wavey davey wrote:
I just went over and read the comments on the American Thinker article. Whoa! There are a whole lot of people that agree that only property owners should be allowed to vote. OMFG! It is mind boggling that anyone could ever believe such a thing.
I suppose they can go ahead and believe what ever they want, but the chances of it ever happening are slim to none, and slim left town (hat tip to his Rooster-ness for the Slim reference). At least, I hope there is no chance of this happening. There isn't, is there?
Tea Party Nation President, Judson Phillips, said that back in 2010:
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PHILLIPS: The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/ ... -property/Then I saw a lot of TeaBaggers tweet the same thing. One of the tweets was by a guy I know personally. He was leasing a place for a few years just prior to that tweet.
ETA: I forgot about Buchanan.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/hea ... wners-vote