Should Ill canidates be allowed to run for public office?

[redneck]

The recent death of Wyoming senator Craig Thomas got me wondering weather is should be legal or ethical for an ill canidate to continue to run for public office?Ideally the elected official is there to serve his people, but we all know that corperations and special interest groups own congressmen, but even with that what good does someone who is dying really do?If a canidate has cancer and will need to rest and can't goto debates or perticipate in their campaign than I think they should stay home and quite the election. I'm not talking about someone who has the flu either, I'm talking people with Cancer, AIDs, locus of the blowhole or any other serious condition. these people will likely spend a good portion of their time getting better and not doing the job that they were elected to do. besides, no other job would give you 600,000 dollars to do nothing, besides congress. I would just rather pay someone who would do a halfass job than someone who wont do it at all.

 

[Memphology]

Well, this means Hilary cant run...shes had to get something from being with Bill. haha j/k.But I defiently agree. Alotve times, we may not even know about the illness and we vote these people in, and if they pass, the person in office is somebody the people didnt select. People will say its unethical, but if you have terminal sickness, you shouldnt be able to run/apply for any long-term job...which most political positions are.

 

[the_pestilence]

Yeah, this lately seems to be a republican phenomenon of running people with something like dementia or leukemia that should make them unable to serve public office......and winning. I agree, if you're unable to go on the campaign trail then you shouldn't win even if there are tons of "yellow dog" voters who want you in.

 

[Suns Fan Guy]

I remember hearing something about a person who died in the middle of her campaign and then was elected.

 

[redneck]

That was the governor of Missouri, he died in a plane crash and still beat John Ashcroft.

 

[ASUFan22]

lol...so Ashcroft was that bad huh?I agree with this. If a rule like this was in place then George Bush wouldn't have been able to run because of his illness.

 

[MaRdYC26]

No, they should be IMO.

 

[the_pestilence]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MaRdYC26 @ Jun 5 2007, 02:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>No, they should be IMO.</div>politically correct much?why should somebody very ill be allowed to run?

 

[gentile]

The premise is very vague. How ill is too ill to run? My mother was terminally ill for 23 years before she died, and except for when she had dialysis, she was pretty active. Probably not enough to run the highest office in the world, but you get my point.What be the exact criteria for such a ban?