You’d agree Texas has a “Conservative” state legislature, right ? They’d have handily elected liberal RINO David Dewhurst had they the right to elect a Senator (over Ted Cruz). This fantasy that repeal of the 17th would result in better Senators continues to amaze.
Electing "better" Senators would be the overall result, of course with exceptions, if the matter were done by state legislatures. But there is another reason to replace the election of senators into those legislatures in which is to restore the federal system, to make state legislators power players against the federal Congress.
I am not naïve enough to believe that state legislators would be less corrupt than federal legislators, I simply maintain that they would be corrupt in a different way. After all, I am a conservative and I have a very negative view of human nature just as did the Founders and I would adhere to the Founders' solution which was separation of powers. Certainly, empowering state legislatures would go a long way toward accomplishing that proven method.
I say again, what we're doing now is not working and, even in Texas if it is broke, it should be fixed
