Posted on 11/27/2007 7:56:27 AM PST by LetsRok
I heard on the news this morning on WMAL in Washington that Hillary has NOT ruled out putting her impeached husband on the ballot as her VP.
Is this legal?? The Constitution says candidates for VP MUST be eligible to be President. Bubba is not eligible since he has served his two terms.
You are, of course, correct. However, this is the Clintons - laws, Constitutions, et al, don't apply to them.
Only to the "little people" (meaning us).
Why is anyone even wasting their time on this? She WON’T do it. In order to win she has to get the votes of the 50% who said they won’t vote for her, and they won’t vote for her because of her husband.
This is just WorldNetDaily-style delusional hyperventilating. She’ll go someone likeable, probably a Southerner or a Midwesterner like Vilsack.
PREDICTION: Someone will respond with the tired old “you don’t understand, the Clintons will do ANYTHING” like they did when they swore Clinton would refuse to leave office.
Clinton/Clinton ‘08 ain’t gonna happen. She wants to win. Someone’s just playing you guys for goofs.
He's already done that. It's called the Clinton Presidential Library and looks like a double wide.
Actually, it depends upon the meaning of "illegal." If it means "illegal now and never has been legal," that is not the same as "illegal at the exact moment but legal previously and possibly in the future..."
Except, by a strict reading of the Constitution, it isn't.
Bad idea? Yes. But Constitutional.
I wish I wasn’t.
What she'll actually be looking for in a running mate is someone to offset her East Coast good-old-boy-network hyperliberal image. At the moment Obama looks like a good possibility but she still has the West and the South to worry about. It doesn't have to be a candidtate from there, necessarily, but one who will help her carry states there. I don't think the Breck Girl qualifies on any count.
Personally, I don't think it would ever happen, but it's spurred a pretty interesting Constitutional discussion.
I never saw the succession loophole before. That alone makes this conversation worthwhile.
(chuckle)
I love it. Please keep that one ‘up in the air’ Senator Clinton...cause it damn sure isn’t going to help you.
Constitutionally a Hillary Bill Clinton ticket is Feasible but what would it to the Repug’s and the Country?
I am going to take a break from my regular routine of monitoring the daily missteps of Bush and the rest of the world as it slides towards world war. I want to talk again about Hillary and Bill! I remember when Hillary first announced she would be running for President in 2008 I wrote a story wondering if Constitutionally there was a possibility of a Hillary Bill ticket? Think of the implications? I really do not think it is necessary because if for some reason Bush, Cheney, Rove, and the rest of the underhanded Repug machine did not prevent Hillary from getting elected by any one of the underhanded scenarios we have discussed we would as a benefit get President Clinton. With Hillary you get Bill. Two for the price of one so to speak. Regardless of what you think of him as a man he did a great job I thought of running the country.
I remember a way back that Hillary discussing the possibility of Bill running for VP. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told a talk show her husband, Bill, had “looked into” running as her vice president. Appearing on the David Letterman show the talk-show host asked if Bill Clinton could serve as her vice president should she be elected to the White House. But the former first lady acknowledged that he could not. “Believe me,” she joked, “he looked into that.” She also remarked that if the Constitution didn’t forbid a president from a third term, “he might be running.” I disagree with what was said
I researched the Constitutionallity of Bill running for Vice President and that he could but then I remember Hillary saying legally he could not. Thinking that her saying no could be a ploy I decided to check it out once more. I know the question has never been answered by the Supreme court but the question is constitutionally viable. I found this!
The 12th amendment of the US Constitution specifically says that “…But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
“U.S. Constitution: Twelfth Amendment Our next link subscribes to this idea to a certain extent but says that it doesn’t prevent Bill Clinton from seeking other avenues if he wants to pursue the Vice- Presidency. “The 12th Amendment to the Constitution does say that no one who is “constitutionally ineligible to the office of President” can serve as vice president. And clearly Clinton is ineligible to be elected president again:” “Clinton could also run for the House and then be elected speaker, which would put him in line for the presidency. Cabinet members are in the line of succession as well.” “Could Clinton Run for VP?”
Another opinion of course is that he can run for Vice President and the next links here provide other takes on the interpretation of the 12th Amendment. “The 12th Amendment would allow a Clinton vice-presidency. Its language only bars from the vice-presidency those persons who are “ineligible to the office” of President. Clinton is not ineligible to the office of president, however. He is only disqualified (by the 22nd Amendment) from being elected to that office.” “This is no mere semantic distinction. Article II of the Constitution carefully defines exactly who is “eligible to the Office of President”: anyone who is a natural born citizen, at least 35 years old, and has been a U.S. resident for at least 14 years.” “Why the Constitution permits a Gore-Clinton ticket” “The answer is: He can.
The 12th Amendment states that anybody who is eligible for the presidency under Article II of the Constitution (anatural-born citizen age 35 or older) is eligible for the vice presidency. Clinton is a natural-born citizen over 35, so he qualifies. The putative roadblock to a Clinton vice presidency—the 22nd Amendment—doesn’t apply. This hastily worded and passed amendment, designed to block another multi-multi-term presidency such as FDR’s, only bars the election of a president to more than two terms in that office.” “Vice President Bill Clinton? Take 3” . References for Article II and the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution are available here “U.S.Constitution ” the complete Google answer
We know the recent record of this Supreme Court but I think it is time to address this question in light of the future Bush has set up for us. Wouldn’t it be nice for Bill Clinton to actually try and then for the Supreme Court to finally settle this matter once and for all?
James Joiner
Gardner Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
True, but it’s just that we seem to have this conversation EVERY election because someone on TV needs to fill some time before the next commercial, and people take it seriously. How many times were we supposed to have Vice President Reagan?
Actually, that’s scarier than him as Veep - him as head of the UN while she is president.
Have you seen the bumper sticker from that place?? I saw one on a car on the freeway here in L.A. and nearly had to rear end the car to get close enough to read the fine print.
The large print reads I miss Bill. The small print says The Clinton Center. How trashy and how like Clinton to make his bumperstickers of support sound like you had a one-night-stand with him.
She can't, and if she tries it will blow up in her face.
What's the difference? He can't be elected President, just like someone under 35 or someone born outside the United States. Doesn't that make him constitutionally ineligible?
It highlights the fact that she KNOWS NOTHING AT ALL ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION!!!
Of course WJC is eligible for VP.
The Constitutional requirements are that you be 35 years old (check), native-born (check), and 14 years a resident (check).
Bill Clinton is not eligible to be elected President again, but there is no barrier to his occupancy to the office by succession.
Cheney and Bush sort of trashed that for all time in 2000, though.
She knows damn well that Bubba can not be a VP. However, he is people-oriented, and she isn’t. People like him, but not her.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.