Doug Wead and Jack Hunter to have Q&A on Wednesday at 9pm Eastern.

[JJ2]

Yeah, this timeline thing is even worse than I thought. It's almost impossible to keep up with it.

 

[emazur]

I went to the facebook page and the format sucked, so I left.

The moderated chatroom that Tom Woods uses for his Q&A sessions is MUCH better.

Yes, LibertyChat is a far superior format (I would strongly suggest everyone try it - the first time I tried, I was unaware the guest would appear on live video). Only good thing about the way this facebook q/a is going is that more questions get to be asked. However, the answers are extremely brief (understandable - it must be hard to keep up w/ so many questions and type out answers)

 

[LibertyEagle]

I looked over at the site right now and I don't see any answers by Wead. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

I went to the facebook page and the format sucked, so I left.

The moderated chatroom that Tom Woods uses for his Q&A sessions is MUCH better.

And the quality of feedback and questions to Wead and Hunter was even worse.

And the non-answers to the few good questions that I saw were even worse.

There were a couple spots where a couple different people brought up the issue of the stupidity of doing the raucous rallies and skipping town immediately compared to Santorum campaigning for real and spending time in one spot answering people's questions in depth. But these hayseeds are tone deaf.

Check these 2 examples of Wead's embarrassing answers to important points:

They're just as hopeless as ever.

 

[sailingaway]

And the quality of feedback and questions to Wead and Hunter was even worse.

And the non-answers to the few good questions that I saw were even worse.

There were a couple spots where a couple different people brought up the issue of the stupidity of doing the raucous rallies and skipping town immediately compared to Santorum campaigning for real and spending time in one spot answering people's questions in depth. But these hayseeds are tone deaf.

Check these 2 examples of Wead's embarrassing answers to important points:

They're just as hopeless as ever.

you would expect them to join in on blatant campaign bashing?

 

[WD-NY]

Jesus, Lori Stephan Mills pretty much captures the spirit of the "cheerleaders" perfectly. Note how the Bill Reyold's completely legitimate question is met with a barrage of "!!!!"

Ugh.

 

[Tyler_Durden]

And the quality of feedback and questions to Wead and Hunter was even worse.

And the non-answers to the few good questions that I saw were even worse.

There were a couple spots where a couple different people brought up the issue of the stupidity of doing the raucous rallies and skipping town immediately compared to Santorum campaigning for real and spending time in one spot answering people's questions in depth. But these hayseeds are tone deaf.

Check these 2 examples of Wead's embarrassing answers to important points:

They're just as hopeless as ever.

I'm a little confused. Doug was answering questions from this login:

"Doug Wead: Author, Speaker, Presidential Historian"

Your screenshot appears to be his personal page? Was he answering from both accounts?

 

[Maximus]

The quality of these discussions goes down everytime. Now 2/3 of the questions are just about fraud.

 

[socal]

I like the Q&A idea but not the small rally idea. The worst part of the small rally idea is that you'd have to turn away too many people. Sure Santorum is doing well, but how do you know that's not due to positive media coverage vs the near media blackout on Dr Paul ? Small rally or large rally though, you're not going to reach enough people unless the event is professionally filmed and broadcast electronically.

What RevPac did today with the live stream and YouTube video is what we need, but these videos need to be put on the campaign's website or social media networks for maximum exposure. I should have joined Facebook to ask him about that, or did someone else ask him about improving their social media marketing efforts ?

I sent the RevPac live stream link to a Romney supporter friend who is a UI alumni, and he commented favorably on Dr Paul's mascot comment.

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

I like the Q&A idea but not the small rally idea. The worst part of the small rally idea is that you'd have to turn away too many people.

If Ron Paul is such a rock star that he has to turn people away, that's a good problem to have even if over half of the crowd is from 6 hours away and already converted.

So why not do both? After the raucous rally at the Mega-Dome announce that Act II will begin in 15 minutes and ask all of the converted to move out of the 1st 20 rows so that those with sincere questions can move up and hear there questions answered in a calm and serious setting?

I turned on ronpaulradio in the background yesterday and they were re-playing an old short q&a that Ron was doing with the press after some event that I had never heard. And it was the same as others I've heard: rush, rush, rush and then in a few minutes Jesse saying "1 more question quickly". Despite that, Ron did quick delves into serious questions the press guys had about issues such as transitioning to a gold standard.

I really think that this schedule of shuttling Ron from raucous rally to raucous rally is a scheme devised (maybe sub-consiously) by these guys to keep Ron from ever delving deep into issues during this campaign. It reminds me of the Fed gov's "diesel treatment" that they did to former Congressman George Hansen!

I've seen similar behavior in Libertarian Party campaigns for 30 years. The whole campaign strategy becomes a project in not telling people the truth about what we believe.

With Ron its really hard to bottle him up because he is such an honest incorruptible true believer in libertarian ideas. So the "strategists" instincts are to use the huge passionate following as a means of obfuscation. Remember the near-riot at that NH diner where that crazy lady bitched afterword because she couldn't get her question answered because they whisked Ron away from being trampled? Instead of always running away, why not come back establish some order and delve into these peoples questions. Sure you're going to have to deal with some nuts, but that's part of learning how to communicate.

Someone else once asked why not just pick one of the thousand or so great speeches that Ron has READ into the congressional record? One of those 10 minute readings would de-raucous-ize a rally atmosphere perfectly and set the stage for some good honest policy dialog with the people.

Oh well, I realize this is hopeless. I will shut up for a while and go back to paying taxes Lockheed and Grumman now.