Indeed. It doesn't appear premature for doing a little PR spadework here. Just as Levin/ALEC have done so much "spadework" as to rules, procedures, and subject matter of the Article V COS, maybe we need to anticipate the public "reaction," once the COS hits the radar screen of the MSM and the other usual suspects, and try to prevent negative fall-out.
First we have to learn not to shoot ourselves in the foot by, e.g., avoiding language that invokes past history mainly Democratic Party artifacts, such as Jim Crow, segregation, George Wallace, et al. but which no longer suffices to describe the real situation on the ground right now. Second, we have to learn that it is always unwise to gratuitously provide the ammo that your opponent let's face it, your enemy will surely use to try to shoot you, to wound or kill.
When the COS hits the radar screen of the MSM, you can expect that these manufacturers of the Kultursmog will step up production such as you've never seen before, pumping out endless supplies of noxious gasses, empty nonsense, into what now passes for the public debate.
So try to deny them entry in the first place. Most people nowadays would regard the "Tenth Amendment Powers" as a term of art entirely disassociated from the idea of "State," let alone states' rights.
So let the MSM explain to the people what "Tenth Amendment Powers" are. That should slow 'em down for a while.
Certainly under that burden, they won't get to George Wallace a Democrat anytime soon. :^)
Thank you ever so much for writing, dear Hostage! It's always such a pleasure to hear from you.
Certainly under that burden, they won't get to George Wallace a Democrat anytime soon. :^)
"TENTH AMENDMENT POWERS"; I like that very much. It directs them to the Constitution and what the 10th Amendment says in the Constitution. It provides them no direct out, no direct means of hijacking the meaning of the Article V effort.
I'm going to ask people to use that because it's more than just handling the media, it's also the local legislators when they ask what is the ultimate purpose for such an undertaking.
Bravo betty boop!