How Well Has HQ Managed This Campaign?

[Todd]

They shunned the grassroots rather than use them. We worked for free and they ignored it. Pathetic!

 

[Vaughn]

I voted 1.

The campaign was warned ahead of time about the smear in TNR, yet they didn't take steps to counter-attack it. Why didn't they have a press release prepared refuting the article?

Incompetence such as this has really hurt the campaign.

 

[coffeewithchess]

I voted 1.

The campaign was warned ahead of time about the smear in TNR, yet they didn't take steps to counter-attack it. Why didn't they have a press release prepared refuting the article?

Incompetence such as this has really hurt the campaign.

+100 The fact that Kent Snyder used the article as an excuse for the performance in New Hampshire is absolutely ridiculous! The guy that wrote the article said on Tucker that he had spoken with Jesse Benton about it!!! How the CRAP the campaign's NATIONAL PRESS SECRETARY wasn't prepared for this is ridiculous!

 

[colin1]

Yeah folks, it's all the grassroots fault. Uh-huh. We just didn't do enough. I know I didn't quit my job and move to NH, so mea culpa. Forget my maxed out contributions, rally attendance, letter writing and converting friends and family. You know how you sell people? You let them learn about the message and then you give them the belief that we can do it. I told the people I converted, "wait til IA and NH". With all the money we have we'll smash through the media blackout. Now I learn that the spent little time and money in IA & NH. They should have spent the Nov 5th money like sailors at a cathouse in Manila. If we had gone all out, and placed fifth I wouldn't be bitching. But we didn't. And know my friends and family want to know what happened. The average citizen doesn't care about the issue, they care about hearing a candidate on tv. They care about where he places in the early primaries, so they get a sense if he can win. We gave this campaign two near record fundrasing days and they couldn't break 250k tv time in NH? And now i hear they're not running tv ads in MI. And we're dead last in the polls for the next four primaries. Way to go HQ, some strategy. Unless the strategy was to demoralize the grassroots, choke off your fundraising, marginalize your candidate and lose the election. If that was the strategy, congratulations it was a resounding success. And still no heads have rolled at HQ? No reshuffling. Funny, we're always talking about "free markets" and "personal responsibility" and if I had presided over a monumental mess up like this I'd be s***canned in a heartbeat. We gave HQ the goose that laid the golden egg and they killed it.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Yeah folks, it's all the grassroots fault. Uh-huh. We just didn't do enough. I know I didn't quit my job and move to NH, so mea culpa. Forget my maxed out contributions, rally attendance, letter writing and converting friends and family. You know how you sell people? You let them learn about the message and then you give them the belief that we can do it. I told the people I converted, "wait til IA and NH". With all the money we have we'll smash through the media blackout. Now I learn that the spent little time and money in IA & NH. They should have spent the Nov 5th money like sailors at a cathouse in Manila. If we had gone all out, and placed fifth I wouldn't be bitching. But we didn't. And know my friends and family want to know what happened. The average citizen doesn't care about the issue, they care about hearing a candidate on tv. They care about where he places in the early primaries, so they get a sense if he can win. We gave this campaign two near record fundrasing days and they couldn't break 250k tv time in NH? And now i hear they're not running tv ads in MI. And we're dead last in the polls for the next four primaries. Way to go HQ, some strategy. Unless the strategy was to demoralize the grassroots, choke off your fundraising, marginalize your candidate and lose the election. If that was the strategy, congratulations it was a resounding success. And still no heads have rolled at HQ? No reshuffling. Funny, we're always talking about "free markets" and "personal responsibility" and if I had presided over a monumental mess up like this I'd be s***canned in a heartbeat. We gave HQ the goose that laid the golden egg and they killed it.

AMEN!

I just cannot believe the Campaign Staff is still employed? I mean, the Media & the other Campaign organizations have commented, sometimes to the point of SARCASM, how INEPT, with NO EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES, a Presidential Campaign STAFF Operates. No Researching, No Demographics, Dismal Advertising, Poor Advisers, No Consultants... On & On.

In business... A Great Product doesn't guarantee SUCCESS... Managing that Product, MARKETING, & Company Culture all play major parts. Lose one you may be doomed, lose two... You're Out of Business and Bankrupt.

 

[Thrashertm]

I agree

I agree 100%

1/10 - Official campaign staff

We could have got 3rd in Iowa if they were competent.
We could have won New Hampshire if they were competent (and Ron had made better strategy decisions about time allocation).
We would be leading Michigan right now if they were competent (due to the dems having a no contest).
We would be competing for second right now in SC if HQ were competent.


If HQ were competent they would not have a OFFICIAL POLICY of rationing slim jims and signs.
If HQ were competent they would understand we do not have the luxury to sit back and wait to strike like Rudy does. We will be left out of the debates before we even spend our money!!!
If HQ were competent they would have spent more than $250,000 in tv ads in NH in Dec.
If HQ were competent they would know investing and winning a early primary would actually bring in their $23 million, losing brings in nothing.
If HQ were competent they would know hundreds of thousands such as myself were would be willing to donate if they were competitive. Such is not the case now.


4/10 - Ron Paul himself.


5/10 - Grassroots.

 

[JulioForPaul]

Amateur TV ads.

Whenever he gives a speech he is behind an unlit podium with nobody behind him in what looks like a small gymnasium.

Less than 1 million spent on TV ads in Iowa and NH. All Paul needed was a few more thousand votes to take 3rd in each state... thereby lighting a fire under the base, generating more donations, and forcing the media to take Paul seriously...... and the campaign spends 600k and 250k respectively.....AFTER RECEIVING 20 MILLION DOLLARS IN ONE QUARTER!

 

[colin1]

Well I'm glad people are finally talking about it. I don't mean to be so negative, although I tend to be more pessimistic by nature (and experience) I'm just frustrated. I'm just going to put my nose back to the grindstone and get to letter writing and preparing to get signatures for the Doc for my state's primary (which is closed). How I wish they're had been a massive get out the registration drive in PA. A candidate like Paul is once in a lifetime, and naysayers be damned, we had a good shot, maybe still do. It's just sad that we weren't able to get the right people to lead this thing. I mean I can just picture the other campaigns dreaming they had our grassroots. Can you imagine? Any of the other candidates, if they had our grassroots would have the primaries in the bag already, and would be well on the way to winning the election. The other campaign must be simultaneously thrilled and appalled at the performance or lack thereof at HQ.

 

[Electric Church]

ignore these stupid forum polls....they're stacked with establishment hacks...enemies of the republic

 

[JS4Pat]

Those who voted 5 - 10 - WTF are you talking about??????????

The only reason I would give them anything over a "1" is because the deck has been stacked against them via the MSM and Establishment.

But honestly...

With thousands of grassroots supporters willing to do ANYTHING they ask and $20million dollars of fundraising, in a small independent leaning state with a field of "inside the beltway" uninspiring candidates - How can you justify in any way the HQs performance?

 

[wowabunga]

Was inspired by ronpaulradio.com as a DJ there keeps saying...

"It's not over till we give up"