Isn't it time for RonPaulCandidates.com?
Posted March 6th, 2008 by BugMan
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It has been established that we need to run lots of candidates to run for office as "Ron Paul Republicans". For this to be successful, I believe that there must be a central virtual meeting place, something like the topic title, where potential candidates can apply for the job, get help learning how to run, get financial help, etc.
Instead of every candidate reinventing the wheel, he/she can get a web site template that they can customize with their own names, slim jim templates, and so one. If everybody used the same printer, for example, we could keep design and printing costs down.
In order to become a Ron Paul Republican, you'd have to meet certain miminum requirements on your platform that means you largely adhere to the Ron Paul way. Perhaps "Ron Paul Republican" could even be copyrighted so that nobody but official candidates could use the term?
From this web site you could see all of the candidates, state by state, decide which ones you want to support. Maybe there's one in your district you would support. Ron Paul and other noteworthy liberty loving celebrities would endorse everybody that qualified, of course.
A great number of Ron Paul candidates should generate some sort of media attention. At least voters would know where you stood on the issues.
With some sort of coherent guidance and support, there's a chance to keep the rEVOLution alive, don't you think? It's hard to run for office, but with this type of program it could happen!
Thanks in advance for your comments, positive or negative.
In Liberty,
BugMan
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the domain name
Paulverize... can you tell what date the domain was bought? Can't tell who, I suppose? No way to figure out if they bought for good use or to keep us from using it?
thanks for your help, this stuff is out of my league!
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We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
-Steppenwolf 1969
www.constitutional-republicans.com
Can someone buy this site and work on it?
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Ok, someone did buy the
Ok, someone did buy the domain name. They baught it through 1 & 1 and that can be a good or very bad thing. 1 & 1 does not like to let you move your domain easily, there are many complaints I have read on this as I have 2 accounts through them. They are limmited to what you can do with an account through them, you can set up basic forums and such and have cheap band width but if you go over the limmit you pay extra. I would not have chose this hosting company to do this though try to park your domain elsewhere and you will see what I mean.
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First did anyone buy the
First did anyone buy the domain name yet?
Someone will if you did not just to get it away from you.
Second you need to find a web hosting company and need to know how much band width you will need. A dedicated server that could handle the bw could cost at minimum 270 dollars a month. You can use mirrors for bw as well, people can donate extra bw for certain projects. We do need something like this, I have been thinking ahead to 2012 as well, we need a pool of money and members that we know will vote for Ron Paul approved candidates and maybe Ron Paul? We need to leave nothing unchecked this next time around. We would need to know how to legaly raise money for these candidates, hopefully you can get some official campaign people involved so you do not have an issue of trust.
Third, you need a good platform and moderators to take care of the platform. Why not use ipb? I have several Invision Power Board sites and they are running rather well.
You will need someone to repair things when they go bad, someone who knows how to work with an sql database someone who can do backups, someone who can restore backups, once a forum is set up it is rather easy to run and moderate it.
I think you could run a blog as well to keep people informed on new subjects.
You would need a way to get dontaions if it is paypal or whatever, and a trusted person to take care of these donations.
Just some thoughts
I'd say this is worth a
bump. Every Ron Paul supporter should consider running in their communities and school boards. If you are unemployed run for office.
We need the experience and it will help build our confidence also, we
have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Peace
Suppose one of us wanted to run for office....
how would we get support from the Liberty PAC?
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We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
-Steppenwolf 1969
Bump
salt-of-the-earth :-]
thanks tyler
We'll probably need to get a master web developer involved in this, do you think? A careful plan will be a must. Thanks for your input!
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We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
-Steppenwolf 1969
ronpaul-republicans.com
Hey Everyone, I just put together a website called ronpaul-republicans.com I really don't know how to build a website. I know it could be organized better, and bigger, but first I need more candidates. Please let me know about more candidates and e-mail me at ronpaulin2012@hotmail.com after checking out my website.
Bump
Too good an idea to let molder away in the old posts' dustbin. More commentary anyone?
Let's see: $10 million to 10 senatorial candidates; $10 million to 40 Federal representative candidates; $10 million divied amongst 400 state legislature candidates; $10 million to support 4,000 local government candidates. A mere $40 million.... :-)) Dream on, huh?
Why not?
Maybe you've got a good point there Salt... why not make as big a tent as possible and not exclude anybody that has the same general platform?
Probably a moot point... I can't do this alone and there doesn't seem to be much interest. Most of the dialog here seems to be name calling and flagging.
Thanks for you sensible dialog.
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We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
-Steppenwolf 1969
This is a great idea!
i love it! let's make it fly
Going,going.... gone?
Seemed like a good idea, but dying a quick death here!
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We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
-Steppenwolf 1969
This guy is in my meetup
This guy is in my meetup group.
http://www.georgelillyfor...
Salt...
I definitely hear where you're coming from, I struggle constantly with staying in the GOP or going back to being the LBT that I was for 15 years. I ran for state house twice, just to get the Libertarian name in from of the public.
The problem is, and this is why Ron Paul is still a Republican, that the deck is too stacked against 3rd parties. Don't we stand a better chance of trying to change the party from within?
thanks.
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We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
-Steppenwolf 1969
No.
In a word. I think the GOP neocon heirarchy is so deeply entrenched and so backed up by quasi-legal power that the only way they'll ever be dislodged is by a near-total self-destruct of the party. Maybe McInsane will achieve that come November--but I doubt the powers that be will permit it; the Two-Party charade has been too useful for too long. On any case, each to their own. I think that a Libertarian candidate for LOCAL office actually stands a chance if s/he runs mostly on LOCAL issues and does some strong face-to-face retail politicking. We'll see.
But the point of my post is that RonPaulCandidates.com should be exactly that--NOT RonPaulRepublicans.com. If it comes to the second, you've lost me, and a whole lot of other Ron Paul Revolutionaries.
GREAT IDEA but...
...what about us Ron Paul Revolutionaries who want to run as Libertarians, independents, Democrats (rare but possible), etc. I thought one of the beauties of the Ron Paul Revolution was that the ideas of liberty, peace and responsibility could transcend the nasty old PARTY LINES, which are so meaningless, anyway.
Dr. Paul cured my apathy. After 2 decades as a discontented political couch potato until I became involved in RPs campaign, two weeks ago I chugged down to my county courthouse and filed to run for county commissioner--on the Libertarian ticket. I wanted to file as an independent but they wouldn't let me. And there was no way I wanted to mess with the entrenched good ol'boy clubs that constitute the local Republican and Democratic party heirarchies--nor stand in the fall-out from McInsane's trashing of the "R Word" come November.
So--great idea; IF it's truly RonPaulCandidates.com and NOT RonPaulRepublicans.com--don't leave your fellow non-R revolutionaries out in the cold!
Incidentally: I don't need a Money Bomb, but sure could use a Money Firecracker to help out my campaign!
If we could focus on say 10 candidates...
Yes. we absolutely need that. Can you imagine
if we could get 10 or (gasp) 20 ron paul type
people in office? They would actually have
a lot of power as a voting block just because
congress is always deadlocked.
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I think if we can get a website like that up
and give each candidate a million dollars
a piece to work with, they'd have a shot.
However if we don't pool our efforts I don't
see many of the Ron Paul type people winning
due to lack of resources for advertising.
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Perhaps a map with all 50 states where
you can then click on each state and see the
potential candidates. candidates could
submit video clips, writings, etc...
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In addition perhaps we could vote
on the twenty strongest candidates among
them and then have a day where we give
them each one million dollars.
yes yes
We need to focus on the candidates that Ron Paul endorses, and help them get elected. So that as .......President or .......Congressman he has friends in congress ............that respect the constitution. ...Roben
PaulCongress.com is a start...
but really just points out existing candidates. In order to really run lots of candidates, we need something described in my post.
thanks for the pointing out that site, it's a great start.
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We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
-Steppenwolf 1969
We should call them/ourselves
"Constitutional Republicans"
Yes Great Idea
We should have a plan to run a Ron Paul Republican in every congressional district up for grabs in 2 years. Same with the Senate. I am sure there are enought Dr. Paul supporters in every district around the country to get it going.
There is one
www.paulcongress.com
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
- James Madison