Posted on 11/08/2006 3:05:30 PM PST by jbwbubba
Yes. Any time a president is removed from office, the VP becomes President - who in turn, would appoint a new VP that would have to be confirmed by congress. If there's no sitting VP, and a president dies or is removed from office, that's when a sitting house speaker could become President. If for some reason, there is no house speaker at that time, or the speaker is constitutionally ineligible to be president, next in line is the President ProTem of the Senate, and after that are the cabinet officers, in the order that their office was created. So - right now, Condi is 4th in line - first time in history a woman has been that high in the line of succession. (Madeline Albright, as a naturalized citizen was constitutionally ineligable when she was Sec. of State.)
I predicted Romney a year ago and I still think he will be the one. It has nothing to do with whether I want him or not (I don't particularly like some of his stands on things). It has to do with an instinct that I seem to possess. Romney is the only man considering the run that has the "it" factor. It is something intangible, but some have it, some don't. Newt has way too much baggage from his days in the Congress. He is still hated by a lot of people. McCain, as you say, is too old and not really a well man. Guiliani is a possibility, but there is something there that doesn't feel possible for some reason.
Now, as head of the RNC Newt would be great.
PLEEEEEESE! Enough with the RINO's!
-PJ
Oh, and if Lindsey walks past your door, stick out your foot and trip him.
"I swear, if Lee Atwater came back from the dead you people would be calling him a RINO and spitting at him. Some of you would have called Ronald Reagan a sellout. Get a grip."
Reagan and Goldwater would be labeled as rinos by today's FR crowd.
Political kindergarten. Name calling. I have seen little to no quality discussion about how to regain the majority.
Dean went against the grain and decided to run hard in all 50 states. Won in AZ and MT.
But the daily mantra on FR is to ridicule him, instead of analyzing what may be taking place.
Complacent, fat, corrupt Republicans just got themselves outsmarted by Howard Dean and Rahm Emmanuel, politically speaking.
Rove is not a genius.
Michael Steele did not hurt the party. The party and folks' opinion of it hurt Michael Steele. He got mid 40s where pubbie registration is in the 30s. I worked 15 GDm'd hours yesterday, many of them in the rain, to elect Michael Steele. We didn't have a chance, or at least we didn't have the chance I thought we might.
”[Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele is] so—I hate to say this, because this sounds so damned ethnic—unthreatening, which a lot of white voters like to see from an African-American, unthreatening. You almost have to be castrated to take the fear away from some people.“—Chris Matthews
Mike Steele ran an outstanding campaign. Gov. Ehrlich did, too. They got caught up in a bad GOP year in a 2-1 Dem state and still with such a strong showing.
I know the WaPost would love Steele to be RNC chair. Being the RNC chair does not prepare a man to be president of the United States. The liberals would love to neutralize Steele, who is an extremely dangerous man--dangerous to liberal ambitions of taking the presidency in 2008 and/or 2012, that is.
Good idea.
Steele to lead RNC.
"As a side note I would bet everything I own that in two years the Republicans will take a page out of the Democratic play book and make Nancy Pilosi A MAJOR campaign issue just as they successfully did to Newt some years ago."
Sigh ... we should have been doing it already.
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