🚀 go-pugleaf

There have been 3 Presidents in the past that were sons or grandsons of
presidents, where they won in the electoral college and lost the popular
vote. All three had miserable terms with little or nothing accomplished, and
then lost to their opponent in the first race.


"mapanari" <mapanari.nospamm@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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> "arw" <aweiss@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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> > Back in 1789 days or thereabouts (probably up to the Presidency of James
> > Madison, who was sadly afflicted with one of the worst Congresses on
> > record!), this might have been a very good solution.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the engulfment and devourment of American government by
> > political parties (a role NOT authorized or prohibited by the
> Constitution,
> > unfortunately) means this is highly unlikely.
> >
> > This is all about POLITICS - and that means political parties,
patronage,
> > payoffs, and pissing on everyone else (the 4 p's these days).  The
> > likelihood of Al Gore, Jr. taking such an offer is ZERO.  Gore is also
> > killing his political future by throwing the election into the courts,
> > unlike Nixon.
>
> Gore has no future anyway.  If he looses the election, he has nothing.
>   Liberman goes back to being a senator, Bush back to Governing, Cheney
goes
> back to getting millions of dollars in sweatheart government contracts for
> Halliburton and Gore?  He gets to go back to a state that refuted him and
> he'll have nothing.
>
> Gore has nothing to loose.
>   He will never ever be able to run again because he'll be just another
Dan
> Quale, an embarresment to the party who wish he'll just go away and shut
up
> after this loss.
>
> Tipper will no doubt divorce him in a few years, that is if she sheds a
few
> tons of blubber and she'll find a nice christian evangelist minister to
> order and boss around,  she'll do lunch with Hillary once in awhile and
> they'll both sit and laugh and giggle over their Beta Male loser husbands.
>
> >
> > Cheney can go back to Secretary of Defense, Colin Powell can take over
as
> > Secretary of State, Condo Rice can be Nat Sec. Advisor, and you can give
> the
> > rest to Norman Schwartzkopf to dismantle  :-)
> >
> > yr. ob. srv,
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> > jim bob marley <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> >
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> > > If nobody can agree on Bush or Gore, the decision may go to Congress
for
> > > President and Senate for VP.  A compromise for both sides could be
Bush
> as
> > > President and Lieberman as VP.  A Bush/Lieberman team has a chance of
> > > being agreeable to a larger percentage of Americans.  Potential for
2004
> > > as well?  Cheney could be appointed to a position within the admin.
> Under
> > > the circumstances, it could be a decent solution, or not.
> >
> >
>
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