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October 08, 2003
And you thought I was joking about Arnold as VP?
The process has already begun:
Hatch called Schwarzenegger a "tough guy" who has guts to take on Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and predicted the star of such films as "Terminator" will herald a new political leadership style."If he gets the chance, he's not going to be a namby-pamby out there," said Hatch. "I think you're going to find there's going to be some new leadership that a lot of other people might emulate in this society."
Hatch has introduced a resolution to amend the Constitution's ban on non-American-born presidents by allowing people who have been U.S. citizens for at least 20 years to be elected to the White House. While the measure was not introduced with Schwarzenegger in mind, Hatch said the Austrian-born superstar would be a perfect example of why the constitutional amendment is needed.
"If Arnold Schwarzenegger turns out to be the greatest governor of California, which I hope he will, if he turns out to be a tremendous leader and he proves to everybody in this country that he's totally dedicated to this country as an American . . . we would be wrong not to give him that opportunity," said Hatch.
As I've said before, I can hear Bush now: "It would be incredibly unfair, and un-American, to keep our party's nominee off of the ballot for purely legalistic reasons." I'm telling you. First they moved out the filing deadlines so Rove could have his September to Remember convention. Now they are gonna use the spotlight of the recall's success to change the constitution and run Arnold as VP, all to pretend to be moderates.
Posted by Mike at October 8, 2003 04:49 AM
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