More Teabagger Insanity

For most Americans (of both political parties), the American voters spoke loud and clear about their wishes on November 6th. And the wish of most of those voters was that President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden serve a second term in office. It was not really very close. The president got about 3 million more votes than his GOP opponent did (becoming only the fourth president since 1900 to win two terms with more than 50% of the vote in both elections), and scored a landslide in the Electoral College.

But it seems like votes, or the wishes of the electorate, doesn't mean much to some of the teabaggers (unless the election gives them a victory). If they lose an election, like they did on November 6th, they are perfectly willing to scrap the democratic process and try to steal the election some other way. This was clearly demonstrated by Judson Phillips, the founder and CEO of Tea Party Nation (the only teabagger group crazy enough to have been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center -- which monitors all hate groups in the United States). Here's what Phillips thinks should be done:

We have one last, final chance to save America. We have one last, final chance to stop Barack Obama. One final chance. 

What is this final chance? Will the Republicans step up to the plate and do what is necessary? 

Barack Obama has not yet been re-elected president. 

Yes, the election is over – but remember, a presidential election in America is not by popular vote. We vote for the candidate, but what we are really doing is voting for the electors who will meet on the Monday after the second Wednesday in December. 

That is when the actual re-election of the president occurs. 

Is there a way to stop this? 

Yes, there is. 

And the best part – this is totally constitutional. 

The 12th Amendment of the Constitution as well as Article II of the Constitution govern the Electoral College. According to the 12th Amendment, for the Electoral College to be able to select the president, it must have a quorum of two-thirds of the states voting. If enough states refuse to participate, the Electoral College will not have a quorum. If the Electoral College does not have a quorum or otherwise cannot vote or decide, then the responsibility for selecting the president and vice president devolves to the Congress. 

The House of Representatives selects the president and the Senate selects the vice president. 

Since the Republicans hold a majority in the House, presumably they would vote for Mitt Romney, and the Democrats in the Senate would vote for Joe Biden for vice president.

This is the kind of person the Republican Party has associated itself with these days (and who currently make up much of the party's base). They don't respect our electoral system or our representative democracy, and they are prepared to discard both to push their agenda on the rest of America. And they are destroying the brand (image) of the Republican Party. If the Republicans ever want to appeal to the majority of voters again, they need to disassociate themselves from these radical fools.