No, Schwarzenegger Can't Run for Vice President Either

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

By Frank D. Russo

San Francisco Chronicle editor Carla Marinucci created a bit of a stir yesterday with her article "Bloomberg-Schwarzenegger in '08?"

If the language of the Constitution itself before amendment was not clear enough by itself, the 12th Amendment has the following language which rules this out: "But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."

Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution states:

"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

If you're looking for strange news, Bill Clinton is eligible to be elected Vice President, according to some pretty good Constitutional authority.

Our Governor clearly has the wanderlust for national office, having been out of state more than any other governor in California history. He'll be going out of the country to visit Prime Minister Tony Blair and taking a trip to early primary state Florida also in the coming days. But he's not getting out of his gubernatorial duties by election in 2008 to higher office.