Today the AP reported that California Democrats are uniting in an effort to block a state Republican measure to allot the state’s Electoral College votes in the upcoming presidential election to each district based on the plurality of each individual district, rather than allotting all 55 of California’s electoral votes to the candidate who receives a cumulative plurality in the entire state.

Weren’t Democrats the ones in favor of completely abolishing the Electoral College?

In 2000, Hillary Clinton was quoted as saying, “We are a very different country than we were 200 years ago. I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president.” Clinton went on to add that, “I hope no one is ever in doubt again about whether their vote counts.”

So now in a patently characteristic u-turn common of many Democrats, their opposition to any Republican measure happens when their own positions come back to bite them, allowing them to immediately take the opposite stance. So principled and resolved, those pesky Democrats!

Granted, the California measure in no way seeks to abolish the Electoral College. It does, however, ease conservative doubts about “whether their vote counts” in California, which has given all their electoral votes to Democrats in each of the past four presidential elections. This new measure would move us slightly closer to the Democrats’ hope for an outright popular vote because proportionally allotting electoral votes based on how each California district swings is indeed more reflective of a popular vote.

And to set the record straight, President Bush would have actually won the 2000 election by popular vote in both Florida and the entire United States. That epitome of bias-free, politically unmotivated news reporters we have all come to love – the New York Times – even had to admit as much on November 12, 2001. An article that day began, “A comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year’s presidential election reveals that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward.”

Yet another New York Times article the same day by Richard L. Berke concluded that the “comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots solidifies George W. Bush’s legal claim on the White House because it concludes that he would have won under the ground rules prescribed by the Democrats.”

What all this means is that the Democrats’ leading example that is backing their rationale for why the Electoral College should be abolished is in fact wrong. President Bush actually did win the popular vote in Florida, despite what Hillary and her fellow Democrats would lead you to believe.

Moreover, a similar measure to the one proposed in California was proposed by Democrats in Colorado, making the November 2004 ballot. The Colorado proposal would have divided the state’s nine electoral votes in proportion to the amount of popular votes each candidate received. That measure was overwhelmingly rejected, receiving only 34% of the vote that November.

Now that a similar measure has been proposed in California, Democrats have done a complete 180. While the Republicans have indeed made a soul-less effort to accomplish a gerrymandering of sorts in California, the Democrats have once again reminded us why they are a party which stands for nothing.

Democrats have no guiding principles which they use to influence their decisions and there is no consistency within the party. As if Hillary’s daily flip-flops on issues based on her poll numbers wasn’t indicative enough, California Democrats’ pursuing the most favorable outcome to them despite the obvious contradictions should be. They should not be trusted with the country, and especially with the presidency. At one of the most critical times in U.S. history, we need a leader who can stand strong despite whether things are going our way or not, or what the current poll numbers say.

Though Republicans disagree on various issues, they at least try to maintain some sort of consistency with the principles that guide their views.

Once again, the right is right.