Keyes’ case isn’t about winning an election. It’s about having the chance for a lawful election. He has the same right to petition for a lawful election as anybody else in the race. It has nothing to do with the results of the election and everything in the world to do with equal protection under the law, and due process.
You can’t just throw away the whole concept of equal protection and due process by saying, “The person wouldn’t have won even if they had equal protection and due process anyway, so they don’t have standing to demand equal protection and due process.”
Equal protection is equal protection. If McCain could sue to get a fair election, then so can Keyes. That’s what equal protection means.
You can’t just throw away the whole concept of equal protection and due process by saying,
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nor, the imposing and vital necessity of absolutely
verifying Constitutional adherence.
The more I think about it, the more I loathe
John McCain.
butterdezillion, your expressed thoughts in this thread about ‘something is just not right’ is exactly what I have been feeling deep down since the moments after learning Fred Thompson dropped out JUST PRIOR to Super Tuesday. I never felt he explained, in any meaningful way, to his supporters why he made that choice. I was SO sad that day because I felt, at the time, Fred could have made all the difference in this tilted race and wiped the floor up with Obama. Besides the stench steadily coming from the Media, this was when it first smelled to me like a rat had crapped and we were about to loose the election. Palin gave me slight ‘hope’, but I felt we surely had already lost our chance to LEAD ourselves out of the economic marsh we’d just been driven into. Now, we’ve reached the deep swamp, and are sinking faster. I still believe that ‘FRED could have LEAD’ and made all the difference in that election if he had just stayed in the d**n fight. He handed us McPain, but I always thought that decision was not truly his own. Sorry to blabber ... but I’ve been sitting on that thought for quite a while and just had to get that out.