those consort names again

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:18 PM -0400 9/1/08, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 9/1/2008 06:46 AM, Geoff Nathan wrote:
>>...
>>FWIW there are 3/4 million hits for 'first gentleman', including the
>>speculatively purchased domain thefirstgentleman.org, reserved for Bill
>>Clinton as he becomes one this coming January.  Oh well...
>
>Well. let's see ...
>
>Scenario 1:
>      Republicans McCain and Palin are elected, with exit polls
>showing that women Democrats, distressed that their party had not
>nominated a woman, were the deciding factor in several battleground states.
>      However, they return to their traditional base in state
>elections and the Democrats retain control of the House and Senate.
>      After the agony of having to eliminate so many outstanding
>white male vice-presidential possibilities, the 72-year-old McCain
>succumbs to the stress of being forced also to choose a cabinet, and
>dies soon after inauguration.
>      At the first meeting of the new Congress, the Democrats of the
>Senate, in an attempt to regain their historic electoral advantage
>among women, elect Hilary Clinton President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
>      Not long thereafter, a pro abortion-rights zealot assassinates
>Palin.

That's pretty far-fetched.  I've never heard of a murderous
pro-abortion rights zealot.  Let's get real.  I think it must have
been one of those polar bears Palin removed from the endangered
species list.  Or perhaps a moose whose uncle she burgerized.

LH

>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi becomes Acting President.
>      Encouraged by one powerful woman's exit from the stage, a
>member of a male supremacist organization
>offs Nancy Pelosi.
>      Under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, Hilary Clinton
>becomes President.

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