Who will replace the Mad King Bush?

[Kablooie]

If Cheney goes before Bush, Bush can nominate the new Vice P.
but if he doesn't here is what we will have to deal with.

The Vice President Richard Cheney
Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert
President pro tempore of the Senate Ted Stevens
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of the Treasury John Snow
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton
Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns
Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson
Secretary of Transportation Norman Yoshio Mineta
Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff

Where will the ball stop rolling? Which of these folks do YOU want
as President of the United States of America?

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Ted Stevens

He's too old to do a lot of damage.

[leftstreet]

2. He could do a lot for Alzheimer's awareness. n/t

[daveskilt]

3. they changed the order

homeland security is now seventh - so if bush, cheney, fat denny, Ted stevens, condi, john snow, and rummy all were incapacitated....the guy responsible for keeping them safe gets to be president. Now that is funny

[aquart]

4. Indict Hastert on Abramoff, Cheney on Plame.

This gives the moderate Republicans huge leverage to put in the closest thing we have to Gerald Ford. And it has to be someone NO ONE is giving evidence on.

THEN we talk about George, if we can talk him out of the corner he's cowering in.

Pity the poor sap who has to deal with the mess he's leaving.

[Hippo_Tron]

5. Norman Mineta is a democrat

Although I'm not sure what ties he has to the party after being in shrub's cabinet for five years. Did he endorse Kerry?

[Totally Committed]

6. The worst-case scenario:

Cheney dies (or resigns in disgrace, or is impeached, or whatever...), and John McCain is appointed VP. Then, If Bush is impeached and removed from office, McCain becomes President.

McCain would then have incumbency in 2008 -- he will run from the standpoint of being the sitting President. I think he would be unbeatable at that point (imo). Without the incumbency, beating him would be doable if we ran the right candidate, but not if he's already in office.

Anyone else "appointed" instead of McCain -- even Giuliani -- would be beatable by the right Democrat (again imo), incumbency or not.

TC

[Nay]

7. That's my worst case scenario as well, except I think ANY Repub

they could replace Bush with will automatically look a thousand times better than Bush no matter what he does---and would win against any Dem in 2008 by a wide margin.

All those people who voted for Bush reluctantly in 2004 will be overjoyed to be able to vote for an incumbent repub who is not Bush in 2008. They will tell themselves that all evil resided in Bush himself, not in the Repub party, and will feel free to vote Repub wholeheartedly.

[Totally Committed]

9. True...

"All those people who voted for Bush reluctantly in 2004 will be overjoyed to be able to vote for an incumbent repub who is not Bush in 2008."

Plus... and, I haven't figured out why this is so, because I'm not at all enchanted with him... Indies and "Reagan Democrats" (Red Staters) LOVE McCain. I think we'd lose a lot of them, too, to an incumbent McCain.

Ugh. I really feel it will mean another 8 years of Republicans in the WH.

TC

[daveskilt]

8. impeach in Nov 2006 - Nancy Pelosi will be president

After the dems retake the house and she is the speaker. We need to take the house to impeach anyway - not enough repubs with spines/ethics/common decency.