First off, he needs to just spend the money he has. This extra-conservative spending crap needs to stop. We all love Ron Paul but he is still trailing signiificantly and he needs to spend his money as if he is in an early primary battle, because at this point we can't be sure it will stay viable through that point. He needs the solid showing to continue to survive as viable past January/Super Tuesday.
Second, and maybe more important for us, this is exactly why just thinking of fundraiser ideas is not enough. Timing, amount of money, etc., etc. We need press and we need people and there are additional (note, not mutually exclusive) ways to do that.
While it's nice that RP can raise money, my guess is that an inordinately high number of his supporters are actually donating already, which leaves some people cleaned out for more donations. We need both new recruits and media attention that IS NOT FROM A MONEY BOMB.
This is why I thought we should push for a press-attention-getting substitute event on December 4th. We have not much time to think of ways to get Ron Paul large and POSITIVE press coverage and that was a meat ball for some political jujitsu. Some people said it sounded OK and then it was dropped, and no answer from campaign staff. The window is about gone at this point, oh well.
There are two things being fumbled here: 1) The campaign staff is too reliant on grassroots supporters and is not coming up with much for good strategy of its own (even to the extent of just having RP discuss his views on certain subjects more to respond to voter concerns), and 2) online grass roots supporters are too busy patting themselves on the back, particularly for the 5th, and are not thinking outside the box. All they want to do is repeat the same thing again.
It is aggravating to not have more time to devote to this cause while watching the opportunity go by, but as it stands I have enough trouble getting the time just to make posts like this. This may or may not be ignored, but BOTH sides of the campaign are lacking the effectiveness of the trained political machines that we are up against, and we need to compensate. We need to be quick, bold, aggressively pursue any possibilities for exposure while remaining POLITE and SENSIBLE which some people occasionally also forget. We need the press and they are not going to come on board via slews of complaint spam every time their coverage isn't that hot, and we need to reach more people offline, with or without the media, even if we have to find free ways to do it.
