How Well Has HQ Managed This Campaign?

[Frankie Lee]

why no option for 0 ?

 

[wowabunga]

Spend mega bucks on plane fare and jet Ron Paul all over the frigg'n US and globe doing free PR with the Queen of England, Putten, China etc. Send him all over the US. Have him sit in on radio shows as guest host for a day. AND BY ALL MEANS GET HIS BIG SMILE OVER TO IRAQ.

Ramblin Randy
Ron Paul is here to chew bubble-gum and Kick Ass, and he just ran out of bubble-gum

 

[Richandler]

I voted 1
Here is why.

• Commercial production is terrible. His military donations ad was horrible. It implied he was pro-war.
  
  
• No offense to our good man RP, but he needs to be more aggressive. He is too humble and it is costing us the election. He is too afraid to LIST candidate names such as on Leno yesterday he wouldn't name MCCAIN as the person who wants us in the war for another 100 years. How many votes could that have swayed our way? McCain somehow got the anti-war vote today.
  
  
• No creativity at all to raise funds. They don't like our money bombs yet we haven't seen anything come from them on how to raise money.
  
  
• Official campaign shows animosity towards the grassroots like we are ruining it for them. They don't know how to run a non traditional campaign.
  

For me this is more than just Ron Paul running for president. This is basically the end of our country. The campaign needs to start acting like it. It's not like everything is going to be fine and dandy if we don't win. Our lives will become hell. We will be drafted, taxed to death, tracked and traced. This isn't just another presidential election! We are being surrounding on all sides and rather than bracing for impact, we are dancing around like it's a party. This isn't a game, campaign. Our lives depend on this campaign and I will damned to see us fail because of a lack of motivation or enthusiasm on the campaign's side.

The grassroots is ready to fight, but are you?

Do you remember when the campaign asked for the money in Novermber instead of for the Tea Party. This forum went to hell and the grassroots just started playing asshole. The campaign wanted to be running ads for a month in NH but the money supply was way to estatic. The 2nd money bomb was a huge undoing for the campaign. It should have never been planned. We should have had fundraising everysingle week. Your once a month tactics are exactly why people only heard about Paul once a month in the media. It's not the campaigns fault. The campaign has made a ton of suggestions but when the supporters are the kind who make death threats to TV hosts, along with thousands of pieces of hate mail, you can't expect the campaign to take everyones advice all at once.

 

[BlueCalico]

FOR GOD's SAKE, QUIT BLAMING everyone else! Walk out your front door, talk to every neighbor in your neighborhood, knock on their door, tell them why they should vote for Ron Paul. Ask them to vote for him in the primary.

Just knock on one door tomorrow evening...

 

[tgannaway89]

I'd say 3. They have done something, but not even half the effort they should.

 

[phoenixrising]

FOR GOD's SAKE, QUIT BLAMING everyone else! Walk out your front door, talk to every neighbor in your neighborhood, knock on their door, tell them why they should vote for Ron Paul. Ask them to vote for him in the primary.

Just knock on one door tomorrow evening...

Hmmmmmmmmmm. ... GREAT advice ....especially for anyone sitting at their computer tomorrow browsing this forum...

would much rather here wwhat YOu did tomorrow....

it's called *grassroots* for a reason ;0

 

[all J's in IL for RP]

7

I have my own gripes, yet I took this poll at face value, stood back and realistically assessed their impact. They have taken an obscure congressman into the realm of political heavyweights and out-strategized Governors and Senators. They seeded and cultivated a grassroots movement that has in many ways overshadowed themselves. They did much better in Iowa than anyone aside from unrealistic RP supporters could have dreamed possible. Signs of greater organization are all around.

Paul is on the stage with a TV star, a tycoon, the chosen of God, America's Mayor, and a war hero that was the party's presumptive nominee.

There is room yet to grow and lessons still to be taken to heart, but an uncritical eye must marvel at how far they've come.

 

[Birdlady]

Do you remember when the campaign asked for the money in Novermber instead of for the Tea Party. This forum went to hell and the grassroots just started playing asshole. The campaign wanted to be running ads for a month in NH but the money supply was way to estatic. The 2nd money bomb was a huge undoing for the campaign. It should have never been planned. We should have had fundraising everysingle week. Your once a month tactics are exactly why people only heard about Paul once a month in the media. It's not the campaigns fault. The campaign has made a ton of suggestions but when the supporters are the kind who make death threats to TV hosts, along with thousands of pieces of hate mail, you can't expect the campaign to take everyones advice all at once.

My once a month tactic? I had nothing to do with the money bomb. The campaign complains about the money bombs are hectic for them. Well I want to see ideas from the campaign on how to bring in dollars. There hasn't been a single fundraising scheme from the campaign since the 3rd quarter. They had that make Paul 500,000 in a week. We crushed it. The campaign rallied people a single goal and we blew it out of the water.

The campaign needs to be thinking of more ideas like that. Waiting for people to donate on a weekly or daily basis isn't going to give us the 23 million they are asking for. THEY need to think of something if they expect to get that.

People are frustrated with the campaign as you can see in this thread. It's gonna have to take A LOT of convincing for my husband and I to donate again. What have they been doing? We got 5th place in both Iowa and NH. NH was supposed to be this easy win and we got owned. I would much rather give my money to grassroot projects rather than the campaign. They can't seem to figure out how to use it wisely.

And for the bolded part, you get to go on my ignore list.

 

[Electric Church]

Vote before you read any posts. Keep this thread bumped for a bigger sample.

Very well. And the ones who have managed the deibold machines are doin a great job too so take this poll and shove

 

[austin356]

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.

 

[Birdlady]

If HQ were competent they would know investing and winning a early primary would actually bring in their $23 million, losing brings in nothing.

Precisely. It's gonna be hard to convince people to donate to a failing campaign.

 

[RonPaulFTW08]

So umm... who here has campaigning experience?......

 

[Michigan11]

The town hall meeting did not look presidential at all.

It looked like some public acces fundraising done back when color tv's just started coming out!

I'm only 32, but WTF?

 

[Electric Church]

ya bunch of whimps ...wake up and fight...yas been cheated big time.

 

[american empire]

I gave a 5......only b/c of the mailers, and to give benifit of doubt that they are saving up for the big states ie florida and california......and yes...

F@#$ you frank....

 

[tfelice]

I said one, because it's an obvious failure. But a major reason behind HQ's failure is Paul himself. As I see it Paul was surrounded by fans and not by skilled campaign strategists able to succeed on a national level. So likely, no one in HQ had the guts to say to Paul "stop pointing your finger at the camera and saying "illegal war" and "neocons" it's not working. Paul should have brought in a more highy skilled staff.

 

[Electric Church]

I said one, because it's an obvious failure. But a major reason behind HQ's failure is Paul himself. As I see it Paul was surrounded by fans and not by skilled campaign strategists able to succeed on a national level. So likely, no one in HQ had the guts to say to Paul "stop pointing your finger at the camera and saying "illegal war" and "neocons" it's not working. Paul should have brought in a more highy skilled staff.

Alien....directly to my ignore list

 

[Thomas Paine]

I'm watching the evening news last night in Michigan to catch the NH primary results and already on the local Detroit stations Romney and McCain are running tv ads for the Michigan Primary EVERY COMMERCIAL BREAK. I didn't see a single Ron Paul ad.

 

[Tuff_Fish]

Bad campaign, very bad

Ron Paul is not being effective when he is getting his message out.

I know what he means when he says he wants to end the federal reserve. Most voters have never heard of the federal reserve. What the f*** do they care if he wants to end the federal reserve. He sounds like a kook to them.

Most voters cannot tell you what the 16th amendment did. A lot of voters can't tell you what the constitution is.

End the IRS? OMG! We won't get our social security!

The campaign, and Ron Paul, needs to do a much better job of articulating what a Ron Paul presidency would mean to the average voter.

The campaign, and Ron Paul, needs to do a much better job of articulating what a Ron Paul presidency would mean to the average voter.

The campaign, and Ron Paul, needs to do a much better job of articulating what a Ron Paul presidency would mean to the average voter.

T

 

[phoenixrising]

*ignore*