New campaign; Don't repeat history, be nice & civil.

[jmdrake]

And when the other side rips your signs away, throws you out of a caucus, replaces you with 'alternative' delegates...kindly show them the other cheek.

If you view them as "the other side", you are already losing. They are individuals and each one of them is an opportunity; not an adversary. You have to know when to fight and when to make friends. There will be time for fighting - now is not that time.

Now is the time to fight. The question is who to fight and how to fight. Ripping up someone else's road signs is bad form and does nothing to help our cause. But responding to bad press by blogging ourselves and pulling no punches is the way to go. I don't think we should attack candidates that have not specifically attacked us. Not unless it gets down to the case where someone is about to run away with the whole thing like Mitt Romney. But candidates like McCain and Graham? Oh it's on like donkey kong!

 

[CTRattlesnake]

I remember the backlash on here went I suggest strategic voting in 2012 to achieve a brokered convention

 

[Millennial Conservatarian]

I agree to an extent. It needs to be a positive campaign with a positive message. BUT we all know how low, how underhanded, how despicable and shameless the attacks and lies are going to be and we can't lay over and take it either. We need to be clever, ironic, and facetious more than argumentative and confrontational.

Rand's already given us a good amount of ammunition to take the NeoCons' very words and positions and spin the barrel of the gun right back around at them. We have to take advantage.

 

[acptulsa]

I remember the backlash on here went I suggest strategic voting in 2012 to achieve a brokered convention

I remember the backlash on here when I suggested strategic voting in 2008 to achieve a brokered convention. Then a few months later, the board was full of suggestions we vote for McCain as a strategic vote in the general election, when it's too damned late for strategic votes.

Trolls gonna troll. Hard. What we need to do is recognize a good idea in spite of--maybe even because of--the energy of the naysayers.

 

[jmdrake]

LOL @ brokered conventions. LOL harder at "vote for McCain to stop Obama" or "vote for Obama to stop McCain." Advocate for what you want but I never bought the argument that the GOP machine that we were fighting so hard would somehow roll over and play when it came to backroom deals. But at least those pushing for "strategic voting" were honest about it and not saying "We're running a delegate strategy for a brokered convention" all the while purposefully not attacking Mitt Romney which would have been required to get to a brokered convention. Anyhoo, whatever floats people's boats.

 

[FSP-Rebel]

I agree with the OP about civility going forward. I was guilty as anyone about being nasty and irritable in past times during the media's reporting/online social media folks portrayals of Ron's campaign but have learned my lesson. It's tough but it's for the best.

 

[HVACTech]

I promised my friends today, (who made contributions)

no snowballs for Hannity!

yeah, they looked at me funny when I added that....