The greatest fear of the Founders was demagoguery, the election of a populist candidate unqualified to serve in office.
Given that Sarah Palin is eminently unquallified to fulfill her job description, ie, being ready to serve on day one should Septugenarian Guy become incapacitated, I think McCains choice must represent a vast subliminal hatred of America.
The electoral college was designed to protect citizens from demagogues.
It worked well until Karl Rove figured out how to game the system in 2004.
George Bush is our first populist president.
As we look around at the tattered ruins of what was once the strongest economy in the world, we need to understand exactly what we got with GW.
Anyone who can muster a belief in creationism, aka intelligent design, is simply not bright enough to serve as leader of the unipolar power.
As we have seen, billions squandered on Bush's Grand Misadventure in Iraq, the Manifest Destiny of Judeoxian Brand Democracy.
The profoundly idiotic "No Child Left Behind Act" which mandates that all children in America will be above average.
Bush's "go shopping" dictum post 911 simply pushed the recession bubble down the road, growing in energy and malevolence with each interest reduction, each republican deregulation, each market welfare buyout.
The Founders ammended the Consitution as follows--
Article VI, which stated that "no religious Test shall ever be required as Qualification" for federal office holders.
But that does not mean that we must must be forced to vote for religious candidates whose religious views are either stupid or crazy.
Perhaps, post George Bush, what we need is an IQ test as qualification.