While these threads are in fashion, thought I’d throw this one out…
A bit more far fetched but not impossible. According to the gossip sheets (gotta read something in the bathroom 
) the mayor of SF (a bit of rising star polically) is dating an actress from CSI who is a senior Scientologist. So given a few “what-ifs” you could at least have a scientologist as a first-lady in 2012 or 2016.
First Lady - maybe. But I’d sincerely hope the USA would never elect someone whose judgement is so bad they’ve fallen for a transparent and malicious scam.
Name a Scientologist who isn’t nuttier than a fruitcake and we’ll discuss his chances.
Yeah, seriously. All the prominent Scientologists I could name are mostly apolitical actors, and kind of nutty.
Could a Scientologist get elected POTUS?
What do you suppose L. Ron’s master plan calls for?
Could a drunken, psychopathic redneck waving a broken beer bottle get elected POTUS? How 'bout a serial killer who says he’s really, really, really sorry? How 'bout a gay, black, alcoholic woman who knows how to make a really great shrimp creole? Could a hunchbacked, hare-lipped Latvian dwarf? How 'bout Comic Book Guy from *The Simpsons, * or maybe the crazy cat lady? How 'bout Osama bin Laden? Or maybe Charles Manson? Or Big Gay Al? Or my dead cat?
Has there been a crack epidemic around here lately?
I think it is just as farfetched to think of any mayor of San Francisco being elected to the presidency. Those few “what-if’s” would have to be huge.
San Francisco isn’t really representative of the nation at large - not even in the broader Democratic Party. A mayor from there wouldn’t get elected dogcatcher most places.
According to this – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Ros-Lehtinen – there are already two Scientologists in Congress: Mary Bono (R-CA; widow of Congressman Sonny Bono, also a Sci-ist); and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL).
I could maybe get behind that. How much does she drink?
But a junkie in the Oval Office would be better. Less aggressive, you know?
apolitical? They seem to have some pretty political sounding statements. Would they classify themselves as republican or democrat; that I dont know, but I don’t think apolitical is a fair characterization
Could a crack addict get elected POTUS? Or an ex-crack addict.
Well we know a former cocaine addict can
Asked and answered. 
Not quite. I don’t know Gavin myself, but have several friends who know him quite well. He’s a fairly moderate Democrat who could easily be elected mayor in almost any big city in the country (except maybe the South). SF has it’s share of nutty politicians, but GN isn’t one of them. He does like to “hang with the stars” and has a, shall we say, active social life, but that’s CA for you, and it’s not just the Dems who live like that.
Now, the whole gay marriage thing he went thru might be political suicide for him nationally, but I could see him as Governor of CA in 10-20 years (I think he’s still just shy of 40). I suspect CA will be the first state to legalize gay marriage thru the legislative process (we came within a hair of doing so recently, but the measure was vetoed by Arnold). The demographics are on the side of the SSM issue-- younger people just don’t see it as a problem.
As for the OP: No. And that’s as much of an answer as the question deserves.
What, we’ve never had a Christian president?!
I would vote for Kirstie Alley.
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And the best part of it is you can keep your drug-dealing brother in jail until you leave office and then grant him amnesty. Thereby keeping him out of the news for your entire term.
Scientologists regard everything that isn’t L. Ron Hubbard to be useless. They consider the non-Sceintology world to be in a state of madness and chaos, including politicos. Most do not vote. Their Evil Plan ™ is to recruit a majority of people into the church at which point resisters will be mudered. To quote L. Ron himself:
“There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the tone scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the tone scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow. The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the tone scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.”
At that point government will become redundant because all men will be sane and will treat each other fairly.
To quote the current leader, David Miscavige:
“Objective One - place Scientology at the absolute forefront of Society. Objective Two - eliminate psychiatry in all its forms. We don’t care what the current think is regarding what’s wrong with the planet. Government won’t handle it. Politics won’t handle it. Legislation won’t handle it. All that’s going to handle it is what we, of the IAS (International Association of Scientologists), have set down in stone. Let’s get rid of psychiatry, and let’s bring Scientology to every man, woman and child on this planet.”
So in the end it will be join up or die, and they will rule the world. :eek: Thanks for asking!
And to actually answer your question :smack: no, it will never happen. Tom Cruise has taught the church that fame is a double edge sword. The more people hear about Scientology, well, the more people **know **about Scientology. That isn’t good for the church, especially when what people know is about an alien ruler named Xenu. Imagine the Tom Cruise debacle x 100000. I think the church would take any member who might try a run at the Presidency aside and use their control to litreraly “make” them think twice.
As far as Mary Bono is concerned, she kind of inherited the position from her smarter and certainly less crazy husband, and why not? A representative is pretty low key, and they can point to her and say “Scientologists are just like everybody else!” so in that way she serves a similar function as any celeb.
As I mentioned in the previous post, their plan is not to take power through governmental agency, but rather through recruitment. When everyone is a Scientologist, who needs government? Or captialism? Or anything? Just use the Hubbard admin tech and you’ve got it made! It applies to any situation, don’t you know. You don’t? You seem to be kind of low on the tone scale. Go with these gentlemen. Now.