Bumping your comment.
I’m not in the Perry column yet. Still reading. I have deep concerns, but I sure like what he is saying. Saw this on Yahoo news this morning about Perry’s proposed changes to the Constitution, and agree with all of it. If he could win and actually make good on this platform, it would do a great deal to protect America as America.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/seven-ways-rick-perry-wants-change-constitution-131634517.html
Seven Amendments to the Constitution? Holy cow! Looked through and I’m really not for that. The problem with legislation from the bench has to do with who has been elected to name whom as judges. I really don’t see the lifetime tenure as the primary issue.
Likewise, I don’t for a minute want to see Congress able to roll over the judiciary’s protection of individual rights via mob rule (a 2/3rds majority in Congress). That would put us only closer to being a pure democracy rather than a constitutional republic. Very dangerous indeed.
Senators back to being named by the state legislatures again? Eh, I can see some good in that, also some good in the direct election. Moves more cronyism back to the states when cronyism in state legislatures is already pretty thick and ugly.
Abortion? Traditional definition of marriage? There’s nowhere near the popular support for such amendments to get through today. At any time that they could be passed, there’d be sufficient support for them to be protected legislatively, IMO.
Yeah, I’d like to get rid of the federal income tax, but that likewise ain’t happenin’. It’s good rhetoric, but it’s not grounded in political reality.