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Thank you for the thread link. Good read.

First off, be they republican, democrat, whatever part I don't care. I want a person with a conservative mindset as my Senator. By and large that usually means a republican, but not exclusively.

I appreciate your static analysis of the current make up of each states legislative bodies. I disagree that those are permanent numbers however.
Given enough time, they will self correct to what I believe to be a majority of the countries political philosophy.

The problem being it may not happen in my lifetime. I'm willing to wait, but many are not given the "I want it now" mentality of this generation.

Well, I do care what party is in, one reason to oppose this. But the other point you make is about having a Conservative Senator. Government employees (AKA, your legislature) will never elect authentic Conservatives. Even the impulses of far too many Republicans is to lean towards government expansionists. That’s why I said if the 17th were repealed, the only real change you’d see is what few Conservatives replaced with more liberal RINO types (while the Democrats would be uniformally on the far left).

Of course, the numbers for some of the legislatures change over time, but for enough of them, they don’t, and hence you’d have a solid bloc of states that would never change from being Democrat (while conversely just a few could be considered reliably GOP — Colorado used to be one, and now it is Democrat).

The issue about correction to becoming representative of the national plurality preference of Conservative also is highly unlikely, given what I stated in the first paragraph. Getting control of legislatures can be highly problematic, especially due to gerrymandering (a chronic problem in my state, for which we only recently broke through, but not entirely). Legislatures themselves have their own power structures/cliques that are difficult to broach, and those would be the small groups choosing and cutting deals to elect/reelect Senators.

But, yes, it won’t happen in your lifetime, and allowing the expansionist government types/parasites unfettered control means we’ll likely see a complete collapse before that ever occurs. The only chance we Conservatives have is to keep the 17th firmly in place, try to get as many party nominations for the Senate as possible and to aggressively and unapologetically work to shrink the size of government, something that would be utterly impossible with legislative-chosen flunkies/hacks and bosses.

Oh g*d, I don’t even wanna read the comments in this thread.

Anyway, Kegger, name a RAT Senator with a “conservative mindset”.

The most conservative one is the Obamacare deciding vote, the slag whore Ben Nelson. That party is a force of evil. I’d like to see them defeated (right now).

“... Senators still would be just as likely to be corrupted. But the corruption would be dispersed to the 50 separate state legislatures. The corruption more often would be on behalf of state interests”

First of all most of it already is if by “state interests” you mean pork. Second of all those rats in the state legislatures support every liberal and corrupt thing the rats in congress do, they’re doing the same thing at the state level. Rats in congress often got their start in their state legislature. They don’t somehow become worse when they go to Washington.

Honestly I don’t know how anyone can be in favor of shirking of the electorate for the Senate to a handful of career politicians who run the state legislatures. It’s insanity.