Will Bill Clinton be Vice-President?

Factual Questions
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Scenario:

The Forces of Light prevail over the Towers of Mordor, Gore is elected “President”.

But what about the Sentate? Ahh, but the Senate, which is likely to be tied or very close. (Can you hear Jesse Helms heartbeat? Neither can he.)

If Gore wins, Lieberman resigns his seat, the Governor of his ® state appoints a Republican. Senate becomes Republican, +1. (Assuming that WA recount breaks their way)

But what if Lieberman decides not to resign his Senate seat? What if he elects (snicker) to run but not serve? Then he remains in the Senate, one more Democratic vote! In case of a tie in the Senate, he might have cast the tie-breaking vote. If he remains a Senator, the Dems get his vote and still get to appoint the Vice President for the tie-breaker.

But who! Who might they choose for such a task! Who has the experience, the political savvy, the stature, the popularity, the chutzpah?

Why, Bill!! Who else could get away with it?

He cannot serve more than two terms as President. Constitution doesn’t say that he can’t serve as Vice-President.

Is this scenario possible? Is it any less likely than the daily news?

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Please feel free to repost your question in my newly-created thread, The Thread for Far-Fetched Election Questions.

This thread is closed.

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There have been many threads over the last couple of months about Clinton’s viability as vice-president. Look them up, you’ll find them interesting.

I, for one, am getting a little tired of seeing questions about every possible outcome of the election, no matter how farfetched.

To offer a short answer, I believe the constitution does technically allow (or at least, doesn’t specifically prohibit) a person not qualified to run for the office to be appointed to it. However, like all appointees, he’d have to be confirmed by the House. There is virtually no chance that even our nearly-party-equal House would confirm Bill as a vice-presidential appointee. Even some Democrats would vote against that.

As far as whether it would be a sensible move, of course not. If Lieberman wants to keep his Senate seat, the party and the president would be wisest to appoint someone who could conceivably be elected president in four or eight years.