I am in favor of term limits. I don’t feel any person has a right to be elected over and again. Let’s be honest here. Incumbents have unusually high chances of being re-elected because they have a political machine behind them. I realize that some will argue COL Allen West against this, but he’d have been easily re-elected had his first district not been redistricted...and it appears that some within the party did it on purpose.
Our founders did not envision career politicians. They envisioned the people having a representative government where anybody that was not a felon could run for office. They envisioned that people would serve and go back to their homes as citizens. We have a group that feels threatened and pulls out all the stops, regardless of how ugly it gets, to maintain their power. And this is why we need term limits. These people take more power away from us every time they are elected. Look how long it takes to get some of these people out? Some will never be voted out. (Pelosi, Boxer, Reid, Feinstein, et al) We need term limits. If we had a perfect society, or even a more polite one, we’d not need them so much. But those days are LONG past. We need to face that.
Term limits would rein in the “lion of the Senate” mentality, where we honor people for service who have done more to destroy the country, have NO MORALS, and win on their family name and the power they hold over a segment of the population. This MUST stop if we are to redeem our society.
Yeah baby! Limit to two terms, they can’t ever be elected to both legislative branches. Pay them more money for the two terms but they don’t get the “golden parachute” when they leave. Enough is enough!