IF/when Bush looses, can he run again in 4 years? Has a president ever

[patricia92243]

lost the election and then run again and won?

[TexasProgresive]

1. Grover Cleveland. n/t

[Skidmore]

2. Don't know the answer to that but we need to

totally discredit * so that there no question he is fit for any kind of public service/elected office of any type in the future.

[Minnesota_Lib]

5. Four years after leaving office, TR ran again...

on the Bull Moose Party (progressive) ticket....but he lost.

[NoPasaran]

12. Millard Fillmore also

ran again in 1856 as the No-Nothing candidate... which would certainly be a fitting party for Bush*.

[RC]

3. With any luck

bu$h&co will be in prison, therefore we will only need to worry about his deranged supporters.

[Florida_Geek]

4. He wouldn't the BFEE has picked

[Skidmore]

7. Yeah, and we need to be discrediting that

oinker too. That's one preemptive strike I'll support.

[Paradise]

11. Great reply, Florida_Geek! :) n/t

[Sporadicus]

6. I Hope That * is Either Tied Up Fending Off Lawsuits

or cooling his heels in a federal prison - in either case too busy to consider running for office again.

[Mr.Green93]

8. Bush will be on trial or in prison

[Selwynn]

21. God.. who honestly thinks this....

That will never happen, as much as we all might like it to.

[Mr.Green93]

22. if there is any justice in the world

or balls in our party, it will happen

[Selwynn]

28. And you think there is either?

What has our party done, or what justice have you seen in the last four years (or more really) to give you any indication that this will ever happen?

You think the democratic party will go after bush when he's gone and risk further stalling their agenda by pissed of republicans and powerful money holders? Never. Have you HEARD any serious public rhetoric by anyone calling Bush a traitor, criminal, or anything else by senators or representatives? No. Well, Kennedy, bless his heart. But essentially now. Why? Because its bad politics, and that's all people care about.

Thinking that somehow there will be this radical change post November is delusional. Ronald Regan deserved to be tried and jailed too - didn't happen though did it? No, in fact he was immortalized into the greatest president that ever lived despite how that totally contradicts history (he actually had one of the lowest popularize of an president in the last half century during his term, it was only after he left office that the major rewriting of history began.)

I'll predict just the opposite: I predict Bush will be the next ex-president to replace Regan immortalized as one of the greatest presidents of all time by the right and thus seeping into the consciousness of the masses. If you think that's crazy, then you forget how insane it is for Regan to be treated like the hero he is, even by some here, only a couple decades after his time in office.

Give Bush ten years, see how he's remembered... I promise it will make you sick.

[Mr.Green93]

29. well, fudge

[union_maid]

9. That's not going to happen

If we get rid of him this time. He'll be damaged goods and the RNC will have no doubt that it was his idiocy that lost the election.

[Paradise]

10. oh god, what a horrible thought!

however, a valid one. :think:

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. Richard Nixon.

He ran against Kennedy in 1960 and then won in 1968 and 1972 -- with the specter of Watergate hanging over his head in the last.

[RodneyCK2]

14. I thought Clinton said on Letterman that he could not run again.

I could be wrong. Maybe it has something to do with an impeached president?

[LTR]

16. Presidents are limited to two elected terms

Therefore, Clinton cannot be President again.

Nothing stops a one-term President from running again.

[CaTeacher]

23. If presidents can only serve two elected terms--

I guess that means that * could theoretically be in office for 12 years!

Since * was never elected in 2000--he could conceivable serve another 8 years--if he can win two presidential elections.

[LTR]

24. Oh, now you're just getting scary

And Bush was elected. He won 5-4.

[Zynx]

15. Grover Cleveland. Won 1884, lost 1888, won 1892.

[quaoar]

17. Might be a good idea

If Bush ran again in 2008. He'd be even easier to beat. We might even carry Texas.

Bush would be easier to beat than someone like Guiliani.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

18. Shrub would be way easier to beat in 2008. Just think, voters now used

to having a President who actually sounds intelligent, what a concept! They'd want to go back to THIS?

[Jon8503]

19. Nixon Did

Nixon lost to Kennedy and then ran again and won with Gerald as his Vice President and then had to resign.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

20. Difference is, shrub has a record as president. If he is turned

out after 4 years as pres, esp. if decisively, then his management as president has been effectively repudiated. Different from Nixon who had not been prez at the time he was elected.

[Zynx]

25. He ran with Agnew as Veep. Agnew resigned and Ford was appointed.

[LTR]

26. Ford wasn't elected VP

Agnew was still VP in 1972, when Nixon won his second term. Agnew resigned in disgrace, and Ford was selected to fill the VP slot.

Nixon resigned, and Ford became the only president to never be elected (all Bush jokes aside).

[rocktivity]

27. Hopefully, Kerry will have the entire Bush regime

Tried, convicted, and sentenced by then.

:headbang:
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