BigFatRock
12-18-2007, 11:07 PM
I know this idea was casually mentioned in some other post, and I apologize if I'm retreading covered territory. But maybe there is something to the idea that we could form a new political party with the name given in the last email sent out by the campaign.
I think we've all seen that we don't have to agree on everything to join together and promote the single idea of small, constitutional government.
There's no limits that I know of on how much money you can give to a political party, and we've already proved that we can raise millions. I'm willing to bet that if we focused on a few congressional races in key, vulnerable areas, we could pull something off. Imagine giving a good congressional candidate several million dollars to back him up. All we need is a few more people in Congress speaking Ron's message publicly to throw a monkey wrench into the works. And if we could get just a single senator elected... oh my goodness how we may be able to sway key votes. Sure, we're taking on a biased system, but we're not talking a national effort in the beginning. We're talking focusing on key areas that we can win, and then building from there.
We really could change Congress.
Here's a party idea I've already joined, and I encourage you to check it out. The entire concept of this party is built on the idea of working together to make government smaller, and devolving power back to the states, despite disagreements we have on the issues. Actually, the main focus of this group right now is to discuss how to make a third party viable.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/American_Freedom_Party/
But no matter what we go with and the direction we take in the end, let's make this movement into something.
Ron's stuck his neck out for more than 30 years, and now he has backup. Let's give him some congressional backup for when he gets into the White House.
Thoughts?
I think we've all seen that we don't have to agree on everything to join together and promote the single idea of small, constitutional government.
There's no limits that I know of on how much money you can give to a political party, and we've already proved that we can raise millions. I'm willing to bet that if we focused on a few congressional races in key, vulnerable areas, we could pull something off. Imagine giving a good congressional candidate several million dollars to back him up. All we need is a few more people in Congress speaking Ron's message publicly to throw a monkey wrench into the works. And if we could get just a single senator elected... oh my goodness how we may be able to sway key votes. Sure, we're taking on a biased system, but we're not talking a national effort in the beginning. We're talking focusing on key areas that we can win, and then building from there.
We really could change Congress.
Here's a party idea I've already joined, and I encourage you to check it out. The entire concept of this party is built on the idea of working together to make government smaller, and devolving power back to the states, despite disagreements we have on the issues. Actually, the main focus of this group right now is to discuss how to make a third party viable.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/American_Freedom_Party/
But no matter what we go with and the direction we take in the end, let's make this movement into something.
Ron's stuck his neck out for more than 30 years, and now he has backup. Let's give him some congressional backup for when he gets into the White House.
Thoughts?