"Is there anything in the laws that would prevent Dick Cheney from naming GWB as his VP?
I suppose the only issue would be if there somehow were legal charges brought against President Bush during the recall or to trigger the recall that he was found guilty of (Note: A recall isn't even given credence in the Constitution, but I don't expect a Lib to know that..)"
Thanks....that's what I thought.
Wish I had the skill to make up a phony petition to have the constitution changed, giving the right to GWB to be able to run again in 2008. My bet they'd soon drop that "GWB stole the 2000 and 2004 elections" chant.
Well, at least for a while.
I cite Amendment 12 of the United States Constitution:
"...
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."
followed by Amendment 22:
"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, in '08, would GWB be constitutionally ineligible to the office of President (and consequently that of Vice President) by means of election only, or by any means? If the former, then yes GWB could be elected VP; if the latter, then no.
Wow, if you hated Bush v. Gore, you'd loathe this case.
A sidebar to the first interpretation that I can see would be that GWB could be elected as Vice President, but be able to serve no more than two years as acting President, since if he serves any more than that, he would violate Amendment 12.