[Bean Counter]

How many times over the past decade, have we shot down this theory in flames here at Free Republic?

We have seen this ongoing attempt to subvert the Consitution, without having to bother with that messy old Amendment thang, over and over again from the whole DU/CU/LU/NU Genre, People4Change, Daily KOS, MoveOn.org, Code Pinko, Cindy al Sheehani, the Socialists, the Communists, and every other far-left nutroots cause for at least since Reagan was elected.

And here we go again, dredging up the samo old nonsense all over again. I guess Tovarish Laird should at least get credit for finally outing himself for what he really is...

I do suspect that part of what spawned this is the fact that Molly Ivens has (finally!!) assumed Room Temperature, and Tovarish John, being a failed Sports Writer in the "Fort Worthless Jim" Texas Democrat style, and run out of Tejas to the Pacifist Northwest some four years ago, finally sees his chance to be heard since Molly can no longer suck all the Oxygen out of anything ever again...

Yes John, "hapless livlihood" is a good phrase to describe what you do for a living...

Stout Hearts!!

[IronJack]

As a columnist, I'm often asked by aspiring young wordsmiths if they should follow their dreams and become writers.

Why would they ask YOU? You never did.

"You're not! Gonna amount! To Jack Squat!"

I know Jack Squat. You're not half the writer he is.

Yes, mine is a hapless livelihood, using mere words to try to make the world a better place. Better to pursue law or medicine, I tell the students.

Are you kidding? Better to pursue used cars sales than the feckless path this clown has chosen!

There are many colleges not worth saving. The Columbia School of Journalism is on the S_it Parade.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I guess it hasn't occurred to this moron that without the electoral college, both candidates would have campaigned with very different strategies, and that the popular vote results may have been dramatically different.

[marron]

More than 3,000 members of the U.S. military have died fighting a war that has no military solution.

Apparently, though, the enemy believes it does have a military solution.

[cripplecreek]

The electoral college is a pressure release valve. The only reason liberals hate it is because they see it as a barrier to seizing power and holding it forever.

As usual they don't bother to think past their immediate wants. A few years of strict control from the cities would cause a great deal of anger in flyover country where the food is.

[Nathan Zachary]

" Yes, mine is a hapless livelihood, using mere words to try to make the world a better place."

That sums up why you never see unbiased "news" reported, lies, doctored pics, false statements are what we get instead. Journalists are taught in journalism 101 by the leftist moonbat (I have a PHD so I know all)"professor" that it's their job to use the media as a tool to change the world into the Marxist utopia they think it should be.

[CyberAnt]

Still whining about the 2000 election!

The reason is the dems are so arrogant and elitist .. they believe they are "born to rule". Therefore, when anyone gets in their way then it has to be rigged .. the "little people" couldn't possibly reject them .. it has to be some sort of mistake.

The Electoral College makes a good excuse for the dems loss. Even when Bush got re-elected with over FOUR MILLION more votes .. the dems still whined about voter problems in Ohio.

Frankly .. I don't give a rip what they think!

[RichInOC]

If, all other things being equal, Dubya had won the popular vote in 2000 and Al Gore had won the electoral vote, does anybody seriously think the left and the press (to the extent they're separate institutions) would be making the argument that the Electoral College sucks and needs to be ended?

Sorry, rhetorical question.

[rollo tomasi]

"If your state is not a hotly contested battleground state -- large or small -- you're destined to be ignored by the candidates."

Good gravy and man alive!, is this guy stupid or what.

Just because some States are smarter than others (Or dumber if they lean towards democrats) is no excuse to let several big cities decide Presidential elections.

Tovarish should move to Cuba if he wants to live in a democracy.

[Lancey Howard]

Yet, as I have written before, in the 2000 presidential election Wyoming residents had one electoral vote per 164,592 residents while California had one electoral vote per 627,253 residents. That is blatantly un-American.

Those two sentences are all you need to know about this assclown's "understanding" of the carefully debated and deliberately considered founding documents of the United States of America. See you on another thread!

[El Gato]

One man one vote is a made up construction of the US Supreme Court. They made it up based on the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. Unfortunately, for them, that only applies to the states. Each person does not have equal representation in the Senate, that was by design, as was the more or less equal representation in the House. The Electoral College was a compromise between the states electing the President, as they originally selected the Senators, and a direct national election. The founders weren't much into direct democracy, aka "Mob rule".

What's unconscionable is the Supreme Court telling the states they must have equal representation in both houses of their state legislatures, rather than the geographically based districts that once existed in the "upper house" in many states.

[philman_36]

As a columnist...
A columnist you are. A journalist, thankfully, you're not.

[philman_36]

The answer, of course, is no.
Snip...The answer, again, is no.

Oh, I get it. You didn't really want a dialogue, you wanted to dictate (to impose, pronounce, or specify authoritatively).

Visions of potentate?

[Bean Counter]

The "New CCCP" would be the "Columbian's Collection of Communist Pundits"...

Stout Hearts....

[Congressman Billybob]

This is one more proof, if any be necessary, that Columbia is turning out history-deprived morons who should not embarrass themselves and their institutions by commenting on subjects based in the laws and history of these United States. If this "maroon" had the slightest knowledge of WHY the Electoral College was created, we wouldn't have written this twaddle.

Someone who knows his subject, would know that the manner of election of Presidents and the terms that they serve has drawn more proposed amendments in Congress, by far, than any other subject. Roughly 1,000 of 10,000 proposed amendments have been on the Presidency. There is general agreement that the E.C. OUGHT to be changed. But there is no agreement on what that change would be.

So, this moron suggests we subvert the entire Constitution by violating the amendment clause. Way to go, Einstein.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article: "Announcement: I'm Not Running for President"

[hinckley buzzard]

It would be a mildly entertaining exercise to take this guy on but he clearly wouldn't stop lying long enough to engage the issue. (*Yawn*)

[jmaroneps37]

I remember that in 2001 as soon as she got to the senate, the beast introduced a bill to kill the E.C. system. Her's was the 900th such bill. Now you don't even hear her bragging about that attempt.
Single vote counting in voter fraud heaven. We would still not have all votes counted from 2000 if we had to fight our way through even rat infested B of E in America.