Another Look At Term Limits

I've said here before I'm ambivalent about term limits on elected officials. After all, if we had term limits in congress, we'd likely have lost our only libertarian (Ron Paul, R-Texas) with a seat there years ago. Term limits work both ways.

It is nice to see some long standing incumbents, like Wes Chesbro, getting the boot. Not that he's gone forever as I understand he, like most politicians, has plans for a return to the political scene in some form sooner or later.

Here's an editorial from the Los Angeles Times commenting on how the desire for control of an office, if not just staying in office, has become a family affair.

Makes me wonder: Voters, at least in California, have seemed fairly consistent in support of term limits. One wonders why they deem it acceptable to vote for a former office holder's family member to take over for him once he's term limited out?

Although not in the most literal sense, that seems to defeat at least the idea behind term limits. Doesn't it?