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Rush Limbaugh: If Obama Sought Third Term, Would Anyone Stop Him?
newsbusters.org,blogs ^ | March 9 2015 | Jack Coleman

Posted on 03/10/2015 6:49:58 AM PDT by Whenifhow

The listener's question -- even though the 22nd Amendment prevents President Obama from seeking a third term, what if he decided to remain in office after January 2017? [Rush]

Let's put this in a scenario, because some of you might be thinking, all right, Rush, now this is, we're going too far now. I mean, now all you guys thinking Obama's doing this and that and he's violating the Constitution, but he would never -- well, let's construct a scenario and see if it has even the slightest bit of believability. And let's establish some things that we know to be true that Obama also knows and chief among those is that the Republican Party has said that impeachment is off the table, and more than once they've said this. The Republican Party has made it clear that they will not use that constitutional measure as a means of reining Obama in and maybe even getting him out of office.

They have also made it very clear in just the most recent vote on the funding for Department of Homeland Security that they will not use the power of the purse to stop Obama. OK, so those two realities equal Obama fully aware the Republican Party will take no steps to stop him in his ongoing violations, and running up to the edges, of the Constitution.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 22ndamendment; election2016; emperorobama; kingobama; naturalborncitizen; obama; rush; rushlimbaugh; termlimits; thirdterm
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To: TYVets

Or as Rush says in the article, “call an emergency constitutional convention and amend the 22nd Amendment, permitting Obama to do this.”


21 posted on 03/10/2015 7:06:10 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Whenifhow

Moochelle might.


22 posted on 03/10/2015 7:06:19 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Ditter

pretty amazing.

It’s supernatural.


23 posted on 03/10/2015 7:07:27 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: Whenifhow
The Supreme Court would say, nobody has standing here, there's no case yet, Obama hasn't done anything yet. We can't do anything about this until he actually serves a third term and then you've got to bring a case to us.

This is flaw in Limbaugh's argument.

A person who is ineligible to serve cannot run for office. Running is the act, and the other candidates have standing because they are harmed by an ineligible candidate that is running nonetheless.

Then you have the issue of donors giving to an illegal campaign. Can they write off a campaign donation to an illegal campaign? Will the FEC accept filings from an ineligible candidate?

These are all issues that are ripe for the courts during the campaign season. Obama's illegal campaign would be distracted by endless court challenges to the legality of his filings, and donors would be challenged for the legality of their contributions.

-PJ

24 posted on 03/10/2015 7:08:45 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Whenifhow
Rush, Rush, Rush, *shakes head* I'm certain Boehner would block it!
25 posted on 03/10/2015 7:14:47 AM PDT by null and void (So keep your eyes set on the horizon/On the line where blue meets blue)
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To: Whenifhow

I’ve been saying it . This communist monster Barack Obama is not leaving .Barack Obama wants to turn America into a socialist state where each individual’s property and all income is confiscated by the government to be redistributed by the state to those in “need” and for lofty goals like fixing the global warming hoax.


26 posted on 03/10/2015 7:15:00 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama illegally imposed socialist net neutrality on the Internet to ruin it)
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To: Political Junkie Too

A person who is ineligible to serve cannot run for office.


That did not stop Barry Soetoro, Indonesian citizen, from running in 2007 ans getting into office as an usurper.


27 posted on 03/10/2015 7:15:04 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: TYVets
"The Do Nothing republicans would sit on their butts and not lift a finger. "

You have NOT been paying attention- Boehner and McConnell would rush out and repeat that impeachment is off the table, and both houses would form gangs of 8 or 30 or whatever to work out a deal that would accommodate Buckwheat.

28 posted on 03/10/2015 7:16:09 AM PDT by matthew fuller (The ONLY Democrat candidate is a felony flawed candidate!)
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To: Whenifhow

The message the courts and the entire system gave us in 2008 was that if the people (or vote counters) will “elect” a person, the Constitution be damned. The ONLY measure of eligibility was 51% of the electoral vote, because no court would EVER “overturn an election”.

If this scenario should happen there are a lot of people right here on Free Republic who will deserve everything they get, because they were afraid to “go birther” and say that we have a Constitution. If we didn’t have one then - and we didn’t, and a lot of “conservatives” called us crazy for pointing that out in 2008 and since - then it’s pretty lame for those same people to say that we should have one now.

Using the arguments cited right here at Free Republic, as long as each state Secretary of State gets the paperwork for Obama’s name to be put on the 2016 ballot there is nothing the states can do but put his name on, as long as he gets the votes the electors can’t do a thing but vote for him, as long as the electors’ votes are lawfully done Congress can’t do a thing, as long as Congress certifies the election SCOTUS can’t do a thing.... and nobody in the entire country has “standing” to say boo, and even if they did the courts would never take the case because eligibility is not a LEGAL/Constitutional issue but a “political” issue. That includes eligibility for a THIRD term, just as much as it includes eligibility for a first term.

Anybody who ridiculed the “birthers” but now wants to say this isn’t how the system is supposed to work can FIRST kiss the arses of every “birther” you ridiculed, and only then have you ANY credibility to say a peep.


29 posted on 03/10/2015 7:16:23 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/ g g)
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To: BenLurkin

Enough Conservative Secretaries of State would keep him off of enough state ballots to make his re-election problematic.


30 posted on 03/10/2015 7:18:09 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Political Junkie Too

Why didn’t any of that happen in 2008 or 2012, and what makes you think that the same people who stood by silently even after it was known that Obama had committed document fraud to hide his ineligibility would suddenly rise up to care about the Constitution?


31 posted on 03/10/2015 7:18:09 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/ g g)
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To: stars & stripes forever

tl;dw


32 posted on 03/10/2015 7:18:15 AM PDT by null and void (So keep your eyes set on the horizon/On the line where blue meets blue)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The state SOS’s were ALL informed that Obama was committing election fraud and perjury by even APPLYING to be on the 2012 ballot, and not ONE of them did a thing about it. My own SOS said even if he knew for absolute sure that the application was perjurious he could not do a dang thing about it and would HAVE to put the name on the ballot.

People, this system is NOT protecting you the way you think it is. We are TOTALLY on our own. There is no rule of law. There is no Constitution. There are no courts. There is no media. There is no justice.

And that was perfectly fine to the “non-birthers” in 2008 and again in 2012.


33 posted on 03/10/2015 7:20:38 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/ g g)
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To: BenLurkin

He has a pen and a phone, so what makes him subject to the Constitution?


34 posted on 03/10/2015 7:23:06 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Whenifhow

No the would not stop him.
His worshiping media pundits would come out and say the 22nd Amendment was written for old white guys. So therefore, supporting the constitutional amendments would be racist.


35 posted on 03/10/2015 7:40:18 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: butterdezillion

You have 22 Czars who were 1960’s radical Marxists that run the country. All communists with Obama as its figurehead. He is Muslim, He is Black, He is a Communist and he is untouchable.

Third term? More like dissolution of the government and a populist uprising leading to a socialist state. With Republicans on the sidelines hoping the media doesn’t label them seditionists.


36 posted on 03/10/2015 7:41:49 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: Whenifhow
So ... how did this country become a representitive republic?

It may be time for that same action again ... hopefully there will be enough patriots with the gravitas to pull it off this time around ...

37 posted on 03/10/2015 7:45:08 AM PDT by clamper1797 (I'm a Tea Party Conservative ... in my opinion that makes me "Politically Correct")
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To: Whenifhow
Why should Obama bother with seeking a third term when he could just use his pen and phone to end free elections and declare himself president for life? The GOP would whimper in the corner, the MSM would praise him for his boldness and anyone who opposed this would be hauled off to camps. Obama could use any trumped up emergency to shut down the Internet and free speech.

Pardon while I adjust my tinfoil hat, but perhaps why Obama is letting Iran and other rogue states develop the bomb is to encourage a nuclear attack on a US city which could allow him to declare an unprecedented national emergency and assume dictatorial powers. It worked for Hitler.

38 posted on 03/10/2015 7:51:07 AM PDT by The Great RJ (Pants up...Don't loot!)
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To: BenLurkin

Obama is not going to grab all the power,place all those illegals ,control the Internet and control all Police departments and just walk away


39 posted on 03/10/2015 8:03:01 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Whenifhow

Think about *how* Obama would do this is important.

1) Because McConnell and Boehner are such incredible cowards, a “Reichstag fire” might not even be needed. Based on some contrived or real disaster that might kill tens of thousands or even millions of Americans, Obama might just decree that congress is suspended, due to a “national emergency”. The two Quislings would meekly agree.

2) He would not “cancel” the election, but just say it is “delayed” due to the emergency, and that he is remaining in office to keep “continuity” in government services “for the duration”.

3) His next gambit would be to round up and “detain” those most likely to resist. Particularly “leaders” who might lead a revolt. This would include a purge of military leadership that would not swear an oath of loyalty to him, not the constitution.

4) Another dictation would be to appoint perhaps five more justices to the Supreme Court. Ultra-radicals to prevent them from trying to stop him.

5) He would have to dictate rationing of everything, both to buy supporters and starve his enemies. And at some point rewrite the constitution to justify everything he is doing and wants to do.

The most critical element to his doing this is the timetable, as he cannot do too much, too fast, that even the media can’t hide from the public.


40 posted on 03/10/2015 8:12:11 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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