[Alex Murphy]

I am apoplectic over the idea that FR will repeat the same mistakes it made in the last presidential election. We definitely reaped what we sowed back there

What mistakes would those be? How would you have FR act differently?

[betty boop]

Failure to see "the big picture." It seemed that there were too many exercises in personal vanity and narrowly-defined political concerns to have added up to anything more than a "get-out the-vote" campaign for Virgil Goode, and the "stay-at-home-and-not-vote" crowd who protested the very candidacy of Mitt Romney because they detested his theology.

Forgive me, but I doubt that such people are even serious when it comes to political matters. They just want to have "their own way" as quickly as possible, and they are not patient. To me, I cannot see how such a thing is NOT an exercise in personal vanity pure and simple, with a fan club joined to it....

How would you have FR act differently [next time]?

Really do try to see the big picture. Otherwise, we'll just be fools again, the next time out. And have no one to blame for our failure to effectively defend our cherished Constitutional Republic — for ourselves, and our Posterity.

[Kevmo]

What mistakes would those be?
***The mistake was JimRob endorsing a man he had said before that he would not endorse because he was a gun-grabbing, babykilling statist.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2920626/posts?page=1551#1551

How would you have FR act differently?
***I would focus on the primaries. That is how the GOPe gets their candidates in front while pretending to be conservative. From my home page...

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Here’s how I think primaries should be organized:

My suggestion is basically to hold the first primary in the state that has the highest percentage of GOP votes in the last election, the 2nd primary in the 2nd highest, and so on. 2 primaries a week for 25 weeks, with the last primaries being the suckup-to-the-democrats. And the democrats could easily have their primary schedule the same way, if they wanted.

This way, if a state is 60% republican, there is still incentive for them to get out the vote for 61% republican so they can bump up their state in the primary schedule.

Also: Rotate all the states (even the big ones) through an early schedule so that everyone gets access at some point to the front line.

OR

Let each state bid when they want their primary to take place. The earlier the primary, the fewer the delegates they control according to some logarithmic or steep curve formula.

18 posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:55:08 AM by Kevmo (We need to get rid of the Kennedy Wing of the Republican Party. ~Duncan Hunter) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962610/posts?page=18#18

Second thing is the order of the primaries should be determined by the percentage of republicans in the last vote. The higher the %pubbie, the sooner the state appears on the primary schedule, with a mix of big & little states and our staunchest republican states get to go FIRST. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965735/posts?page=862#862

24 posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 8:52:29 PM by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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