So now what?

Carlybee said:
I'm out for the night. For future reference I have added Bastiat's the Law, Angeltc and Michigan11 to my ignore list. I won't tolerate this authoritarian "my way or the highway" bullcrap. I've dedicated my time and money to Ron Paul 2012 and I deserve to be here and speak my opinion. If it is so threatening to others then maybe they need to reexamine their own commitment to the cause.

Liberty: The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life.
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As long as your comments are constructive, yes. After a point, though, I'm not sure if constant negativity towards other forum members' chosen project/strategy can be seen as being constructive.
 
Rocco said:
Please, don't pretend to speak to the importance of Ron Paul while at the same time trying to decry his biggest goal. You people act like the actions his campaign team took to make GOP inroads were completely absent his input, it's borderline insulting really.
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Pretend? Seriously, go fly a kite. Ron Paul's biggest goal is to restore this NATION, not the GOP. The GOP was his chosen technique, post- his 1988 Libertarian try. But seriously, go fly a kite for using that word, 'pretend'. My post was making a very simple, and obvious, point - we come from a ton of backgrounds, and therefore have different goals. That shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, yet somehow now anyone with a different goal from [insert your goal here] is the enemy. It's a load of divisive bullshit. We're all on the same fucking team, team liberty - but to expect us all to take the same path there is both naive and serves only to divide us.
 
affa said:
Pretend? Seriously, go fly a kite. Ron Paul's biggest goal is to restore this NATION, not the GOP. The GOP was his chosen technique, post- his 1988 Libertarian try. But seriously, go fly a kite for using that word, 'pretend'. My post was making a very simple, and obvious, point - we come from a ton of backgrounds, and therefore have different goals. That shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, yet somehow now anyone with a different goal from [insert your goal here] is the enemy. It's a load of divisive bullshit. We're all on the same fucking team, team liberty - but to expect us all to take the same path there is both naive and serves only to divide us.
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Something to think about...I believe there are some members of this board who are not residing in the United States. I'm not sure if they're U.S. citizens living abroad or not, but if not that means they CAN'T work within our GOP. Are you going to want them banned as well?
 
cajuncocoa said:
Something to think about...I believe there are some members of this board who are not residing in the United States. I'm not sure if they're U.S. citizens living abroad or not, but if not that means they CAN'T work within our GOP. Are you going to want them banned as well?
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What is so hard about letting people work on the project that they want to and leaving them alone?
 
LibertyEagle said:
As long as your comments are constructive, yes. After a point, though, I'm not sure if constant negativity towards other forum members' chosen project/strategy can be seen as being constructive.
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Sometimes truth is not all sunshine and lollipops. I hope if some of you plan to ever run for office you are able to summon better defense mechanisms or you will be devoured if you are that perturbed by some comments on the internet.
 
The "stay the GOP course" people are waiting for Rand to step up.

Regardless of my opinion of Rand, it's a risky thing to devote 4 years to.

In the first place, it's based on the belief that A: Romney will lose the current election, or B: Rand will be able to defeat an incumbent in the 2016 primary.

The reality is,..the RNC chooses the GOP candidate,..as we've all witnessed during this primary cycle.

It won't choose Rand.
 
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sailingaway said:
I feel like saying something like "I wish we were just kinder to eachother' so I must be getting tired, or something. All the same, I do wish it.
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Oh sure, as do I. But this place wears you down. Grassroots central was designed to be a place where the grassroots could hook up and meet like minded individuals, form little coailitions, and work on activist projects.

But the campaign hired at least one troll to disrupt those efforts, and others seem to feel an obligation to do it pro bono. Not only is it predictable, it gets old.
 
Smitty said:
The "stay the GOP course" people are waiting for Rand to step up..
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No, not necessarily. We're working on getting liberty-minded people elected at all levels of government. The Presidency is certainly the trophy, but at my age even a significant minority in the House and Senate would make my heart sing.
 
Smitty said:
The "stay the GOP course" people are waiting for Rand to step up.

Regardless of my opinion of Rand, it's a risky thing to devote 4 years to.

In the first place, it's based on the belief that A: Romney will lose the current election, or B: Rand will be able to defeat an incumbent in the 2016 primary.

The reality is,..the RNC chooses the GOP candidate,..as we've all witnessed during this primary cycle.

It won't choose Rand.
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While I'm not waiting for Rand, it is interesting to note the reaction from neoconland to Rand's weekly gop address. I know a couple commenters are libertarian, but the rest are firmly in the neocon camp.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2012/08/25/watch_rand_paul_delivers_weekly_gop_address
 
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LibertyEagle said:
Sailing, the Ron Paul Forums was created to support Ron Paul's run for President. The forum didn't exist before that time.
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I know what she meant. :)

In 07/08, Grassroots Central was supposed to be the place where the activists could work on their projects, but it quickly became the catch-all for every article that people "knew" that everybody else needed to see. When they redid the subforums, they tried to make grassroots more usable by creating areas of specific interest where like minded individuals could hang out. That's how me managed to get the anarchists, who were fundamentally the same animals in that they insisted on polluting threads with philosophical dissertations about how ultimately pointless and/or wrong politics all was, a "philosophy" section. I would love to see an AJ section too, since he's currently the biggest divisive force here.)

General Politics became the popular forum, because that's where the political news was.
 
Origanalist said:
While I'm not waiting for Rand, it is interesting to note the reaction from neoconland to Rand's weekly gop address. I know a couple commenters are libertarian, but the rest are firmly in the neocon camp.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2012/08/25/watch_rand_paul_delivers_weekly_gop_address
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They're never going to go away. And they're never going to give up control of the party easily.

I prefer reading "The Daily Caller." We totally rule those comments now, but that wasn't always the case. And Yahoo isn't nearly as hard to read as it used to be, either.
 
angelatc said:
They're never going to go away. And they're never going to give up control of the party easily.

I prefer reading "The Daily Caller." We totally rule those comments now, but that wasn't always the case. And Yahoo isn't nearly as hard to read as it used to be, either.
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My point was how positive the reaction was from the neocons. (not sure if that's a good or bad sign?)
 
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