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“Any replacement involving Kamala Harris can be challenged in Congress, on the grounds that she cannot prove that she is a natural born citizen.”
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Funny, Congress let her become VP, which has the exact same NBC requirement as the presidency. Good luck with that “challenge.” A better use of your efforts would be for the defeat of the Democrat ticket at the ballot box.

“My reading of Article 22 doesn’t prevent that”
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Mine doesn’t, either. While the 12th Amendment clarifies that the VP has the same qualification requirements as the president, it doesn’t say that the VP has the same qualifications for *election* as does the president. While Obama couldn’t be elected president again, he could be elected VP (or appointed VP through the 25th Amendment, as you suggest) and then accede to the presidency upon the resignation (or untimely death) of Kamala.

But it’s highly unlikely that Biden’s near-corpse can beat Trump in 2024, which is why the Democrats are pulling all stops to try to get Biden to drop out.

He would continue to receive not only his Senate salary, but travel and other expenses. Plus, if he continues to run for the Senate as an independent, he can continue to use campaign funds to pay for any expenses that he could argue are related to his candidacy. Given that he’s appealing his conviction, it makes sense for him not to resign and wait for either his term to run out on January 3 or for 67 Senators to expel him.

I don’t think that Vance adds anything electorally, and that’s still job one (President Trump looks like a heavy favorite right now, but we need to keep running as if it’s still a toss-up election): President Trump would carry OH handily no matter whom he picked as his runningmate, and Vance add value in PA, MI or WI, either. At least Youngkin would make VA even more competitive than it already has become (and if Trump carries VA, he doesn’t need PA, MI, WI or probably not even AZ) and help Trump in the suburbs in every battleground state; Vance is popular among a constituency that, while important, is already 100% behind Trump.

“The Flag appearing to be upside down is an appropriate factor.”

I didn’t even know that Mrs. Alito was at the Butler rally.

Absolutely. A heroic and defiant act right after being shot just two days before the start of the convention after a year in which Leftists have tried myriad other means to stop him from reclaiming the presidency. And the contrast between him and Biden couldn’t be starker.

VA Gov. Glenn Youngkin would be my #1, choice. After him, Marco Rubio would be next, and then I guess Tim Scott.

I looked it up, and it’s Iran. Massie and the other Paultards have always supported the Islamofascist regime of the Iranian mullahs for God only knows what reason.

Massie has always been a Paultard. (I usually refer to Ron Paul acolytes as “Paulistinians” in order not to compare the mentally retarded to people with such ridiculous views of how the world works, but I wanted to prevent people from thinking that I was calling Massie a Palestinian, when he’s merely useful idiot for Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups.)

Looks like he got himself a new girlfriend, to boot.

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I think that that’s unlikely. He likes them much younger than that, and she prefers close blood relatives.

Oh, dear. I hope it’s nothing trivial.

The headline is misleading—they should have said “weeks before” instead of “within weeks,” which usually implies “a few weeks after”—but the facts are still damning. Joe Biden was spending money like a drunken sailor because he knew that his influence-peddling gravy train would continue for years.

While I could tell immediately that Ramaswamy was a madia-obsessed snake-oil salesman and neither a conservative nor someone interested in our nature’s future, I never thought that he could turn out to be a bona-fide apologist for Islamofascist terrorists. You’re right, he’d fit right in with The Squad.

The State of Israel has the right, and the moral duty, to exterminate Hamas and eliminate the possibility of further attacks against the Israeli people. If that entails occupying Gaza and hunting down every last Hamas member there, then so be it, and we should have their backs.

Sorry, I don’t care what you believe. Go play your well-worn race card with someone else.

No, you are thinking of Oklahoma City, not Tulsa. Tulsa hasn’t had a RAT U.S. Representative in over 35 years. It is what it is—a Republican stronghold.

Horn=Hern

That’s twice that you’ve called me a racist for moronic reasons. You can just read my response to your prior insult twice.

So you’re just going to call every person who would prefer a candidate for Speaker who does not have a criminal past a “racist” (or, more precisely, a “RACIST!”)? Why do you think that expecting more from the person who would be the Republican with the highest federal office is “racist”? If anyone is being racist, it’s those who hold blacks to a lower standard than other public servants. I’ve donated to the campaigns of dozens of black conservative Republicans through the years, and I’ve done so holding them to the same standards as I’ve held any other candidate; I’m not going to start judging people based on the color of their skin now because some hysterical FReeper calls me a “racist.”

And I’m glad that Donalds has turned his life around and no longer distributes drugs or is involved in bank fraud. I’m not even saying that he shouldn’t serve in Congress—that’s up to his constituents, and they seem to be fine with his past. But if the past couple of weeks have proven anything, it’s that it won’t be easy to get 217 Republicans to vote for *any* Speaker, and running someone with baggage is an unforced error, particularly when there are perfectly good candidates without a criminal record from which to choose.

Again, why go with Donalds instead of with Kevin Horn? Horn would have a better chance of getting 217 votes, and then of getting stuff done as Speaker, than would Donalds.

OK, suit yourself. Support the most flawed candidate, and then we’ll be back to square one when he can’t get 217 votes.

What is your objection to Kevin Hern?

Is Byron Donalds the only Republican in Congress who is on our side and has a good voting record? Wouldn’t it be an easier road to 217 votes and to a successful speakership if we nominated a Republican in Congress who is on our side, has a good voting record *and* does not have a criminal history?