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To: SteveAustin
I do mean by asking this question to personalize the discussion or to put you on the spot, I mean to illustrate a point, where do you stand on the Article V movement?

I do not accuse you of this but I sense that there are many conservatives who resist the constitutionally approved method of realigning our government to make it conform to its original vision because they fear they will lose control, in effect, they fear the devil they do not know more than the devil they know.

Yet when it comes to Trump, people are willing to overlook a biography that should empty the bowels of every conservative with fear, they are willing to overlook a manner that is repulsive to a huge portion of the electorate (read females), they are willing to buy Trump as a demigod but, as I have said, they might very well get a demagogue.

The power of Trump as president will be, as John F. Kennedy ruefully remarked, limited by the bureaucracy as well as the Congress and the courts. This will be doubly true for Trump who will not have the support of the establishment wing of the Republican Party, who will not have any cooperation from Democrats, who will be unremittingly opposed by the media, all contrary to the facts in Kennedy's era and all, not incidentally, contrary to the facts in the Obama era.

If our system has been so distorted by the Supreme Court and by Obama that it cannot be used for effective conservative governance, maybe Trump is not the answer, maybe no candidate is, maybe Article V is.


24 posted on 09/02/2015 3:57:12 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford
willing to overlook a manner that is repulsive to a huge portion of the electorate (read females)

I think you misfired on this. My observation had been women love the guy.

100 posted on 09/02/2015 4:59:53 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU*ou)
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