Check out The World Around You for a great post from my friend Kris. He is waiting for one coherent, intelligible argument against constitutional reform in Alabama.
By coherent and intelligible, he means something that isn't predicated on: A) Fear about the people who support the movement, and/or B) Fear about what those people might produce, and/or C) Fear that the people of Alabama are either too dumb or too weak to defeat any proposed constitution that doesn't have the people at its core.
Kris is waiting for that argument.
Incidentally, so am I.
I discussed constitutional reform in this space yesterday. Artur Davis is leading the way on this issue and has thrown down a meaningful gauntlet -- as opposed to some of the other gauntlets that have been thrown lately -- to his rivals. It isn't enough anymore for them to simplisticly say they oppose reform. If those candidates want our votes, they need to explain to us, in clear and unambiguous terms, why they think we're trustworthy enough to elect a governor -- and even to elect them as governor -- but yet we are somehow incapable and untrustworthy of the duties that reform would entail.
Hey, Robert Bentley, Bradley Byrne, Bill Johnson, Kay Ivey, Tim James, Roy Moore and Ron Sparks:
We're waiting.
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