The message the courts and the entire system gave us in 2008 was that if the people (or vote counters) will “elect” a person, the Constitution be damned. The ONLY measure of eligibility was 51% of the electoral vote, because no court would EVER “overturn an election”.
If this scenario should happen there are a lot of people right here on Free Republic who will deserve everything they get, because they were afraid to “go birther” and say that we have a Constitution. If we didn’t have one then - and we didn’t, and a lot of “conservatives” called us crazy for pointing that out in 2008 and since - then it’s pretty lame for those same people to say that we should have one now.
Using the arguments cited right here at Free Republic, as long as each state Secretary of State gets the paperwork for Obama’s name to be put on the 2016 ballot there is nothing the states can do but put his name on, as long as he gets the votes the electors can’t do a thing but vote for him, as long as the electors’ votes are lawfully done Congress can’t do a thing, as long as Congress certifies the election SCOTUS can’t do a thing.... and nobody in the entire country has “standing” to say boo, and even if they did the courts would never take the case because eligibility is not a LEGAL/Constitutional issue but a “political” issue. That includes eligibility for a THIRD term, just as much as it includes eligibility for a first term.
Anybody who ridiculed the “birthers” but now wants to say this isn’t how the system is supposed to work can FIRST kiss the arses of every “birther” you ridiculed, and only then have you ANY credibility to say a peep.
Even though the republicans might do nothing. It would never go so far as to a vote for President. The Oathkeepers would step up and stop the entire process. The constitutional slide would be stopped.