Kyle, excellent post!
Term limits at best are nothing more than a "feel good" measure. More probably, they are used as political ploys to gain power, and that's why I will never support them.
In the case of the presidential term limit amendment and the congressional term limits that Newt G. proposed in his Contract with America, both were ultimately ploys of the Republican party to get Democrats out of office.
I find it interesting that as soon as the Republicans got control of both houses of Congress and the White House, term limits didn't seem so important anymore to the Republicans leadership...you hardly hear anything about them anymore from the top of the party. At least not at the fervorous pitch of the Newt G. days. And as Kyle mentioned, some states that implemented term limits suddenly considered repealing them.
At the grass roots level, I have no doubt that folks were genuinely convinced that term limits could bring needed political reform. Those folks were duped. At the top levels of the Republican party, term limits were/are nothing more than another power play in their political arsenal.
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