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To: SkyDancer

“OK - looked like the way I read it was fomenting revolution ... but that’s OK ... who said we needed the blood of patriots every so often to water the Revolution?”

Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and John Adams. Among others.


17 posted on 05/13/2008 6:22:22 PM PDT by unkus
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To: unkus
Neither George Washington nor John Adams said that.

Jefferson said it during his period of intoxication with the French Revolution - when he was on the outs with the other two.

He got better.

25 posted on 05/13/2008 6:30:32 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: unkus

This, or something very similar is desperately needed. But this could founder on the same rocks as Ross Perot and every other third party effort.

The Falcon Party may see itself as doing the work the GOP has abandoned, but there are too many things that can go wrong. The core of any such party MUST be composed of people who know exactly what they are doing. This party has to build a national base and it must have the internal discipline to fight off being divided and factionalized.

Also, the GOP is not without its tricks. Remember what happened to David Duke. He was winning AS a Republican in Louisiana. The horrified GOP immediately put out Pat Buchanan as the antidote to David Duke, and it worked beautifully. Pat made a pretty good run for the nomination, but couldn’t build big enough a group.

The Falcon Party would have the same problem. You may pride yourself on being strongly conservative, but you too will want to pull in voters who don’t necessarily buy into to each and every position of the party. So, how far will you stretch?

These and other questions need to be answered in order to build a long term plan of funding, organization and activism.


28 posted on 05/13/2008 6:34:13 PM PDT by bioqubit
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