What is it with these idiot Texas governors?

A couple of years ago former Texas governor Rick Perry suggested that Texas could secede from the United States and become (presumably) its own country.  His idea was widely seen as nutty, except by conservatives in Texas (read into that what you will).

Now current governor and fellow idiot Greg Abbott has added to the call for a constitutional convention of the states.  Various other states of have made the calls in the past, and some of them have pulled back those calls, so the math is hard to determine.

I can't say that just Texas governors are idiots -- Presidential candidate Marco Rubio has said that if he gets the POTUS gig, then he'll call a constitutional convention of the states too, to basically try and put limits on federal power and also to pass the [pipe dream of] a balanced budget amendment. Just that latter idea alone should be enough to disqualify him from being a viable Presidential candidate, as well as possibly disqualifying him from being in full control of all his higher thinking functions. (It also happens to show how bona fide wedded to conservative wet dreams of government Rubio is.)

But is there any chance this could work?

I did a tiny bit of searching and found this, which explains the difficulties well.


Doing the math for a new Constitutional Convention