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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Where are the movement Conservatives?

Surely NOT on on FR.

Just read thru these threads, most are obviously Democrats.

As evidenced by their glee, and no offers of ideas to help.

I think Conservatives need to meet on another forum, or start a new one.

182 posted on 05/14/2008 7:55:58 AM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: roses of sharon
I think Conservatives need to meet on another forum, or start a new one.

Well, the idea I've been kicking around all morning is to get to work building exactly the sort of grassroots movement conservative network that I've alluded to above. Seriously, it wouldn't be that hard. Just get a bulk email list of conservatives who are on board, try to get a few hundred in every State (more for bigger, less for smaller) and use these contacts as "nuclei" from which a further distribution and motivation to action is sent on down the line to those not on the "central list".

The idea would be to try to make membership free, or if it were not to be free, then it would be decided later on democratically by the membership that funds would have to be raised to support efforts - none of this top-down, "we've decided to raise the membership dues, so pay up or get out" approach used by a lot of organisations. Ideally, things would be as democratic as possible (SMALL d), such as using secure on-line voting ports (such things DO exist) for membership-wide decision making, policy preferences, etc. Though I'm not a big fan of democracy, per se, my reason for suggesting that things be as democratic as possible is to try to steal the thunder of that inevitable crowd you get in every group, the "I'm not happy things went my way, and I'm gonna blame the small cadre at the top, accuse them of being elitists, and take my ball and go home" crowd. This way, they're arguing the decision of a majority of the membership, not a small cadre at the top, and lose a lot of their righteous-indignation thunder (something we conservatives are very good at).

Basically, I'd like to see a grassroots organisation that would serve a viral purpose - if it worked for Cloverfield, why not us? The idea would be to maximise time-effectiveness by making this more internet and email based, reducing the time that people would need to contribute to be effective (you know, since Little League is apparently more important than working to give our kids a better country when they're our age). I've thought about approaching some FReepers on here, but am sort of hesitant because of the way I've seen so many FReepers act this election season. How could we ever get a group like this to work together for a common goal of seeing solid, across-the-board conservatives get nominated and elected through the GOP? I'm more optimistic about overturning the power of the state and federal RNCs than I am herding FReepers together!

203 posted on 05/14/2008 8:30:34 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Here they come boys! As thick as grass, and as black as thunder!)
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