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posted ago by BonafideTarzan ago by BonafideTarzan +2332 / -0

is the only way to prevent "paid for" politicians. If the president is limited, so should be everyone else.

How do we make that happen? No politician would vote for it.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 1 point ago +1 / -0

That doesn't work, either. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) promised he would serve only two terms. At the end of his second term, he ran for reelection to a third term.

He would have won, but died in a plane crash (chartered plane, flew into heaving icing conditions). The party substituted perennial loser Walter Mondale, and he might have won, but Wellstone's sons turned the funeral into a campaign event for Mondale. Moderate Democrats in MN were appalled, and either stayed home or voted for Norm Coleman.

Fun fact: Mondale was never elected to any office by challenging the incumbent. He was only re-elected, after being appointed to the office.

  • He was appointed MN AG in 1960, and was re-elected in 1962.
  • In 1964, he was appointed US Senator, then was re-elected several times.
  • In 1976, Jimmy Carter chose Mondale as his running mate. You might be able to make the case that he won that office on his own, if you really believe anyone was voting for Mondale instead of Carter. The reality: Carter won by default because he wasn't Ford.