Harvard Elite Writing New Constitution- with the Tea Party

Townhall.com ^ | October 9, 2011 | Ralph Benko

[Travis McGee]

A ConCon would be a fatal mistake. No matter how it started, it would be hijacked by union thugs and and socialists. At the end, we would have a “constitution” like that of the old USSR, complete with a “right to a job” and the “fair” distribution of wealth.

[SueRae]

I have a problem with this...don’t know who this Tea Party person is or who he represents. It’s not the Tea Party I know.

[MNJohnnie]

if you cannot control your Govt via our currently elected representatives, what makes you think you can control who get's elected to a Constitutional Convention?

This is a remarkably bad idea.

[Common Sense 101]

Let’s start with the federal government spending over a trillion dollars a year more than it takes in. This provoked the Tea Party.

I thought it was racism...?

[Kaslin]

That is what the left accused the Tea Party of

[EBH]

I am going to repeat my post from another thread.

The TEA Party is being set up to be the fallguy for the violence that is coming.

If FREEPERS don't know who this is or what groups are ‘representing’ the TEA Party...it is propaganda. Pure evil propaganda.

ALL real Tea Party Patriots need to start taking steps to properly identify themselves. My God, I can't believe this is happening really. Of course there is the flipside to identifying ourselves which as this devolves...DHS will have a hey day.

[no-to-illegals]

Did not read the article. Posting from having read the headline. Wondering why anyone would think the original Constitution could be improved upon? Maybe there should be an amendment here or there, every once in a great while, but why scrap the original and expect a new and improved document? (imho) it would not be possible (a new and improved document) and any ConCon would be just as a ConCon implies, a ConCon.

[Dr. White]

I’m against any new Constitutional Amendments because the prospect of getting bad ones is real.

[jakerobins]

and thus one of the problems for liberals with the Tea Party. There is now command structure no National Leader of the movement to attack. So anyone can declare themselves a Tea Partier.....this can also be used against us. Uber libs are going to start identifying themselves as Tea Party leaders and saying Racist things and generally betrataying all Tea Party ideals! Working with Progressives to rework the Constitution is a HORRIBLE idea...Remember they believe that the Constitution is a document of Negative Rights. Stay vigilant the left will go to any length to retain power in 2012 and beyond!!!

[Wilderness Conservative]

I never voted for Mark Meckler to speak for me. Seems he thinks pretty high of himself.
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Mark-Meckler-Must-Step-Down-from-Tea-Party-Patriots/151707534870003

[Kaslin]

It is a fact that the liberals don’t like the constitution. that is why they want to rewrite it. Many of them have never read the contitution

[glorgau]

Amendment 1: The right of the people to be secure in their feelings and not have their emotional well being questioned shall not be infringed.

[Kaslin]

It is a fact that the liberals don’t like the constitution. that is why they want to rewrite it. Many of them have never read the constitution

[magooey]

I don't see how a ConCon could be limited to a few specific issues. Once this convention starts, it could rewrite everything.

[no-to-illegals]

Your post makes a valid point. The TEA has been demonized constantly and should violence breakout, the TEA being demonized further is a part of the goal which will be the objectives and goals stated and blamed upon those who claim to not be in the 1 percent or 99 percent. One goal or objective (imho) will be to destroy the TEA as quickly as possible and to represent to the public for the purposes of security Americans must remove individualism and behave as a collective. This is being portrayed as choose a side time. I choose to stand outside, in the cold, and against the wind. Should I have to stand against the onset of violence, I shall stand there till I am forced to return fire after having been fired upon. Till that time, I shall vote. Should violence become the way of the land, I shall stand with my family, children, and grandchildren, and will kneel to pray more often.

Violence is always a bad idea. An equally bad idea would be a Constitutional Convention.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Populism was forever redefined by Jeffrey Bell (a business partner of this columnist) as optimism about people’s ability to manage their own affairs better than an elite can manage them for them. Populism is neither left nor right wing. Populists of all stripes share in common a conviction in “power to the people,” a belief that in a republic “citizen” is the noblest office. And while Lessig and Meckler may disagree about just about every ideological issue, their respect for the wisdom and dignity of the citizens unites them in a realm far more important than the ideological.

"Populism" is in many cases just another word for mobocracy. Much of the structure of our republic is designed to reign in the darker impulses of populist movements.

[Kirkwood]

This is why I supported a unified Tea Party as opposed to a vague tea party collective with no structure or accountability. Anyone can call themselves a tea partier and at the same time support the destruction of the Constitution.

[SuzyQue]

“Populist”? That’s a big warning signal to me. We are a constitutional Republic, founded on the recognition of the sovereignty of the individual, and dedicated to the rule of law. Not populism, which in action, is more appropriately equated with democracy and rule of the majority.

[LomanBill]

Meckler? Never heard of him and sure as hell didn’t vote for him.

Party who lay down with Harvard dogs wake up with pee in Tea Cup.