I’ve been asked WHY I’d vote for Sarah Palin.
It’s not because she’s a genius or her qualifications from being a governor, it’s because she’s an American.
She’ll close the borders.
She’ll send the illegal aliens home.
She’ll salute the flag
She won’t bow to a foreign leader especially those closely aligned to MUSLIM interests
She won’t be admired by dictators in Iran and Venezuela
She’ll do what I would do most of the time.
She’ll do what Regan would have done.
There’s lots of people like Sarah Palin and me but the garbage like Lyndsey Graham, John McCain and an outright traitor like Barack Obama that have to go.
It is time to take out the trash.
I have become convinced that the three branches of government, and the two political parties, are no longer in control of the government.
It has taken on a momentum of its own, and this momentum is in a very bad direction. And the federal government cannot stop itself.
And the people cannot change the government enough to stop it. This is proven by the overwhelming Republican majority during W. Bush, and the overwhelming Democrat majority during Obama.
Neither party could do anything to stop the avalanche.
However, when our constitution was written, it was *assumed* that this situation would eventually happen, and a contingency plan was carefully crafted to deal with it.
It is a constitutional convention of the individual States. And on its own, with little prodding, we are moving in that direction. Right now, States are forming blocs against some of the more obnoxious federal overreaching. While topical in nature, these blocs are all based on the same premise: that the power of the federal government has grown far too much, and at the expense of the States.
Since the start of the 20th Century, a meme was taught in the public schools that a constitutional convention would be “unthinkable. It would be controlled by radicals.” This is not true. In fact, just the opposite is true.
34 States would have to agree with each other even to call a constitutional convention, and 38 States would have to agree to any changes made to our constitution. And the *only* issue that this many States could agree to is that the federal government is too large and powerful, and that its size and power need to be reduced.
This is not radical in any way.
There are many proposals about how to change the constitution to bring this about, and none of these proposals are either radical, or would be out of place on this forum.
But the bottom line is that the *most* we can hope for, from our elected and appointed federal government, at this time, is for them to either back off, and allow the States to convene a convention; or to actively encourage them in this.
In human terms, a constitutional convention is a very republican democracy event.
To run our federal government, there are 435 voting congressmen, 100 senators, 9 justices on the Supreme Court and 1 president. A total of 545 people.
But our State legislatures have 7,382 legislators, and there are 50 State governors, for a total of 7,432 people. All of whom would have a say in drafting and voting for a new US constitution.
In addition none of these 7,432 people are federal elected officials, so they are not “part of the problem”. And oddly enough, this is why they are willing to do this, at the State level, in a *bipartisan* manner.
Republican and Democrat alike, at the State level, more and more they as seeing, as Ronald Reagan said, that “Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem.”