***** Popular elections are not to blame. Candidates are! *****

Though I echo some of the sentiments Bruce Fein raises in this piece, I disagree with his conclusion that Kentucky needs to do away with popular elections for judges. We, the people, have to continue to decide our own political fate (even when it means that sometimes we elect the wrong candidates) and to give voice to the rule of popular soveringty. Rather than blame popular elections for the loss of judges' impartiality, we should place the blame rightly where it belongs: with judicial candidates who pervert justice by "selling" themselves to the highest bidders.