The Ron Paul Movement is in danger of fading away and no one gives a crap!

I've also noticed that our presence is less in Digg as well as YouTube. I don't do MySpace or Face book...but what's the deal? I hope it's not cuz people are feeling defeated. We are a Long way from being defeated which is why the corporate medias are working even harder to bury and censor and ignore the good doctor. They and alot of the talk show hosts rarely even acknowledge his candidacy anymore but he's still holding the fundraising record. In addition we have already seen many strong cases of voter fraud in the caucuses and primaries of this year. In my canvassing activities, I am seeing more and more support all the time so I keep telling myself that my brothers and sisters in this movement have not gone away but are busy putting more boots on the ground......

It will not fade away because people like me are staying on to bring our Country back to its Constitutional roots.... Some of you are talking about moving to other parties... I personally don't feel that's the right way... they haven't been successful at really bringing issues to the forefront in this country, and that's what Ron Paul realized in 1988. I for one am staying in the Republican party.... We just started a local chapter of the Young Republicans. I am vice president. The president is also a Ron Paul supporter, and so are most of the new members. We will be shaping young minds....

It's not time to give up. We must set our goals. There are many Ron Paul people running for Congress and Senate. We must support them. This Movement has bred them.

But enough of this "what are we going to do now" defeatist talk!

It's not over till it's over. Our eyes are still on the White House, and we will not give up on that for this year until after September.

Until then... Continue the good fight, my fellow Patriots!! Ron Paul CAN STILL WIN THIS!!! :O)

I've read all the posts below, and I would agree with those who say this Movement is serious and won't go away. Yet at the same time, those who point out some of the deficiencies of the Movement and our human weaknesses also have a point.

Ron Paul offers a vision we know is right; that is how he galvanized our interest in the first place. And the Grassroots have answered with true enthusiasm, ideas and initiatives, constant communicating and amazing donating. More recently, HQ has directed us to become involved in the Precinct Leaders Program, and to find ways to dominate the delegate selection process in each state, and now to explore the merits of a march/rally. All that is important and useful in it place... but what is the proper place for all of these things? What other things are being overlooked? And where does it all fit together?

That leads to the big question: Where is an overall, unifying, compelling Strategic Plan that answers all the critical questions about how we should be deploying our resouces between now and November in line with our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats?

Only such a comprehensive Strategic Plan that can be readily seen as workable by everyone, and so gain "buy-in" from all, can stir us to energetic action—not only to recover momentum, but to go far beyond our past performance to realize the vast untapped power that truly does lie dormant within this Movement.

In essence we have an Organization/Planning problem. Something is missing, and now many are sensing it; there are some undefined gaps between the place we're at now, and the vision we want to realize for a better future.

I will be posting ASAP a detailed (not too long) explanation of what I just briefly touched on here. It will be called "Time for Clarity." and I hope you can take time to read it. Frankly, I'm finding it tough to finish. I'm wracking my brain to grasp some of the the fundamental problems, and also find ways to clearly present some rather sophisticated organizational matters that will be unfamiliar to some. We Ron Paul people are a smart and savvy crowd; still, this is advanced stuff and we do need to get into it...

We can do much better. We need to do much better. But it has to be done the right way.

Go Ron Paul | Go Grassroots

planned and running now then we did three months ago. We are just getting started. We are gaining momentum. Join us.

a good enough message to spam though

the RON PAUL movement. We are in an election process and NEED to stay focused on GETTING MORE SUPPORTERS!!!

I have posted many a thread that have been dismissed to the abyss. That's just the way it is. I do not believe they ignore your or my threads because they think they are bad. Maybe they just do not know or are not interested. That happens. People have a right to post and respond as they desire. However, it does seem to get a bit off topic. Meaning, they discuss NON Ron PAUL stuff a bit much. But that is just the way it is.

I've been promoting www.RingsideRevolution.com and have had some success thus far. Although the clock is ticking and the frustration mounts daily.

Hang in there. Do not get down or offended by others. Many a troll have infested RP sites and many have taken a back seat. That is obvious. But this is not over until we say it is. Keep up the fight!

Vox Boobus Vox Dei.

Can we go to hell in a handbasket?
Yes, we CAN.
--Obama '08

Last I checked, there's a race for the Presidency going on.

The movement is not fading away. While there seems to be a lull in the primary process, I assure you thousands of organizers are working on the delegate process. You will find many great reports of RP supporters getting selected as delegates in postings here on dailypaul.com

Another thing we are seeing is a movement among Republicans, not just Ron Paul supporters, to unbind the delegates in "bound" states. This is very real and will probably happen in a number of states.

Therefore, it is of vital importance we get as many Ron Paul supporters selected as delegates as possible.

All across the country Ron Paul supporters are helping to rewrite the Republican Platform. An easy example is Alaska, but there are many others.

I can also assure you that a great number of Ron Paul supporters are also running for, or have already been selected as, Republican Committee people. This is truly the way to turn the grass roots movement into the new establishment position. Local Republican Committees have more power than many understand.

One last thing, there is currently a very pervasive apathy in the Republican Party. That is to our favor.

I appreciate that you want to make sure that the movement continues after this election, but, for many of us the battle for the nomination / delegates is still going on and we are kind of busy right now.

I can mail it to you if you want.

The freedom movement is not new, did not originate with Ron Paul, and has never cooperated within itself except on specific projects. It is unrealistic to expect all that to suddenly change in a couple of months.

Freedom Force is not new, either, in that other such coordinating efforts have been out there for years. Bob Shultz' struggling We The People organization is over 8 years old. My own LawfulGov.Org is six years old. Neither, as with many others, is fully self-sustaining, despite the vast numbers of people who bump together temporarily to support local phenomena and events like the Ron Paul insurgency.

In fact, I invited interest for LawfulGov.Org twice on this forum, and did not receive a single email back. Some hits at the site, but that's it.

Why? It's not because of apathy. It's because everybody is an expert. Just ask them. The movement is rife with competing opinions and egos (but sorely short on facts and skill); everybody wants to be in charge but nobody wants to do the drudgery. And it's been like that longer than most of you have been out of diapers.

Independent people don't tend to cooperate, for whatever excuse, and that's why they always lose in a war of attrition against their liberties.

The neocons have a plan, and you don't. The liberals are working a plan written over 160 years ago by the original Marxists. You're not. So they win and own the contest, and you are uncounted passersby and discounted spectators yelling in now and then from the sidelines.

The first step to changing that harsh reality is to accept that it is a fact. Only then will you begin to address it. Only then can you get to the stuff that is really hard, like overcoming and replacing the actual source of all this insanity, the government schools.

The opening line of the Libertarian Party's Statement of Principles reads, "We, the members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the omnipotent state and defend the rights of the individual."

How much more clearly could it be stated? Yet the LP itself went off onto a tangent, challenging the state itself instead of the cult-think that creates it, and in turn became the cult of the anti-state. And until next year, has accomplished virtually nothing in more than 37 years of infighting and contests of ego and opinion. And the current solution of many of the newer members? Those who aren't old enough to know what liberty looked like only as far back as the year the LP was founded? Certainly they have not determined to finally do what the statement says!? No. They are trying to drop the statement!

That's right, that's what people have been trained to do these days. If at first your feebly inadequate misdirected effort fails, abandon the entire proposition!

Don't anyone here try to convince me we're any different here on this or any other RP forum. Can't even agree on a date for a money bomb or even whether to have another one.

Worry about the ego problem, and the unquestioned faith of each potential superstar in his own opinion, and you might have a prayer of creating an actual organization. Of course, then you'll still have to deal with the territoriality and competitive natures of groups' leaders, but hey, just allow for competition in the marketplace of ideas and let the best effort prevail without regard to friendship and shallow loyalties to people instead of ideas.

Okay, I've exceeded reality with those rules, so.....

Contact me if this appraisal offends you and you're serious about doing something about it.

Allen@LawfulGov.Org

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LawfulGov.Org
Your Nexus to the Freedom Movement

and will not fade away...I have just begun to fight !

We all care deeply orwe wouldn't be here, Question is how far are you willing to take this ? I'm trying to find musicians to play at ron pauls woodstock. I've sent emails to about 50 well known bands today.

a large amount of DPer's are so eager to get their information on the blog, they don't read what is already posted, and comment, until after they posted, thus pushing topics out of active forum. I have posted good blogs and within 10 minutes, they are gone off the active forum topics.

I've never even heard of Freedom Force (it does sound kinda corny) but anyway, here in Spokane, where I am currently one of the Organizers, we did our job and got paul 46% of the caucus vote.
We're looking into various roads to take, the main one looks to be establishing some kind of Political/Educational organization for Eastern Washington.
So dont give me this crap about no one caring, we do, but we might not care about your posts, besides I would say a small percentage of people actually use these forums for more than casual browsing.
So even if you get posts (such as this one) they don't mean anything, unless your talking face to face with the person.

We're just regrouping. I begin my new job in Washington D.C. tomorrow to fight with the Libertarians! We will forever defend the principles of the constitution and the Second American "Ron Paul" Revolution.

No retreat, No surrender!

-The Producer

out to my meetups and said I thought it would be a good way to continue the movement with an organization that is already up and running. We are definitely continuing on after this election. No doubt about that!