Has Jessie Benton cleared out his desk yet?

[jason43]

Maybe Paul declined the Boortz show because he didn't want Boortz to break the rumor about the newsletter. Remember, I think later that night on Tucker is when the news first broke nationally. I might have my dates confused. But I recall the Boortz interview being around the time of the newsletter announcement.

He blew off Glenn Beck when there was no newsletter and we were getting almost NO major interviews in those days. Then Beck trashed him on TV and radio for months, even though Beck actually AGREES and endorces many of Ron's views.

How can you win like that?

He could go on Rush, Boortz, Beck... all those guys have MANY agreements with our movement, and we are the most ideologically pure representation of them. Hannity claims to as well, but that guy likes himself too much and has too much of a hardon for war to actually think about anything other than what he has decided is the truth.

But seriously, this is a guy that is so well versed in economics that I don't know how he can't convince people to be against it just based on the fact that we can't afford it without disasterous financial results.

 

[Bradley in DC]

This inexcusable oversight

This was the part that shows the problem is systemic and not just a bad day:

Unprecedented as the event was, it was barely mentioned in the newspapers the next day. Predictably, I got an e-mail from an irate Ron Paul supporter blasting The Star-Ledger's bias in overlooking the candidate.

Members of the public, whether right-wing or left-wing, tend to believe that the members of the press are conspiring to suppress their views. In some instances this may be true, but this case provides a textbook study in how politicians, through their own incompetence, can bungle media coverage...

After I got that e-mail, I did some checking and found that the event was not listed in the Daybook for that day. This inexcusable oversight meant that the media were not informed of the event. I myself had learned about it only by accident. The same was true of Larry Eichel, the national political writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer who did a prewrite of the event but did not attend it.

[Emphasis added.]

 

[Mort]

Very arrogant attitude to take. There is a thing called professionalism, and this has now happened not once ... but twice. First with Glenn Beck and now this time.

There are also things called priorities. And you might notice, Ron Paul's time is important right now.

Its amazing he's only backed out of 2. For example, did he back out of something for the recent Leno show? That would be a good decision.

 

[Bradley in DC]

This campaign is entirely about grassroots...We are to blame for these losses (especially the supporters in Iowa), no one else. Now it becomes more about winning delegate slots than winning primaries (in the event of a likely brokered convention) but those are achieved the same way: go out and talk to people.

Nonsense. The DC activists have soured on the official campaign because we have the misfortune of dealing with them and witnessing them first hand sabotage the grassroots efforts that would have lead to victories here had HQ just stayed out of it.

 

[Talldude1412]

how many of you whiners are ovulating? Just out of curiosity.....

Mistake have been made, boohooo. Get over it. Stop bringing down morale. jeezus.

 

[mconder]

Dr. Paul is America's last best hope. I will continue to support the campaign until the end. If the replace people, fine. If not, there is nowhere else to go. He's the only game in town.

 

[Deborah K]

I've seen people complain about suggesting getting Dr. Paul on Howard Stern. He should be on as many programs as possible.

That's a double-edged sword. There is a prominant public figure in San Diego who sits in for Rush Limbaugh and is on the fence about President Paul. He stated the other day, that if Stern comes out publicly for Paul, that there is no way he will endorse him. I'm sure he is not alone in his thinking.

Stern is reviled by many. And rightly so. Anyone who puts diapers on and shits in them while on the air and thinks thats good humor is F U B A R!

On the other hand, he has millions of listeners. Would that translate into votes? I suppose it would depend on how many of his listeners even bother to vote.

 

[mconder]

He blew off Glenn Beck when there was no newsletter and we were getting almost NO major interviews in those days. Then Beck trashed him on TV and radio for months, even though Beck actually AGREES and endorces many of Ron's views.

Glenn has to obey his corporate masters. He can't openly endorse RP.

 

[Talldude1412]

That's a double-edged sword. There is a prominant public figure in San Diego who sits in for Rush Limbaugh and is on the fence about President Paul. He stated the other day, that if Stern comes out publicly for Paul, that there is no way he will endorse him. I'm sure he is not alone in his thinking.

Stern is reviled by many. And rightly so. Anyone who puts diapers on and shits in them while on the air and thinks thats good humor is F U B A R!

On the other hand, he has millions of listeners. Would that translate into votes? I suppose it would depend on how many of his listeners even bother to vote.

agreed

We could stand to get some more actual voters converted and less morons of the Howard Stern variety.

 

[jason43]

There are also things called priorities. And you might notice, Ron Paul's time is important right now.

Its amazing he's only backed out of 2. For example, did he back out of something for the recent Leno show? That would be a good decision.

There is a big difference between backing out and not showing up 10 minutes before the show starts... the case with Beck was that he didn't have anything else lined up so he had to "interview" Ron Paul... only no one was there to answer the questions.

If his priorities are more important than blowing off nationally syndicated shows, then I'd like to know what those priorities are, because we have the least campaign events of any major candidate in the race in every state we have competed in thus far.

You can make excuses all you want, but we need some people who know what the hell they're doing in there and without stretching to look for some secret plan, this just looks sloppy.

 

[SteveMartin]

Well put, Deborah. NOT MANY!

 

[Deborah K]

how many of you whiners are ovulating? Just out of curiosity.....

Mistake have been made, boohooo. Get over it. Stop bringing down morale. jeezus.

ROFL!!! Better yet, how many of you MALE whiners are ovulating?

 

[Talldude1412]

ROFL!!! Better yet, how many of you MALE whiners are ovulating?

hehe, that was implied.

 

[jason43]

He blew off Glenn Beck when there was no newsletter and we were getting almost NO major interviews in those days. Then Beck trashed him on TV and radio for months, even though Beck actually AGREES and endorces many of Ron's views.

Glenn has to obey his corporate masters. He can't openly endorse RP.

He doesn't need to publicly endorce him. Having Ron on the show exposes him to millions of people that we might not reach otherwise and our strongest thing is the message. Endorcements don't matter, exposure to the message matters.

 

[Deborah K]

hehe, that was implied.

hehe ok. I sometimes can't tell who's male/female by the names that are used.

 

[Deborah K]

There are also things called priorities. And you might notice, Ron Paul's time is important right now.

Its amazing he's only backed out of 2. For example, did he back out of something for the recent Leno show? That would be a good decision.

Excellent point..

 

[Matt Collins]

ROFL!!! Better yet, how many of you MALE whiners are ovulating?

No ovulation but I think some have sand in their....

 

[walt]

this cnn thing today is a joke. they keep pounding him before he's on

 

[freelance]

this cnn thing today is a joke. they keep pounding him before he's on

And I wonder if they have David Gergen lined up to trash him after his piece. They had a quote from Gergen in the article on their site.

That's not good enough, says one political veteran.

"These stories may be very old in Ron Paul's life, but they're very new to the American public and they deserve to be totally ventilated," said David Gergen, a CNN senior political analyst. "I must say I don't think there's an excuse in politics to have something go out under your name and say, 'Oh by the way, I didn't write that.'"

 

[walt]

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