A lot of people here are too young to remember Ross Perot's independent run in 1992, but Perot damn near won the white house. I'm telling you guys... IT CAN BE DONE.
I'm old enough to remember Ross Perot's run. I would disagree with you he damn near won the whitehouse, but he made enough of a splash to get in the debates, and make some noise til he imploded.
I do however agree a 3rd party run can be done, and won.
First there is a huge difference between RP an Perot. Perot was a cranky old rich guy who financed his election.....kind of like a Mitt Romney, but not fake like Mitt. Perot actually spoke his mind....he wasn't saying what he thought you wanted to hear like Mitt.
RP on the other hand is a candidate of the people. He was persuaded to do this.
The real key to a third party run is financing. $6-7 million a month until november and a 180,000 precinct leaders by September 1st is what it it will take to win.
We are at 40-45% name recognition now, but only at about 20% platform recognition.
The key to winning a third party run is simple. You need to keep getting the message out. 180,000 precdint leaders to knock on every door in america to make sure we can reach every american possible.
The donation until the end of summer should be used for commercials. Particulary in anti war states.
I live in NY, a very blue state, many people here that wouldn't vote for Ron in a general election because of the Republican in front of his name, would vote for RP over Hillary anyday if he was an independent. Also the anti-war stance seems to appeal to everyone except the majority of the GOP. The anti-war stance will never wash in the GOP. The anti war stance will always be a thorn in the side of RP for any kind of respect or political capital in the GOP.
We tried the GOP route, once the money started rolling in, MSM treated RP like a third party candidate anyway, in terms of coverage.
There is only one way left to break through the MSM blockade, and that is to buy our way through it. That's what perot did, and Romney attempted to do this year (It worked for Mitt, he got the name recognition....but most people who saw him knew he was as fake as a 3 dollar bill so it was all for naught for mitt.
Most dollars spent by HQ until the end of summer would have to be on TV advertising with excellent ads that would sway the legions of braindead americans that can be convinced to do what their TV tells them.
As national polls creeped above 15%, the MSM would have no choice but to report on RP like they had to with Perot.
The third party run is the way to go.....$6-7 million a month and 180,000 precinct leaders by september 1st.....and we could make history.
