Ron Paul Revolution Continues - Numerous State & Local Parties Taken Over

[howardroark]

The good guys continue to cause trouble, sticking it to the big spending, authoritarian Party Insiders 

Two Republican leaders are worried about the condition their state party structures are in, a concern mirrored in a number of key battlegrounds nationwide.

"I wish I could tell you we were doing well right now — we're not. Ron Paul has totally taken our [state] party over," Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) told an activist from his state.

"His folks have taken over half of our party, as a result of which we are split down the middle, totally ineffective, screwed up," chimed in former Rep. Vin Weber (R-Minn.), a foreign-policy adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign who remains active in Minnesota state politics. "We are almost better off that they totally took over our party because most of us now are not worried about the party, we've got two or three independent expenditure efforts going by business leaders. We were split down the middle and had constant civil war within the party — nobody would be doing the basic get-out-the-vote."

Those aren't top targets at the presidential level, but Arizona has a competitive Senate race and three tough House races, and Minnesota has a toss-up House race as well.

Their concern in their own states mirrors worries other state party officials in crucial swing states have publicly and privately voiced to The Hill — that the weakness of some of their organizations, as well as a strong push by Paul backers to take control of a number of state party organizations, will hurt them this fall. Paul supporters have complete control of Iowa, as well as Nevada, where Romney's campaign has erected a "shadow" party for its get-out-the-vote push. Colorado's disorganized state party is also a worry for him.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/245631-gop-leaders-fret-about-state-party-structures

[Roger Bacon]

Is it naïve of me to be slightly optimistic?

[howardroark]

Is it naïve of me to be slightly optimistic?

In the long-run I am optimistic. Don't forget that in many of the early primary states when Ron Paul still had a chance - states like Iowa and New Hampshire - Ron Paul got close to 50% of the under-30 vote. We are the future. We are right on the issues. And thanks to the internet, those ideas are more available to those interested in finding them than ever before.

It doesn't matter who wins this election. If Obama wins, that will continue to boost the Republican Party as a whole, including the new libertarian faction of the GOP. If Romney wins, that will boost the libertarian wing of the GOP by destroying the neocon wing (just how much more damage can the GOP Establishment take after 8 years of Bush?).

That said, in the short-run we are going to have to go through a lot of bullshit. But sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

[Roger Bacon]

In the long-run I am optimistic. Don't forget that in many of the early primary states when Ron Paul still had a chance - states like Iowa and New Hampshire - Ron Paul got close to 50% of the under-30 vote. We are the future. We are right on the issues. And thanks to the internet, those ideas are more available to those interested in finding them than ever before.

It doesn't matter who wins this election. If Obama wins, that will continue to boost the Republican Party as a whole, including the new libertarian faction of the GOP. If Romney wins, that will boost the libertarian wing of the GOP by destroying the neocon wing (just how much more damage can the GOP Establishment take after 8 years of Bush?).

That said, in the short-run we are going to have to go through a lot of bullshit. But sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

Yes, good!

Our generation reminds me a lot of my grandfathers generation.  I'm wondering if as the unrealistic, entitled baby-boomer generation (that's responsible for our current mess) retires, this era of political insanity will be easier to put an end to?

Young people (younger than me) our continually surprising me.  (Minus the young ones that have been mentally abducted and brainwashed by the dear leader Obama).