Can the Torreceli option be made to work?

I've been seeing analyses of why Obama can't replace Biden as his running mate, especially in favor of Hillary.

I mention one in this post.

Clayton Cramer believes much the same way.

Instapundit points to the futures trading on the possibility that Obama Messiah might replace Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket with Hillary Clinton. If Obama and his staff have any brains at all, they would immediately recognize this as about the only action that they could take worse than what they are doing now.

I'm not so sure.

And even if it is, someone might consider it worth the gamble – trading a certain loss for even a slim chance of a win.

Consider: For all the noise being made about how McCain is old, decrepit, at death's door, and likely to keel over once and for all immediately after saying "So help me God" at his inauguration, Joe Biden isn't any Highlander type. He's old, and he's been in the Senate longer than McCain. He's had health issues of his own – strokes, I believe. A serious health issue would be entirely plausible.

Now he won't be replaced by Hillary. She wouldn't take the job. She doesn't want to run against a Democratic incumbent in '12, and if Obama should become incapacitated for any reason, a minority of loudmouths will accuse her of complicity.

However, there must be some young Democrat in the wings somewhere. Maybe one of the Kennedy kids? Have they really looked at all the governors? (I doubt the mayor of New Orleans is on even the very longest of lists.) How about one of the opinionated Hollywood set? How about Whoopi Goldberg? At least we know she can memorize her lines.