{"id":2158,"date":"2008-07-28T16:29:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T20:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2008-07-28T16:29:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T20:29:20","slug":"should-everyone-be-allowed-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"Should Everyone be Allowed to Vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously that\u2019s a rhetorical question because \u201ceveryone\u201d is not currently allowed to vote, ie, children, felons (unless Hillary has her way), etc.  Dead people are another issue as they have been a reliable Democrat voting block since JFK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=27719\">Casper Weinberger, Jr.<\/a> seems to think that some people are just too stupid to vote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Should we allow just anyone with a registration card to vote? In my view, we should not. There will be those who will abhor the notion that only \u201csmart\u201d people should be allowed to vote and how and where, they will argue, can you draw the line? Good questions, certainly, but we had better try real hard to embrace the argument and find some answers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boortz.com\/nuze\/index.html\">Neal Boortz <\/a>addressed the issue as well today<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A listener writes to tell us he saw a bumper sticker which said &#8220;When women vote, Democrats win.&#8221; Now that is probably one of the most honest bumper sticker I&#8217;ve ever heard of \u2013 second only to &#8220;If you&#8217;re stupid, don&#8217;t vote.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This is easy to figure out. A Democrat vote is a big government vote. Women &#8212; and I KNOW there are exceptions &#8212; seek security. They want a safe and secure next in which to raise their children. It&#8217;s someone else&#8217;s job to provide that security. That someone else is government. Studies have shown that women react much more favorably to the word &#8220;security&#8221; than to &#8220;freedom.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Could it possibly be that the founding fathers had the right idea?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have you ever listened to the \u201cman on the street\u201d questions that TV and radio hosts routinely do?  It is somewhat humorous but keep in mind that these galactic morons vote.<\/p>\n<p>Are you informed enough to vote?  The PEW Research center put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/newsiq\/\">quick 12 question survey<\/a>.  They don\u2019t link this to whether or not you should be able to vote but I think it\u2019s a good starting point.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the demographic breakdown per question, Boortz observation seems more valid than I had imagined.<\/p>\n<p>Only 17% of women knew that Harry Reid was the Senate majority leader, while 88% knew that Oprah Winfrey was in the tank for Obama.  I don\u2019t know that it totally supports Boortz\u2019s position but it certainly states the clear irrelevance of Harry Reid.<\/p>\n<p>The recommended COB scale: (Regardless of political affiliation)<\/p>\n<p>100% &#8211; Fully qualified to vote and advise others<br \/>\nMissed 1 or 2 \u2013 Qualified to vote but avoid detailed political arguments<br \/>\nMissed 3 or 4 \u2013 Qualified to vote but rely on core values like reproductive rights, second amendment, War on Terror, etc\u2026<br \/>\nMissed 5 or more \u2013 Do not go into the same grid square of a voting booth.  You could trigger Y2K (which is something you totally bought).  <\/p>\n<p>I hope this is helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously that\u2019s a rhetorical question because \u201ceveryone\u201d is not currently allowed to vote, ie, children, felons &hellip; <a title=\"Should Everyone be Allowed to Vote?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2158\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Should Everyone be Allowed to Vote?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}