If we keep on winning through 24 - maybe a third term ?

[dogtag]

Well, after all, amendments can be subtracted as well as added,
and if Trump manages to finish off all that he promised, why would
you want to risk all that by having a career politician take over the
reins after Trump leaves office. Career politicians SUCK. Maybe if
another successful Conservative businessman could be persuaded to
succeed him that might be a go, otherwise let Trump stay there.
In other words, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".

[Roadkingtrax]

The 22nd Amendment would need to be revoked if he were to win a 2nd term, and then wanted to seek additional time in the Oval office.

Thus Endeth The Lesson.

[S.A. Boggs]

With the way his first term has been missed up by the Socialist Party, he deserves another one.
Sam

[Gun Smoke]

With the way his first term has been missed up by the Socialist Party, he deserves another one.
Sam

I've always said, time wise, Trumps first term should not start till the playing field has been levelized to what every other president has had even if this involves putting gag orders on the MSM, Hollywood and former politicians.

[lyman]

limit is 2,, let it go at that,

[dogtag]

limit is 2,, let it go at that,

FDR had 3 so why can't Trump have 2 ?
Congress doesn't have term limits, why not the President ?
Let the voters decide.

[Roadkingtrax]

FDR had 3 so why can't Trump have 2 ?
Congress doesn't have term limits, why not the President ?
Let the voters decide.

We simply do not have a monarchy here.

22nd Amendment

Section 1

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

The 22nd amendment limits the president to only two 4 year terms in office. ... After FDR died in 1945, many Americans began to recognize that having a president serve more than eight years was bad for the country. This led to the 22nd amendment, which was passed by Congress in 1947 and ratified by the states by 1951.

[lyman]

FDR had 3 so why can't Trump have 2 ?
Congress doesn't have term limits, why not the President ?
Let the voters decide.

it works for both sides,

do you think it would have been grand to have 3rd or 4th term under Obama?


I don't

[Vern Humphrey]

it works for both sides,

do you think it would have been grand to have 3rd or 4th term under Obama?


I don't

You've made the point. When you change the rules to get an advantage in a special case, it can come back to bite you later in a different situation -- look at how Harry Reid's rule change bit the Democrats.

[Art]

I've been around here for a long time and remember well when people on this forum and conservative friends of mine were speculating that Bill Clinton or Barak Obama would subvert the constitution by contriving some emergency to stay in power after two terms. Bill Clinton actually once did say that he could win a third term which was actually pretty plausible had the constitution allowed him to run which of course he didn't. Now I hear people on the left saying the same thing about Donald Trump. In fact I've heard Trump say pretty much the same thing as Clinton! I guess where you stand on an issue truly does depend on where you sit .

[lyman]

I've been around here for a long time and remember well when people on this forum and conservative friends of mine were speculating that Bill Clinton or Barak Obama would subvert the constitution by contriving some emergency. Now I hear people on the left saying the same thing about Donald Trump. I guess where you stand on an issue truly does depend on where you sit .

while I don't consider myself that old, I too remember the rumors the Clinton was gonna try for a 3rd term,

[dogtag]

If obama had run for a 3rd term and his rival had been Trump.
obama would have been trounced just like Hilary was,
Remember, Hilary was to be obama's 3rd term so why would
he have done any better than she did ?

[lyman]

If obama had run for a 3rd term and his rival had been Trump.
obama would have been trounced just like Hilary was,
Remember, Hilary was to be obama's 3rd term so why would
he have done any better than she did ?

maybe, maybe not,


fortunately, we did not have to worry about that one

[S.A. Boggs]

Wouldn't it be interesting, if the House goes conservative, to "float" the idea of a makeup 1st term. Can you hear Antifa now and Pelosi dropping her dentures, not to mention her makeup.
Sam