What little respect I had for Fred is completely gone now.
And to think some people here actually wanted this asshat to be president.
Wow, my respect for him just dropped by a big margin. The Electoral College ensures representation of the entire country, not just the election being controlled by a couple of high population centers.
I Supported Fred in his 2008 run and was disappointed. Unfortunately, this really does it!
The popular vote difference (which did NOT include all of the absentee ballots in every state and did not even include the contested 3,000 military ballots in Florida) in the 2000 election was 0.51%.
We would STILL be recounting the 2000 vote going county by county nationwide.
BAD method and Rats are guaranteed to stuff ballots in their dominant districts.
Right Fred, make it so only corrupt big city Democrats like Obama get elected President forever more.
We'll briefly have democracy, which will be followed by mob rule and dictatorship.
Fred, what the hell are you thinking!!!!
Has Thompson gone senile on us? If we want radical ideas, how about going back to the proposal by our founding fathers that only property owners of good character can vote? I’ll take it one step farther, how about applying the rule that a person can vote once for every acre he owns. Therefore a person owning 100 acres can vote 100 times, and a renter cannot vote at all. Put that one forward and see how the city dwellers would feel.
Not a good idea at all....
Fred, Fred, Fred....what be ye thinkin, lad?
Why not campaign for more “Reverse Mortgages” Fred?
I thought Fred Thompson was smarter than this.
One of the central concepts upon which Thompson based his Presidential campaign was respect for “federalism”. Now he wants to destroy it. The irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife...
>>Just forget the electoral college then and campaign in all the top ten major metropolitan areas only - surprised even Fred Thompson would endorse an idea as stupid as this one.<<
This is very disappointing. You are 100% correct. As much as it would be great to shove a thumb into the eyes of NH and Iowa, elimination of the EC would be a national disaster and the beginning of our road to Argentina and Cuba.
This is stupid. I can’t believe Thompson has bought into this. Even though conservative states are gaining population I don’t see the risk of seeing vote totals being driven up in liberal strongholds which could flip the election even though a candidate could lose soundly on the electoral map being a good trade off. We might as well get rid of states where voting is concerned if this is the way to go. This would most certainly have the result of pushing our Presidential politics leftward which is the last thing we need.
In ‘Rat’ stronghold States, the electoral votes are going to the Rat - so there is no reason for an unethical elections board to “stuff the ballot box” with Rat votes.
A thousand extra fake votes do not actually do anything if those electoral votes are already going to the Rat. But if it is “popular vote” then those thousand fake votes actually count against a thousand legitimate votes.
Fred Thompson - he played a good President on TV - he looks the part - and when someone else writes his lines he can sound clever. That and a hot wife are about all he has going for him.
Worse idea ever
Are there no sane Republicans left?
As an alternative idea, why not return to the balance of power the founding fathers envisioned:
House of Representatives democratically elected by the people.
Senate *appointed* by the State legislatures. Repeal the 17th Amendment to get rid of the faux democracy, and restore the ability of the States to protect the people from an out of control federal government.
President *elected* by the Electoral College. The presidency should not be a popularity contest. Only by tradition is the first ballot for president supposed to be who the elector is chosen to represent. If no president can be chosen in the first ballot, electors become free agents.
Finally, the president nominates Supreme Court justices, who must be approved by the senate, which *used* to mean, by the States.
America was thrown terribly out of balance the last time, and we have suffered for it since. Let’s not make things even worse.
LLS