(It didn't work out that time. But the Republicans can't escape the fact they put an imbecile a heartbeat away from the presidency just because they believed it gave them a political edge).
If they are fully informed, centrist, moderate and independent voters are likely to think twice about voting to put Palin a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
He put a stethoscope on Luke's chest and made a pretense of looking for a heartbeat, but we all knew there was nothing there.
Might not these heartbeat songs, unobtrusive as they are to the human system, put a driver to sleep?
"She might be a great person, but I had never heard of her before and I couldn't see how such an unknown should be put one heartbeat from the presidency," he said, "especially with all the problems we've got.
I figured I'd find a way to do my music in my own voice, to put the heartbeat of the 21st century in my work.
Most important thing, we put the heartbeat and will to win back into AOL.
(Sadly and lest we forget, in 2008, McCain paved the way for Donald Trump's idiocracy by picking his own chucklehead for the national ticket — Sarah Palin, whom he would have put one heartbeat away, as the old cliché goes, from the Oval Office).
He did not, however, suggest that this necessarily qualified him for an office that would put him a proverbial heartbeat from the presidency.
When Republicans took over Congress in 1947, they were happy to put their party leaders a heartbeat away from the presidency, and they enacted Truman's reform.
