Phatscotty wrote:Night Strike wrote:Woodruff wrote:Night Strike wrote:Also, why would the RNC want to feature all the old-guard of the Republican party while they're working to institute true fiscal conservatism?
How can you even say this with a straight face after what Boehner and the "Old Guard of the Republican Party" (whether you want to admit that they are or not) did to the Tea Party at the RNC?
Actually, they only "did things" to the radical Ron Paul fanatics who I have no loss of love towards because of their unbecoming tactics used in caucuses all around the country. Their goal was to completely disrupt the convention and potentially even upset it so much that Ron Paul would have become the surprise nominee. That would have destroyed both the conservative and the libertarian movements in this country. They got beat using the same parliamentary tactics they were able to successfully use at the local level. I don't feel sorry for them.
I have to agree with Strike. Except I do believe we handled the Minnesota convention with integrity and dominated our Convention through organization. Other states, I have seen and heard that yes they did the same voice over voting without a roll count as well and other such tactics. The primaries and caucuses are the dirtiest parts of politics hands down IMO. Fire has to be countered with fire. We lost that fight so far, but life must go on. And I have not swayed in my opinion that Romney is better than Obama either.
I understand why the Republicans did what they did, and that is so the Republicans are not embarrassed just when Romney has overtaken Obama in the polls, and perhaps they gambled a bit that the party would be less divided if handled this way instead of risking hardcore Libertarianism holding their feet to the fire and making the rules.
For the last decade (and more) we've been told we don't dare stand up for ourselves and what we deserve... that we need to be quiet and vote our fears not our values. The experience of the past decade makes clear however that this silence is not an effective political strategy. In fact, what we've gotten is expanding war and empire, an unraveling economy, attacks on our civil liberties, offshoring of our jobs, declining wages, massive Wall Street bail outs, and the melt down of the climate. Obama has not only embraced the policies of Bush, he's gone way beyond.
Bottom line is this. The politics of fear has brought us everything we were afraid of. We need to replace the politics of fear with the politics of courage. The establishment parties (Dems and Repubs) don't have a single exit strategy from the crises that afflict us. Yet good solutions are available.
You guys really gotta stop voting for your fears.
...I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.
