Mexico's first lady says she will seek presidency in 2006

EFE ^ | Feb 10

[optik_b]

"When we start bequeathing elected offices to family members than the republic is doomed!"

It's already happened.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Yeah, first that John Adams and then his son John Quincy Adams, and then just 180 years later George Bush and then his son George Walker Bush. The Republic is doomed by this nepotism, I tell you!

[Democratshavenobrains]

Plus Benjamin Harrison (1888) was the grandson of William Henry Harrison (1840).

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

We have to stop this trend! We are turning into a Monarchy!

[autopsy]

In 2006 there will be more Mexicans in the US than in Mexico. She should wait until 2008 and run for president here (that will give us time to amend the Constitution).

[livius]

Maybe she'll be more effective than her (supposedly conservative) husband.

But maybe not. One of the reasons he lost a lot of credibility in the first place was for marrying her.

No good deed goes unpunished...

[GeronL]

Vincente will still be President by proxy

[adam_az]

Please don't bring up Hilda's butt.

You would need a derrick or a winch. Or is that a derrick for the wench? It's so hard to keep track.

[Lunatic Fringe]

although [the Constituion] does not indicate what should be done when it is an incumbent's wife who wishes to seek public office.

Well if the Mexican Constitution is silent on such matters, don't try to make things up as you go along....

[JustPiper]

BumPing!

[exit82]

Don't cry for me,Ensenada.

Evita II coming to a third world hellhole near you.

[Int]

Actually, if Belinda Stronach gets the nomination for the Canadian conservative party leadership, we could see a simultaneous trio of North American female leaders very soon.

[CaptRon]

What? Ol' Vicente meet his quota for exporting citizens?

[searchandrecovery]

I don't think you folks get the big picture here - it's gonna be Hillary/Marta in '08 (yes, in americo). My predictions have always been correct in the past.

[BillyBoy]

Since Vicente Fox is so "concerned" about giving his residents of the U.S. the "right" to vote in Mexican elections, I'll be sure to request an absentee ballot in the Mexican elections. Let's see...I was taken to the U.S. when I was two months old, the illegitimate son of a married man who never recognized my existence. Oh yeah, and I'm on welfare and have a huge criminal record in the U.S. That sounds like the "heroic hardworking guest worker" that's right up Vince's alley! Vince "the conservative candidate" Fox will rush me a ballot so quick that it will be in the mail by the next day!

There's little difference between Fox's PAN and the PRI in Mexico. Both are socialist, but the PRI isn't so unabashed about it and AT LEAST you can BRIBE them! Vote PRI and end the Fox reign of big brother government, both in his country and in the U.S. No "conservative" would be caught dead promoting the kinds of things that he and Hillary Rodham Fox stand for.

[Pro-Bush]

Hillary's evil twin?

[FITZ]

that it would not be "ethical" for Fox's wife to run for president.

Well that shouldn't stop her.

[FITZ]

My impression would be that her vote could be had for a price.

Her marriage was --- her ex-husband wasn't so happy about the way she met Fox and dumped her family for him. Unlike Hillary she didn't marry "presidential material" the first time around, Marta only got that 2 years ago. She's one very ambitious woman.

[swampfox98]

Ah geeze, the first lady president of the United States.

[elli1]

Don't forget the short-circuited attempt by the Kennedy clan.