Posted on 10/02/2008 3:28:39 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
The founders messed up. We should do away with the office.
Sarah Palin is the product of a design flaw -- the unintended consequence of the founders' decision to create the vice presidency.
For two centuries, presidential nominees have used the office to balance the ticket by naming a running mate from a different region, or one who speaks with a different ideological accent to a specific constituency. This means that a president's death generates a double shock: The nation not only mourns a fallen leader, it must deal with a replacement who may push politics in a new direction.
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We can only hope that Gwen Ifil will give her the opening to talk about that.
This man is a fool. First, he seems okay with the line of succession leading from GWB and Cheney to Pelosi and Reid - you want a giant political shock? There ya go. Second, he claims Lincoln chose Johnson in order to carry Tennessee in the election. TENNESSEE WAS IN REBELLION! They didn’t vote in the 1864 election. Moron.
WOW. That is amazing. The guy is so against Palin he would rather not have the office.
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