Posted on 01/19/2016 12:55:23 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE
Forget the primaries .. We know those deadlines are meaningless if Hillary is "replaced" because she is indited at any time before November. (The democrats don't follow election law anyway in past elections, so why would they care this time? But that is being cynical, right?)
Lautenburg in NJ was stuffed into the ballot for an Senate seat illegally after the primaries. Missouri elected a dead man to the Senate when he died before the election. California's most infamous "Mexican-American" representative was elected to the House only after she changed her name to a Spanish-sound. Three other Senate seats were pushed by endless re-counting of false ballots until they got the lead.
Hannity was asked this afternoon about the possibility that Hillary will be indited, Biden would step in, and the campaign would proceed as if nothing happened.
Clearly, Hannity did not know, and had not considered the possibility.
I believe he has missed the boat. It will be Sanders.
Biden is not a wonderful candidate for the D’s ... but he’s a million times better than Hillary.....and most of them know it, too
I bet Biden or someone else will be persuaded to run
Tell that to the County Auditors who have to prepare the ballots, have them printed, and send them out via mail or tot he precincts
They’d have to pay off Sanders, with either the VP slot, or a cabinet position. Otherwise, he may run 3rd party.
The dem / socialists are as dead as their God
R.I.T.
(rest in turmoil)
I believe he has missed the boat. It will be Sanders.
Certainly.
But ONLY IF you assume Biden would be competing with Sanders in the primaries.
What if, after the primaries end, THEN Hillary is indited and be pulled off the ballot and must be replaced?
The electoral College is, after all, actually the voting block.
If ANY democrat “wins” the state election, those democrat Electoral College “voters” need only “select” a (legal) democrat replacement for President (er, dictator) for the next 8 years.
Superdelegates.
Remember the superdelegates.
Unbound by any vote but their own.
Whoever comes out of the convention is put on the ballot, but even then, I'm sure many states would accommodate a sudden switch, almost up to election day, if it would benefit the Democrats. And that's really the yardstick . . . if it would benefit the Democrats, it's not against the election laws. In most states, anyway.
In any case, I've always thought that having Biden come out of the convention is the real nightmare scenario for the GOP. He's a fairly decent debater and campaigner, and the short time from convention to election gives him little time to be seriously scrutinized or attacked, or to make some serious gaffes.
paying Sanders off shouldn’t be too hard....
yes, VP or maybe Sec of Welfare (HHS whatever they call it)
(or they could run “Bernie the Red” instead of Hillary, he’s hardly what I’d recommend they choose but he’s more likable-looking and a lot more honest-looking than Hillary.... and at any event I’m sure he’d still get more votes than she could... what with all her awful baggage....)
Right up to the convention. Primaries and caucuses are meaningless beauty pageants.
Yes, the Superdelegates. They’re 20% of the delegates, meaning a contender can grab all of them and only need to capture 30% from the rest of the regular delegates.
Hillary has the Supers locked. If she gets indicted they will almost certainly bolt. I think Biden has enough time to get on the ballot in the late primary states. She can cut a deal exchanging her campaign organization and any regular delegates from the early states for an Obama pardon.
Democrats can violate all election requirements with the complicity of the GOPe wing of the Uniparty.
Example 1: Ashcroft had his Senate seat stolen when Republicans bend over and grab their ankles by permitting his opponent’s widow (plane crash) to fill the seat. Under the law, there was a dead person on the ballot and Ashcroft. As such, it should have been a win by default for Ashcroft in the Missouri 2000 race.
Example 2: U.S. Senator Torch Toricelli drops out of race because of ethics scandal in October 2002. GOPe drops to its knees and fellates the N.J. Democrats by permitting them to illegally replace Toricelli on the ballot with Lautenberg.
If Hillary! were to die of the stroke on October 31st, I fully expect the Democrats to illegally put Bill on the ballot for the November election (and an unconstitutional 3rd term) and have the GOP push their nominee to suspend his campaign out of respect for the nation’s loss of Hillary.
Do not ever expect the Dems to obey the law or the GOPe to insist that they do.
The biggest problem with Biden is that it's obvious to anyone paying attention that even Obama didn't trust Biden to do anything. He's basically spent the past seven years locked up and they bring him out for major events every few months where he makes a fool out of himself.
If I had to guess, they will go with Mark Warner. He's a former governor, they claim he's a moderate, and he has business experience.
It will be a couple of weeks before they send the absentee ballots out.
Biden/Sanders 2016. Sanders/Biden 2016. If one of ‘em don’t make it, the other will.
I see
well, without knowing Warner at all, I’d still bet he would be a lot LOT better for the D’s than Hillary.
ps:
yes, Biden does have his problems (one of which is that he occasionally “leaks” some of the nefarious scheming going on inside the O administration....thankfully so, ha! ))
But now when compared to and old Lesbian and an old Communist, he is viewed as the savior of the party.
i guess in life everything is relative.
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