After further review the replay shows it was the 22nd amendment and not the 25th amendment. That's a five yard penatly, but still first down.
She is making the calculation you infer and others as well:
E.g., that only another domestic terror event on the scale of September 11 will sufficiently damage Bush's numbers and the GDP to get her disgusting carcass into the Oval Office.
Crucifixes, strands of garlic, and dedicated grass-roots counter-campaigning will save us and our posterity from that nightmare scenario.