If Bill Clinton had a sex change operation and changed his name could he run as Hillary's VP?

Bizarre Mind ^ | 7/13/14 | Rebelbase

[Rebelbase]

I need a drink.

[MV=PY]

The Constitution says we can’t have a VP who is ineligible to be president. He served two terms.

Still, I wouldn’t put it past them.

[grey_whiskers]

If he had a sex change, would it improve his chances of being able to score with Hillary? /sarc>

[Impy]

IIRC you told me Bill Clinton WOULD be eligible to be elected VP based on the constitutional wording that makes him ineligible to be ELECTED President but not SERVE as President.

[AuH2ORepublican]

That’s correct, if we go by the text of the 22nd Amendment: “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.” So Bill Clinton can’t be elected president, but nothing in the amendment would prevent him from succeeding to the presidency. Someone elected president twice isn’t disqualified from being president, only from being elected president a third time (if being elected president twice disqualified one from being president, then Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Bush and Obama would have had to resign right after winning reelection).

And since bein elected president twice is not a disqualification from the office of the presidency, then a two-term president similarly is not disqualified from serving as VP. The 12th Amendment clarifies that VPs must meet the same constitutional qualifications for office as presidents, but it doesn’t say that only persons *qualified to be elected* president may be elected VP.

So Hillary could choose Bill as her runningmate (and Trump could choose George W. Bush, for that matter), but Hillary and Bill wouldn’t both be able to receive EVs from NY unless one of them moved to another state.