Has Jessie Benton cleared out his desk yet?

[Matt Collins]

I can't believe Ron didn't show up to the FOX interview after the SC debate.

 

[traitorist]

I can't believe Ron didn't show up to the FOX interview after the SC debate.

good move on Ron Paul's part. he took away the ammo that he knew Hannity and Fox was going to use against him, and left Fox with nothing. smart. i use the same tactic in business and it is extremely effective.

 

[constituent]

frankly, it was a terrible move on RP's part to even attend last night's debate....


but what do i know?

 

[Paulbot_9876]

sometimes when you say no they seem to want you more.....look what happen with gb.....rp got a full hr from saying no.....its like if you want me on,you play by my rules......

 

[Jaredh]

frankly, it was a terrible move on RP's part to even attend last night's debate....


but what do i know?

I disagree, there's many on here who have watched fox news. I don't personally, but my Mother used to. Suffice to say you can hit the target demographic with fox, even if it is smaller than a CNN's would be in term's of how receptive they are to his message.

I like that he just blew hannity off. He's a fool, I wouldn't do him any favors.

 

[constituent]

just as an aside, did you notice the new effort at base-pandering post NH?

 

[Talldude1412]

I can't believe Ron didn't show up to the FOX interview after the SC debate.

You know that it was completely likely they were just going to do their all to roast him, to take back any gains he had made in the debate. So all in all I was glad he didn't.

 

[dawnbt]

Yes.

This campaign is getting quite the name for no-showing or last minute cancelling.

I was just talking to my mom about Ron the other day and she said, "He is invited on shows, he just declines them all". I fought her on it, but now wondering if she was right!

 

[dawnbt]

Great article, someone should hand a copy of that article to Ron Paul today - hopefully he will chose to do the right thing then.

+1

 

[dawnbt]

I work for a major talk radio station. I can tell you first hand that Jessee Benton is incompetent. He almost botched an interview with a major syndicated talk show host until I yelled at full volume over the phone to get Ron to call in for a 5 minute interview which they had already committed to but canceled last minute.

Jessee also was exceptionally rude to me when I had an opportunity to get Ron on a major local top 40 market mid-morning talk show and wouldn't make the effort to pull it off. Because of this the host trashed Ron Paul and refuses to talk about him.

Jessee needs to be replaced and someone else more competent needs to be put into that position. THERE IS NO EXCUSE for this mishandling of media appearances.

+1000

 

[dawnbt]

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?

Well then they should have thought about that before they agreed to come on the show!

 

[jmdrake]

The way they treated Boortz's radio program was horrible. You don't schedule to be on a show and at the last minute say it's not gonna happen with no reasoning behind it.

What? You are KIDDING me! Please tell me you are kidding! Ron Paul just missed going on the Warren Ballentine show (a black talk show host and affiliate of Al Sharpton) and for the first 15 minutes or so Paul got skewered! Thankfully Rand Paul called in and saved the day. I'm not suggesting Ron Paul should go on every show. But IF you're going to agree to go on, make sure SOMEBODY from the campaign is ready as a backup ESPECIALLY if its a hostile show!

Regards,

John M. Drake

 

[dawnbt]

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...

I agree

 

[dawnbt]

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

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

You're a pig.

 

[evadmurd]

Ya know, I'm real tired of Dr. Paul not accepting invites or worse, accepting them and no-showing them.. and then having people here pull the "screw X, nobody likes X."

Fact is, right now, we're a SMALL , SMALL part of the US voter. MORE people daily watch Neil Boortz than voted for Ron Paul in Iowa and New Hampshire combined. More people in New Hampshire likely watch Neil Boortz than the 2000 vote difference between Fifth and Fourth.. possibly between Fifth and Third.

We claim over and over that the MSM is ignoring us, and yet, we do such a shitty job of handling our relations with them that when we get a chance... and WE walk away from it.. our response is to say "nobody watches them anyway."

What the hell do you want? If you want RP's message on the MSM, we need to start GOING to the MSM. We need to stop saying things like "Nobody watches X anyway" when our HQ fucks it up so badly and skips the show.

God, we don't need a vast conspiracy against us. We're fucking it up on our own .

Makes me so pissed off.

I approve this message.

 

[dawnbt]

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.

If they guy sits in for Rush, he probably said that just so Ron doesn't get the publicity. Sterns endorsement would being in 10x's more supporters than Mr. "Fill's in for Rush". Ron survived the Bunny Ranch endorsement, it's about spreading the message.

 

[dawnbt]

good move on Ron Paul's part. he took away the ammo that he knew Hannity and Fox was going to use against him, and left Fox with nothing. smart. i use the same tactic in business and it is extremely effective.

I agree! He strolled in, won the debate, and strolled right back out! Loved it! He doesn't need to stick around and pander to FOX. He owned them!

 

[jmdrake]

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.

Did you here the radio show Glen Beck did AFTER having Ron Paul on the TV show? He basically called Ron Paul a liar for claiming that he (Dr. Paul) had never heard of the most prominent 9/11 theories. The he ssaid in so many words that he only let him on the show to be polite. I truly believe the Glen Beck interview may have done more harm than good. Same for Dr. Paul's appearance on Meet The Press. I'm not saying Paul should NEVER go on hostile shows. And certainly if he agrees to go on he MUST show up. But let's not kid ourselves. Beck hates us. Sure he agrees with Paul on the border but that's about it. He's a neocon into his "islamofacism" fetish just like all the rest of em.

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.

Because certain people have convinced themselves that if we don't "fight em over there we'll have to fight em over here." When it comes to economic survival and physical survival most people chose physical survival every time. Sure, we are NOT in any physical danger. But try telling that to the average neocon?

Regards,

John M. Drake

 

[Laja]

And the only ones to blame are ourselves.

I complained about the ineptitude of the official campaign from the very first day that I arrived to this forums. But everybody was OK with it. They thought the grassroots could do it on its own.

Well, we can't. What we could have done, and still can do, is COMPLAIN. A major email bomb, or another massive display of our dissatisfaction with HQ.

If we don't complain about their ineptitude, then we can't complain about the results they get.

You guys need to get away from your computers. You've totally lost perspective. You CAN'T possibly know the reasons behind the decisions made at HQ and going on like this is madness. We need to just keep moving forward independent of HQ and NOT depending upon them for anything.

Dr. Paul has his reasons for the decisions he makes. Whether it's Kent Snyder or Jesse Benton, Ron Paul is making the decisions. If you guys think you can make better decisions, then you run for President.

So shut the F*** up and get your asses out of the house and do something helpful like canvassing.

Remember that there is the hand of Providence behind Ron Paul and what looks terrible to us in the moment is always turned around in RP's favor. Not stop venting and get to work!!!

 

[Talldude1412]

You're a pig.

I was questioning a mostly male crowd at the time, hence the (admittedly crass) sarcasm. I was merely getting a bit testy at all the "the campaign's a witch! Burn er!!!" crud that was dragging people's morale through the mud.