Friends + family holiday discussions are the most persuasive

[Matt Collins]

According to the NBC news tonight, discussion over the holidays about who is voting for who in your circle of family and friends will have the most persuasive effect on people voters deciding how to cast their ballot.

So while everyone is on vacation this week talk up Ron Paul to your family big time!

They may not hear about him from anyone else :-(

It's up to you!

 

[jdmetz]

Among my family, I think I have persuaded 5 new Ron Paul supporters in Michigan (where I vote), 1 in Tennessee, and 1 in Wisconsin. All of them would have been voting Democrat otherwise, but personal conversations work quite well.

 

[chinaCat]

i've been collecting stories about what has been hapening this week here.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=714797#post714797

sadly though not to many people are sharing. But I am enjoying collecting conversion stories from the past month because I really enjoy reading them.

 

[tsetsefly]

i need some dirt on romney aside from the usual flip flop stuff, i really dont know his position, and I have watched every debate, lol...

 

[tsetsefly]

bump ^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[literatim]

I really wonder how many Democrats and Independents will be voting for him.

 

[Matt Collins]

i really dont know his position, and I have watched every debate, lol...

That's because Romney is selling personality, NOT substance.

 

[slamhead]

Yes I converted a non voter this evening at dinner.

 

[constitutional]

Yes I converted a non voter this evening at dinner.

sweetz.

 

[davidt!]

Political discussions just cause world war 3 with my relatives.

 

[NYgs23]

At a party, I managed to rope no less than 4 people I know to be republicans and several others into political discussions and propagandize Paul. None of these people had heard of Ron Paul or else they heard of him only vaguely; I didn't manage to convert any, but hopefully I managed to plant a few seeds that may sprout if he gets big numbers in the early primaries. The Hudson Valley seems like a very difficult area. I don't see any signs for any candidates and most people I've talked to are trapped in the ignorant orbit of Hillary-Obama-Giuliani-That-Mormon-Guy.

 

[RichardC]

I helped convince my sister to support RP, previously she was for Obama all the way. She would never, ever have considered supporting a republican before this.

And I didn't have to do any real convincing. She got to looking at youtube videos of him and reading sites on his positions, and that was it.

The one issue she wasn't so crazy on of his was the abortion issue, she's pro-choice, and so am I. But I talked to her about how unwise it is to make this a "one rule fits all" law because it is so divisive, and in practicality it is so rare. If you want to talk about injustices and terrible things, how about the number of deaths from drunk driving in this country every year? Or the number of black men that are imprisoned and executed because they are black every year? I'm sure those problems and many others far outstrip the size and scope of abortion.

If its unwise to make abortion national law, then this is exactly why we have states- to deal with these more local and sensitive social issues. I could tell that to her this notion of states rights and what it means was borderline radical thinking, but it wasn't so radical when the founders set this country up. We have just lost our way on this issue, and put too much power and faith into the federal government. I admit before I heard of RP this would've been a radical chain of thought to me as well, but now I see the wisdom of not forcing all citizens to agree on disagreeable issues. It's an imperfect solution but is the only one that makes sense and moves us beyond this abortion issue gridlock.

So for people like us, we continue to personally be pro-choice. RP and others can choose to personally be pro-life. And yet we find common ground because its not about what we believe personally, rather the realization that the issue is too divisive and has no place at the national level. I'm truly impressed by this idea, it's helped turn me into a Constitutionalist. I find it to be one of the highest sources of truth.

 

[Alabama Supporter]

I encouraged 2 Floridian's to register Republican over Thanksgiving, and now they are registered and ready to vote RP!

 

[azminuteman]

Yes I converted a non voter this evening at dinner.

I converted a pro-Hillary (she had no reason, just going with the status quo) on the merits of the War stance. She has a 14 year old son.

A dialog not being spoken is the draft.
Current enlisted are on 2nd or 3rd tour of duty. Some democrats are pro-mandatory military service and even though they all support further entanglements in the middle east, our involvement there is prolonged even though they've said the want to pull out within a year.
The other Republicans are pro involvement which means that a draft is down the pipe whether or not they want to admit it.

The other selling point was the fact that Hillary voted for the Patriot Act and she (the convert) couldn't name one thing Hillary passed while in office.

 

[Birdlady]

Political discussions just cause world war 3 with my relatives.

Same with my family. I probably won't want to see them for months if I really get into it. lol

 

[endwellmom4RON]

I converted my neocon brother in KY today. (he was supporting Guiliani) I also have an 18 year old daughter who has a million (okay maybe not a million) friends, most of whom aren't registered to vote and really don't care about it. So, I picked up about 20 voter registration forms at the post office and whenever a new one shows up at my house I ask if they're registered and what they think of RP. Almost all of them fill out the form and register republican, and have agreed to go vote for RP if I take them on election day. So it looks like I'm going to have a van full. I'm in NY so the deadline to change partie's has passed but if you've never been registered you have til sometime in January to register.

 

[Aldanga]

I'm one of the youngest in my extended family. (Most of my cousins are already married and have kids. I'm getting ready to graduate high school in a couple weeks.) For that reason, it can be difficult to convince people in political discussions.

Still, I wore my "I Support Ron Paul" shirt today and got into a little discussion about him. I know there were other political discussions.

The complaint I heard the most was, "I want to vote for somebody who can win." I see that as a plus after Iowa.


BTW, my grandpa is really interested in Ron Paul. He's going to watch the MtP interview sometime this week.

 

[devil21]

Political discussions just cause world war 3 with my relatives.

Yep, same here. Someone puts the clamp on that quick with a "no politics or religion at the table". The irony is that none of us really know the political views of each other.

 

[Trigonx]

I've converted all my immediate family except my step-dad who will not even look into what Ron Paul is all about, he sticks to the polls from the MSM, and will not let me bring up the logic behind the stances of Ron Paul without being interrupted with the "fact" he has no shot of winning. Then I say he raised 6 million dollars last sunday, his response "Hes gonna need $600 million to win," i continue to sell the efforts of the grassroots by telling him that we got a Blimp, he responds with "other candidates have jets" I then gave up on the battle, but i have not given up the war!!

 

[derdy]

Yes I converted a non voter this evening at dinner.

I converted my friend who was a Bush supporter and voted for Bush.

Today, he told me he isn't even registered to vote and he wants to get registered so he can vote for Dr. Paul in the primaries!

I also had family over for Christmas. I gave everyone Slimjims and 3 different cards from http://www.ronpaulcard.com/

My buddy makes the cards and he gave a bunch to me for free.

The funny thing is, the whole conversation came up while discussing what we had gotten for Christmas. My dad got me a lump of coal and his second gift was a 1/10th ounce gold coin.

I told my cousin and she didn't understand why I would get gold. She thought it was a big bar of gold. So, I went downstairs and got my junk silver, silver bullion, and gold collection and brought it up to show the fam. That got to the question, "What do you do with this stuff?" I started talking about REAL money, fiat currency, etc etc, and then we got to Ron Paul.

On a side note, my other Christmas gift from my parents was a t-shirt that reads, "Warning - Explosive Political Views"

Lol

This comes from last Christmas talking about 9/11, to this Thanksgiving schooling everyone on Ron Paul and economics.