Posted on 01/17/2019 10:49:55 AM PST by caww
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said 2020 Democratic hopeful Beto O'Rourke has disqualified himself from becoming president by questioning whether the Constitution was still relevant.
"Anybody who questions the validity of the Constitution — whether it works in the modern era — should never be president," Crenshaw said in a Washington Examiner interview.
This week, O'Rourke, who has just vacated his Texas seat in the House of Representatives after an unsuccessful Senate bid, mused about the relevance of the Constitution. "I think that’s the question of the moment: Does this still work? Can an empire like ours ... still be managed by the same principles that were set down 230-plus years ago?” he asked.
Crenshaw pulled no punches against his fellow Texan, taking him to task for bringing Instagram live viewers with him to a recent dentist appointment as he got his teeth cleaned. "If you get your teeth cleaned on Instagram live, it shows that you're just out of touch. That doesn't make you relatable or cool. It just makes you weird."
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Barack Obama questioned it and he WAS President.
Also kinda weird.
Empire Bob? Really?
Beto Beto ,sounds like an Italian Car Horn
Clinton praised the constitution as still relevant
VETO BETO !
“the same principles that were set down 230-plus years ago”
Kind of like Archimedes principle, or the laws of Pythagoras or Newton. Hopelessly out of date, concocted by Old White Men, not relevant to our modern day and age.
But he’s so dreamy.
Is Dan Crenshaw a “Natural Born Citizen”?
Cheeto has had one too many Taco Belle Bean Burritos.
Mr. Crenshaw:
If the voters will elect a Kenyan non-natural-born Fake American to be president, twice, they will elect anyone.
My sympathies.
bkopto
OK, let’s see…
In misogynist Romance languages, the suffix -O indicates the sexist Masculine gender; that would make ‘Beto’ the toxic form of ‘beta’, which can be defined as —
“A stage of development in which a product (e.g. software, politician) is incomplete and not yet ready for Prime-time, often with serious flaws and shortcomings (i.e. bugs), frequently offered to willing consumers to thrash out & fix problems prior to its release.“
Also —
“Secondary in importance or subservient to another, lead individual in a specific group; in this case, the term is synonymous with ‘beta male’, where the group leader is typically a woke, SJW female.”
In either instance, I don’t believe I would want a Beto in charge of anything important…
Amen to that!
The brilliance of the founders had a solution to issues with the Constitution. It is called the Amendment process. I wonder if Beto, any other democrat, or federal judge understands that. Oh I forgot. That process is too cumbersome and takes too much time and effort.
Weird Beto. There’s his nickname.
Bambi clearly declared the Constitution was “in his way”.
No Wierd Bobby Frank
Why use his preferred made up to be cool name.
There is nothing cool about Frank.
That process (Amendments) is too cumbersome and takes too much time and effort.
Today's liberals, especially the so-called "progressives" such as Beto, with all of their followers' fascination with, and domination of, academia and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.
Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders.
If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.
Now would be a good time for conservatives to read Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.
In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a strikinig resemblance to the players on the stage in American politics today.
For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:
"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."
Yes, the pseudointellectuals who occupy the White House, the media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display that provinciality Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot (see above) as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their "teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.
It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because that Constitution does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).
Blasting it "all to smithereens" seems to be the goal of the Far Left which currently has control of the Executive and Legislative branches of the government.
Walls. Constitutions. Borders. Underwear. Toilet Paper. All ancient devices that are not needed in a post modern world full of unicorns pooping skittles.
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