RATLIFF 35/2012

It’s Day 2 and I’m still waiting for any of the 6 FRIENDS to get back to me. Of course, it’s a big holiday weekend, so perhaps it’s unrealistic to assume I’ll hear anything before Monday or Tuesday.

Got the following response from an admittedly false “Jennifer Aniston” twitter account:

Far too busy to run for office, but hope that @LisaKudrow will accept the Vice Presidential offer from @35ratliff2012.

So that’s something, right? Fake Jennifer Aniston turns me down but endorses Actual Lisa Kudrow for VP!

If any of The FRIENDS is reading this, know that all I need for you to do is agree that you will be my Vice President. I don’t require a single campaign appearance, or any campaign work, you won’t need to donate a moment of your time between now and election day if you don’t want to. I just need you on the ticket to help me get elected. Then, when I’m President, if anything happens to me that makes it so I can’t be President anymore, you have to be President. That’s the whole deal.

Oh, also: if you haven’t seen this week’s episode of The Chris Gethard Show, that’s where I first made the offer for one of you 6 to be my VP. You can watch the whole episode here. 

Oh man. I really hope I hear from one of you before Monday. It would really make my weekend.

Not My Day,

Connor Ratliff (Age 36)

The Next President Of The United States Of America

P.S. If anyone out there wants to help this effort out by making Ratliff/Friends “fan art” of any kind— photos, drawings, animated GIFs, clips where you insert me into scenes from episodes of Friends, songs, etc…  it would be greatly appreciated. I need all the help I can get if I am going to get one of the Friends to be my VP.

THE ONE WHERE I’M WAITING TO HEAR FROM ANY OF THE F•R•I•E•N•D•S

Okay, so it’s been more than 24 hours since I went on The Chris Gethard Show and offered the Vice Presidential slot to any of the six FRIENDS from NBC’s Friends.

So far, I’ve heard nothing. But it’s too early to panic.

For one thing, two of the Friends— Friend Joey and Friend Rachel— are not on Twitter, and it’s likely that it may take a few days before word reaches them about this offer. It puts them at an unfortunate disadvantage, but they may wind up getting lucky if the other four are procrastinators.  

As for the four Friends who are active on Twitter— Friend Monica, Friend Ross, Friend Chandler and Friend Phoebe— none of them have tweeted today. So it’s possible that they might not be aware of the offer yet. Friend Monica and Friend Chandler haven’t tweeted since Tuesday, and Friend Ross’s last tweet was in August 2011, which indicates he may have given up on Social Networking. Friend Phoebe’s account is “managed”, meaning she has people who are essentially in charge of it for her, but this could actually be an advantage if her staff members have their act together.

The biggest disappointment of the day was when I received the following response:

@35ratliff2012 Could I beeeee anymore excited to accept your offer of candidacy for vice president?

Sadly, a careful examination of this account points to it being a fake. Still, there is a slim chance that Matthew Perry set up a new account (using the alternate “Chanandler” spelling) just to tweet his answer to me. If this turns out to be the case, history will show that Matthew Perry responded promptly to my offer and later became Vice President of the United States Of America.

Thanks to those who tweeted at the Friends for me today. I need all the help I can get in order to make this happen, and any support that you can provide my campaign would be most welcome. 

Stuck In Second Gear,

Connor Ratliff (Age 36)

The Next President Of The United States