Fill out Republican Survey and communicate Ron Paul's Message

…but I did not like the selective questioning.

—Cliff in Sioux City, Iowa
April’s Song: ♪So This Is Love♪ by George Benson
Throw-away tools of war

thing is obviously a sham. They have no interest in hearing your opinion, instead they want to TELL you your opinion while you make a donation.

Free and Brave
or Cradle to Grave
You can't have both

In order to win me back to the Republican Party the Party will have to change the Republican platform to reflect these ideals: Follow and enforce the Constitution. Repeal the Patriot Act. Get us out of the United Nations and NATO. Repeal NAFTA and GATT. Push for term limits in all areas of Government. End the "war on drugs" and the "war on terror." Ending the Federal Reserve as well as any Central Bank. End Federal Funding of Education. Bring all of our troops home from every base outside of the US. End the Income Tax and don't replace it with the Fair Tax or any other unconstitutional Tax. Reinstate the 10th Amendment in each state. Repeal the 14th Amendment, so states rights will trump Federal gestapoism. Stop beauractratic agencies from limiting the free market of ideas to name a few.
To make this a simpler message, the Republcan Party should follow the platform of Ron Paul, of peace, freedom and liberty in order to win back my action in the party.

My comments at the end of the survey: "I am working within the Repbulican Party to change the platform and get like minded candidates elected that will promote peace, freedom, and liberty. This is not an easy task though, as the Neo-Cons have had control for many, many years. So they are not giving up easily."

I posted a similar message for my wife too.

The boxes I checked in the section of Homeland Security and Defense Issues in particular are not the ones that they obviously wanted to be checked. I also gave them this bit of bad news:

Regrettably, there is nothing the Republican Party can do before 2010 to gain my trust. I must not only hear Republicans saying the right things, I must observe them DOING THE RIGHT THINGS. This means voting to limit government intervention at home and abroad, and drastically to cut government spending. Repeal the Patriot Act and the bailouts. Audit the Fed. Give a loud NO to every bill that increases the central government's control, particularly the executive branch. Strenuously oppose every bill that exerts federal powers not specifically authorized by the Constitution.

I filled out the survey, but I mentioned that my trust cannot be won, because I will never stand by and idly hope for bad things to somehow work out in the end. I stated that the only way to win my support is for the deeds done to conform to the promises given. I think that is a message we should all send their way, even if you don't want to include specific things you care about. Making them aware that filibustering in the Senate and actually living up to the small government promises is required for support may help us see near term change.

Beware the carrot dangling in front of you.

So, we give them all these ideas, they come out in droves, campaigning full force in 2010 and then 2012 promising everything we told them we want to hear.

...then nobody knows who the hell to vote for because every one of them is spouting exactly what we wanted to hear, promising that they have listened to us and have changed.

Then after all the election "smoke" clears, they win, get in there and get right back to business as usual, as the public realizes they have been duped yet again.

I will give them no ideas. When you have to actually work by trial and error to discover your faults, you are more likely to abide by your claims of change.