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And exactly how are you going to prevent a constitutional convention from being hijacked by the statists?

It can and has been done in the past. Are we so weak kneeded or ignorant today, that we just sit back and allow a tyranical, out of control federal government to destroy our lives and the lives of our protegy?

The states calling a CC, is the best, safest, and least bloody method of shoving the federal beast back into its cage before it's too late; it's a safeguard left by our founders to use before resorting to the 2nd. It takes a bit of courage, but as Winston Churchhill put it, "if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves."

“Are we so weak kneeded or ignorant today, that we just sit back and allow a tyranical, out of control federal government to destroy our lives and the lives of our protegy?”

Yes. Otherwise there wouldn’t be a need for a Constitutional Convention.

No. That’s why our adversaries need a Constitutional Convention they can over in order to succeed where they can’t now.

Are we so weak kneeded or ignorant today, that we just sit back and allow a tyranical, out of control federal government to destroy our lives and the lives of our protegy?

I think you may have missed his point: If we want a constitutional convention, then we better darn well be comfortable with Bohner and McConnell leading the way and mindful of the current squishy GOP leadership's serial capitulation to the dems. So, at least for the present moment, with absolute *DUDS* for republican leadership, the dems would likely ride roughshod over the GOP. You'd stand a high chance of achieving just the opposite of what you intended: Dems enshrining socialism in the constitution, rewriting most if not all of the bill of rights in their favor, all while the GOP just watched and offered weak-tea resistance.

Remember, the last election showed that over half the voters approve of big-govt and they handily re-elected Obama. The majority of voters "asked what their country can do for them" and not the other way around.

I wouldn't call for a convention unless we had high confidence the GOP (which is what we are stuck with for now) grew a spine and showed they were willing to get their knuckles bloody. You'd still have to get whatever proposed amendments ratified by 2/3's of the states. And again, the majority of voters chose big-govt and Obama. What are the odds they would ratify the liberal agenda or the conservative agenda? Is the political environment (from the politi-sluts down to the voters) conducive to bolstering the constitution with conservative amendments?