Paul Supporters at Texas GOP Convention Acted Respectfully, Were Intelligent and Not Crazy

[Red Green]

http://texasgopvote.com/2012-texas-...cted-respectfully-were-intelligent-and-004290

From the article's beginning. Very fair--his honest opinion:

<<Sometimes a few crazy people can make an entire group look bad. Maybe that is what has happened with Ron Paul supporters. We see some crazy Ron Paul people on the news and we paint the entire group as being crazy. It is like these bad cops who think they are above the law and they break the law and do things like beating people up on video. That is why some people hate cops when, in fact, most cops are doing a great job and risking their lives for us. The problem is that the few bad cops you see on TV unfairly make all cops look bad.

Yeah, I don't like my people being compared to cops, and he's dead-wrong on cops. The big difference between the RP Revolution and the cops is if we witnessed one of our own initiating violence on someone or beating someone helpless for no good reason, we'd run them out of the group on a rail. We would not have any part of goon-like activities associated with our group. And no, cops are not doing a good job and they don't protect us.

Other than that, yeah a pretty nice piece and it demonstrates how we can reach out to others to work toward the goals we have in common. We don't need to get everything at once; this country was not made a Banana Republic police state all at once, it was done so incrementally and it will need to be retaken incrementally. That's a little side-note for those bashing Rand these days.

 

[sailingaway]

so which state convention were they crazy at? that would be news to me.

I t is the MEME not reality. OUR guys get punched or OUR guys have bones broken and the media meme is 'punches flew' or 'bones broken' when Ron Paul supporters attend, and they play up booing Romney's son, making it sound like we were the ones at fault in the whole thing. The booing would better be 'Ron Paul' chants if they need to object to Romney violating the rules as I understand he did, because booing gives the media a tool, since it sounds so rude. But the MEME is that we are 'crazy', and that is what this guy is responding to.

 

[tfurrh]

I can see how the meme has legs. I've had to block #s on my phone. Some of them ARE over-the-top.

 

[jcannon98188]

Ron Paul supporters respectful at TX GOP

Say it aint so.

http://texasgopvote.com/2012-texas-...cted-respectfully-were-intelligent-and-004290

Did not break link as it appears to be friendly. This guy apparently gets it now.

 

[sailingaway]

this has been posted twice, though.

 

[Southerner]

"These people were not crazy."

lol.

 

[NoOneButPaul]

I just hope I read the same headline after Tampa...

Of course with the Tag: Ron Paul makes greatest speech in the history of the world; wakes up the masses.

 

[NoOneButPaul]

The other thing that's so great about this is it shows what will happen when these people experience us in a calm and intelligent fashion.

When we show up in nice clothing, act respectful, and blow them away with our knowledge it DOES wake them up to the fact that the MSM had it all wrong and we are in this for a lot more than just drugs or whatever stupid ass MSM reason they've been given...

That is a big step towards progress in the bigger picture.

 

[NoOneButPaul]

We all should have turned the (take over GOP) thing into the Gop has already been taken over by ex democrats and we are trying to take it back from them.

I've been doing this with my NeoCon old friends from the start...

And even if it's not true I always point out that the "Ex-Democrats" took over in 1994 because they all switched parties, knowing the GOP was in for a sweep, and I always point to the spineless Richard Shelby as an example.

If you spin it to them the the Dems took over our party in 94 because they knew they were going to get whooped it's an angle they'll actually believe... even if it's not entirely true

 

[Mini-Me]

The general theme really is true though: The Rockefeller liberals and similar Fabian socialists had been taking over the GOP for a long time until Goldwater briefly set them back, and the neoconservatives swept in shortly thereafter. The neocons (or I should say, the high neocon priests) are former Trotskyite communists (literally) who "reformed" and took a new liking to Strauss's fascist viewpoints, so it's pretty accurate to say the GOP was taken over by the "left." That's not to say the GOP leadership was ever a bastion of paleoconservatism, but it seems like the "real" conservatives put up more of a struggle in the past, and the base itself wasn't successfully indoctrinated until the neocons came along.

 

[jblosser]

To understand this you need to understand the emails that were going around down here prior to the convention. Lots of focus on the training we were doing, with false claims we were teaching people to lie, disrupt, and other nonsense. His point is that didn't happen, and quite the opposite happened.

Leading up to the convention we were also dealing with a lot of our people afraid from what was going on in other states that we'd have tyranny at ours. The thing is, we had the tyranny in the past, but we fixed it in 2010 by electing a new, fair administration for the state party. All of that came together this time and made for an amazing convention that ended with group hugs, not handcuffs.

 

[IndianaPolitico]

I still find it funny that people are always suprised when we show up dressed nice, and follow the rules... I was sitting at the Indiana State Convention in a full suit, Indiana State Pin, an American Flag tie, and I was holding an Ipad. Someone next to me was talking and said, "Boy I wish those Ron Paul supporters dressed nicer...)

 

[Tyler_Durden]

The last day of the Convention, my District of approx 300 people spent nearly 8hrs in one room. Many were neocons and Christian conservatives. I would estimate our numbers at roughly 40%. during that time, I interacted with "their" people more so than "our" people in an effort to build coalitions and rapport.

I never encountered or observed any bad will, disrespect, etc. I will see these people again in 2yrs and before then during Precinct Chair meetings, etc. I'm glad I spent the day amongst these establishment types. Bridges were built and can be shaped......