
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Newsweek </em>editor Tom Rogers penned an editorial providing his suggestion to protect our elections from … whatever.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Keep in mind that Rogers is among the east coast elitist media mavens who criticizes Republican legislation to safeguard our elections. ; He claims that we do not suffer from any vote fraud or irregularities. ; Regardless, he is proposing how HE would protect elections from what he says does not happen. ; At least when Republicans want to protect the franchise, they do not claim that vote fraud does not exist.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Rogers has an idea … a very dumb idea. ; Maybe even a dangerous idea if President Biden were to take him seriously. ; I say Biden, because Rogers wants the President to take action on his own – you know, like he did in Afghanistan.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He wants Biden to form a “commission” – a permanent body of distinguished Americans to oversee our elective process. ; First of all, MOST commissions are bad ideas. ; They basically serve as opportunities to appoint political supporters. ; Some actually pay rather handsomely.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Rogers wants to keep his commission independent of politics. ; Uh huh! ; A presidential commission is devoid of politics. ; That would be like having the Pope create a commission that had nothing to do with religion.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But Rogers does not want Biden to actually appoint the members of the commission – except maybe the co-chairmen. ; In the interest of keeping the Rogers Commission on Elections out of politics, he would want Biden to appoint former Presidents George Bush and Jimmy Carter to head it up. ; ;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Personally, I would not appoint either of those gentlemen. ; Of course, I would not even have the commission. ; But Jimmy Carter? ; They guy is 97 years old. ; I admire his seeming vitality and wish him well – but he IS 97 years old. ; This is a guy who said 80 is too old to be President. ; Then it is arguable that 97 seven is too old to be … almost anything that requires more than an hour of activity each day.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Rogers did say the members would come from the pantheon of people with impeccable integrity and sterling reputations. ; While Rogers did not propose any other names for his Commission, I had the impression that he was thinking of a lot of elitist east coast establishmentarians like … uh … him.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">While he did not get into a lot of detail of what his Commission would do, he gave vague references to combating any effort to corrupt the electoral process – which he has said in the past is not corrupt.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Of course, the Rogers Commission would run smack dab into the Constitutional rights of the states to run their own elections. ; His would be yet another effort to federalize the electoral process – and put it in the hands of establishment bureaucrats. ; Yikes! ; THAT is scary. ; This goes along with some of the election legislation that Democrats are trying to push through Congress. ; We just cannot trust the locals to manage their own elections – no matter what the Constitution says.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And what is really scary is what Rogers would have the Commission do if they were unhappy with how the states were handling the elections on their turfs. ; If the states were to exercise their legal and constitutional right to run local elections – and if they did not comport with the opinion of the Commission – Rogers said the Commission could organize and promote protest across the country – what he called “massive protests.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Isn’t that ass backwards. ; To the extend commissions perform any useful service, shouldn’t they be investigating massive protests to see what went wrong and how they can be avoided? ; Is this any different than President Trump encouraging people to protest the 2020 presidential election?</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What bothers me most about Rogers’ idiotic idea is that it just might appeal to Biden and all those left-leaning Progressives. ; Let us hope that Biden was napping when Rogers was spewing out this nonsense on CNN.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So, there ‘tis</p>

No moratorium on dumb and dangerous ideas from the left
