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Hillary not ruling out putting impeached husband on ticket as VP.
AM630 WMAL | 11/27/2007 | Kevin

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.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billary; hillary; hillaryvp; nutcases; talkradio; unconstitutional; wmal; x42
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To: LetsRok

If she actually said that, then this ought to be spread everywhere. A clear indication of just how power mad these people are.


121 posted on 11/27/2007 9:12:17 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: RockinRight
She can’t. Period.

She's post-menopausal!

122 posted on 11/27/2007 9:13:42 AM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: Revolting cat!

LOL...


123 posted on 11/27/2007 9:14:13 AM PST by RockinRight (Just because you're pro-life and talk about God a lot doesn't mean you're a conservative.)
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To: LetsRok

TKhis is the smartest woman in the world. One of the top 100 lawyers in the country and lawyer extraudenaire who faliled the D.C. bar exam. Desperation sets in.


124 posted on 11/27/2007 9:14:45 AM PST by Texas Songwriter
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To: pepsi_junkie
So Bill is inelligable for the office of President unless you say "oh, he's eligible to BE president, just not to be ELECTED president." What would the supreme court say to that argument?

The Supreme Court would only get such a case on a suit after Hillary/Bill were chosen by more than 270 electors.

In my opinion, they would either rule that the case was non-justiceable, or would rule in favor of the election result.

125 posted on 11/27/2007 9:16:35 AM PST by Jim Noble (Trails of trouble, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
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To: Jim Noble

How so? Cheney was a Wyoming resident, if I recall correctly.


126 posted on 11/27/2007 9:21:51 AM PST by Teacher317 (Eta kuram na smekh)
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To: Phantom Lord

There is nothing in the Constitution to prevent The Rapist from being elected VP, and becoming President after the accidental suicide of his wife. The Constitution does not say he is ineligible to BE President—only that he may not be ELECTED President again.

This is not disturbing, really. The 22nd Amendment is worded so as to allow a VP who succeeds to the Presidency to run for President TWICE. E.g., LBJ could have run again in 1968.

So The Rapist could have, ultimately, no more total time as President as any VP who might succeed to the Presidency. He would simply have his two terms, then a partial term, rather than the partial term first.


127 posted on 11/27/2007 9:26:49 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: angkor
He'd need to be elected.

He could be elected VICE-President, rub out Hillary and ascend to complete her term. He just couldn't be re-elected as President... I suppose he could go on getting elected as VP indefinitely.

128 posted on 11/27/2007 9:27:29 AM PST by Sloth (Democrats and GOPers are to government what Jeffrey Dahmer and Michael Jackson are to babysitting)
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To: Phantom Lord
Now, I wonder why he did that?

I'm guessing to allow Texas electors to cast their votes for Bush. I think the 12th Amendment forbids a state's electors for voting for both President and Vice President if they are both from the same state as the electors, but I don't know of any prohibition on it, do you?

129 posted on 11/27/2007 9:29:01 AM PST by Publius Valerius
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To: Holicheese

“Can you imagine how quickly she would fall down a flight of stairs and then get run over by a sedan if Bill was the VP!”

Maybe then we’d get Monica for VP...


130 posted on 11/27/2007 9:30:18 AM PST by Senormechanico
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To: Arthur McGowan
The 22nd Amendment is worded so as to allow a VP who succeeds to the Presidency to run for President TWICE.

Only if the VP serves less than two years of the previous President's term.

131 posted on 11/27/2007 9:31:21 AM PST by Publius Valerius
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To: vbmoneyspender

No, it doesn’t. It makes him ineligible to be elected, not to hold the office.

The constitutional elegibility requirements are the same as they ever were.


132 posted on 11/27/2007 9:39:02 AM PST by John Valentine
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To: Arthur McGowan
This is not disturbing, really. The 22nd Amendment is worded so as to allow a VP who succeeds to the Presidency to run for President TWICE.

Yes and no. If the VP assumes the office of President for greater than 2 years remaining in the elected presidents term, that VP, now President shall be limited to running for election one time.

If a President died of a heart attack 2 weeks into his first term, the VP becomes President and could only seek election to President once.

133 posted on 11/27/2007 9:46:33 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: John Valentine
But, Bill Clinton is NOT Constitutionally ineligible for the office of President.

He is ineligible at least in one regard--he can't run for President. Anyhow, I find it to be a much closer case than you describe.

I don't follow your "procedural" argument, however. Why do you think that it wouldn't be triggered were he not elected?

I DO see two potential redress problems: standing and nonjusticiability. Now that the vice president is chosen rather than elected, I am having trouble seeing who would have standing to challenge WJC's vice-presidential appointment. Second, as I've noted before, this does seem like a political question.

In practical reality, it seems to me like the House of Representatives would ultimately resolve the issue. I suppose how this would happen is that the President of the Senate would disregard the votes cast for the Clinton/Clinton ticket, in which case the House of Representatives would elect the President. This surely would prompt a court challenge, but this seems like a non-justiciable question as well.

All in all, I'm sort of rooting for it to happen, just to see how everything shakes out.

134 posted on 11/27/2007 9:46:43 AM PST by Publius Valerius
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To: GQuagmire
If Hillary! wins(Bleecchh) I don’t think she will put up with his shenanigans. Billy’s got a bad ticker. Built in excuse to cover for the ultimate Arkancide.

Ding ding ding ding we have a winner!

My guess is Billy will have Big Mac Heart Attack and an extremely lavish state funeral (one that'll make Reagan's look like a pauper's burial) just in time to give the Pantsuited Empress Cankles the First a widow's boost in her poll numbers.

Either that or she'll set up a WHITE FUNDAMENTALIST SEPARATIST to take BJ out a little while after ascending to her throne and use that as an excuse for bringing back Reno-style fascism against rightwingers.

The more I see Ron Paul becoming 2007's Ross Perot (same initials and everything - how do you like that?), the more I lean toward the second scenario.
135 posted on 11/27/2007 9:49:58 AM PST by angryoldfatman
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To: vbmoneyspender

It would be an interesting test case, but just following the letter of the Constitution I would say that he could run for the VP spot just the same as he could run for Rep, become speaker and be 3rd in line.


136 posted on 11/27/2007 9:56:08 AM PST by CougarGA7 (I'm supporting a Conservative not a RINO http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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To: Phantom Lord

“Bill could easily register to vote and list his legal address in Arkansas.”

Didn’t they make an apartment for him on the top of that double wide here in Little Rock? He could just move in there....


137 posted on 11/27/2007 9:57:32 AM PST by smalltownslick
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To: NY.SS-Bar9
My money is on either Breck Girl or Bill Richardson.

I'd say Dodd or Biden myself....she doesn't need Richardson to get the "hispanic vote", and NM has no electoral votes.......and Edwards has been a bit too much of a bitch towards her.

138 posted on 11/27/2007 9:58:43 AM PST by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: Jim Noble
Cheney and Bush sort of trashed that for all time in 2000, though.

Cheney was on the ballot from Wyoming.

139 posted on 11/27/2007 9:59:18 AM PST by AU72
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To: smalltownslick
Didn’t they make an apartment for him on the top of that double wide here in Little Rock? He could just move in there....

Heck - all he needs is a waterbed and a hot plate.

140 posted on 11/27/2007 10:05:55 AM PST by Inspectorette
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