Need ideas - How should we protest the GOP purge?

[Brian4Liberty]

Now that the GOP leadership has decided to purge fiscally conservative members from important fiscal committees, how do we respond? What are our options?

One idea:

- Contact all GOP representatives and demand that Boehner and Cantor be removed from Party leadership positions.

Any other ideas?

Edited for additional options:

- Protest on Twitter. Include hashtag #purgeBoehner
- Protest on Facebook.
- Contact all GOP representatives and demand that Boehner and Cantor be removed from Party leadership positions.
- Go to the actual office of your GOP Representative, demand that fiscal conservatives be put back on fiscally related Committees or Boehner and Cantor must be removed from Party leadership positions.
- Call Boehner's Office and demand that fiscal conservatives be put back on fiscally related Committees.
- Primary Boehner, Cantor, Ryan, and any other phony fiscal conservatives (or anti-liberty or anti-Constitution conservatives).

[FrankRep]

This is pretty cool:


Freedomworks & YAL activists confront Speaker Boehner (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbe7m5bZ9WY)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbe7m5bZ9WY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbe7m5bZ9WY

[Brian4Liberty]

This is pretty cool:


That's a start. That could be expanded and people can go to the office of their GOP Representative and express their opinion. If people don't have a GOP Representative for their own District, they could contact the nearest District that is GOP.

[Pauls' Revere]

Do everything possible to help the GOP lose in the midterms.

[Brian4Liberty]

Do everything possible to help the GOP lose in the midterms.

We absolutely need to Primary Boehner, Cantor, Ryan, and any other phony fiscal conservatives, especially the ones who want to purge the real budget cutters.

[Brian4Liberty]

An idea from FreedomWorks:

FreedomWorks Urges Activists to Call Speaker Boehner’s Office to Stop the Fiscal Conservative Purge


FreedomWorks Urges Activists to Call Speaker Boehner’s Office to Stop the Fiscal Conservative Purge

Washington, DC- Following news that fiscally conservative Congressmen David Schweikert (R-AZ), Justin Amash (R-MI) and Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) have been removed from their committee positions by Republican leadership, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe released the following statement:
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“Is there room in the House Republican Conference for legislators who believe that Washington is spending too much money it does not have?* Based on this remarkably hostile act by leadership, the answer may be no. This is a clear attempt on the part of Republican leadership to punish those in Washington who vote the way they promised their constituents they would -- on principle -- instead of mindlessly rubber-stamping trillion dollar deficits and the bankrupting of America. This is establishment thinking, circling the wagons around yes-men and punishing anyone that dares to take a stand for good public policy.”
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FreedomWorks is urging all members to call Speaker of the House John Boehner’s office and urge him to stop the fiscal conservative purge. The enemies of fiscal sanity are tax-and-spend politicians, not public servants willing to say “enough is enough.”

http://www.freedomworks.org/press-releases/freedomworks-urges-activists-to-call-speaker-boehn

[LibertyEagle]

Yes, I already called Boehner's office. Twice. :D

[acptulsa]

Get liberty Republicans elected. If we get enough of them in there, Boehner will stop firing them--they'll fire Boehner. Oh, he might still be around, if we don't successfully primary him. But he won't be Speaker of the House any more.

Now that's a protest the bastards will actually listen to.

[thoughtomator]

Those who were purged should close ranks and behave like a 3rd party within the GOP and elect its own leadership. If they can act as a solid bloc of votes they can fight back and bargain with the establishment on more favorable terms.

[CaptUSA]

Do everything possible to help the GOP lose in the midterms.Absolutely not! They will not get the message this way. They'll think they need to behave even MORE like democrats.

Strong primary battles are the answer. And for every liberty candidate that wins a primary, we MUST ensure they win the general! That's the message we want to send. "If you want to win, you had better start embracing the liberty movement!"

[itshappening]

Yes, I already called Boehner's office. Twice. :D

What did they say? was it an answer phone?

[supermario21]

Pick safe seats to primary. The thing is, primarying a guy like Boenher has 0 risk. Most of the leadership comes from seats any R would win.

[AuH20]

How much money could a viable opponent raise against Boehner at this rate??? There is a near limitless pool of money to tap given the palpable anger.

[itshappening]

you need someone who is viable and willing in his district, like a county leader, state rep or senator. the chance of that happening is very unlikely as primarying the leader is the end of your career. most of the leaders are in safe districts and have support sewn up and hence no credible challengers. it's not worth our time.

[itshappening]

Boehner is simply too powerful, he's on the tv everyday and has meetings with the president. No one can primary him or challenge him in an election, it's not possible.

Anyone well known in his district already has a comfortable political job and supports Boehner 100% .

The only way to get rid of him now is to hope he retires or if the caucus that votes for him as leader unanimously begins to crack. There are no signs of this so Boehner has his job for as long as he wants or until a scandal hits him and people turn against him.. and even then they will likely elect his number 2 or 3, who are just clones of him.

They really have everything sewn up in the House and it's nearly impossible to remove any of them unless there is a scandal or an abuse of power.

It's a very clever structure that allows them to hold on to power for as long as they can. Look at Pelosi, she has been the "leader" of the Dim's since 2002 despite heavy losses in 2010 she's just as powerful as ever and still the undisputed leader.

[JK/SEA]

Yes, I already called Boehner's office. Twice. :D

and....?

[JK/SEA]

Boehner is simply too powerful, he's on the tv everyday and has meetings with the president. No one can primary him or challenge him in an election, it's not possible.

Anyone well known in his district already has a comfortable political job and supports Boehner 100% .

The only way to get rid of him now is to hope he retires or if the caucus that votes for him as leader unanimously begins to crack. There are no signs of this so Boehner has his job for as long as he wants or until a scandal hits him and people turn against him.. and even then they will likely elect his number 2 or 3, who are just clones of him.

They really have everything sewn up in the House and it's nearly impossible to remove any of them unless there is a scandal or an abuse of power.

It's a very clever structure that allows them to hold on to power for as long as they can. Look at Pelosi, she has been the "leader" of the Dim's since 2002 despite heavy losses in 2010 she's just as powerful as ever and still the undisputed leader.


then perhaps we need to turn up the heat, because it appears this Boehner fella can take the 175 degree heat, so now its time to take it up to over 212 degrees..

hmmm...just a thought here. How about a 212 degree tea party?

[Brian4Liberty]

Those who were purged should close ranks and behave like a 3rd party within the GOP and elect its own leadership. If they can act as a solid bloc of votes they can fight back and bargain with the establishment on more favorable terms.

Would that be similar to the RLC?

[fisharmor]

Boehner is simply too powerful, he's on the tv everyday and has meetings with the president. No one can primary him or challenge him in an election, it's not possible.

Besides, if you tried, he'd just change the rules, and if that didn't work, he'd break your hips.

[compromise]

Those who were purged should close ranks and behave like a 3rd party within the GOP and elect its own leadership. If they can act as a solid bloc of votes they can fight back and bargain with the establishment on more favorable terms.

4 guys aren't really going to beat the establishment. Also, all 4 are part of the House Liberty Caucus, with Amash being the leader.

[New York For Paul]

These guys only respect power. You threaten their power or defeat them, then they will listen, otherwise they are laughing at you.

The Republican Liberty Caucus can challenge the top leadership. Eric Cantor and Mccarthy can be challenged. Eric had a challenger who will do it again But he needs more help. There are hundreds and thousands of volunteers in the state of Virginia who just need to be organized. The upcoming state convention in 2013 and Richmond Lobby day are the perfect rallying points. Anybody who lives in Virginia needs to get involved in the race.

For California, McCarthy let four or five GOP congressmen go down to defeat by his stupid actions on redistricting. There are a potential one thousand to ten thousand frustrated conservatives who can help a challenger in California.

A history lesson.

The powerful head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Guy Vander Jagt lost to a challenger. This is the guy that is supposed to help all other republicans get elected. This bozo couldn't even win his own election in 1992. Many other republicans were just rolling their eyes and laughing about the situation.

Mr. Vander Jagt lost to Peter Hoekstra, a businessman and political newcomer who campaigned on his bicycle to capture 46 percent of the vote in a three-way race. Mr. Vander Jagt came in second with 40 percent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Vander_Jagt

[sailingaway]

Keep #purgeBoehner going on twitter, set up a time for an actual twitter bomb. There was sort of an impromptu flurry when people first learned of what happened, but it was just people who happened to be looking at their timeline's at the time.

See here: https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23purgeBoehner&src=typd

media watch twitter, it DOES lead to stories.

[New York For Paul]

Give Floyd a donation, He has been running against the house leadership. Here is his website. Supporters put your money where your mouth is.

http://floydbayne.com/

[sailingaway]

LOL! Look at the Fox news tweet!

Fox News ‏@F0X_News
We love the hashtag #purgeboehner – it sounds so dirty.

https://twitter.com/F0X_News/status/276310598017503232

[Brian4Liberty]

Keep #purgeBoehner going on twitter, set up a time for an actual twitter bomb. There was sort of an impromptu flurry when people first learned of what happened, but it was just people who happened to be looking at their timeline's at the time.

See here: https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23purgeBoehner&src=typd

media watch twitter, it DOES lead to stories.

Good idea, can't forget Twitter. Anything on Facebook?


LOL! Look at the Fox news tweet!

Fox News ‏@F0X_News
We love the hashtag #purgeboehner – it sounds so dirty.

https://twitter.com/F0X_News/status/276310598017503232

Nice!

[Brian4Liberty]

Keep #purgeBoehner going on twitter, set up a time for an actual twitter bomb.

How do we coordinate a Twitter bomb?

[sailingaway]

How do we coordinate a Twitter bomb?

I have followers who have thousands of followers. (I have about 1300 followers, which is merely respectable, but I only started to support this last campaign for Ron.) There is one, if I can interest him, who has over 52,000 followers, he's actually in England or somewhere, but through his followers had a tree set up of over a million (although there is some overlap there.) I haven't seen much of him this last month though, with the campaign over.

If we pick a time and day, and get DP in on it, then those of us doing it DM a few key followers to solicit their help, that is how it starts. Some are more successful than others but 'other tea party types' are on this too (some of these tweets are suggesting Bachmann as Speaker - those aren't ours, I suspect.) So if we use '#purgeBoehner" tag to also help advertise when it will happen, that would help.

We just need a couple day's lead time, but when people will be on. Tomorrow, maybe, but Friday is a news sink, it would be better to do it Monday. We'd want to add media addresses in some of our tweets to get their attention.

[tangent4ronpaul]

This is pretty cool:


Freedomworks & YAL activists confront Speaker Boehner (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbe7m5bZ9WY)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbe7m5bZ9WY



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbe7m5bZ9WY

Total irony!

Plack on wall: "Welcome please come in"
Armed cop blocking door...

:rolleyes:

-t

[Brian4Liberty]

I have followers who have thousands of followers. (I have about 1300 followers, which is merely respectable, but I only started to support this last campaign for Ron.) There is one, if I can interest him, who has over 52,000 followers, he's actually in England or somewhere, but through his followers had a tree set up of over a million (although there is some overlap there.) I haven't seen much of him this last month though, with the campaign over.

If we pick a time and day, and get DP in on it, then those of us doing it DM a few key followers to solicit their help, that is how it starts. Some are more successful than others but 'other tea party types' are on this too (some of these tweets are suggesting Bachmann as Speaker - those aren't ours, I suspect.) So if we use '#purgeBoehner" tag to also help advertise when it will happen, that would help.

We just need a couple day's lead time, but when people will be on. Tomorrow, maybe, but Friday is a news sink, it would be better to do it Monday. We'd want to add media addresses in some of our tweets to get their attention.

Agree, Monday would give everyone more time.

Is there a good time of day to start it? Noon Eastern time maybe?

Would hashtags for Fox News and CNN during the twitterbomb would bring it attention? Or is that not necessary?

Are there any other hashtags to use? #fireBoehner?

They vote for the Speaker of the House in January. Perhaps that needs to be brought into the mix too? Hopefully the rank and file GOP members understand that these purges can target any of them in the future. "First they came for the spending hawks..."

[sailingaway]

Agree, Monday would give everyone more time.

Is there a good time of day to start it? Noon Eastern time maybe?

Would hashtags for Fox News and CNN during the twitterbomb would bring it attention? Or is that not necessary?

Are there any other hashtags to use? #fireBoehner?

They vote for the Speaker of the House in January. Perhaps that needs to be brought into the mix too? Hopefully the rank and file GOP members understand that these purges can target any of them in the future. "First they came for the spending hawks..."

You want to leave some space for the message, but yes, @Fox_News will get it to Fox news, Ben Swann has a twitter account, Michele Malkin tweets tea party stuff, Erick Erikkson (sp?) is pissed about this, Tea Party Patriots and Freedomworks are tweeting about it....

[Brian4Liberty]

Twitter trend is a go:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?searchid=7370789

[JK/SEA]

Twitter trend is a go:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/search.php?searchid=7370789

Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

[Brian4Liberty]

Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

That's strange. This one worked:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?397625-Will-tweeters-support-PurgeBoehner-twitterbomb-TUESDAY-12-11-9PM-ET

[Barrex]

All you are doing is yelling at the wall. Amateur stuff.

Will not achieve anything. After a month (probably sooner) it will all be forgotten.


Remember RNC? What did you do?
Same thing you are doing now. Talking.



Want to get serious? Get some money and get a lawyer... get him (them) for what he did in Tampa.



Dissapointing.