mmkrei,
My guess is that you will not read this, but your response should be addressed by someone other than a GOOOH founder.
Your "scud" seems to be in line with the extremist tactic of seek and destroy. I see this in TV, on blogs and hear it on talk radio quite often. You hide and wait until the opportunity arises to pounce on a topic that is meaningless. Thus you did not join GOOOH to make a difference, you most likely joined GOOOH to create a difference.
GOOOH has never been a forum for unbiased politics, it is an unbiased forum for politics. For this, I commend Tim and the other founders, regardless of their political leaning. When people finally shake the brainwashed mentality, they will see that we are not trying to dissolve the two party system, but stomp out the corruption spawned by greed and power grabbers.
GOOOH is Tim's vision, and he has the right to spur conversation. You may not agree with his outlook on issues, but his e-mail brought you to the website where you left a message. Just because you claimed to be a member/supporter, you do not have the right to access the e-mail database. Could you imagine how an all access pass to thousands of e-mails would turn out? It would be an absolute disaster.
Instead, Tim has been working with some of the vocal members from this message board to submit future writings, for which he will send as an e-mail "blast." This is not to censor valid content, but to keep people from being vulgar and distasteful. I know this as fact due to his request that I write one of these e-mails. Also, if there were more vocal democrats in this forum, I would urge Tim to seek their editorials before seeking ones from conservatives. However, as I see it, conservatives are more prevalent in GOOOH because we are not happy following corrupt politicians, like most democrats.
As for 9-12. It just so happens, I was listening to Beck this morning. Oddly enough, a caller asked him to respond to accusations you stated in your e-mail regarding 9-12 being biased. Glenn responded that 9-12 has never been biased, and he has never called for one party to join over the other. Combined with the Tea Parties, his hope is that all voices, regardless of political leaning, join together to be heard. Sounds familiar, does it not? GOOOH is a somewhat identical call to action. The difference, Tim started this by word of mouth, and he did not have a large audience like Glenn.
I have stated in many posts that people who find GOOOH the most offensive should be the biggest supporters. Why? GOOOH was designed so that your voice and the voices within your district can elect representatives who better represent the opinions of your majority. Instead, we are currently given a candidate who purchased his spot on the ballot by taking money from special interest groups. Thus, we don't choose our candidates, we vote for candidates who are chosen for us. In my opinion, a person who wants to run for office today would probably do better by standing on the courthouse steps with a sign saying how much it will take for them to be bought.
Instead of acting like an upset child, without any rational behind outbursts, you should turn your difference into a new thread. Better yet, you should have written Tim to ask how you could voice your differing opinion to the same e-mail list. My bet, he would have asked you to write an editorial. The exchange of intelligent ideas was the basis for GOOOH. If this were an exchange of child like rants, I would not be here today, responding to your e-mail. It is time for debate to get back to issues, as I am tired of one side getting their feelings hurt, and in turn, spewing hateful terms that have nothing to do with the issues.
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