One of the first things that a campaign staff does (and continues to do throughout the entire campaign) is develop a working relationship with the media. No, they're not our friends, but a professional and competent campaign staff works those relationships to the advantage of the candidate.
I cannot, for the life of me, even guess at what the campaign staff is doing, or why they are taking this destructive course of action with the media? Plain old common decency requires that you do not no-show, not the press, not anyone.
It is not only with the media, they treat their donors the same way. I have been yelled at, told to go vote for Hillary if I am not pro-life, hung up on when I suggested they send out an email to tell folks that deadlines were coming up really early in NY and NH, and basically treated like hell.
I know a member of the media. He also asks to speak to certain people and the morons answering the phones refuse to put him through unless they think that what he has to say is important - so far they haven't thought one comment important enough and he has NEVER been put through to people who have called him and he is just returning their call.
You can't run a lemonade stand with this level of unprofessionalism. (Is that a word?)
The biggest problem, sorry to offend, is that they hired a bunch of kids to answer the phones. Kids who are acting entitled and curt and surly to those calling in. Unacceptable.
Worse yet, if you ever bother to email anyone (because that is the only way you can get through) letting them know of problems, if you are lucky enough to get a response all it will be is a bunch of excuses and cya's.
After all of the complaints, all of the emails, all of the phone calls day in and day out, only now they are realizing they have a problem? Someone over there has either lied through their teeth to Dr. Paul about how well things were going or he ignored all the problems and was too arrogant to think that any folks out here have a head on their shoulders. Either way, it is a big problem.
I will make this very clear - we will not win any states on Super Tuesday unless we win one before. Why? Because he will be considered unelectable by then with all these dismal showings.
So, campaign - hear this loud and clear. Find a way to win one of those earlier states and do it NOW. Send Ron somewhere, not Florida, and don't let him come home until the primary is over. Have him shake the hand of every single voter in the state. Tell the grassroots which state you have picked, give us the phone numbers of all in your little black volunteers book and have us call all the people we can. When we are done with that, give us the numbers of all of the rest of the Republicans in that state and Inds if they can vote and have us all go nuts on one state.
You have 3 days to decide and pull this together. If you continue your devil may care attitude, the devil will care and we will have no shot from here on out.
Unless - unless he plans to run as an Ind. and this has all been for show. If so, save every dime you can and tell us that is what you are doing. We will still vote for you. This may be the only time in history that the stars have aligned properly enough for an Ind to win. Everyone hates the Republicans. There are enough racists and bigots left in this country that a non-white male contender will have a hard time winning so a third party candidate might win. Especially one with Ron's unique brand of message.
