2012 ELECTION

[HairOfTheDog]

Our Constitution does the screening, it makes anyone elgibile who is 35 and over and a natural born citizen of this country, the people do the vetting and that's as it should be.

If it was currently working as intended by the Constitution, why would we be advocating for reform? It is no longer true that anyone 35 or over and a natural born citizen is eligible. Big money is now required as well.

We are vetting from a very small elite pool that have an extraordinary amount of money to be in the running, right? We aren't vetting anyone who is Contstitutionally-eligible and wishes to be in the running. That's where we wish to be, which requires reform. Once you take the money-restricting criteria out of the picture, I think there might be thousands who would seek candidacy. Logistically, how we gonna vet all of them? Yeah, the parties will do some of that by backing their preferred candidates, but I can see going from too few potential candidates to way too many. I'm jumping the gun though. Get the concept right and deal with the processes/procedures later. I don't disagree with you about the concept.