After General Election we need to STAY IN THE GOP(not necessarily vote for the nom)

[TexasAggie09]

I agree.

 

[Misesian]

Well, after reading what some kids just did in Alaska - or have proposed - I can see a value of staying in the GOP if you are going to their meetings and an active member of the party. If not, then you are just wasting a chance to make a real statement. But if you want to go to all the GOP meetings, put in changes to the entire party, get enough of you in there so that in a few years you will be at the state level so that when those changes get proposed you will be there to vote on them. Then I guess I see value.

Well yes I would probably agree that if you're going to do absolutely nothing but registered with a party, than might as well register with a 3rd party. Though I really wish the CP and LP could MERGE. Though the problem is a lot of 3rd party people will become complacent and NOT re-register when the primaries come around so that they CAN vote (closed party state like FL).

Though the point is to NOT stay home and do nothing. We had people do this with the Ron Paul r3VOLution and look where it got us? Coming out to meetings to be around like minded people, but not being willing to do the WORK is meaningless. Now going to meetings IS going to be the work for changing the local GOP. One or two meetings a month (in addition to Ron Paul ones) doesn't seem like that much work, especially considering our goal which is legalizing the Constitution.

 

[Swmorgan77]

Ok guys I am WRITING IN RON PAUL NO MATTER WHAT

But What I will be doing is Staying in the Republican party.

Why?

I know I hate all these damn Neocons taking this party to hell.

But I'm a CONSERVATIVE. And I support RON PAUL who has said in his last email that he will stay a Republican.

We all know that NO REPUBLICAN (aside from Ron Paul) can WIN THE GENERAL ELECTION.


But we also know that the GOP will self Destruct.

It is INEVITABLE and who better left to pick up the pieces than RON PAUL REPUBLICANS.

This is just the beginning and Ron Paul is about to become the next BARRY GOLDWATER and who knows maybe we will even cultivate our own Reagan out of this.(granted I don't think Reagan was a great president) but he ran on a terrific platform.

We must use this oppurtunity to infiltrate the tiers of the GOP and take back the party that once belonged to GEORGE WASHINGTON.


Keep in mind we have the ONE thing that the GOP does not have;

and that is our YOUTH.

We will be here for as long as this earth exists(which under Hitlery or McStalin might not be much longer) and we will BECOME THE GOP.


This is the beginning of this movement. If we can use these next 4 years to work our way into the GOP and work some Cloak and Dagger mission to infiltrate the GOP and use the GOP to build this Revolution We CAN TAKE BACK THE LAND THAT OUR FOREFATHERS LEFT US MANY YEARS AGO.

We must FIGHT ONWARD AND UPWARD and continue building the momentum to storm the White House in 2012.

Soon enough our Economy will COLLAPSE, soon enough CHina will call in their loans, soon enough America will be a hollow shell of what it once stood for and at that time AMerica will be RIPE FOR THE PICKING and ready for the Revolution that simply began less than 1 year ago to take the reigns and bring back the greatness that our Forefathers left us.

I urge all of my Brothersand Sisters in Freedom to continue educating your peers especially those that are not yet able to vote and continue to work within the GOP to bring true Conservative values back to the Party that once stood for those principles.



REMEMBER I AM IN NO WAY URGING YOU TO SUPPORT THE GOP NOMINEE

I just want to see us TAKE BACK THE PARTY THAT IS RIGHTFULLY OURS

AND SEND THOSE NEOCONS BACK TO HELL WHERE THEY CAME FROM

Nope I won't. If they see people leaving because they nominate Socialists, they might change something. As soon as being a registered Republican here in Utah no longer serves a potentioal purpose like being or voting for a delegate, I am GONE and will re-affiliate as Constitution party.

I will only come back when and if doing so allows me to support a principled conservative (backer of limited government).

 

[mannycp]

I will stay a republican as long as Dr. Paul is a republican.

+1

 

[Mandrik]

Sorry, can't do it. Once upon a time, before I was born in 1980, the party stood for the ideals RP preaches. But not any more. I can't associate myself with a group whose majority has ignored RP for so long, and who now does so much to make sure he's out of the spotlight. I know it's not everybody, but it's enough.

RP has a reason to stay as a Republican. That's how he has been elected and he represents what could be our last great Republican. But it's not my party, and it never will be. Once the PA primaries are over, I'm going back to unaffiliated. I gave this a lot of thought and I really see no other option.

 

[Sey.Naci]

To the naysayers, read this thread just posted today: We are taking over the GOP in Alaska

That's just the beginning of what's achievable.

 

[Xyrus2]

The GOP is not some amorphous group with no substance. It has some very rigid ideals.

Such as:

• Strengthening our Military.

Within reason. Our military should be well fortified and should be used in DEFENSE. That being said, having and international empire only serves to overextend and weaken our military.

• Deploying a missile defense system.

Might as well say deploy the holy forcefield of Antioch. This is an endless game of oneupmanship. We develop a missle shield, someone else develops a missle shield, we develop an anti-missle shield capability, so on and so forth.

Anyone who has missles capable of damaging the US is not going to use them for the simple reason that doing so would spell certain doom for them, if not from a retaliatory strike then economically. This is just fear mongering.

• Strengthening our ties NATO.

For what purpose?

• Protecting the homeland and achieving a sustained level of success and progress in Iraq.

Inherently vague and counter productive. What is success? We haven't had any real goals set, and that has been part of the problem. No one is will ing to come up with criteria there. That keeps us essentially in a perpetual quagmire (not to mention acting as a lightening rod for instability). The best way to protect the homeland is to secure our borders and let other countries figure out how to resolve their own problems. We are over extended, hemorrhaging funds, and our borders or porous. Just leaving Iraq you could kill three birds with one stone.

• Providing Support for Faith-Based and Community Organizations

I think we can all agree that it is not the government's responsibility to support such organizations. The constitution gives the federal government no charter to do so. Plus, it is most likely a bigoted stance (will they support Rastafarians, Muslims, Hindu...???)? Doubtful.

• Support of the New Freedom Initiative, which provides support of freedom and independence for individuals with disabilities

I must have missed the memo. Don't people with disabilities already have this?

• Support of Partial Birth Abortion Ban and "Connor's Law"

That's not the responsibility of the federal government. The people and the states need to come to their own decisions.

• A new high school initiative to help states hold high schools accountable for teaching all students and to provide effective interventions for those students who are not learning at grade level.
• Increasing reading skills for America’s striving readers by providing a focus on improving the reading skills of high school students who read below grade level.
• Accelerating mathematics and science achievement dedicated to support projects to accelerate the mathematics achievement of all secondary students, and especially low-achieving students.
• Accelerating student achievement with Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate.
• Promoting Scholastic Achievement with State Scholars.

These all should be the responsibility of the people and/or the state.

• Nuclear Power is abundant and affordable, clean, and safe.

This is actually true. The newer technologies such as pebble bed reactors are very safe and are designed not melt-down. With breeder reactors, you can recycle nuclear waste into more usable fuel. The waste products also break down faster so containment isn't as much of a problem.

The other technology that, in my opinion, is actually the best is thorium based reactors. Thorium is far more abundant than uranium, and less dangerous. A thorium reactor requires a neutron pump in order to get a reaction going, so it can't melt down anyway. Plus, the waste products of thorium have a much shorter half-life. There is about a 10,000 year supply of thorium for our current power output levels.

And if you still think nuclear is unsafe, France has around 70% of it's power produced by nuclear. Another interesting fact, coal plants release more radioactive materials into the atmosphere than nuclear power generates, especially if you use breeder reactors and thorium.

Now, I think it is fine for a president to support initiatives, But I don't agree with taxpayer's dollars going into subsidies.

• President Bush is encouraging the research and development of Clean-Coal technologies, which is by far America’s most abundant and affordable energy resource.

Actually, thorium is. But the point is we should wean ourselves from fossil fuels, period. You'll never get coal 100% clean. There will always be pollution. And then there is the environmental impact from the mining operations, which often leads to all sorts of nasty chemicals getting spread around.

The government shouldn't subsidizing it at any rate.

• President Bush's FY2007 budget proposed $44 million in funding for wind energy research and other alternative and renewable resources.

Why is the government subsidizing these industries? I realize that's hardly any money to the government, but we shouldn't have the government giving handouts to companies.

As you can see, I only came to the republican party to vote for Ron Paul. Normally, I'm a libertarian.

~X~

 

[DealzOnWheelz]

We can take over this is the beginning and it will not end.

 

[LibertyRevolution]

I fallow Dr. Paul for the restoration of my rights and the limiting of government. The GOP is against these goals. Screw the GOP, I have no interest in helping save their party. All they have done is screwed us. Im out of the GOP and back to the LP, Good Luck saving your party.

 

[DealzOnWheelz]

It's not about saving "THEIR PARTY" IT's about TAKING OUR PARTY BACK FROM THE LIBERAL NEOCON SLIME THAT STOLE IT

 

[ronpaulyourmom]

I'm not going to affiliate with a party, my state allows me not to and I wont be. I'll check out candidates from many parties and decide from there.