won the election., because as you said Eisenhower was ineligible die to the 22nd amendment that established term limits for both political offices of President & Vice President.

Seeing as how William F. Buckley, Jr. was well versed in politics, he may have been saying it in jest, because a) he knew about term limits & B) it is unlikely that a former President would ever serve as Vice President.

I never said that I agreed with this guy's claim, because of the 22nd amendment.

My main reason for posting it, is that as I read it I envisioned liberal heads exploding around the world. It was a rather entertaining vision to be sure. It was more for entertainment value.

There was another article posted that claimed Trump might consider a third term, which I didn't even bother to read.

I assumed he was trolling to make more liberal heads explode. 🙂👍

[Verginius Rufus]

Buckley's comment would have been in National Review and I doubt he expected it to be taken seriously.

I was once in the same room with him when he spoke at my college when I was an undergraduate, but I didn't speak to him one-on-one and it wouldn't have occurred to me to ask him about his 1964 comment.