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[yonder]

Do you see how dissatisfied the Republican base is with McCain? 

Dissatisfied enough that the flat earth contingent continues to encourage Huckabee to stay in it until it's over.

I honestly think the mini scandals being thrown at McCain now are being leaked by the GOP, not the Democrats.  The tactic was a favorite of LBJ's; throw something at your opponent that you know is false, just to see them deny it.

[dalebert]

I think people are reading too much into what I said. I'm not saying no one should try to do anything. Good grief. I was pointing out that some people now have an unjustified prejudice about NH. I'm not trying to apply that to everyone involved in the campaign. Most of the free staters involved got on with their lives and have their noses right back to the grindstone. Based on the timing and a lot of discourse I've heard, I simply presented a reasonable theory about why numbers are low lately. I'm not failing to acknowledge some benefit from the campaign like inspiring people and spreading some partially good memes. Some speculate it could help some other liberty-leaning politicians. However, it's also constructive to acknowledge some negative results from the campaign and learn from it. It was expensive in money, time, and personal energy, and a lot of people are disillusioned and burned out. Although I must admit that the disillusionment with politics part could be somewhat a positive aspect as well, at least from my point of view, but perhaps only if we manage to reach some of those people with other options.

[Caleb]

I don't think it was a bad observation. Maybe it's more than just Ron Paul though. I think his failure to live up to expectations is a symptom of a bigger problem:  people don't feel that there is anything they can do to change things for the better. Everything that we try seems to fail, and the noose around our necks seems to only get tighter, struggle as we may to free ourselves...

I don't think Ron Paul failed. He tried something and gave it his best shot. And for a brief moment, he let people flirt with the age-old idea that maybe we could make a difference. And now reality has hit people again, and the hangover is worse than how we were before.

Hope is the thing with feathers. It will rise again.

[dalebert]

I don't think Ron Paul failed.

I probably shouldn't have phrased it how I did. I think I assumed that people would get what I was talking about because there has been a lot of discussion about it already.

There's certainly nothing wrong with having hope, but I think some people were so emotionally invested that they couldn't handle it when their expectations weren't met. Ron Paul did better here than any other primary state, at least for a while, but for some people, that wasn't enough. They were counting on us to go far beyond polls and in their frustration and disappointment, they scape-goated the Free State Project and decided NH wasn't up to par. That lashing out at the FSP is the "unreasonable" part I was talking about. The FSP wasn't even based on a notion of impacting national politics. It was all about local politics when it was conceived.

[J’raxis 270145]

join rate has dropped to the lowest i've ever seen..

.35 per day over the last 20 days

Could it be that Ron Paul has inadvertently hurt the liberty movement by failing in the midst of unreasonable expectations?

The FSP board is getting a lot of new people, however.

Could be that the Ron Paul section of the forum, and all the other political boards, got deleted.

[Russell Kanning]

We were not adding people on this forum because of Ron Paul ... I don't think .... and since we don't really talk politics ... if they were joining forums ... it would be someone elses

[dalebert]

The FSP board is getting a lot of new people, however.

I thought he was talking about the join rate of the FSP. Was he talking about the join rate of NHFree? I didn't know anyone kept up with that.

[J’raxis 270145]

This thread is in the "forum issues" board, so I always thought it was about the forum join rate.




Isn't it?

[error]

This thread is in the "forum issues" board, so I always thought it was about the forum join rate.




Isn't it?

It was until it got hijacked!

[dalebert]

This thread is in the "forum issues" board, so I always thought it was about the forum join rate.

OK, my bad.

[Russell Kanning]

I thought he was talking about the join rate of the FSP. Was he talking about the join rate of NHFree? I didn't know anyone kept up with that.

Yes he was and is. I am not as concerned about it as Dada. It is interesting though.

[Caleb]

I think it was Dada's polite diplomatic way of pontificating on his disagreement with the political forums being deleted.

[Russell Kanning]

Actually there is more room for it ... just on another forum.

Dada like new arrangement .... rebel alliance wookie like choices

[d_goddard]

I, for one, am glad with thngs as they are now. Different houses for different kinds of goings-on.

[Russell Kanning]

is your house buried in snow like ours?