Editorial:
“Debunking
Mr. Sabato”
The intended
purpose of an electoral college: To
‘magnify’ or
‘mitigate’
?
Joseph A. Glean · The
Mount Vernon Statesman · Sunday,
November 18, 2012
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A
response to Larry Sabato, written
by Joseph A.
“Joe” Glean, former candidate
for the Virginia General Assemby
(2011) and former state
chairman of Virginia For Alan
Keyes (2008). |
Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/bnov587
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ALEXANDRIA, VA · On NewsRadio
WINA 1070 AM
(Charlottesville, VA), during a broadcast
that aired on Monday, November 12, 2012,
University of Virginia Political Science
Professor, Larry J. Sabato,
seems to have made a rather conspicuous
attempt to re-define the purpose
of the electoral college.
He
informed listeners that the Frye/White
electors [recent winners of the Virginia
General Election] have been given what he
wished to call “a big electoral
college mandate” to cast their votes
for Obama, and to do so emphatically,
without taking any other object into
consideration.
[In poised anticipation of what we hope
is ‘soon to come’ (namely the
rendering of an Official
Opinion by Attorney General Ken
Cuccinelli), perhaps this comment was
meant to deliver a preemptive
‘slight’ against the
principal talking-point of our campaign?]
Sabato then went on to say, “Just as
the founders designed it, the electoral
college magnifies a popular vote
victory.”
Contrary to this fantastic claim, I wish
to reiterate something that I wrote about
back in 2008. From its very
inception the electoral college was, in
fact, intended to mitigate (not
magnify) a popular vote victory, through
the careful, deliberate infusion of moral
temperance.
In other words, Mr. Sabato has got it
backwards!
As spoken in 1918, by the distinguished
New York Democrat, Rev. Dr. Stephen
S. Wise (Rabbi): He who
holds democracy to be “the rule of
the mob” is not a true, American
democrat, “whether his forebears
came to Massachusetts in 1620 or he to
New York” within the last decade.
Though it appears to stand in absolute
conflict with Mr. Sabato’s
worldview, the electoral college was
actually meant to accomplish precisely
what Rabbi Wise spent many of his best
years advocating: A “revival
of the moral strength and purpose of the
people.”
Out of respect for the Wise proposition, all
Americans [and especially those who
“like Wise” acknowledge God]
ought to recognize that a certain measure
of deference must be vested in the hope
of Providential wisdom, that it might
impose an irresistible feeling of moral
courage upon each and every individual
appointed (and thereby entrusted)
to serve as an elector.
So that when an overwhelming majority of
people [adherents of the counterculture,
purveyors of immorality, followers of the
whimsical, and/or subjects to the
political elite] should move to predicate
that which cannot be justified on a
sound, moral basis, the electors are obligated
to intervene, taking whatever rightful,
needful, lawful action is required to
hold our nation to the course advocated
by our founding charters.
It is their duty to do so!
And in that moment of final deliberation,
by the wisdom and courage imparted unto
them by Almighty God, they are required
(and should be expected) to take decisive
action toward that purpose.
They are — in every respect —
to serve as guardians of our moral
sovereignty, endeavoring to reach the
healthiest conclusion, in any and every
way the electorate has empowered them to
do so.
On Tuesday, November 6, 2012, the
Virginia electorate empowered the
Frye/White electors to do just that,
ratifying (and thereby qualifying) two
tickets for equal consideration at the
electoral college:
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The first
—which Mr. Sabato means to advance
— engineered by the “political
parties,”
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the second —
which Mr. Sabato means to defuse
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What this means
is that when the electoral college
convenes in Richmond on Monday, December
17, 2012, the Virginia electors (for the
first time in decades) will actually have
a choice to make — and a critical
choice, at that! One that will
decide the destiny, not only of our
precious Commonwealth, but of our entire
nation.
In the final deliberation, these thirteen
individuals must decide for themselves,
whether they intend to cast their ballot
in a way that corresponds to the
attentive, moral competence observed by
ordinary, God-acknowledging citizens
throughout our Commonwealth, or to merely
follow in lockstep with the
hyper-secularized doctrine and directives
of the political elite.
Rightly fulfilling the duty of an
elector, and doing so with absolute
integrity, is no easy burden —
especially given our current age of moral
depravity.
And so regardless of your political
beliefs or your party affiliation, I am
asking all those who
acknowledge God to keep this
matter in prayer.
May each of these thirteen
electors arrive safely to
Richmond on Monday, December 17, 2012,
and may each be met with the wisdom and
peace of our Lord.
Joseph
A. Glean,
“Acknowledger of God”
· postscript ·
If I may close with one final word from
the good Rabbi Wise, concerning the
deliberate advancement of homosexuality
[and other counter-matrimonial exploits]
on the free people of our nation:
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these miserable unions, that are
mere travesties upon marriage;
and to wipe out the immorality
that now flows from the Law
itself, would not be an evil, but
a consummation profoundly to be
wished and welcomed. The
State would then be dealing
wisely with a condition that it
now chooses to ignore; it would
be meting out justice to those
whom the Law now visits with
injustice and without
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Such was the
opinion of Rabbi Wise, one of New
York’s most influential and
celebrated Democrats of the 20th Century.
I pray, that if there be any remnant of
justice, or scrap of decency left in this
world
. . . Lord, let it
speak directly to the heart of
Virginia’s electors (just as it
spoke to the Rev. Dr. Wise a century ago)
— and let it speak boldly!
So that our Father in heaven might —
through them
—renew the blessings of Liberty and
Peace in this lost generation; So
that He might once again cause His
fame to be known among the people of this
land.
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