Ben said,
"I don't like having to pay the lifetime benefits, but I'd be willing to let them keep getting them if we could make a trade for two term limits."
Tempting, but only as a final fallback compromise, not as an initial proposal. The initial proposal has to be a lot tougher than that.
Hasn't your observation of liberal negotiating/compromise techniques over the decades taught you anything?
Propose the extreme, allow negotiation to whittle things down to the result you originally intended and hoped for. Win-win.
Besides, a skilled political artist can probably figure out how to defeat term limits anyway. Look at Bloomberg, who got three terms as Mayor of NYC despite the two-term limit by conveniently switching parties.
Loopholes abound.
And, Terry added, tongue-in-cheek, law training for public office should be a disqualifier, not a qualifier.
Terry