Bush may not be on Alabama ballot in 2004

[St Leo]

Uh, guys, this isn't good. If Bush isn't on the ballot, Alabama might vote for Buchannan or that Libertarian nutter.

[HolyWarrior]

Sorry to disappoint you leftists

If you lot can skate around New Jersey's laws about replacing candidates, thereby replacing Torricelli the crook with Lautenberg, then Bush can certainly be on the ballot in Alabama. The Repubs still have a year and a half to fix this anyway

[Victor Galis]

Yeah, they got around the whole Bush and Cheney being from the same state problem. (They're both Texan and the Constitution forbids a state's electors for voting for both a Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidate from their own state. That Cheney moved to Wyoming a few months before the election was no coincidence.)

[MRT144]

holywarrior, nobody likes you

[HolyWarrior]

coming from you, that's a compliment.

[Ben Kenobi]

Actually, I rather like the comparison with New Jersey.

If you can't take the heat...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, they got around the whole Bush and Cheney being from the same state problem. (They're both Texan and the Constitution forbids a state's electors for voting for both a Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidate from their own state. That Cheney moved to Wyoming a few months before the election was no coincidence.)

It isn't like Cheney has no ties to Wyoming . He has always had a house there, he was born and raised there, went to school there, and representated the state in Congress.

And where were you when Hillary Clinton moved to New York a few months before her election to the US Senate .

[Victor Galis]

How is that relevant? If the state law is going to allow her to run for state office, then so be it, but Cheney circumvented the Constitution to get into national office. I'm not implying I support the constitution or anything like that, I'm just bringing up a point.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Cheney circumvented the Constitution to get into national office

Bull****! If Cheney moved a few months BEFORE the election, the electors would not be able to vote for a President and VP from their own state, because Cheney had already moved and changed his residency before the elections.

[Victor Galis]

I'm saying he moved specifically to get around this requirement. My point was that laws can't stop a politician given a few months to work with.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm saying he moved specifically to get around this requirement.

You said he circumvented the Constitution to get to national office...

[Victor Galis]

Well had he not moved to Wyoming he could not have been elected. I didn't mean he did so in an illegal fashion, he got around it by moving to Wyoming.

cir·cum·vent (sûrkm-vnt)
tr.v. cir·cum·vent·ed, cir·cum·vent·ing, cir·cum·vents
To surround (an enemy, for example); enclose or entrap.
To go around; bypass: circumvented the city.
To avoid or get around by artful maneuvering: She planned a way to circumvent all the bureaucratic red tape.

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By circumvent, I mean it in the literal sense: go around. No more, no less.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Ah, well knowing you, I assumed you meant it in a nefarious sense .

[Rogan Josh]

Originally posted by Japher
I guess in Alabama you can't count on wright ins, seeing as the can't wright... like most of us here at poly.

(I am assuming this was deliberate )

[Victor Galis]

Ah, well knowing you, I assumed you meant it in a nefarious sense .

-Well, I suppose I meant it to be vague enough to be interpretible that way yet defensible should someone question it To be honest, it's late and it's finals week, I'm not exactly at the peak of mental clarity right now. I just feel a strange desire to post rather than study