From: Gene McAloon 

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:59:10 -0500, Judy Folkenberg
 wrote:

>
>
>Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>
>> >>>Our Vice President used to be the guy who got the
second larged number
>> of
>> electoral votes.  Imagine the confusion if we had President Bush and Vice
>> President Gore.  I'd say that's a pretty substantive change.
>>
>>
>
>I think that would be great!  Wish that change hadn't been made.  What an
>interesting time we would have now.
>
>Judy
>
Bad idea, Judy. Very bad for any number of reasons. First of all, it would
have no practical effect because vice presidents don't have any power and
in most administrations are simply relegated to waiting around for the
president to die.

Secondly, the last thing we want is a change of party control simply
because a president dies. That is reminiscent of Germany's dumb system
wherein at one point the Social Democrats were forced out of control
because an idiot little party decided it wanted to back out of its
coalition with them and form a coalition with the Christian Democrats
instead and that for no other reason than
the leader of that little party was promised a higher position in the
Christian Democratic government than the one he had in the Social
Democratic government.

So, the elected government was out and the unelected Christian Democrats
were suddenly in and all that without an election.  Would you really like
to see that
kind of thing here simply because a president dies?

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