Inside The Orange Room..

After taking a peak into the FPM’s forum, I came up with two conclusions: 1-They are sane and intelligent people. 2-Some of them are just a tad paranoid.

This post by unitedlb reveals that the FPM are involved in some serious soul searching:(emphasis mine)

I’ve been thinking about this for quite some time now and I think the time is right to let it out.

The truth is that Lebanon is collapsing and all we hear and read about is an unstable phase that is approaching us. We need to do all we can to avoid this. Let’s step outside our political ideology and think about Lebanon and solutions rather than conflict. As an FPMer, I propose our party redirect its efforts by relinquishing our short term goals and concentrating completely on the long term. This will entail a few short term concessions that include:

1. Ceasing our call for a national unity government and remaining in opposition.
2. Opposing any moves aimed at forming two governments or two presidents.
3. Supporting presidential elections on September 25, even if it means conceding the seat to Feb 14.
4. Boycotting the bi-elections if Lahoud doesn’t sign the decree. Give them the seats.[..]

Superduper703 agrees:

This would be the sensible thing to do for the benefit of all the Lebanese. However, I’m pretty sure that the 14March people wouldn’t be opposed to FPM ministers actually joining the new government. They can work from the inside to change mentalities and implement some of their reforms.

The FPM’s paranoid side is however revealed by this comment by the aptly named Venom:

FPM should remain the leader in opposing Hariristan.. ….Nothing called in the middle [exp: there is no such thing as the center]…. in the middle for the next 2 years could lead to the cancelation of Christmas….and Christians and Lebanon as a whole

Gee, so March 14 wants to cancel Christmas? that’s rich.. But I must say, some of these guys are much more mature than their party’s leadership.

Check out the entire thread here