The head of the Sore Loser Party is not only being a sore loser, but is Constitutionally illiterate (via Hot Air)
(Free Beacon) Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez incorrectly stated “the Electoral College is not a creation of the Constitution†during a Tuesday night speech.
“The Electoral College is not a creation of the Constitution,†Perez said during a lecture at Indiana University Law School. “It doesn’t have to be there.â€
The Electoral College, a mechanism for indirect election of the president created by the Founding Fathers as a compromise between smaller states and larger states, is clearly laid out in Article II of the Constitution: “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.â€
As Jazz Shaw notes
Just a brief observation in closing here. This is the guy the Democrats elected to lead their party out of the wilderness after the beating they took last fall. I’ll be the first to admit that there are some obscure bits of the Constitution that I couldn’t recite without looking them up first, but the establishment of the electoral college is a faily big deal. If Tom Perez didn’t even know that much about it, have the Dems really found the right man for the job?
It is something that the head of the DNC, someone who has been in government forever, should know. One has to wonder, though, if this is the start of a push by Democrats to make a claim, no matter how false, that the EC was something that was simply created extra-Constitutionally. That may seem outlandish, but, their base is made of sheep who’ll believe, or at least repeat, anything they are told, and, since the news media is primarily controlled Democrats, do not be surprised if this starts coming up.
