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To: Twotone

Our laws about eligibility for President, etc were written down, too weren’t they? Immigration laws also. You can’t count the laws Obama and the Democrats have broken in 4.5 years.

If you have a convention, it only opens us up to more potential appeasement in the name of propriety and fair play(by our RINOs and moderate ‘adults’). It opens up a whole new venue for the media do demagogue and keep the real points from being aired. In short, it will be another “equal rights amendment” debacle whose leftover remnants have been slowly introduced into law by fiat and into practice by rote repetition and intentional re-education of our young.

I am in no way willing to open our Constitution up for that. I’d rather take a hard line to defend it as it is, even if by arms.


23 posted on 09/02/2013 7:55:39 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer; Twotone
Your concern about the potential dark side of a convention does have merit. But one wonders if we are not very close to the break even point of using such a device.

I’d rather take a hard line to defend it as it is…
That certainly would be the preferred method. But when one looks how the quality of the work by those choosen at the state and federal level to defend, let alone adhere to, has increasingly dwindled in the past 40, 30, 20, 10, 5 years there is room for considerable concern.

…even if by arms.
That, in the spirit of responsible men who willing to defend the Constitution at all costs while they dream of freedom for all.

Of course, there is a timing issue; e.g., it would certainly seem prudent to take action prior to the day the entire country looks like Detroit or has the murder rate of Chicago.

A convention may have a flip of a coin results, but if it goes wrong it might serve as an important rally call to those that are left.

33 posted on 09/02/2013 8:50:58 AM PDT by frog in a pot ("To each according to his need..." -from a guy who never had a real job and couldn't feed his family)
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