To continue with my ongoing bad taste cartoons:
And that about summarizes what came out of Dickhead Gephardt's mouth the other day.
So Dickhead says he is gonna use an executive order to overturn any Supreme Court ruling he doesn't like? Ain't gonna happen. Know why? 'Cause he ain't gonna be president, that's why. Not only is he not gonna be president, he ain't even gonna be on the ticket.
First, why is he not gonna be on the ticket? He has to win Iowa. He's from Missouri and that almost makes him a favorite son. If he doesn't win Iowa, where he's favored by a bunch, he's toast. Dean is doing very well in Iowa. He has a chance of upsetting Dickhead there.
Then we go to New Hampshire. He has to finish no worse than third. How is he gonna finish ahead of Dean, Kerry (Did y'all know that Kerry served in Viet Nam?), and Lieberman? I predict after New Hampshire, he's gonna have to fold his tent.
Let's just pretend that he does get the nomination. When was the last time that someone went from the House of Representatives to president? Not in my lifetime. (I was born in 1946.) In my lifetime we have had four vice-presidents become president: Truman, Johnson, Ford (doesn't really count), and Bush pere. Truman and Johnson made it through the death of the president and Ford made it by virtue of Nixon resigning. Vice-presidents of two term presidents do not usually become president. Bush pere was an exception. Al Bore was trying to buck a trend.
In my lifetime, only one Senator went from the Senate to the presidency and that was Kennedy, who beat out the vice-president, Nixon. There are those who said that Daley got enough dead people in Chicago to vote and delivered Illionois to Kennedy. Dimocrats stealing an election? In Chicago? Nah! Never happen!
So the chances of Dickhead carrying out his threat are slim and none. His political career is pretty much over unless he wants to run for Governor of Missouri or the Senate. Thanks to the Clintons turning Congress over to the Republicans (Thanks Bill. Thanks Hillary), Dickhead never got a chance to be Speaker of the House.
I've known Dickhead for quite some time. I used to live in St. Louis and he was my congressman. When he was first elected, he was a pro-life, moderate Dimocrat. His district had a lot of Catholics in it. It was only when he got national aspirations that he moved to the left and became pro-abortion. What saved him was there were a lot of union workers in his district and he has a very strong labor record. Plus, even the Dimocrats who were Catholic had been Dimocrats all their lives and wouldn't change parties over one issue.
I left St. Louis 18 years ago, so Dickhead's district might have gone through some changes since I left. The person who would know is Chris Johnson at Midwest Conservative Journal who, if I'm not mistaken, lives in Dickhead's district.
Anyway, I think we can pretty much ignore anything Dickhead says. His political career is pretty much over.
And that's a good thing.
Posted by denny at June 24, 2003 08:42 PM