A "what if" question..

QuestionAuthority
QuestionAuthority Idaho Posts: 327
edited September 2008 in A Moving Train
So.. lets say that Monday morning we wake up to hear news that John McCain has sucumbed to the stress of this election and he has had a stroke and has died.

Is Sarah Palin now #1 on the GOP ticket?

If she is ~ how do you think that will play out?
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  • meistereder
    meistereder Posts: 1,578
    No. That's not the way it would work.
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  • Strangest Tribe
    Strangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    They'd get an actor to play him like they did with Ronald Reagan.
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  • QuestionAuthority
    QuestionAuthority Idaho Posts: 327
    meistereder wrote:
    No. That's not the way it would work.


    So.. how would it work? Huckabee? Since he was the last man standing in the primary?

    Huckabee and Palin? That is the Christian Right's wet dream.. and America's NIGHTMARE!!
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  • Foxwell
    Foxwell Posts: 142
    Strangest Tribe wrote:
    They'd get an actor to play him like they did with Ronald Reagan.

    ...and Dave.
    "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus

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  • Foxwell
    Foxwell Posts: 142
    But seriously...

    I don't think the answer to this question is easily found.

    But what I do know is that the real "election" occurs on December 15. That's when the electoral college votes.

    I believe, I may be wrong, those guys can vote for whomever they like: Palin, Huckabee, Al Gore...
    "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus

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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    QuestionAuthority wrote:
    So.. lets say that Monday morning we wake up to hear news that John McCain has sucumbed to the stress of this election and he has had a stroke and has died.

    Is Sarah Palin now #1 on the GOP ticket?

    If she is ~ how do you think that will play out?
    She will position herself to become America's first female president. Awesome :rolleyes:. She's anti-abortion, anti enviroment, anti-stem cell research, anti euthanasia, anti gay marriage, a climate change denier and a born again bible believing christian creatonist.

    She's opposed to sex education in schools and believes in promoting sexual abstinence among the unmarried. Mmm hmm. Sarah Palin wants to control the way any children i may have, receive sex ed., and wants to take away our reproductive rights so that there are no "choices" to make. Why is it i read post after post of people saying her private life and that of her family should stay removed from politics, but no criticizm from those same people that she should keep her nose out of my private life? So how can she then request that we do not discuss the choices her own family has made? If these are private matters for her family, what gives her the right to think she can control any decision i may make for my family?

    She's a warmonger who can't find 'overseas' in the atlas and she's all apple pie and moose burgers. She's a living, breathing caricature, who btw McCain had only met once before

    Seriously, if death does befall McCain, this woman could be the freakin president of the US.

    This woman is pretty stupid and pretty and stupid. For god sakes Sarah Palin, piss off back to Alaska where there's no place like Nome.
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    I loved your post....:D
    Pj_Gurl wrote:
    she's all apple pie and moose burgers.

    and loved this too:)
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  • chopitdown
    chopitdown Posts: 2,222
    QuestionAuthority wrote:
    So.. how would it work? Huckabee? Since he was the last man standing in the primary?

    Huckabee and Palin? That is the Christian Right's wet dream.. and America's NIGHTMARE!!

    i thought ron paul was the last man standing??
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  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    QuestionAuthority wrote:
    So.. lets say that Monday morning we wake up to hear news that John McCain has sucumbed to the stress of this election and he has had a stroke and has died.

    Is Sarah Palin now #1 on the GOP ticket?
    I've been wondering this myself. I don't think they'd let Palin be the front runner for the party, but who knows? If that happened, the party would lose the election no problem.
  • QuestionAuthority
    QuestionAuthority Idaho Posts: 327
    Pj_Gurl wrote:
    She will position herself to become America's first female president. Awesome :rolleyes:. She's anti-abortion, anti enviroment, anti-stem cell research, anti euthanasia, anti gay marriage, a climate change denier and a born again bible believing christian creatonist.

    She's opposed to sex education in schools and believes in promoting sexual abstinence among the unmarried. Mmm hmm. Sarah Palin wants to control the way any children i may have, receive sex ed., and wants to take away our reproductive rights so that there are no "choices" to make. Why is it i read post after post of people saying her private life and that of her family should stay removed from politics, but no criticizm from those same people that she should keep her nose out of my private life? So how can she then request that we do not discuss the choices her own family has made? If these are private matters for her family, what gives her the right to think she can control any decision i may make for my family?

    She's a warmonger who can't find 'overseas' in the atlas and she's all apple pie and moose burgers. She's a living, breathing caricature, who btw McCain had only met once before

    Seriously, if death does befall McCain, this woman could be the freakin president of the US.

    This woman is pretty stupid and pretty and stupid. For god sakes Sarah Palin, piss off back to Alaska where there's no place like Nome.


    Great post!
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,296
    QuestionAuthority wrote:
    So.. how would it work? Huckabee? Since he was the last man standing in the primary?

    Huckabee and Palin? That is the Christian Right's wet dream.. and America's NIGHTMARE!!

    Actually, Barack is America's nightmare.
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,296
    Pj_Gurl wrote:
    She will position herself to become America's first female president. Awesome :rolleyes:. She's anti-abortion, anti enviroment, anti-stem cell research, anti euthanasia, anti gay marriage, a climate change denier and a born again bible believing christian creatonist.

    She's opposed to sex education in schools and believes in promoting sexual abstinence among the unmarried. Mmm hmm. Sarah Palin wants to control the way any children i may have, receive sex ed., and wants to take away our reproductive rights so that there are no "choices" to make. Why is it i read post after post of people saying her private life and that of her family should stay removed from politics, but no criticizm from those same people that she should keep her nose out of my private life? So how can she then request that we do not discuss the choices her own family has made? If these are private matters for her family, what gives her the right to think she can control any decision i may make for my family?

    She's a warmonger who can't find 'overseas' in the atlas and she's all apple pie and moose burgers. She's a living, breathing caricature, who btw McCain had only met once before

    Seriously, if death does befall McCain, this woman could be the freakin president of the US.

    This woman is pretty stupid and pretty and stupid. For god sakes Sarah Palin, piss off back to Alaska where there's no place like Nome.

    Wow. You sure do claim to know someone that you hadn't even heard of 3 weeks ago. Thank god the DailyKos does your thinking for you.
  • QuestionAuthority
    QuestionAuthority Idaho Posts: 327
    bootlegger10 wrote:
    Wow. You sure do claim to know someone that you hadn't even heard of 3 weeks ago. Thank god the DailyKos does your thinking for you.


    Exactly what was "claimed" that is untrue?

    The truth hurts when it is laid out one right after the other of horrendous things she stands for.
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  • catch22
    catch22 Posts: 1,081
    bootlegger10 wrote:
    Wow. You sure do claim to know someone that you hadn't even heard of 3 weeks ago. Thank god the DailyKos does your thinking for you.

    ah, you're from indianapolis. this explains much.
    and like that... he's gone.
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    bootlegger10 wrote:
    Wow. You sure do claim to know someone that you hadn't even heard of 3 weeks ago..
    Funnily enough, i would've thought that anyone that has any intentions of voting would be seeking out as much information as they can about all the candidates to allow them to make an informed decision on who they feel most comfortable with voting for.
    bootlegger10 wrote:
    Thank god the DailyKos does your thinking for you.
    Ahh an insult. That's the best you could do? What a surprise. :rolleyes:
  • fuck
    fuck Posts: 4,069
    bootlegger10 wrote:
    Wow. You sure do claim to know someone that you hadn't even heard of 3 weeks ago.
    So you're upset that she's "acting" like she knows Palin, when, according to you, she just heard of her for the first 3 weeks ago, even though you, yourself, don't know the poster and are assuming facts?
    Thank god the DailyKos does your thinking for you.
    I think we should all just tune in to fox news, personally.



    Palin is a terrible candidate. how can anyone like her?
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    I thought I should post this in the correct thread, since my error caused some excitement in another thread.

    If the candidate dies before the general election, the party's national committee votes on a new candidate in much the same manner as the convention, but without all the fanfare. IOW, there would be a representative from each state with the same number of votes as his state had delegates to the convention. Hopefully, ballots for the general election have not already been printed, or the new candidate's name may not appear on the ballot.

    If the candidate dies after the election, but before the Electoral College, electors committed to that candidate are free to elect someone else.

    If the candidate dies after the electoral college, but before the inauguration, the VP elect becomes the president elect according to the 20th amendment to the Constitution.
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