Hey, Ron Paul Republicans!?! Time For A GOP Palace Coup!
From the Huffington Post:
outputWith all the party and media babble about who is better equipped to take over the Republican party in the wake of the bloodbath of the '08 election, it's impressive how deeply the pundits have been able to repress the memory of the Ron Paul campaign.
After all, compare the Ron Paul 'Revolution' campaign with Barack Obama's now acknowledged electoral genius. That stuff Republicans are now realizing they have to do in the future? Paul did it months ago. Excited new voters beyond the base? Check. Raised massive amounts of money from small donations online? Ditto. Legions of creative people generating their own campaign content on YouTube and beyond? Did it. Young voters? Had those.
The biggest problem for Ron Paul and his supporters is the turd-in-the-punchbowl way they were treated by the Republicans. Remember Rudy's snide confusion over the idea that the United State's foreign policy may have somehow have been a factor in why the U.S. was attacked on 9/11? Recall the debate shunning?
But look how things have changed. McCain's psuedo-maverick-ism tore the Republicans a gaping new one after they collectively rejected Ron Paul; the only candidate with ideas for real, actual change...such as ending the Iraq War.
Wow, a good Huffington Post article
Don't see too many of those.
The common denominator
"agreement isn't what libertarians do well."
http://www.dailypaul.com/...
It's remarkable, how much we agree on despite our differences.
The common denominator is freedom to choose for ourselves via the constitution!
Viva la rEVOLution!
Ron Paul Will Win In 2012
Ron Paul will come back in full force in 2012. I have a really good feeling that his supporters will take it above and beyond what they did during the primaries. All the youth he captivated in 07-08 will be older and able to donate more money to his campaign. He knows what he needs to do and the Republican Party is ready for change. He is a new and much better Ronald Reagan!
http://ronpaulkid.blogspo...
Why should we limit ourselves to the GOP?
I have been thinking lately that maybe we should try to infiltrate both Republican and Democrat parties. With more opportunities come better chances for success. I know our resources are limited but why not give voters from either party an option to vote for a pro-liberty candidate? There are some Democrats that will never vote for a Republican and vice versa. So let's give everyone a chance in the primaries next time around to vote for pro-liberty, pro-constitution, end the wars, etc.
I really don't care what party wins as long as the winner is like Ron Paul.
Some of us never understood
the obsession with the GOP. Why should we bother with a dying party at all? Let the damn thing just die already! The GOP hasn't truly been the party of fiscal conservatism since before WWII.
Do we need parties at all? Must we resort to some horrid form of intellectual collectivism in the first place? Might that very kind of structure have lead to the massive centralization that we now have to live with?
~jaq
Where was the authour when this could've made a difference?
Beware false friends or at least beware of their motivations. This guy wants us to spit the republican party but ONLY so Democrats can be elected. We want democrats elected ONLY to punish the neocon/theocrat element of the GOP as a measns to ultimately get liberty candidates elected.
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
~Mahatma Gandhi
Sounds to me as if he is calling for
a candidate.
CSpan had an hour on Republican Party and what they are going to do to come back today. Sounded to me as if they were begging for Ron Paul to come front and center. Of course, with neocons, it always "sounds" that way.
Until the CFR gets the heck out of the party, the hope that gets stirred is probably totally bogus, especially if we don't do anything at all, as in the past, about our voting machines.
Get involved in your local GOP..
Now or in the next few months. Begin being active and run for any position, get Ron Paul people in positions. Follow the Parlamentary procedure unlike the present leaders.
It is going to be a rather boring coup. Just hard nosed work.
Reading that made my stomach hurt.
Where were the "Huffingtons" when we needed them?
HuffPo
Posted quite a few pieces on Ron Paul all through the election, some postive, some not so great, but take a look for yourself: http://www.huffingtonpost...
Added a negative word
to the search phrase on that page and found all their garbage entries. The lefties were more concerned with comments from a 15-year-old newletter (in which RP didn't even write) than they ever were about Obama supporting the FISA legislation.
Sure
What do lefties care about liberty and freedom? My only point was HuffPo didn't entirely ignore Ron Paul.
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"I killed the Bank."
The Huffington Post? Oh jeez
Even the liberals can see it, how come the republicans can't?
It is amazing.
damn straight... any
damn straight...
any proposals on how we stage this coup? haha....
hard, tedious work
We could take over the Republican Party the same way the evangelical Protestants took it over from the Rockefeller Republicans: by taking over the local committees first. But to do that requires an organized effort: showing up and sitting through meetings, getting names on a lot of lists, organizing separately to run stealth candidates, and waiting for the other side to give in through sheer exhaustion.
It's a dull, tedious process, and unfortunately the RP supporters I have come across are a lot more interested in organizing stuff that is flashier and admittedly more fun, like the Tea Parties here in Boston, the End the Fed rally, and cool Web sites. And maybe all those things will help educate the next generation for the big push someday. But by themselves, they won't lead to a takeover of the Republican Party in the near future.
Which is too bad, because right now the neocons are reeling, and there might be an opening for sanity. I shudder to think what the neocons will turn the party into once they regroup...
Making a contract with Leviathan
Being progressive in the Ron Paul movement
That's right. We need to participate in the political process. Because as much we may not like the process of politics and power, we cannot change our politics without participating in it. In my judgement, politics, is the most loathsome activity the freest person can participate in. That is why I feel sympathy for the people furthest away from the state, which is the seat of power - or, the higher the legalization of authority, the higher the centralization of power.
I agree that it takes organization. That organization needs to be backed up by raw data and action. Behind that organization we need intellectual reasons to promote freedom in society as the greatest choice a people could choose, particularly within the context of the Constitution.
Penetrating local and national political organizations
the progressives main drive is to take government power from the political elites and put it into the hands of another group of elites - mainly an anti-corporation, anti-war, anti-poverty, pro-civil rights; or, as the neocons would have it called, the New Left.
If we can make the Ron Paul movement local, we can actually make a return to the Republic. Through strong local governments we can decentralize political power from Capitol Hill. From the smallest organization to the the state level. Through the "progressive" promotion of more political power to the states, we could offset federal power.
Ron Paul was right when he said this is a battle of philosophy.