Fred Thompson Second Amendment

National Popular Vote Would End States' Role in Elections for President

On May 12 former Senator Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) was named a co-champion of the National Popular Vote (NPV) campaign to replace the historic, constitutional role of the states and electoral college in presidential elections with a purely democratic national popular vote.

There’s a new wrinkle in the old game of manipulating the outcome of elections: A single organization is behind a massive, well-orchestrated lobbying effort in virtually every state to restructure presidential election procedures. The wealthy California-based National Popular Vote (NPV) group is bent on reforming the way Americans have elected their president via the requirements contained in the Constitution by hijacking the Electoral College in a way that perverts its original purpose of allocating electoral votes to states based on their population rather than disregarding the states and basing the winner on the purely democratic national popular vote. While NPV and its marketing line may sound good, their movement to have individual states enter into an interstate compact regarding how presidential elections are decided would make a fundamental change in the role of the Electoral College without the necessity of a formal amendment to the Constitution with its requirement of 38 states for ratification. The NPV plan would allow as few as 18 states entered into the compact to effect the changeover for the entire nation, because these 18 states currently have the 270 electoral votes which would constitute a majority in presidential elections. Once this compact has member states with 270 or more electoral votes, then a majority of electoral votes cast in an election would automatically go to the winner of the national popular vote, thus eliminating the role of state vote totals. For example (assuming your state joins the NPV compact), if Candidate P won in your home state, but Candidate O won the nation’s popular vote, all of your home state’s electoral votes would then be awarded to Candidate O. And, once enough states to constitute a majority of electoral votes would join the NPV compact, then even if your state had not joined the compact, your vote’s only impact would be as part of the national popular vote. Your state’s electoral votes could have no impact because those states with a majority of the electoral votes would have already committed the nation to awarding the presidency to the winner of the national popular vote. This would amount to a large step towards a pure democracy, which the Founding Fathers took great pains to protect us from , and a drastic reduction in the role of the states and the Electoral College as originally intended by the Founders.

 , is another nail in the coffin of our Constitutional Republic, giving the upper hand for deciding elections to large costal states with big populations, a boon to liberals and tyrants because it makes electioneering so much easier. This method would silence the voices of the electorate in many states by transferring, in a very socialistic style, their presidential votes from one to another not of their choosing.

Tort Reform and Fred Thompson

I always had an uneasy feeling about fellow Tennessee Republican, Fred Thompson, and now I know why.  He has no scruples.  He has hired on as the mouthpiece shill for the personal injury lawyers.

These days, when they say “justice” they really mean filing more and more lawsuits, and forcing the transfer of wealth through the courts in more devious, imaginative ways.  They mean “Do everything you can to take money away from hard-working people, and give it to welfare deadbeats.”  This is NOT about justice.  If that were true, courts would punish litigants who file frivolous lawsuits.

Our new governor, Bill Haslam, is taking up tort reform, and he means more than capping medical malpractice damages.  Civil litigation was intended as a means of enforcing the peace through deciding disputes.  Now, civil litigation is a blight on the American culture and justice has nothing to do with it.

Dear Governor Haslam:

Please do just like you are doing and ignore Fred Thompson and the former Tennessee Trial Lawyers’ Association, now re-packaged as the Tennessee Association for Justice.  Believe me: 25 years in this business has taught me that the last thing this association is about is justice.  Fight litigational terrorism.

Thank you (and I hope the family is well),

MJM

I could write a book about this.  I will instead, just say:

Shame on you, Fred.

Why should we remove more of the power of individual citizens and put it in the hands of politicians and lobbyists? That’s all tort reform is – protection for insurers purchased by their lobbyists.

We trust people to decide to put someone in jail for life, but they’re too dumb to decide how much damages are in a car wreck case? We go to war with England for, among other reasons, the right to a jury trial, and we enshrine this right in our Constitution, but now because malpractice insurance carriers don’t like it we are going to gut that?

Makes little sense, except in the sense of the trend of our government being for the corporation and by the corporation.

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