What the Florida Primary and the South Carolina Primary Should Show US

It is hard to believe that South Carolina was so naïve and gullible as to fall for the weak arguments in favor of John McCain last week.

In defense of Republican South Carolinians, what is certain is that McCain did not win with native Republicans, only with idiot Independents, parasitic military retirees, and guerilla Democrats voting in the Republican primary.

As The New York Times’ endorsement of McCain clearly shows, Democrats want to run against this Senator, because they know it is the only way they can win.

A Senator running against a Senator guarantees that the American people will be forced to do what they historically never like to do - elect a Senator; and they will elect the junior Senator, with less-compromised votes, of their two choices.

Though, in the past 40 years, 7 out of the last 10 elections, the Dems have nominated a Senator and failed to get him elected all 7 times (a 100% failure rate), they are not smart enough to change their insane modus operandi, but would rather attempt to subvert the Republican nomination process to also get a Senator, that they can beat, to run against.

Republicans must wise up, about history and human nature, or we will lose this election.

If we nominate McCain, we will surely lose nearly 100% of the far-right traditional Republicans and a solid 100% of the Republican Liberty Caucus to support Ron Paul as the mutual independent candidate of the Constitution Party and the Libertarians.

Only the neo-con Republican Party insiders will remain committed to McCain in the General Election!

When asked, this week, how the Republican base could possibly back her son, McCain’s rather endearing, and irascible, 95 year old mother, Roberta, said “I think, holding their nose, they’re going to have to take him.”

With all due respect, Dear Lady, we do not HAVE TO TAKE anyone forced upon us by an unholy alliance between Democrats and the Washington Republican Establishment!

As his Mother, you may have to love John, but we don’t, you hold your own nose, we will spit him out!

What should be obvious to all of us is that, this weekend, those same spoilers that gave McCain his dubious victory will undoubtedly be finding ways to vote, again, in the S C Democrat Primary, just like illegal aliens vote across this land, Dems voted as many as five times in one day in Milwaukee in 2000, and Liberal Snowbirds continually vote once in person, and once by absentee ballot, across the South, and in their own home states.

South Carolina alone should illustrate to any sane person why our unsystematic federal elections and state primary elections process is in dire need of national standardization.

Add to it that a large delegate state like Florida is trying to horn in on the beginning of the process, which influenced Giuliani to totally ignore every smaller state before it.

It is true that this strategy does not appear to have worked very well, for Rudy, but that won’t stop the trend, and it is illustrative of what would happen to every one of the smaller states, if this trend were allowed to become prevalent.

States like Idaho, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming never see hide nor hair of the Presidential candidates, unless they are vacationing in the mountains; poor North Dakota loses out completely on that one, too.

I am a native Iowan and a Libertarian at heart, but I am willing to give up our beloved first-in-the-nation Caucus, which I hold in high regard as a basic instrument of our form of popular representative republican governance, if we could get a universal system of nomination and election that would ensure free and fair access of, for, and by the people, to all seekers of political office, in every state and territory, regardless of either party affiliation (or total lack thereof), or the population of the electoral precinct, without taking up two years of our national life, nor condensed into one day.

We must have a National Primary and General Election System that:

Requires, above all, a verifiable permanent physical record of the votes cast.

Makes vote fraud a civil rights felony, punishable by permanent loss of that right.

Mandates proportional assignment of party convention delegates to all candidates.

Requires voter presentation of a valid Citizen Identification Card, issued at birth.

Loosely based upon, and in replacement of, the current National Social Security Card, the number on this tamper-proof card could be logged into a federal database to prevent any illegal voting. It would also put an end to illegal aliens receiving citizen entitlements, to employers claiming they can’t tell who is a citizen, legal to work, and who isn’t, and to innocent citizens being unnecessarily inconvenienced during travel in North America.

Permits no more than 6 months of campaigning before the General Election.

If the next election campaign starts the day after the last election is held, when is it that the People’s business gets done?

Starts with the least populous Territories, and ends with the most populous States. This is imperative to guarantee access of the entire electorate to all of the National candidates.

Mandates one exclusive date for each individual State/Territory Primary Election.

Mandates grouping of primaries in contiguous, or nearby, States and Territories of roughly comparable populations.

Guarantees every candidate, presenting petitions, with any valid voter signatures equal to .1% of the electorate of that State, seven days prior to the vote, a place on one single, vote-for-one-candidate-per-office, all-party ballot.

This system should ensure equal, free and fair access of all candidates (regardless of party affiliation, or total lack thereof) to the electorate of each State and Territory, and of all citizens to the candidates!