Posted on 11/09/2004 10:59:18 AM PST by Stoat
"I like him, but I'm glad. If this turned into another Bush Clinton election the whole thing would have too much of the wiff of a decadant Roman Republic with the Patrician families constantly vying for power. I don't want a monarchy or an empire."
Hear hear!!!
Now, if Jeb is out can we recruit Marcus Aurelius?
Good....let him run for Senate. We are not like the democrats. We do not need family legacies as the only potential candidates for office.
I hope not. While I like Jeb, I do not think America is ready for a dynasty. Also, on a personal note, I would like to see an election year without a Bush or Dole on the ticket. The last one was 1972 - over thirty years ago!
That's not a problem, insofar as age goes. He's only 51. So in 2012, he'd still be only 59. He's young enough that he could even run in 2016, at age 63.
but if they're the best candidates, why not?
He also said he's not interested in running for the Senate in 2006.
Well maybe he will & maybe he won't but why not just encourage the rumor he is planning to run.
Float it around about ad nauseum.
The Liberal-Socialists will have mass aneurysms & those who don't will suffer strokes.
Now I ask, would that not be a splendid example of conservative compassion being applied?
...to cull the leftist herd? :o)
I wouldn't like the idea of him running anyways. We don't need any dynasties in this country.
Well, as long as it isn't that one from NY.
how about Cheney-Bush 2008? run the same ticket, flip the 2, and drive the liberals insane...haha
Tom Ridge (PA) is looking at running. Maybe George Allen (VA). Both former governors.
The real key is to see who Dubya "annoints" two years from now.
Constitutionally, W is barred from running for VP, having been twice elected to the presidency.
I'd rather that he didn't annoint anyone. After eight years of Republican rule, there will be advantages to being able to run as an outsider, as someone who wasn't part of the administration.
doesn't spell that out...
The 22nd Amendment
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.
Ratification was completed on February 27, 1951.
fla ping
< Devils advocate > HMmm Didn't see anything about not running for VP in 2008 ...Condi/Bush 2008??
Well if he doesn't run, we better have another Bush, Dole, or Nixon in the wings, we can't break the streak that's been going on since 1952 (sans 1964)
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