RE: #8, you are right. Also, he mentioned that Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution gives the state legislature the authority to appoint electors as it chooses, and the FL legislature (majority Republican) was prepared to do just that, esp. given the kangaroo leftist Supreme Court in that state.
“RE: #8, you are right. Also, he mentioned that Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution gives the state legislature the authority to appoint electors as it chooses, and the FL legislature (majority Republican) was prepared to do just that, esp. given the kangaroo leftist Supreme Court in that state.”
I was sitting next to a liberal at a Christmas luncheon while that fiasco was going on. He was arguing that the recounts should keep going until Gore won. I showed him that article in my pocket Constitution. I explained that the election, as certified by the Florida Secretary of State, should stand, because the Florida Supreme court had no jurisdiction in the matter, according to that article.
He exploded “You mean we’re not a democracy?”
“No, we are a republic,” I replied.
The next year, at that luncheon, his wife told me that he was refusing to sit at the same table with someone who had a copy of the Constitution in his pocket.