ideas.rebuildtheparty.com — People voted on how to rebuild the Republican party and the ideas that got popular are actually really good ones. For some reason, though, I think the GOP will continue to ignore these ideas and keep losing elections.
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freeforall232Nov 9, 2008
So to fix the Republican Party, you have to turn it into the Libertarian Party...57 million people voted for the big-government Republican candidate this past election. It's because of this that the Republican Party will N-E-V-E-R change. However, if 57 million people had voted for Bob Barr and the Libertarian Party, then maybe the R's would have awakened and adopted some of the ideas presented in the article.There is no changing a party from within, it's time for Republicans to support the Libertarian Party; the ONLY limited government, low tax political party remaining.<a class="user" href="http://www.lp.org/">http://www.lp.org/</a>
rz8472Nov 9, 2008
Ignore the suggestions! Ron Paul rigged the votes!/s
curtisagNov 9, 2008
Ron Paul and his followers are the only hope for the Republican party. And the libertarian party will never win.
muckemuckNov 9, 2008
McCain lost in several states because Republicans voted for Barr. McCain lost in a slew of states because Republicans either stayed home or didn't vote for the Presidential race (they voted local but didn't vote for McCain).The Republican party knows that it lost in 2006 and in 2008 running on the same platform. They'll lose in 2010 if they run that same platform again.
Closed AccountNov 9, 2008
There really is no need to "rebuild" the Republican Party..It certainly won't be a Congressman like Paul, who has accomplished virtually nothing in Congress, to help win in 2012..There are plenty of Prominent People who can lead the charge..Putting Paul in charge would be Political Suicide..The Ron Paul Spam lives on, with the same crap results it got in this year's elections !
Closed AccountNov 9, 2008
What about ending the cold war? And the decline of the nuclear arms race? Surely that must count for something.All presidents have to look at the big picture--decisions based on hierarchical ways of survival, first one, usually, averting total annihilation.
Closed AccountNov 9, 2008
States rights don't trump individual rights. That's what the 14th amendment to the CONSTITUTION guaranteed.The We the People act tries to circumvent the 14th amendment
emailowndmeNov 9, 2008
When you have 1 party lose the seats they did in congress, the presidency, and several court cases IN WARTIME, that is a party that is not healthy...It's not particularly healthy for democracy for 1 party to hold a majority in both branches of the legislative, and the single branch of the executive, all at the same time, it gets rid of checks and balances. The republican party needs to drop the religious zealots who keep people like me, fiscal conservatives, and social liberals, from voting for them. Also, they need to end their war against the intelligent, logically minded people in their party. I think this election was a referendum on the failing "conservative" values of anti-intelectualism, bigotry, religious zealotry, and paranoia.
vincebodieNov 10, 2008
Oh, come on now... how come it seems that the only Diggers who speak out against Ron Paul are you and onetimer? And who are the spammers? Nevertheless, I enjoy your comments and I embrace your right to speak them in a free and open society, which after all is what Ron Paul and libertarians of all stripes are in favor of above all else - freedom of speech.
Closed AccountNov 10, 2008
True, the difference is really what book they read, and each book is really a collection of writings, many of which are common to the Bible and the Koran. This being a discussion on right-leaning digg submission, I wasn't going to ask anyone to think that much. I have seen Scanners after all, and I don't wanna get stuck with cleaning up the mess.