tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post8735325391247947088..comments2021-01-03T11:34:03.283-06:00Comments on www.thelibertycourier.com www.libertycourier.blogspot.com: RLC - REPUBLICAN LIBERTY CAUCUS- WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT THESE PEOPLE BELIEVE Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-39639843292384302302014-07-04T09:30:45.237-05:002014-07-04T09:30:45.237-05:00people like you, Pegues, who conclude that America...people like you, Pegues, who conclude that America is a “Christian nation,” as numerous Christian conservatives insist, underestimate both the radicalness of the ideas on which the republic was founded and, more crucially, the source of our continuing national strength. That power, is the ability of liberalism to effect progress—however slowly—through ideas like equality and freedom and fairness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-3995967780296088052014-06-30T21:14:27.734-05:002014-06-30T21:14:27.734-05:00Richard, as usual, more twisting. Chance Waller is...Richard, as usual, more twisting. Chance Waller is a friend, not an Rlc member.As I continue to tell you, I don't censor or decide what people say. What Chance chooses to say on my personal page is his business, he doesn't speak for the Rlc .As Dave said today ...the Rlc looks for inclusion not exclusion. We believe in Reagan's 80% rule. That's why we don't take positions on some issues. We feel those issues aren't central to our mission and we leave them to the conience of the individual. Frankly, the republican platform could use a lot more of that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-8212945495379066132014-06-30T19:32:11.440-05:002014-06-30T19:32:11.440-05:00From the first of your comment I thought I better ...From the first of your comment I thought I better read this as if I am preparing a rebuttal. But there really is no need. I posted what the RLC believes. Republicans that know the platform know these beliefs are not the same as ours. There is no deception by me. People can decide for themselves. I am satisfied that those who know the Bible will not find what I have written cryptic or deceptive.<br /><br />FYI: <br />#1)This is the first website I have ever been in control of, but I did submit articles to The Liberty Dispatch. The website had a tremendous amount of hits and I was encouraged to write ..... and I was never run off.<br />#2)I was elected County Chairman three times and the active people in the party begged me to run for a fourth term. I was not run off.<br />#3)Accusation about whether or not I am a truthteller I thought were addressed well by someone in your group who has known me a great deal longer than you. Barbara Croft. But I am comfortable with your Chance Waller-like "lair, liar, pants on fire" arguemnt or you calling my reasoning "idiotic". I would prefer that you be specific about what I lied about because your rebuttal is proof enough that my asserting the major differences your caucus has with the LCRPfully qualify your group for the RINO tag. <br />#4)True, I have waffled, as have others, about whether your RINO group should be encouraged to work hard in the Republican party or not. I waffled on Ross Ward's run for chair too. I am not usually a waffler, but the temptation to be inclusive with a group that wants Republicans to head back toward free market principles and actually do some of the things they say they will do was alluring for a time. But the group yo represent is working for different platform planks. As much as I like you, if your party is successful in implementing the positions you yourself articulate in your rebuttal, you will not be able to elect many candidates. <br />#5) I have had conversation with Ken Coleman and others that have very bluntly said Terri Bivens does not need to be the vice chair of our local party. Terri is a precinct chair and John Otto's right hand man. I have said and still say it would be better for our party and for Terri if she gave up that job<br />#6)While I reserve the right to postor not post a comment, this is a new blog and if your comments have not been posted then I am unaware of it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-20436298646751171672014-06-30T08:47:16.641-05:002014-06-30T08:47:16.641-05:00The only issue I see here, Richard, as usual is yo...The only issue I see here, Richard, as usual is you gloss over most things using only your narrow perspective. <br /><br />If it bothers you that much that Creator is not in the first statement we can put it in...no one even noticed that, including US, who wrote up the site. <br /><br />We believe government should be removed from marriage. Period. How does that translate to sodomy? Are you a sodomite? Are you somehow obsessed with sodomy? Nothing of what we believe supports what you have said. <br />When government is removed from marriage you INSTANTLY return it to the CHURCH where it belongs. How can you be against the church returning to the authority of marriage and not government? Do you hold your government above your God? This comment...above everything else you have posted shows your ignorance.<br /><br /><br />ABORTION IS NOT A SOCIAL ISSUE, IT IS MURDER<br />We have two members personally who protest at local abortion clinics regularly in defense of the unborn. How can you even question these men in their beliefs? I can attest that to everyone in this caucus is 100% pro life.<br />While the statement takes neither side, it does not support abortion and neither does this caucus. We are however a national organization and as such can't always make each statement read as we would like. As long as they don't go as far as to support it, we are okay with it. ALSO, should you bother to look on our local site, this entire abortion statement is gone. We do not publish it. Because we do not agree with it. Period. And guess what, we can change it, we have conventions and such just like all other groups. Do you want it changed...join..come to National Convention and submit new language, Richard. You might be surprised to find some support in this caucus on that. <br /><br />Richard, in closing, I suggest you stop the witch hunt. I see you have neither changed nor grown up since the Liberty Dispatch fiasco.<br /><br />You came to this group with your talk of backing Ross Ward for chair over Coleman and spouting your dislike of Terri Bivins and Donna Brown and wanting them removed from the local GOP. I am sure you thought you'd find trust via that. However, your reputation as a bitter old man and dirty player of politics is not unknown to us nor anyone in this county. And from the first meeting you were treated as a fungus, you were entertained, we listened, but never trusted you. <br /><br />So, let your witch hunt continue, this week it is us. Next week it will be Terri. Then the next Jay Knight, I suppose Wes Hinch will be in there somewhere as well. I don't believe you are happy with anyone in this county. As for myself personally, I have no need to continue with you down this new experiment in social media and trying to replace your glory days of smearing everyone in county politics and good people with lies and twisting of facts.<br /><br />Jeff LeBlancAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com