Posted on 12/02/2008 3:35:56 PM PST by Polarik
should that be legally not elgally?
This is the same stuff we were talking about regarding Bush vs Gore. Some were afraid electors would vote for Gore even though they were “bound” to vote for Bush.
Not a one of them broke ranks.
Get real.
Yes, like ileligible.
This is "Al Gore 2000" stuff.
Except that Gore was Consitutionally qualified
That's what happens when you spend two hours talking to Lamphere
Indeed.
He’s not even the President[Elect].
If we can build a groundswell, some electors might actually consider not voting or voting for someone else.
Challenge them with the thought that if Obama isn't legal, everything he signs will not be valid. He has a good chance of being impeached. He embarasses the Democrat party. What is he hiding?
It will be amazing to see this in play when Obama is found ineligible to hold office by the Supreme Court. I have stated that I believe this is Hillary’s thermo-nuclear gambit, that she is counting on the electoral college to select her when Change Boy is stripped of his hypnotic super-powers by virtue of being an Indonesian Kenyan (or vice versa, who cares) fraud.
BUT—THAT WOULD BE ILELGAL!
Since these electors were ones supporting the candidate why in the world would they jump ship and not vote for him?... Wishful thinking won’t change reality.
This would be the time for the electors to tell Obama simply that they cannot cast their votes for him unless he fully identifies himself to their satisfaction.
But that would require character and a sense of justice of the electors, and that may be asking too much of them.
I think this elector system is a nice little legal fiction in this date and age. I wish it weren’t so, but despite the statements to the contrary on this forum, none of us voted for electors on the ballot. We don’t even know or care who they are.
The response that quickly came to mind as I read this was a cartoon I saw many years ago called “The Last Great Act of Defiance”. It was a huge hawk swooping down with claws outstretched toward a little mouse facing it and giving the hawk the finger.
Any elector who would dare dis “that one” would be facing a fate worse than the mouse.
“..I believe this is Hillary’s thermo-nuclear gambit..”
I’ll take Hillary over Obama. At least I know that she is no foreigner and is no muslim. And perhaps, deep inside of her there is a latent feeling of love for this country — something I don’t find in Obama’s behavior.
This is quite clever (if I read my Hillaries correctly). She could not beat Obama mano-a-mano with Democrats, and she could not beat McCain, and McCain couldn't beat Obama. So, through deductive intrigue, she's back to McCain vs. her after the press has demolished McCain.
Electors are almost always committed party activists and office holders or big supporters of the candidate. If they weren’t considered reliable, they wouldn’t have been put on the slate.
I doubt few if any will renege on their pledges to vote for Obama.
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