"Idaho Republicans In Disarray" - Gee, I wonder why?
A news article discusses the disintegration of the GOP in Idaho and mentions, in passing the fact that "There’s a grassroots movement by Ron Paul supporters, who feel shut out of the party, to take over precinct committee seats."
http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/idaho_republicans_in_di...
When will the GOP learn that it would be a lot easier just to give us our due. Let us have however many national delegates we can manage to scrape together. Let us have our say at the national convention.
Let us have a speech by Ron Paul at the RNC.
So there will be a chink in the psedo-solidarity that every national party likes to portray before every presidential election. So what?
The elephant in the room is the large number of Republicans that do not like McCain or the disastrous policies of the Neo-Conservative shills that have been bankrupting our nation and (by the way) destroying the Republican Party.
But this is hardly a secret.
It would be a whole lot less divisive and destructive for the party to simply acknowledge us rather than fighting us at every turn.
This was my comment to the article:
The Republican Party seems obsessed with marginalizing the "Ron Paul Republicans". The entrenched GOP apparatchik claim that this is to promote party unity and that it is the duty of every "loyal" Republican to hold their nose and vote for McCain.
As a loyal Republican, I find my party's leaders reaction toward the Ron Paul supporters to be irrational bordering on psychotic.
There have been well documented examples of GOP officials manipulating party rules to exclude blocks of new voters (Louisianna), county chairmen ignoring basic procedural rules at conventions and turning off microphones to silence dissenters (Texas, Maine, Georgia) and credentials committees applying ad hoc "loyalty tests" to disqualify large blocks of legally elected convention delegates (Missouri).
Is it any wonder that we feel disaffected and frustrated to the point of rage?
All that most of us want at this point is to have our (and Ron Paul's) message of a smaller federal government and humble foreign policy in keeping with constitutional principles, heard at the national convention.
But apparently the GOP has sunk to the point where even voicing a contrary opinion is considered treason to the party. Especially when it questions the policies that have lead to a soaring national debt, an undeclared and no-win trillion dollar war in Iraq, collapsing dollar, soaring gasoline prices, and erosion of our constitutional rights.
This is an attitude that I am afraid will prove to be disastrous to both the Republican Party and to our nation.
Great Post… Thanks!
Not that it will do any good, but come November, I intend to vote against every incumbent on the ballot no matter who they are (unless they are endorsed by Ron Paul). This coming election is the most disgusting of any that I can remember in my 61 years of life. I would commit suicide before ever pulling the lever for McWar, Hitlery or Obomba. This country is so screwed.
"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." Samuel Adams
“Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality”
By the rationale of the
By the rationale of the current, Neocon majority of the GOP, Ronald Reagan was also a "traitor" and "disloyal" for his attempt to secure the nomination in 1976. Confront these neocon, elitist scum about that!
Excellent comment
Just wanted to say that you made excellent points in your comment. We are not in the wrong here. The Republican party has nobody but itself to blame for the "blowback" of the Ron Paul Revolution because of its own failed policies and abandonment of Republican Party principles. McCain? The standard bearer conservative? HHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHHHAHAHHA
Not in a million years.
lol you know i really hope
lol you know i really hope that our upcoming generations are too stupid to ever figure out or learn anything about political parties so that they can perhaps finally free this nation of '2 party' voting. i cant think of anything more divisive and blatantly ignorant than holding your nose and voting for a man just because he happens to be one of the house hold name candidates that didnt drop out of the race after like 5 states.
Well...
that was an excellent comment.
Great work!
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Ron Paul 2012 - Not just for America, for the World!
excellent comment
Fortune Favors the Bold
we need more stuff like that, not just the "Ron Paul rules! Screw the CFR!" stuff.
Fortune Favors the Bold
Use the Opportunity
I'm personally happy to see the disarray in the Republican Party if we use that disarray to take charge and remake it.
Thanks for the great update from Idaho. You are right on track with your comments.
Great notice...
Thank you for the fine work. :-)
What you believe to be true, is true to you... "until you change your mind"
"balanced budget" used to be
"balanced budget" used to be the KEYWORD in Republican candidates' speeches. I believe these people are so stupid that they never realized their party was being taken down by the NATIONAL Republican party which has obviously become some sort of toy for the New World Order proponents that care nothing about our country being free. Ron Paul has never done ONE thing but promote conservative Republican values. The fact that he is being so "blackballed" is highly suspicious and un American. These people are part of the efforts to derail our civil rights, our Constitution, and our freedom as a whole. If I do not at least get to go to my state convention, as I have been promised, then I shall leave them behind, with nary a backward look.