Yes, it is definitely time for some positive disruption.
I think most people are sort of reluctant to move to a convention based upon the mostly bad publicity it has gotten (mostly from leftists) and also the tendency of smart people to look upon major change skeptically (since most of the major changes of the last 8 years have been horribly destructive).
Levin will surely be making the case on his radio program in the days ahead and dealing with the fears (both legitimate and otherwise) about the process far better than I could.
But based on what I've heard so far, the reasoning is thus:
- States with Republican, more-conservative majorities in their legislatures predominate across the country. This provides an opportunity to influence government at the federal level in ways that the Statist-laden U.S. Congress would never entertain.
-The moral case for this is founded in both the Federalist Papers (Levin's Liberty Amendments deals with this in detail, which renders moot the accusation that he is trying to sell a book since that book is already a best-seller) and in the fact that state legislatures better reflect the true constituencies of their populations than the U.S. Congress, because the voters of those states understand that legislatures are concerned with matters that affect the best interests of the inhabitants of the states, rather than serving some overweening national political agenda dominated by Statists of either party.
