[HopefulPatriot]

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but at this point what you're asking is for Freepers to pledge their support for what is essentially FR/JR's mission statement, correct?"

That's correct.

The rest of your analysis is equally sound.

Here are a few thouhts for the benefit of nopardons and any other Freeper who has questions about the messinger instead of the message:

1. We have not sought JimRobinson's blessing and so far, if he has posted on our threads he did not ping me nor have I seen any comment.
2. Everyone in our group wishes that one of us had some of the credentials of a Newt Gingrich without the baggage. We don't.
3. The conservative movement began with the Goldwater campaign in 1964; it took a quantum leap forward the night Ronald Reagan gave his Time for Choosing speech in Goldwater's behalf.
4. Conservatives were ecstatic when Nixon was re-elected in 1972, only to be crushed in the aftermath of Watergate.
5. Ford did an admirable job in completing Nixon's second term, but set the conservative movement back immensely when he defeated Reagan for the 1976 nomination which resulted in turning over the Whitehouse to the Democrats.
6. Newt's Contract with America was the pivotal event of the 1994 election; the election itself was an epic event.
7. I reviewed these forty years and some of the messingers for a reason. No one and at no time did anyone propose a plan to end socialism as part of restoring the Constitution.
8. We believe we have a devised a way to do both.
9. The Gokhale-Smetters report lays the cards on the table. History already has told us that all democracies end in bankruptcy or hyperinflation whenver the public learns to vote for socialism. Gokhale-Smetters have provided the proof that the United States is not going to escape the fate of every other socialistic democracy.
10. Even if our plan is never implemented or fails, we believe we owe it to ourselves, our families and to future generaions of Americans to try to avert the disaster that is coming our way much sooner than hardly any other American imagines.

Thank you FGS for taking the pledge and thank you for defending this effort.

[ForGod'sSake]

10. Even if our plan is never implemented or fails, we believe we owe it to ourselves, our families and to future generaions of Americans to try to avert the disaster that is coming our way much sooner than hardly any other American imagines.

In a nutshell; it is the height of arrogance and selfishness for some to sit here on their self-righteous butts and flame away at anyone trying to actually do something.

Teddy Roosevelt(?):

"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

Thank you FGS for taking the pledge and thank you for defending this effort.

If for no other reason, there's nothing else out there. The "conservatives" we elected have all but left us at the dance, eh?

FGS