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let's dispense with the fallacy that a Pres/VP ticket is some kind of "team." Bullshit. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two of the greatest political minds ever, were once Pres & VP respectively. They were no team.


The job of the VP is to sit around and wait for the President to die or become incapacitated, and to break ties in the Senate. That's it. You could argue that the VP also has a responsibility to shoot his friends in the face with a shotgun, but that's probably limited to one specific person.


Imagine the day that McCain gets cancer agin (he's already had it 4 times) and is undergoing chemo for a week, at which point a "hockey mom" from Alaska becomes the head of the Executive. No team any longer, just one lost individual, and a bunch of cabinet members who will resent her for being chosen VP over them.




Very valid points. They're not a “team” and are sometimes at cross-purposes. Once in a while (JFK/LBJ) they outright Hate each other.

I don’t think McCain would croak in office, but if he were to do so, I think a better analogy for Palin would be John Tyler, who succeeded to the Presidency after WH Harrison checked out one month into his term. Tyler so alienated his fellow Whigs that they kicked him out of the party while he was still in office, and made him both the first President to be the subject of an impeachment resolution and the first to have a veto overridden by Congress.

Nor do I see see Palin being able to replace any of McCain’s cabinet pics with her fellow bible-thumpers. Control of the Senate is expected to remain with the Democrats (if they don’t outright expand their majority.) Does anyone really expect her to get her way there? John Tower, anyone? Or Bork, or Myers? In effect, she’d be handed her own de facto Tenure of Office Act.

Last, I don’t see her starting any wars while in office, either. If Haig and Kissinger were able to keep Nixon from launching nukes while the world crashed down around him in his own political Gotterdammerung, I don’t think there will be any problem keeping the Baked Alaskan Bible Broad from starting trouble, either.


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Willie is right of course but I also can't see Obama doing to well in regard to those same situations. We are doomed with 2 choices.




I'm strongly considering a Cleetus/XXXBit ticket. Now where's my free cigs?