After I left the GOP when Clinton was acquitted, I changed my voter registration to no-party. But this does not mean that I cherry-pick my political positions from the left and right. I am a staunch conservative (in the Burkean tradition) even though I am no longer a Republican.

The GOP has only existed for ... math hard 150 years

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The federal government has exactly and only those powers specifically enumerated in the Constitution. One example of the federal government stepping outside its constitutional bounds is in the creation of social programs. Another is corporate welfare. Yet another is the Patriot Act. Still another is letting the President send the military overseas to conduct warfare without Congress making a declaration of war.


No, doing it online would not be appropriate. We don't want just anyone participating in this. I will be insistent on each state having equal representation since it is at the pleasure of the states that the federal government even exists (though that too would be a valid issue to debate at the Convention).

Interesting.

Then you would have mindless robots participating and not humans. Argument and hostility are important to any meaningful debate as it gets real views out into the open.



The states should decide how they're going to choose delegates, though I would still insist on the equal representation I described in the original post and the exclusion of elected representatives.



But I was thinking national parties and not the state-specific parties like New York's Working Families Party.



Not really. It was about establishing a federal government and, in connection with establishing that government, placing some limits on the states (e.g. states cannot enter into treaties with foreign nations).

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Because Independents are currently excluded (or pushed out) of the Federal Government. Show me an Independent President, and I'll show 1 million USD.

Yes, being Independent means you don't hold party politics above all. These folks rationally think about things, instead of who said it.

Of course we do. But there is different mode of thinking when it comes to Independents. You might have an Independent who is pro-gun and one who is anti-gun.. both of them will come to a mutual agreement based on talking it out.. instead of the current views held by Republicans and Democrats which is a bunch of in fighting.. and if we are starting over, I sure as hell would want to have 2 people reaching a COMMON AGREEMENT with no questions in the future like we currently have.

Because since the ink was drying on the paper we call the US Constitution both sides Democrats and what become the Republicans were arguing about what words mean.

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"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

come on you know you wanna play football..

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

Only because they represent the majority of Americans.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

I say let the social, political, environmental, etc. scientists and economists dicker it out.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

ah joey leiberman He is truly a great thinker.

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I would support repealing the amendment that eliminated this.



The Constitution originally had the states being taxed based on proportionment among the states. Thus, the states with higher populations paid more in taxes.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

And you say you're into liberty.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

GOP grew out of the older parties. Ever hear of the Democratic-Republican Party?

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Pioneers are walking all around singing songs about Lenin and they should be shot for it.

Handlebars

"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

come on you know you wanna play football..

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87