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"I say raise the voting age to 35. If you're not old enough to run for President, then you shouldn't be voting for one."

As a 28 year old, I think (not that anyone cares what I think, but what are you going to do?) that there should be an IQ test required to vote. If you eliminate the people with room temperature IQ's, the democrats will have to make do with their dead voters.

Every once in awhile, I'm truly amazed at some of the things I read here, and some of the folks calling for an IQ in order to legally vote are some of the ones that just completely dumbfound me.

The hidden premise in this is that the people who suggest this will continue to vote, but the remarkable thing is that it is such a mind-numblingly bad idea--especially to those of us that like our government small and our liberties great--that this is truly irony writ large.

So what you're saying--and correct me if I'm wrong--that you want to give the government the power to subjectively test its citizens for "intelligence," and then let the government grade these tests and then the government will announce who has the "right" to vote. This is your great idea?

No, I can't imagine that there might be any abuses to this process at all. I mean, granted, there are some people in this world--of course not you--that can't logically follow the consequences of an idea to its rational conclusion and really have no business making any decisions at all in their daily lives, except maybe which clothes to wear in the morning.

But, this is the risk we run for protecting our rights from government intrusion. I have to put up with these people that can't intellectually go from point A to point B. In exchange, I get a rock-solid guarantee that I can walk into the booth and pull a lever.