Wow, great comeback. Yeah, that will convince the ignorant masses of how enlightened and smart you "abolish the 17th amendment" types are. Obviously, my arguments "suck" and yours are soooo much better. The 17th amendment is evil, because:
1) It changed how the FOUNDERS established that the government would operate. Of course, so did the other 26 amendments (including the bill of rights), that's why they're called AMENDments, but for some reason it's only bad when 17th changes things.
2) Illegal aliens vote in U.S. Senate elections! Of course, they vote in elections for all the other legislative bodies, including those state legislatures you all love so much.
3) Elected officials passed all kinds of unconstitutional stuff, but then again, so do all the other legislative bodies in America, including those state legislatures you all love so much. Why not have EVERY legislative official in America appointed by politicians since it would supposedly produce such superior officeholders?
4) State officials have NO power over the federal government anymore. Poor little Rahm Emanuel. Boo hoo!
5) Thanks to the power of time travel, the 17th amendment somehow caused the 16th amendment to be enacted retroactively.
With such brilliant arguments, obviously voters are just too dumb to realize how much better things would be if career politicians choose their Senators for them!
I don’t support repealing the 17th. Amendment at all and you’re all correct to oppose it, but I just want to get Liljenquist’s name out at every opportunity, just as I do with Richard Mourdock, Don Stenberg, Ted Cruz, and Jack Hoogendyk. With the nominee for POTUS likely to be a RINO, we need as many TEA Party types in Congress as possible.
Voters are quite smart which is why Libertarianism reamins a far right fringe as it should be. Both Anarchy & Tyranny are enemies of the people. I can see why you oppose returning to The balance that the founders put in place -a balance that was necessary after the utopian 'freedom' dream you envisioned failed miserably with the Articles of Confederation.
Yes, you choose to ignore history as far as the founding just as you choose to ignore history following the 17th Amendment. Those that ignore history are condemned to repeat it. How many political offices seats do Libertarians hold? Thank God the fringe you promote are impotent not only in argument but as well in history.
Take that and stick it in your irrelevant and uninformed yankee doodle cap.
Liberty my ass!