[quote]Varqanir wrote:
dhickey wrote:
I really don’t see the harm in longer term limits. people will vote every 4 years anyway. If they are going to vote an idiot into office anyway, does it really matter if it’s the same old idiot?
Robert Mugabe seems to have managed to keep getting elected and elected ever since 1980. Look how many times Suharto and Saddam managed to win the popular vote in their respective countries.
Sometimes it matters very much if it’s the same old idiot. The amount of harm an idiot can do in eight years is relatively limited. The amount he can do in twenty years is boundless. Especially if he’s no idiot.[/quote]
Good point. I guess I assumed the voting process wasn’t rigged and people’s votes actually counted. If a guy doesn’t perform, you vote him out. If people are too stupid to the see the harm a two term president has caused, I don’t have much faith in their next selection either.