And I have a "show me the money" attitude toward non-mainstream candidates. A lot of people would donate time and money if those who are fed up had a plan to win...so often (example: Carla Howe in Massacusetts) these people run to make a point and turn the mainstream parties to their ways of thinking. It didn't work for Carla Howe, it didn't work for Alan Keyes, it didn't even work for Ralph Nadar.
Serious people with a potential to get a big following...need to get together, bury some hatchets, decide what's really important to save the principles in the Constitution and save the other stuff until common sense prevails. (Example: I'm even willing to wait on the abortion issue...we've got a conservative president now, and we have to put up with Christine Whitman in a role model position...that's not good.)
And people who want to take the country back have to stop destroying each other...example Pat Buchanan destroyed Ross Perot's political structure, which would've been an excellent structure to win the election...in fact, it's still in place. I'm not convinced Pat Buchanan wanted to win anything except publicity for his speaking and writing. And going along with the mainstream joking about Ross Perot...hey, he's the guy who actually did something about stuff, more than once in his life.
If this is a rant, sorry. But it's serious stuff. I hope you guys who want Ron Paul (or someone of his caliber and integrity) as President are sitting in a dark room somewhere plotting your strategy to win, including some strange combinations of people who have one thing in common...the need to save the nation!
It would seem that we have a leak in our Organization and you have obviously been told too much. Please turn off the computer and wait for our interrogation and indoctrination teams to arrive.
They will be there shortly.
Is it ok if we land a helicopter on your front lawn?
Carla Howell received 12% of the vote running for Senate and that was with both a Republican and a Democrat in the race. (The Democrat was Ted Kennedy).
She has almost single handedly gotten the MA repeal the income tax initiative on the ballot.
She, along with Michael Cloud have initiated the only lawsuit which intends to strike down all campaign finance laws (see http://realcampaignreform.org/).
She isn't finished. And she's running for Governor. We'll see what happens.