[doug from upland]

Four years ago I was working on a novel that sadly went unfinished. The scenario may be playing out right before our eyes.

Hillary Clinton is preparing to take a coronation at the convention after Kerry falls. She has had to spend no money. There are no soundbites from other RAT candidates attacking her. She would only have to run a very short campaign. It is her dream scenario.

[OXENinFLA]

Sometimes life is stranger then fiction.


(Not that your book would have been fiction.)

[Neenah]

I have been thinking the very same thing (Hillary) even before you posted this ! Although, this story would have to be HUGH before it would get ANY air time at all ! If it were Bush, it would have been out already.

Having said that. I have a question...

I have wondered what would happen to ANY candidate running for the presidency, if they died, were killed, scandal stopped them, terminal illness...etc Before the election has taken place ? What does the Constitution say about this ? Is there another run by someone else? Does the runner-up take the helm ? Anyone know ?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Hillary Clinton is preparing to take a coronation at the convention after Kerry falls. She has had to spend no money. There are no soundbites from other RAT candidates attacking her. She would only have to run a very short campaign. It is her dream scenario.

Yep. She has cleverly stayed out of the fray while watching the polling data and throwing tho occasional monkey wrench into the mix. If she concludes that GW is vulnerable enough, JFK will suffer an epifany (or worse, an "accident") and Evita will step in to popular acclaim. Machiavelli himself couldn't have written a better story line.

Of course, were JFK capable of beating GW and simultaneously stupid enough to pick Hillary for VP, Kerry would probably slip on a bar of soap in the shower and break his neck in month two of his fisrt term. Sacrebleu! Whaala!