Condi: "I don't want to RUN" Imagine this scenario: Cheney resigns,

[goodboy]

Bush elevates Condi to VP knowing DAMN WELL that she wouldn't have a chance in hell of being ELECTED President -

Then, shortly before the end of his term, Bush* steps aside which makes Condi the first female President. Condi will pardon EVERYONE! Then she'll already be IN the White House which gives her a much better chance of winning against Hillary in 2008.

Condi could never beat Hillary on a level playing field, due to the extensive public record of her lies and incompetence, so the pukes have to do what they do best: Subvert democracy to maintain power.



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[McKenzie]

1. If senior figures are indicted you need fresh elections

I can't see how the current administration can be allowed to continue if that happens. Surely their credibility wil be zilch thereafter.

People have been denied jobs as school teachers on the basis of doubts over their trustworthiness. This lot have jobs that require absolute trust.

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[Orsino]

4. They've functioned quite well without credibility.

They still own all three branches of government, and can count on our remaining tractable.

[Silverhair]

7. The constitution does NOT provide for that.

The constitution and the law provides for a series of replacements until the next scheduled constitutional election.

You may want it, but you won't get it. Next POTUS election is in 2008, and that is ALL there is to it.

[Chan790]

9. President has

the power to appoint a new VP if the VP is impeached or resigns. Nixon appointed Ford...who was next in line anyways but could have appointed anybody, as long as that pewrson would have passed Senate approval.

Edit: Nevermind.I thought you were disagreeing with the OP not McKenzie. Sadly we have to wait until 2008.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. I don't believe Ford was speaker (and next in line).

Minority Whip or something.

[Chan790]

12. You're Correct.

Because the Republicans did not attain a majority in the House, Ford was unable to reach his ultimate political goal--to be Speaker of the House. Ironically, he did become president of the Senate. When Spiro Agnew resigned the office of Vice President of the United States late in 1973, after pleading no contest to a charge of income tax evasion, President Nixon was empowered by the 25th Amendment to appoint a new vice president. Presumably, he needed someone who could work with Congress, survive close scrutiny of his political career and private life, and be confirmed quickly. He chose Gerald R. Ford. Following the most thorough background investigation in the history of the FBI, Ford was confirmed and sworn in on December 6, 1973.

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From the Ford Library Bio.

http://www.ford.utexas.edu/grf/fordbiop.htm

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Pass me some of that tinfoil and let me think about this a little more.

Whew! Scary thought!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I think CondorLizard would be quite defeatable,

even as an incumbent. First, she wouldn't ever have been elected. People want to elect the president (or at least believe they did). Second, she has a lot of weaknesses, not the least of which are her participation in the Iraq cock-up and her sycophantic relationship with the Chimpster. And finally, the reality is that the Republican party is heavily infested with bigots who wouldn't vote for a black woman to save their lives; they'd just stay home and not vote.

[goodboy]

18. I agree wholeheartedly. That's why the Pukes won't take that

chance. All they need to do is get her in. Then they'll figure out how to KEEP her in.

[Junkdrawer]

5. Since when have elections been "on a level playing field"?

I'm guessing Congressional before 1994 and Presidential before 2000.

[goodboy]

17. I meant as a candidate running for president against Hillary...

she'd have to be installed.

[damntexdem]

6. I prefer this scenario:

An indicted Cheney refuses to resign, and the legal process drags out beyond November 2006.
Huge Democratic majorities are elected to both houses of Congress in 2006.
By January, 2007, Dubya is implicated in various conspiracies.
A new Democratic Congress impeaches and convicts both Cheney and Dubya.
A Democratic Speaker of the House becomes president.

[Hobarticus]

8. Me likey...

Screw this fiddle-farting around. Go for the gusto.

[goodboy]

11. I just drooled all over myself reading that. (nt)

[notadmblnd]

13. Thats my dream.

2006 election is going to be very exciting.

[Silverhair]

20. Pipe Dream.

We would have to win a 2/3 majority of the Senate to do that. Can't be done. In fact, we have more vulnerable seats in 06 in the senate than they do.

[Eurobabe]

14. Condi 'if I had only known the seat numbers?'

no shot in hell.

[goodboy]

15. That's why they'll have to install her. Couldn't carry the South, and

could NEVER beat Hillary on a level playing field.

[Bluebear]

16. "And the flight numbers and their frequent flyer numbers"

Screw up 9/11 as NSA? Get a promotion! Only in Bushworld.

[Johonny]

19. She'll run

Look she's goin gto run. * said he wasn't going to run for president. And of course everyone in Texas knew he was going to run. And sure enough he ran. It seems Republicans are required to pretend they have zero interest in being president, before they run for president. Some how if they don't want it, that makes them more like everyday people.

[goodboy]

22. It looks like she'll be indicted, so the prison yard track is where she'll

run.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. I think Condi could be the GOP pick for VP in 2008

If Chimpy has to fill the VP position now, I think he'll bring in someone the right wing psychopathic bigots can get behind as President. Condi isn't it, in my opinion. I think his own brother Jeb would be a more likely scenario, seeing as how he would want to pick someone without the taint of the Plame or Iraq quagmire (especially if Fitzgerald's case has a broad reach), but also someone from his tight inner circle he can completely trust to keep the skeletons closeted. It would have to be someone with name recognition who would be groomed for an eventual Presidential run. It would be someone the Poppy Bush political machine can get behind in 2008 and it therefore wouldn't be John McCain. At any rate, I expect Karl Rove to continue offering advice, even if it occurs from a prison cell.

[goodboy]

23. Jebby's got too many skeleton's in his closet too. They need to

run Condi if Hillery runs...or they might as well write off 2008

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

25. And Condi doesn't have a lot to hide?

Anyone running against Condi would have a field day pointing out her failings as the national security advisor that allowed 9/11 to happen, not to mention her lies about the "mushroom cloud" and her closeness to the neocons. If Fitzgerald expands his investigation to the WMD lies, Condi will be neck deep in the crap. I'd love it if she ran against Hillary in 2008. But I don't think the Republicans are going to go for it.

[Niccolo_Macchiavelli]

24. Move Black Queen in Power Rochade

Bush**, Condi... The new american royal couple.



possible next steps:

Bush** in decline and can't get the homepopulace to revolt.

Cheney resigns.

Rice placed as VP.

(optional)
Bush resigns.
Rice as President
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XX--End of Rochade--XX

At a time of increased ecologic disasters, diseases, increased hostile politics. Repubs, Racists, Freeps will take no shit (failures) from a black woman president and maybe incite the revolt the dems won't do when she screws up(intentionally?), dems might consider joining them in the revolt.

Meanwhile Cheney finalizes the investments with Halliburton revenues of Key assets like water, communications, lands in the prospective shadow of destructon, mount merc armies to replace the thinned federal armed forces whatever they need/want and havent spent money on yet.

Unrest, insurrection, revolt

Martial Law, Instating the Presidial direct control assisted by FEMA and the NSC.

XX--Check--XX

Depending on the level of resistance something between civil war and Fourth Reich Mk II

End of burial of the last vestiges of american democracy.

XX--Checkmate?--XX

All hail Emperor George I and/or Empress Condoleeza Rice of the Lords Holy States of America

(aka Dumbfuckingstan, Watchedanddonenothingstan, Resistbybumperstickerstan, Republic of Gilead, jesusland, Breed&Fight Ltd., Pray'n Pry Congregation, whatever...)

Jadda Jadda it's going to be interesting lalalalalalala