You have every right to stand on principle. Just as we have the right to go to the polls every two years like the sheep that we are and send good constitutional conservatives to that meatgrinder in DC, only to see them chewed up, spit out and returned to us at re-election time as so much baloney.
You are not the only one who wants us to behave, by the way. The entrenched establishment of both parties loves things just the way they are. They, like you, pray that we continue to hope for Divine Intervention and ignore the solution to the problem that the Founders wrote right into that document you pretend to adore.
You simply cannot have it both ways: If you believe in the Constitution, then you believe in it in its entirety. You cannot cherry-pick your Articles. James Madison, among others, allowed for the fallibility of men, himself included, and helped write the remedy.
Please, take a moment and read those 143 words... words, by your own testament, blessed by God.
I've lost track of your point if you ever had one.
For the record, I want it one way, the constitutional way.
Praying and hoping are at best related. When I hope for something, I am wishing; when I pray for something I am demanding.
This thread began when you responded to a post I posted to Jacquerie:
I understand the constitutional process but there is a downside to a constitutional convention.
A constitutional convention cannot be limited to a single issue.
A constitutional convention can subject the entire Constitution to proposed changes.
I suggest you heed this caution regardless of your feelings.
I strongly favor a constitutional government. A constitutional government is a government with elected people who honor their oath to defend the Constitution. We do not have that situation now. A constitutional convention is not a guarantee of improvement.
Conservative voices will not be alone in a constitutional convention. I advise approaching problems informed and with eyes wide open. On another thread on Free Republic, a Congressman is proposing adding five words to the 2nd Amendment.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.”
These progressive thoughts will be present in a constitutional convention.