[jrob]

This may sound like a good idea, but in reality it will never happen. First for the reasons you mention above. Second, The thought of calling a constitutional convention should scare the crap out of all of us. A Convention cannot be narrowly defined. The first and only one we ever had was to strenghthen the articles of confederation. They quickly turned into ultra secret procedings and quite frankly we got lucky with the result. Imagine if you will who would be invited to a new convention. Bill and Hillary, Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter. Need I say more? Better off trying to get honest pepole into the structure we have than by taking the chance of having the greatest government formed by man tossed asside by the very people we are trying to rid from office. Just my two cents

[Political Junkie Too]

Agreed. A Constitutional Convention is wide open, which is why it takes two thirds of the states to call for one. The other option is to get Congress to pass the amendment. The House might do it, but the Senate never will (which should be an eye-opener for everyone).

-PJ