If Bush were to declare a state of emergency and halt the next Pres. election, would you support him in that?

Question

If there were some type of terrorist action (non-nuclear and contained) against America a month or two before the election, and in response to that, George Bush called a national state of emergency and halted the election... would you support him?

And for the inevitable posts devoted to telling me what a paranoid alarmist I am... don't bother. This is purely hypothetical.

mtmeggido - Neither did you. :)

Answer 1

If the President declares a state of emergeny and cancels the presidential election, such an outrageous act should be met with maximum resistance. The first thing to do would be, starting the the day after the anouncement, absolutely no one goes to work and we hold our own townhall meetings across the country: elect a new President and Congress and declare a new government under the 9th and 10th amendments.

Answer 2

No, because the Constitution does not allow it...it is impossible for that to happen, your premise in impossible. Bush will not do that, he has no authority to do that.

So your just a chicken little screaming that the sky is falling.

Elections were held during the Civil War. Elections were held during WWII.

Where you get your fear that some state of emergency might cause President Bush to halt the next Presidential election...well...your hypothetical is simply bizarre thinking.

Answer 3

The law is the law, I would support forceful removal from the white house if he did not leave when his time was up. The first step toward dictatorship is getting rid of free elections, then usually the confiscation of guns and the outlawing of religion but those are separate matters. For this country to remain free we can never tolerate any slippery slope anywhere. For any politician to remain in office one day longer than intended sets a dangerous precedent.

I like the guy but when his time is up he has to go, that is the way this country is set up. I will argue over whether or not he should be removed now (and he shouldn't) but I will not support anyone circumventing the electoral process.

Answer 4

To answer your question, I would not support him, but I don't think we would have much choice.

The Constitution does not allow this, but in October 2006, President Bush signed a provision into law:

"The historic and ominous re-writing of the Insurrection Act, accomplished in the dead of night, which gives Bush the legal authority to declare martial law, is now an accomplished fact."

He has signed so many of these "executive orders", it just looks suspicious.

Answer 5

no way. absolutely no way.
if it is that bad bush and Cheney can go and the speaker of the house can take over. that is the closed thing to a concession on the issue I will make.

Answer 6

No support must be given to President Bush if ever he declares to stop election because it is the right of the people to choose their leader.

Answer 7

There is no Constitutional authority for the President of the United States to cancel a Presidential election.

If anything, the Congress would have to do it... but I don't know of anything in the Constitution that gives Congress that authority either.

Believe it or not, we still have a Constitution in this country, and most of us wat to abide by it, even if our President doesn't want to.

It isn't up to him. Sorry.

Answer 8

A state of emergency cannot be used to postpone elections. While I consider myself a conservative, I would not support such a move. The possibility is nothing more than a fantasy in the narrow minds of liberals.

Answer 9

No. Even Lincoln allowed elections in 1864. No freaking way.

Answer 10

I suspect I would not have a choice, but I would sure wish someone else was at the helm if all hell broke loose.