Constitutional hack: the 22nd amendment only limits you to being elected president twice. You can be elected Vice President an unlimited number of times, then have the president resign and take over.
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This is not true. No one can be elected vice-president who is not qualified to be president (12A), and someone who is doesn't meet 22A requirements is not qualified. But there is actually a real hack to skirt 22A, but just not that way.
@Pat if you serve two years, you're still eligible to be elected president, once. If you get elected VP in the next election and then take over again, still not elected president, still have one ticket left.
I don't understand your toot because there is too much ambiguity in its content. What is: "next election", "take over again", "one ticket left"?
If someone is not eligible to be elected president, then they are not eligible to be elected vice president because of the 12th Amendment, "...no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President..."
@Pat I am eligible to be elected president twice. I'm elected VP, shortly after my lackey resigns, and I become president. I am eligible to be elected once. I again run for VP with a new lackey for P. They resign, I am president again. I have still not been elected once. Third election, the same, I am eligible to run for VP because I am eligible to run for president because I have not been elected once. Repeat, repeat, repeat. I am never elected president, I am forever eligible to run for president, I am forever elected VP instead, serving (ruling) an endless series of partial terms.
Yes, that would work too. That's not loophole I was thinking, but it'd work.
