SEATTLE/ Conservative Monitor -- Ex-President James Earl Carter and unelected ex-President Gerald R. Ford recently came out with recommendations for election reform. The recent debacle in Florida has prompted considerable debate over how best to make sure that elections are fair, impartial and skewed to the Democrats.

The most controversial recommendation by the commission was that election day should be declared a national holiday. The Democrats are laughing in their sleeves because they believe that this will ensure that Democratic operatives can round up all their voters and rush them to the polls to vote three or four times.

Yet, like many government subsidized programs, an election day holiday will have its unintended consequences. This time the results won't favor the Democrats. Putting a holiday on a Tuesday means only one thing to most Democratic voters, "Four Day Holiday!" Yes, that's right, most Democratic voters will be hitching their fifth wheel to the back of their jeep and heading for the hills on the Friday before. They'll call in sick on Monday and, with good intentions of voting on Tuesday, return home, but be too tired from four days of camping to make it to the polls.

Realizing the Democratic demographic includes most of the party-hardy-happy-days-are-here-again types a day off for many Democratic voters means a bottle of whiskey and a day huddled next to their favorite salty snack watching HBO and Cinemax. Expect that those few who do make it to the polls will have difficulty distinguishing between a punch card and a kleenex. No doubt they will end up voting for Pat Buchanan instead of their favorite candidate.

The gimme-gimme demographic will have been given too much.

So who will take advantage of the holiday to actually vote? Maybe it would be us hardworking slobs who never get a minute to ourselves and pay all the taxes. Not that we would take the day off - heck, we get double-overtime on holidays. We'll just come out and vote because it is our civic duty. Then we can go home, kick our feet back, watch the election coverage on FOX news and celebrate our election night victory with a fine bottle of stout, or some pale substitute.

While we're at it lets make April 15th a Holiday, too.