2010

I say since the socialist are running in the republican and democrat parties we should have our liberty minded people run as republican and democrats in the primaries. Wouldnt it be something if they both won the primaries then whoever wins we win. Remember Bob Conley won the democrat primary in S.C. it is unfortianate that whoever counted the vote already figured out what percentage of the vote he was going to get.

I want to run for U.S. Congress in Colorado's 6th congressional district. The incumbent will be the former Secretary of State Mike Coffman who is a Republican. He just beat a Democrat handily 60% to 40%. Both candidates supported the war on terror. I want to run as an independent as having to run as a republicrat makes me sick to my stomach. I should have ran this year but I have never ran for any type of public office before. I worked for the federal government in the recent past but never held any type of political position. I'm planning on starting an internet radio show here soon.

Mike Coffman raised 1.2 + million dollars. Hank Eng raised 231,00 + dollars. I might run for city council or state legislature instead. My platform would be the Constitution. If I raised $200,000 - $300,000 at least my name might get out and I might have a chance. If I run as an independent I know I will be rail roaded and ignored. I would announce my candidacy in January or February of 2009. I did run for delegate at the Caucus level in February and was one vote shy of a 3 way tie for 2 delegate positions so I have had some exposure in my precinct to people that would be my constituents. Any comments, encouragements, and critical responses would be greatly appreciated.

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I got an idea that's something akin to cliff diving into a dry ocean.
I wouldn't mind wouldn't running for Governor for my State of Oregon. Except I wouldn't know where the hell to begin with.

I have not held any public office, and I'm just barely finding out about my town public meetings.

I recognize the principles...
"If you have a right to anything, then don't ask permission to do it."
"You are free to do anything so long as you do not do harm towards other, or steel from others." (*Steal, as a broad concept)
"Besides, what's a governor? A Yes-Man to the legislatures."

Governor steps down in 2011.

for Congress - Alabama 5th district. Not really sure where to start - I've never run for public office before. Any advice would be appreciated! My views tend to be libertarian - but in this part of the country it seems like the minute you tell people you're libertarian they wonder why you're not wearing a tin-foil hat or something. I'm thinking the thing to do is run independent of any parties, just plainly state my stance on the issues.

We had two REALLY poor choices this year, a Clinton-style dem versus a Bush-style rep. VERY nasty contest - they held no punches. The dem won, but the cool thing was that the margin was very tight - just a few thousand votes. And there were 11,000 write-ins, so that would have swung the election. So maybe that sent a message to the party leadership, who knows. I got 4 write-ins (me and a guy that I work with, plus his wife and mother-in-law).

Well the first thing you need to do is take a deep breath and exhale all that bad energy before I tell you it doesn't matter. Not in the traditional sense. I think it is abundantly clear the establishment will go way out of it's way to torpedo any outsiders trying to break in. Taking over a party is unrealistic in most cases and at the end of the day all that really matters is who counts the votes.

Now, that being said I have to say not all is lost. What a campaign, any campaign does for a person is it allows that person to use the campaign as a forum to share ideas and spread a message. Of course we know the establishment tactics so you can't play around. You have to hit them harder and harder each and every time you're blessed with an opportunity. This opportunity is what we need to increase. Trying to force more opportunity for a candidate is hard because a candidate can only make so many appearances at so many town halls.

However, if more people ran. If every incumbent were challenged and could be debated on many many fronts. Then that would increase our opportunity to speak out. The incumbents go to work everyday find all new ways the screw us. So really your campaign could start anytime. Start collecting the dirt on your opponent and start putting together your platform. Get yourself a little website and pledge to run if you get enough donations to cover the filing fees.

Even if you don't really wanna run or know you really won't. Setting this up would be a good practice for you and a good model for others to emulate. In the process you may also find someone better to run in your stead. Whatever the case may be setting up and having a working campaign infrastructure ready to go that has everything but a campaign and a candidate. Will make everything much better come crunch time.

As soon as the precinct caucus season hits we need to be active and driving the issues and get people leaning our way to start with.

And get into as many PCO positions as possible. These are auto-delegate appointments. Many PCO slots are open as an apathetic people that doesn't participate in the process leaves these gatekeeper positions uncontested more often than you might think.

Best case is to have all the PCO slots. Next is to have as many PCOs in as many districts as possible. Plus, having at least one precinct captain for every precinct in the country and dominating every uncontested precinct in the country.

"Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat."

We need to stop using Ron Paul in every other sentence. It simply is not productive. If we can't make a blog post or discuss sound money without praising Ron Paul then we are going to lose half our audience.

Seeing all these posts all over the internet reminds me of how some Bible thumpers can't seem to form an argument without quoting from the Bible.

Let stick to the message. Don't let anybody know if you are a Republican. Keep them guessing.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxGyPTndqms

It's a 5 minute animated video over a recorded speech from Tommy Douglas

I highly recommend watching it before continuing. I'll wait.