Liberty

"The great irony of those championing the demise of the Electoral College is that they are ostensibly (I say ostensibly because I believe there is nothing pure about the motive here) doing so to promote more freedom, not less. What a load of baloney. Right now a presidential candidate, most of whom come from America's semi-permanent 'political class' with all its elitist trappings, is still forced to 'sully' himself and campaign in what is euphemistically referred to as 'flyover country' because the Electoral College votes of those states still mean something. ... Now do away with the Electoral College. All the same elitist politician has to do now is set up shop at five star hotels in America's five or ten largest cities by population. ... Obviously this is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind. They took great pains to ensure the separation of powers at the federal level and equally great pains to ensure that the individual states had a substantial say in how this country was governed. ... As for the people who think the elimination of the Electoral College means every vote 'will count equally,' try selling that garbage in North Dakota or any other low-population state which would be routinely ignored in every presidential election thereafter. What these 'do-gooders' are really advocating is the eventual dissolution of states' rights altogether, and the permanent entrenchment of all meaningful power in Congress and the Oval Office -- or more accurately, in the King and His Court. The United States of America? The United Cities of America would be more like it. No doubt that works for those who believe centralized government is the be-all and end-all. For those who still believe in freedom and representative government, it's a complete crock." --columnist Arnold Ahlert

Above article posted to the internet  by the PatriotPost.us 8-2-10