usertron2020
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I SAID it was something of a joke

The point being that Senators like to dream big, even though when they come from EC poor states they know they are not even going to get the call for VP. But that doesn't mean they'll accept somebody sitting in the Oval Office for 12 years and 87 days!All of 3 sitting US Senators have been elected to the presidency, and one of them while running against another senator. Do a lot of people use it as a springboard for future ambitions, and have senators gotten ambitious? Yes. But to say that the Senate is a pool of Presidents in waiting may be overstating things a tad.*
Fact is, most american political institutions tend to be inclined against repealing term limits, albiet with exceptions.
*to be fair, there is some speculation that the nature of modern campaigning makes a national campaign easier for a senator to run for the presidency than for a governor. Then again, that is still only a theory.