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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Can you name a single Republican who has ever argued that anyone who has a right to vote should have it taken away?
I'm thinking I could find an example of this. And given the quality of voter, plus the inherent inevitability of government collapse under universal suffrage, I think the idea of conditioning the privilege of the vote (it's not a right, you find no right to vote in the constitution of the US), I'm thinking this should be talked about more. It's the voters who put the unhinged into office. Reid was elected. Pelosi was elected, Jackson Lee was elected, etc. I'm not one who subscribes to "blame the voters," universal suffrage and human nature will always cooperate to favor the candidate with the "vote for me, I'll give you more (money)" message.

I agree with Hindraker's observation. Democrats are not rational.

5 posted on 05/23/2014 2:40:15 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt
I think the idea of conditioning the privilege of the vote (it's not a right, you find no right to vote in the constitution of the US),

What has been found as a right, under Equal Protection, is that whatever voting is to be done, must be available to all, equally. No vote is even required among the states... they just all choose to do so, because anything else is political suicide in the US.

26 posted on 05/23/2014 4:39:29 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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