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To: rxh4n1
I wouldn't trust any hypothetical Article V convention. Who will choose the delegates? The state legislatures.

That's funny - IIRC, somebody up this thread posted that they wouldn't trust the delegates, because they would be elected. Bottom line, you guys just wouldn't trust the delegates. OK!

Imagine the crazed commies and BLM’ers states like CA, NY, MA, MD, and the rest will send. The red states are mostly RINO Republicans. Those guys don't have the guts to withstand the commies and the media and will quickly cave on anything the commies want. Sober statesmen like George Washington and the rest will not be participating.

OK! Assuming your "worst case scenario" actually happened - so what? Any amendments actually approved by the convention & proposed to the States would be nothing but scraps of paper, unless they were ratified by 3/4 of the States - just like amendments proposed by Congress. And in reality, I suspect most States would send delegates substantially different than you describe, many of them possibly better than the career politicians we elect to Congress, where amendments traditionally originate.

If you look over these threads, there are streams of panicked posts, many of them essentially predicting, "If we ever allow an Article V convention to occur, the lefties will repeal the Constitution and turn us into a dictatorship before Christmas!" The funniest thing (to me at least) is "the elephant in the room" - if those TEOTWAWKI posts were even close to being true, THE LEFTISTS WOULD BE PUSHING FOR AN ARTICLE V CONVENTION, 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK, 52 WEEKS PER YEAR! But guess what? The only folks I've seen promoting such a convention are constitutionalists.

;^)

83 posted on 01/08/2023 6:04:38 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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Not panicked, realistic. Your delegates are going to be the same types that were in the lame duck Congress that betrayed us last month, crazed commies and RINO squishes. There will be no sober statesmen like George Washington and the rest running the convention. The legislatures WILL send people just like them, again, crazed commie and RINO squishes. You MIGHT get a small handful of conservatives from a few states but not enough to matter.


84 posted on 01/08/2023 6:26:24 PM PST by rxh4n1
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