When will Hillary quit the senate?

self | 11/29/2007 | Moi

[Phlap]

Running for higher office from the senate is a losing proposition. It didn't work for Lloyd Benson or Joe Lieberman as VP and it didn't work for John Kerry as Pres. Now, leaving didn't help Bob Dole bu that is another story.

So the question is when should Hillary quit the senate?

[wastedyears]

Kerry didn’t have the army she does.

[RedEyeJack]

Some people run for office because they want to DO something... Others, like Hillary and her husband run because they want to BE something.

Too bad Couric didn’t have the stones to ask this question when she got the “I WILL WIN!” response in the interview. We might have seen a high order cranial detonation...

maybe next time...

[napscoordinator]

I don’t care. Did you read the originators post? Go back and read if you can.

[DManA]

You care enough to waste everyone’s time with idiotic posts.

[napscoordinator]

Dear God. I really hate stupid people. Look the original poster bitched about Hillary running and said only Democrats run and don’t resign their seats. I simply said no that is not true, John McCain and Duncan Hunter are running too. Try and keep up and maybe you don’t have to look stupid.

[SGCOS]

..She can use the time to shop for new drapes.

no kidding...the ones she wears today aren't very flattering.

[DManA]

Dear God, I forgive foul mouthed idiots.

[napscoordinator]

I may be foul mouthed but at least I can follow a simple thread. I am going to look how long you’ve been a FREEPER. You probably are some troll anyway.

[napscoordinator]

Sadly you’ve been here since 1998 and STILL can’t follow a thread. I feel for you.

[DManA]

You need to calm down and take some deep breaths. You’re going to have a Tim Johnson event.

[napscoordinator]

I just don’t like being jumped on for either 1. Perhaps making an error or 2. Being vilified for my opinion which could be right. That is all. I am sorry for being nasty!

[Benjamin Harrison]

I do believe that those of either party who choose to run for President should be made to resign their senate seats. Who are they serving by being in Iowa and NH? They are using their seat for self interest, not for the people of their state.I believe this would take each state passing legislation barring sitting Senators from running for President unless they resign their seat. How about an initiative from each state and a referendum to be added to next year’s ballots? I mean, when Reid keeps them in the quorum until the 23rd..does this count Obama, McCain, Dodd, Biden, Clinton...etc.

[napscoordinator]

Truthfully what I really don’t like is when they miss votes. I mean how can they justify that. I guess they don’t. I think it happens on both sides but Democrats seems to neglect their duties more so. I agree that if you want to run for President than they should resign their seats.

[DManA]

I accept your apology. No hard feelings. These are emotional times.

[napscoordinator]

Thanks!

[ER Doc]

Resigning from the Senate to run for higher office would be a very unusual thing to do. Dole is the only example I can find. Of course, it may be relevant that no sitting senator has been elected President since Kennedy, but several have been elected Vice-President. Before Kennedy, Harding was the last sitting Senator elected to the presidency. Obviously, many former Senators have been elected President after having served as Vice-President.
Going back only to 1952, neither Vice-Presidential candidate, Nixon or Sparkman, resigned in 1952. Kefauver didn’t resign in 1956. Kennedy and Johnson were both sitting senators who resigned after they were elected. Neither Humphrey or Goldwater resigned in 1964, and Goldwater’s running mate, William Miller, was both a sitting Congressman and chairman of the Republican National Committee when he ran. Muskie didn’t resign in 1968. McGovern didn’t resign in 1972. Mondale didn’t resign in 1976. Ferraro didn’t resign from the House in 1984. In 1988, when Bush/Quayle won over Dukakis/Bentsen, neither Quayle or Bentsen resigned from the Senate. Gore didn’t resign in 1992. Dole seems to be the only one, Democrat or Republican, to have taken such action. So why were we wondering, again?

[penowa]

Why would the smartest woman in the world quit the Senate just because she’s running for President? Maybe once she’s elected President, she’ll demand to complete her Senate term to which she was elected. She could easily do both and maybe run for Congress as well, be her own VP, (who else would be suitable?), appoint herself to the SC, etc.

[Carolinamom]

She’ll never give up her SPECIAL HEALTH CARE provided senators by the taxpayers.

[Phlap]

So why were we wondering, again?

She told Katie she had not considered losing the nomination. If she is so confident she will be the nominee, why is she stealing staying in the senate when somebody else could actually be serving their constituents?

[ER Doc]

Well, I suppose it’s worth it to bring it up in order to slam Clinton, but it would be an action with no precedent except for Dole. Besides the ones I mentioned above, going back 60 years to the 1948 election, neither Thurmond, the Dixiecrat candidate for president, nor Barkley, Truman’s vice-presidential candidate, resigned from the Senate to run.
Beyond that, in that election, both Republican candidates, Dewey and Warren, were serving as governors of New York and California, respectively, while running. Many other serving governors have run during their terms as well. Doing an adequate job as a governor is even more time-consuming than the Senate. If it’s never been considered necessary to resign as governor to run for the presidency, why should anyone be expected to give up the Senate? Aside, of course, from the rhetorical advantage of scoring points on her.