# Potential VP replacements

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-vp-replacements/274587>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 13, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-vp-replacements/274587 "2004-11-13T19:11:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dqa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dqa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dqa)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-vp-replacements/274587/1 "2004-11-13T19:11:27Z")

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Here’s hoping it’s a false alarm, but Dick Cheney is in the hospital for shortness of breath.

Who are potential vice presidential nominees should Cheney resign for health reasons?

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**Author:** ![Rillian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rillian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rillian)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-vp-replacements/274587/2 "2004-11-13T19:16:51Z")

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A second-term president who needs a vice president? Sounds like the plot of [The Contender](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208874/).

I would love to see a woman in the role. What a way for Bush to burnish his legacy.

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**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-vp-replacements/274587/3 "2004-11-13T19:31:35Z")

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It’d be a good job for Rice.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-vp-replacements/274587/4 "2004-11-13T19:51:34Z")

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What’s Ashcroft up to these days?

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**Author:** ![dqa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dqa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dqa)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-vp-replacements/274587/5 "2004-11-13T19:57:31Z")

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Since I started this thread apparently one minute after a similar one by **Quartz** , and his includes the additional interesting question about the electoral college, I suggest we close this one and proceed in his thread.

[Cheney in hospital](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=286436)