Posted on 11/04/2008 11:47:50 PM PST by An American!
Who are the money people that would fund a new party or a new effort to organize a grass roots movement to fix the republican party?
I will start with these potentials
Ross Perot
Philip F. Anschutz
Richard Mellon Scaife
Ross Perot and Scaife are pro-abortion.
I have no interest in being involved with any party that winks at mass murderers and takes their money.
Mark Cuban....he’s saving his money to purchase the Cubs. He’s getting into the ol’ Chicago habits....not only that he’s 100% certifiable.
and the people who remain that are up next need to a plan of action now and it is not to remake themselves over to obamacons either
Holly Coors
Charles Koch
and a coordinated effort to point out that Emperior Barry has no clothes needs to be made every chance of the way in all forms of the media starting from the next speech on
and some sort of active ethics board would look good to voters too. i promise you that with the campaign spending fiasco emperor barry did and the foreign countries contributing, there are ethics issues galore and to attack an emperor, they will say he without sin cast the first stone so you have to be willing to take out the unethical people in the home party at first. i hear cnn now (i am abroad) refer to time “before Barack Obama” and “after Barack Obama”—would be good to have that ready on a tape for commercials in two years
We need to *kill* the freaking unions. How the coal worker's union still supported BO right up to the end baffles me, yet proves that they're not for protecting their workers and jobs, they're for socialism. Period.
When the time comes, *we* need to join BO’s civilian security force en mass. That and the National Guard. *If* the crap hits the fan, we need free men holding the hoses and the guns.
Personally, I'm encouraging my kids to do these things and to drag their friends with them.
We need to flood BO’s socialist system with MORE demands and fewer tax revenues so that it collapses faster.
At the same time, we need to shore up the Pubbies we *do* have in office. Keep a keen eye on what's going on in Congress and when they're fighting, WE NEED TO JOIN THEM. Send ‘em fruit baskets. Send ‘em cards and gifts. THANK THEM and encourage them so they have the strength to stand against the socialist machine.
And we desperately need to fight the Fairness Doctrine with all our hearts. We need Hannity, Rush and Quinn more than ever now.
We need to stage protests that are outrageous enough that they can't be ignored by the media.
We have to stop crying about the unfairness of game and learn how to play to WIN.
We have a long road ahead of us, but we are NOT giving up or giving in.
Absolutely. We need to be organized in every town, village, and hamlet in this country. Like the militia of old, but armed with clipboards, picket signs, and handbills instead of guns. We need to create a sense of community.
This is a “bottom-up” movement. If a billionaire owns a company and he supports Marxists, don’t buy their products. We need leaders, not rich idiots.
That you think money is the problem is part of the problem.
Potential. The Dells of the world tend to donate for the access they get to the government table. My hunch is there's a great ROI when one considers the number of Dell computers purchased by the government.
Part of the Coors family used to be very good to the conservative movement...funding everything from the Conservative Club in DC (now defunct) to the Heritage Foundation (alive and kicking).
The big problem is that our educational institutions have brainwashed today's capitalist successes. I deal with multimillionaire entrepreneurs on a daily basis. The vast majority voted for Obama because it was the cool thing to do. The evils of socialism and communism have never directly affected their lives. Most know little about the Cold War because they were born in the 1980s. When Obama proposes a national citizens security service, they think of a worthy public good cause...not Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro.
I suspect it will take 4/8 years of being mugged by socialists for them to truly understand the difference between big government and limited government. By then, it will probably be too late.
Thank the hippies who took over the education system in this country. Took them 40 years but they've created an Idiocracy.
Xerox, Target, and JC Penny all have flaming liberals on their boards of directors. I’m sure I’ll be able to find some more, but those I know off the top of my head.
Those people are lefties! Haven’t you realized it yet?
Steve Forbes.
What about Ted Forster? Don’t know much about him. Is he a lefty?
The problem with the uber rich like Gates and Jobs is that they all love the free, unhampered market when they’re young and trying to make a success of themseleves; but afteward, when they ARE successful, they fear being knocked off their perch by other, younger upstarts, so they become socialists, which effectively kills off competition.
Also, it might be better to stick with those wealthy who have acquired their wealth by way of some sort of PRODUCTION — computers, steel, rockets, whatever — as opposed to those who have merely manipulated paper (Buffett, Soros, et al.).
A good place to inquire might be with the National Association of Manufacturers. They were the ones, incidentally, who supported the great Ludwig von Mises when he was an UPAID(!) visiting professor of economics at the NYU School of Business and Accounting. NYU never made Mises a full professor. Though he had been a big name in the 1920s, by the time WWII rolled around, everyone had drunk the Keynsian Kool-Aid, and Mises was considered a fossil.
Anyway, give NAM a try. They know LOTS of business leaders and entrepreneurs and are strongly pro-capitalist.
Also, we should be in close touch with media people like Rush and Sean. I understand that Phil Boyce, the program director of ABC conservative talk radio, is leaving (or has left already) and that he may be working with Sean Hannity on joint ventures. Sean, it seems, may be forming his own media company. He may have been merely a “mouthpiece for Bush” all these years but he’s certainly a solid committed conservative with a huge audience. I’m sure Hannity sees this as a chance to get personally involved in rebuilding a conservative movement, and not just reporting about it.
A lot my my young co-workers voted for Obama for the same reasons...to be part of the next big “thing” that was new and different.
The fact remains that they pushed an inexperienced affirmative-action Marxist empty suit into the White House.
The campaign is great when promises and platitudes are being spoken, it is a lot different story when you have to negotiate with international terrorists.
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