Do the liberals who hate freedom really want to try a game with no rules? It worked out poorly for democrats from 1861-1865, and it would be much uglier if they tried it again.
Posted on 12/07/2016 11:24:34 PM PST by granada
If you thought Donald Trump was the face of America’s anti-establishment movement, hold on to your chapeaus: A wild wind is rising.
Want to know what’s more anti-establishment than a president-elect who refuses to play by the rules? How about similarly spirited electors going AWOL and sending someone else to the Oval Office?
Could it happen? Might.
A movement headed by a mostly Democratic group calling itself Hamilton Electors is trying to persuade Republican electors to defect — not to cede the election to Hillary Clinton but to join with Democrats in selecting a compromise candidate, such as Mitt Romney or John Kasich. It wouldn’t be that hard to do.
Mathematically, only 37 of Trump’s 306 electors are needed to bring his number down to 269, one less than the 270 needed to secure the presidency.
On the Hamilton Electors’ Facebook page, elector Bret Chiafalo, a Democrat from Washington, explains the purpose of the electoral college. If you haven’t previously been a fan of the electoral system, you might become one.
Bottom line: The Founding Fathers didn’t fully trust democracy, fearing mob rule, and so created a republic. They correctly worried that a pure democracy could result in the election of a demagogue (ahem), or a charismatic autocrat (ahem), or someone under foreign influence (ditto), hence the rule that a president must have been born in the United States. We know how seriously Trump takes the latter.
Most important among the founders’ criteria for a president was that he (or now she) be qualified. Thus, the electoral college was created as a braking system that would, if necessary, save the country from an individual such as, frankly, Trump.
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Old saying, be careful what you ask for, you might get it.
Kathleen is what you might find in Jenny Rubin’s commode after a healthy bowel movement.
WAPO conspiring to betray the vote? Seriously, Amazon?
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat. Parent companies include Disney, Comcast, Time Warner, and seemingly Amazon.
Childishness.
Sure, try that. They had better just remember that we know where they live. If they want to be at ground zero of a civil war then go for it.
Some states do not have any law or regulation in place that will not allow it. These are the states they will focus on to get electors to change the votes in.
I doubt it is possible however. But I don’t put anything past these people at this point. They are desperate, their whole agenda just got sunk for decades(1-3 supreme court picks). Not just on a national level either.
I think Vlad should introduce any faithless electors to his 210Po stash.
Ablate the faithless! They are a cancer upon the Republic!
Didn’t Kathleen Parker used to be the token “conservative” at CNN or somewhere? Is she over that farce, or is she still “conservative?”
“But I don’t put anything past these people at this point. They are desperate, their whole agenda just got sunk for decades(1-3 supreme court picks). Not just on a national level either.”
Precisely.
Kathleen Parker wants democracy annulled when it doesn’t suit her.
Liberals are big on democracy - until it results in an outcome they don’t like.
Then they work to overturn it. Liberal Logic 101.
NOT gonna happen!
Kathhleen Parker? ROFL..... This is the so-called “conservative’ that CNN chose to pair up as the counter-point to that smarmy little schmuck pervert, Eliot Spitzer, on that fake-news show that lasted a few months.
Doing everything to steal an election
Do the liberals who hate freedom really want to try a game with no rules? It worked out poorly for democrats from 1861-1865, and it would be much uglier if they tried it again.
The woman is demented.
She’s crazier than the man she accuses of being a loose cannon.
Talk about irony.
Why not assassinate Trump?
Its illegal but it also solves their problem.
After all, they want to be rid of Trump once and for all.
And here they’re beating around the bushes with this Electoral College faithless elector BS.
The people who want to stop Trump are far more dangerous than him.
People who talk breezily of subverting the will of the people are going to lead our country to the abyss and no good will come of it.
Our country has survived bad Presidents. It will survive Trump.
They wanted to force Hillary on us, then they tried to subvert the election through recounts to change the result and now they want to elect another Republican President because they don’t like the man Americans chose to be their President.
The NeverTrumpers are not bound by the Constitution, the law or ethics. For them, the means justify the end.
That’s what they’ve been doing before the election and what they’ve been doing since it was over.
A month isn’t enough time for them to get over their delirium.
She had her chance to vote for Mitt Romney. She blew it. What’s more faithless electors just reduce the number Trump needs.
I never thought I’d see the day the Left wants to impose Mitt upon us.
This just makes me choke up in sheer laughter.
Suddenly, he’s Mr. Acceptable. In truth, they’ve got nothing.
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