[itsPatAmerican]

As a hard core Marxist he will simply gut the elections of any meaning.

How do you think he'd do that? My guess would be giving lots of power to bureaucrats. Keep the Pres/Congress elections in place but create a super powerful bureaucracy, a fourth branch of the government w/o checks or balances.

[hinckley buzzard]

Good guess. Imagine a "National Elections Board" established for the Public Good, to screen and approve candidates. We certainly don't want people to be misled by dishonest and subversive anti-social elements running rogue candidates do we. The Board, of course, will be composed of handpicked operatives. We could vote for anyone we wanted as long as s/he was an "approved" option. Like when Henry Ford said "People can have a Model T in any color they want, so long as it is black."

[Canedawg]

“How do you think he’d do that?”

By funneling money to Acorn and putting them and theirs in charge of monitoring elections.

they are so transparent- they already had the audacity to earmark BILLIONS for Acorn in Paulsen’s bailout proposal.

It doesnt even require thinking too far outside the box.