I feel like doing something silly, and Ravenman gave me the perfect idea in the thread “Who could win US Presidential Election 2008 as an independant?”:
So, it’s November 2007. Jesus has come back and is running for President of the US as an independent. One year remains until the election. What does his campaign look like? What do the two parties do to fight him? What does Fred Phelps think? And, above all… does the Son of God take it home?
Unless you count the post-resurrection years, Jesus isn’t old enough to be eligible for the office of President of the United States. Jesus was only 33 when He was crucified. You have to be at least 35 to be POTUS.
If I recall my Bible stories correctly, he was also not a natural-born US citizen, which would also hamper his chances of being elected.
Of course, he may have enough pull to get a constitutional amendment passed before the election.
Polls are showing that candidate Christ cuts a messianic figure.
However, he is perceived as being very soft on terror.
He has perhaps too many vested interests in the Middle East to be viewed as even-handed, and he’s perceived in some quarters as being something of a “self-hating Jew”.
His speeches are a little long-winded for current media, leading to his being taken out of context: “blessed are the meek” hints at socialized medicine, and is scaring the libertarian and Republican lobbies.
A lack of negative campaigning leaves him wide open to attack, and his tolerance towards prostitution is aleinating the moral majority.
His vicious attack on the credit industry is not winning him any friends in Wall Street, while his “render unto Caesar” stance hints at increased taxation in the future.
Above all, he’s got this whole ivory tower “holier than thou” thing going on that is neither playing well in the heartlands, nor with the secular west coast.
I’m sure not voting for him. I strongly support the separation of church and state, and you can’t get any less separate than “Jesus for President.” I’d also have to ask “What does God want with an elected office?”
Maybe so he can get a spaceship. 
And to think I worried that nobody would get that joke. Come to think of it, he’d be in charge of NASA, so he’d probably get all the spaceships they have.
I wouldn’t vote for him.
Damn hippy.
Rove would eat him for lunch. The whole “turn the other cheek” thing is nothing but classic liberal soft on crime flip flopping.
Then the commercials from the Messiahs for Truth campaign would drag him through the mud.
Jesus is the protestor that you stone or ignore.
He’d end up be executed within a month. The question is, what would Christians wear around their necks then? Little syringes?
I think it’d be too difficult to resurrect his career at this juncture. It would take a miracle to get a majority in this country.
Depends. What’s his position on same-sex marriage? Because, you know, that’s the most important question we need tp face in this country.
However, I’m a big fan of his reduced administration staffing. I see no reason why he needs more than 12 guys to run things.
Jesus actually did run for president here in the last election. I saw Jesus - Presidente! signs in several places. I don’t know what his final vote total was, but he didn’t win.
I suspect that Jesus has run for president quite a few times in Latin America, with limited success.
Not a viable candidate. He’s a radical socialist rabble-rouser. Just read that Sermon on the Mount stuff. The talk shows will tear him apart.
Hell, Cal Thomas could think of a reason not to vote for him over Bush or the next reasonable substitute.