Has Jessie Benton cleared out his desk yet?

[walt]

Based on several incidents I have been told about in the past, this does not surprise me but it does make me feel sick. When I think about all the people who donated to Paul's campaign, and lots of those people scrapped together that money, I just want to go to Paul's headquarters and slap somebody. We deserve better than this. What is wrong with them?

They aren't the right group to execute the dream for the team...

 

[Matt Collins]

how much more quantification do we need?

Meaning?

 

[RonPaulGeorge&Ringo]

Ron Paul does NOT like being interviewed by demagogues. The campaign MADE him go on Glenn Beck, and it was a disaster. Fuck Boortz.

 

[RonPaulGeorge&Ringo]

So, the answer to this is for Ron to go on his show so Boortz can yell at him about 9/11 and death threats? That's going to help how, exactly?

I listened to Boorts for awhile today he was giving RP hell for the missed interview and said the 911 peps where killing his chances.

 

[Matt Collins]

Ron Paul does NOT like being interviewed by demagogues.

There's an old saying in the PR business: "Any press is good press"


Whether or not RP likes being interviewed is irrelevant. If he is truly in this to win that means he might have to do some things he doesn't like to do - like appear on shows that are unfriendly to him.

Unfortunately one cannot win a campaign without the media on your side. It's bad enough we have an uphill battle, but pissing off the media by no-showing is a death sentence.

 

[Luft97]

The answer is to go on Alex Jones for the 500th time so that he can yell at him about 9/11 conspiracies and assassination attempts of Ron Paul. That should give Paul the boost he needs.

Troll often?

 

[pacelli]

screw boortz. No one listens to that show anyways. Dr. Paul would have got nothing by going on the show.

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.

 

[pacelli]

http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2007/11/no_news_is_bad_news.html

It's not just one event.

Ouch. For those that don't like reading much, here's a highlight concerning the Independence Hall Rally:

I found that out when I attended the rally to look for possible material for future columns. The bungling began when I showed up for what I had been told by Paul's staff was a press conference set for 12:15 at a hotel near the rally site. There was a nice room with a podium and even coffee on the side. One thing was missing, though: The press. I expected to see 20 or 30 reporters, but there were only two.

Maybe the others were on their way, I figured. Nope. At about 12:20, Paul's campaign chairman, Kent Snyder, abruptly informed us that there would be no press conference and that we should clear out so the candidate could meet with some contributors. When the journalists tried to ask the candidate a few questions, Snyder rudely interrupted them.

Like the rally, this was also unprecedented, but not in a good way. Usually it's the opposition that tries to sabotage a press conference.

 

[Joe3113]

You don't think going on Alex Jones once a month has diminishing returns? His crazy listeners already know about Paul. No serious candidate running for President would be caught dead on that nut's show. Paul going on there just adds to his fringe candidacy. The same with keeping Don Black's donation, especially with all of this newsletter stuff. The Paul campaign is worthless.

Alex Jones is a hero to a LARGE percentage of Ron Paul supporters, including myself. We may not agree with everything he says but the majority of it is backed up by evidence. He encourages people to copy his dvd's for FREE to get the message out. Further, EVERY SINGLE DAY he is pimping Ron Paul, almost constantly to his 3-5 million listers around the world (includes short wave, internet etc). The majority of that percentage are eligible voters in the United States by the way. You have got to stay true to your friends. Alex is a friend of Liberty and a friend of Ron Paul.

 

[newbitech]

Can't have it both ways buddy. If Paul really wanted to win he would have ditched Jones a long time ago. It's no surprise that no other serious Presidential candidate would even consider going on Alex Jones' show. Paul could do plenty of other interviews on radio or tv with sane hosts and get just as much coverage. If you surround yourself with fringe, you're going to be labeled as fringe. It's just a fact of life and it's a shame Paul didn't realize this. And I think you need to re-examine who your heroes are, seriously.

so you signed up to bitch about Ron Paul being on Alex Jones and talk American Idol?

please allow me to address this comment.

if you run with the lemmings you will fall off the cliff. there is nothing fringe about exposing government lies and cover-ups. this is what the founders instructed us to do and is encoded in our constitution. you may want to reexamine your motivation for being here, seriously.

 

[pacelli]

Paul could do plenty of other interviews on radio or tv with sane hosts and get just as much coverage. If you surround yourself with fringe, you're going to be labeled as fringe. It's just a fact of life and it's a shame Paul didn't realize this. And I think you need to re-examine who your heroes are, seriously.

You haven't demonstrated your heroes in the 3 posts you've made. Who are they?

 

[Joe3113]

Can't have it both ways buddy. If Paul really wanted to win he would have ditched Jones a long time ago. It's no surprise that no other serious Presidential candidate would even consider going on Alex Jones' show. Paul could do plenty of other interviews on radio or tv with sane hosts and get just as much coverage. If you surround yourself with fringe, you're going to be labeled as fringe. It's just a fact of life and it's a shame Paul didn't realize this. And I think you need to re-examine who your heroes are, seriously.

So how's the weather at Langley?

 

[free.alive]

Coboman,

so you've been bitching since your first day on here? Well with each and every negative keystroke you have wasted your energy and sapped some from others which would otherwise have spread our positive message even more, doorbell by doorbell, slim jim by slim jim, handshake by handshake, victory...well, you get the idea.

All negativity should be translated into donating cash (yeah, that's right - I bet you've never won an election) and hitting the streets. I hear it put recently, "canvassing wins votes - everything else is noise." Sounds like wisdom to me.

 

[Matt Collins]

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.

That's not an excuse. In fact it's all the more reason to show up.

 

[JMann]

Not quite. Boortz is very popular in specific cities.

Not to mention his listeners are probably the closest thing to being natural Paul supporters. I doubt Paul and Boortz disagree on anything other than the war. I know there are small minded people on here that refuse to think that good people can still disagree with them on the Iraq war because to them they are militant Hitler types. Thus the reason Paul only attracts small numbers of people on the voting days. There are good people that think we should be in Iraq, you and I may disagree with them but that doesn't make their views invalid.

 

[RonPaulFTFW]

We need new leadership.

 

[jason43]

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

Robin actually referred to Ron Paul as "Your guy" when she was talking about Ron on the news portion of the show. Stern said he didn't know too much about him, but he liked everything he heard so far.

Stern has millions of listeners that do what he says. They kept Sanjiah on American Idol, they can help Ron in the primaries if Howard endorces him. The social conservatives have their guy in Huckabee, they could care less about Paul. might as well go for everyone else.

 

[K1RBY]

i agree. my wife and i have givin alot, but will not give another dime until people start getting fired from this incompetent campaigne staff...

 

[wowabunga]

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

Take the national ad money and use it for airfare and jet Ron all over the planet. Go talk to the Pope, Queen of England... talk to the Australians down under ( don't forget to say how upside down our system is up younder ). And by all means go see the troops.

Just my humble opinion... but our current ads are "b" grade and lack creative punch.

 

[ConstitutionGal]

That's not an excuse. In fact it's all the more reason to show up.

Absolutely! Face the beast head on and SLAY him!

Also, as Matt pointed out earlier, it took a LOT of phone calls and us grassroots, local folks having to stop playing nice with Jesse Benton to get Dr. Paul on the radio shows here in Nashville before the rally on October 6th. The campaign SHOULD have been calling those shows and doing everything within their power to get Dr. Paul on them instead of ignoring the calls from the shows or saying they'd do it and then backing out at the last minute. I don't care who you are, to leave ANY show host hanging with dead air AFTER a committment to go on the show is BAD FORM, unprofessional and immature.