I have it all figured out, or ding dong the Witch is dead.

Vanity | 3/06/07 | Agent Smith

[Agent Smith]

Ok, I have it all figured out if Dubya does the right thing.

Cheney, takes one for the team, and resigns because of the blood clot/Libby verdict. Fred Thompson comes off the bench as the new VP, and is easily confirmed by the Senate. Duncan Hunter joins the ticket for VP in 2008 and we are off to the races. You read it here first.

[meg88]

Condi, not Fred Thompson. And she runs as Rudy's veep post Cheney blood clot. :)

[neodad]

IBRYMB!

[Joann37]

Agent Smith, it sounds good to me!

[NYleatherneck]

Are you high ?

[Ole Okie]

Thompson would never even get a vote by the Senate. Dingy Harry would filibuster any conservative selection in your scenario.

[Ikemeister]

Rudi/Condi? No thank you very much.

[RunningWolf]

I could go for that.

[TSchmereL]

Sorry. Your first premise is wrong. "Dubya does the right thing?"

Since when has Dubya done the right thing? He allowed the prosecution of Libby to proceed. He signed McCain-Feingold. He created new Prescription Drug Benefits. He advocates for illegal immigration.

Sorry. We are stuck with Rudy McRomney now.

[Nonstatist]

Agent Silly.

[Sax]

"you read it here first."

No, I read it here first. Post #18

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796182/posts

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Fred would have to leave Law and Order. Dubya could have a hand in the race for 2008 if Cheney resigned.

[Fiddlstix]

This could be an interesting thread.......

[Constitution Day]

Step out of the Matrix, d00d. Let me have some of what you're smoking.

[1rudeboy]

He allowed the prosecution of Libby to proceed.

Where do you think you live? Belarus?

[ozzymandus]

Your tinfoil is too tight.

[NorCalRepub]

....that could work if every Democrat in the Senate committed suicide....or were just committed

[Agent Smith]

Thanks, you are correct.

[lilylangtree]

Interesting.

[Ditto]

Fred Thompson comes off the bench as the new VP, and is easily confirmed by the Senate.

What in the world makes you think that? The Rats trash and filibuster George Washington himself if Bush nominated him.

[Wallace T.]

There's no way the Democratic Senate will confirm anyone, whether Fred Thompson, Condi Rice, or anybody else you can name, who will be a Presidential contender in 2008.

[meg88]

Condi cuts into an Clinton/Obama ticket base.

[Sax]

Ha! And, it's funny that this was post #18 here too.

[Agent Smith]

Former member of the Senate club, called to nobly serve his President & Nation. Harry Reid will be digging a VERY DEEP hole for the democRATS in 2008 by trying to stop Fred, imho.

In fact that would be great!

[keeper53]

IF VP Cheney did resign, (due to his health issues, not the Libby trial), how would the Senate agree to anyone that the President puts forward? I admit I do not remember how this all works!
:)

[theFIRMbss]

> I have it all figured ...

Bush isn't running for re-election. Why not name Pammy VP?!

[Agent Smith]

She doesn't look 35 to me.

[Miss Didi]

IF VP Cheney did resign, (due to his health issues, not the Libby trial), how would the Senate agree to anyone that the President puts forward? I admit I do not remember how this all works! :)

I was about to ask the same question...it would seem that anyone he put forth (with the exception of a Dem) would not be approved just out of spite. Anyone???

[Wallace T.]

The only Republican I could see the Senate approving would be a retired moderate and non-controversial type like former Speaker of the House Denny Hastert or former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach. Men like Hastert or Leach would obviously not be a contender for the Presidency next year.

[Ditto]

Harry Reid will be digging a VERY DEEP hole for the democRATS in 2008 by trying to stop Fred, imho.

Harry wouldn't have to do a thing. A bunch of left wing blogs would bring up "troubling" questions that would be picked up immediately by the MSM which then become the pretext for endless debate.

Hell, 30 years ago, when the Democrats still had more than a few high-minded people in congress they nearly blocked Jerry Ford's nomination when Ford was perhaps the best liked and most respected member of Congress of either party. Today, like I said, they would trash Washington or Lincoln (and get away with it) if Bush nominated them.

Just let Cheney serve out his term and let the 2008 elections handle themselves. Trying to get cute with this stuff can only come back and bit you.

[RockinRight]

Unless Thompson just decides to run on his own...

[RockinRight]

Actually I think she turns 40 this year. But she's Canadian.

[theFIRMbss]

>Actually I think she turns 40 this year. But she's Canadian

"Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian-American actress, sex symbol, glamour model, producer, TV personality, and author. For a time, she was known as Pamela Anderson Lee having married a rock musician, Tommy Lee. Anderson is popularly known for modeling and television acting in the 1990s and for her large breast implants. Anderson has been called the sex symbol of the '90s.[1] She holds dual citizenship as both a Canadian and an American."

[Ditto]

Condi cuts into an Clinton/Obama ticket base.

I used to think that would be the case, but I no longer do after watching the results in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Maryland elections this past November.

The race and gender thing only works for Democrats. It appears that Black or female Republicans don't really count as black or female.

That's just the way it is. All Condi would get from the MSM is the "Aunt Jemima" smack-downs --- not the the fawning that you seem to think.

[JRios1968]

You missed the chance to ask "Thailand?"

[areafiftyone]

Fred would have to leave Law and Order.

On Brit Hume's show the panel said that would never happen.

[JRios1968]

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Ditto,
Steele in particular ran a fantastic campaign and was superbly qualified.

[Ditto]

Steele in particular ran a fantastic campaign and was superbly qualified.

And lost state-wide by 10% and in the inner city precincts by a better than 3-1 margin to a white Democrat. If Steele gets just 40% of the big city vote, he wins easily. He didn't even get 30% in the big cities.

Blacks won't vote for another black no matter how qualified if there is an R after his name. MLK himself wouldn't win in the City of Baltimore if he ran as a Republican because the inner cities are throughly chained to the corrupt Democrat plantation. The Civil Rights stuff is all just smoke and mirrors.

[thegreatbeast]

Keep dreaming. The smart people in the Republican party infrasructure have already decided that only the 3 or 4 front runners will be given a shot for the party's nomination. Great Americans like Tom Tancredo or Duncan Hunter will not be allowed to get their messages out in any meaningful way. Relax, these people are smarter than you and me.

[Rudder]

Sounds like a plan. What happens to Cheney? You're not planning to sic Bill Mahr on him are you? Thompson is an excellent choice.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Tom Tancredo has NO chance of being elected to nationwide office. Hunter is a possibility, but he needs to start getting some momentum very soon.

[thegreatbeast]

He certainly has no chance if he isn't allowed on the playing field, which is my complaint.

[highlander_UW]

Why doesn't it surprise me that her initials are PDA?

[TSchmereL]

I don't live in Belarus. I live in the United States.

As Robert Novak, who first published Joe Wilson's relationship to Valerie Plame, pointed out in his column today,

"George W. Bush lost control of this issue when he permitted a special prosecutor to make decisions that, unlike going after a drug dealer or mafia kingpin, turned out to be inherently political. It would have taken courage for the president to have aborted this process."

You could also read some of Clarice Feldman's articles about this case for some insight into George W. Bush's cowardly and wimpish defense of his administration.

[1rudeboy]

Thank the Lord Robert Novak is not an adviser to the President.

[TSchmereL]

I disagree. The present state of affairs is the result of poor advice followed by the President.

President Bush would have been better telling John Ashcroft not to recuse himself but to investigate and disclose the fact of Plame's non-covert status, and thereby put an end to the political investigation. But by caving in to the demands of the media and his political enemies, Bush allowed Fitzgerald to go on a fishing expedition and snare Scooter in a process crime.