If Elijah doesn't change the graphics back, he is going to loose half the pledges

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

The media is going to say see I told you so no one knows about Ron Paul bc his supporters still are flying blimps around "who is rp" and they will continue to ignore.

Exactly. This error is too important to not fix. The other problems (revolution vs. peace/prosperity, etc.) can wait. But making such a big statement and then saying "who is" is embarrassing.

 

[Hook]

Well, I'm donating my humble pledge either way. I just hope that everything works out.

 

[KewlRonduderules]

Well, I'm donating my humble pledge either way. I just hope that everything works out.

I think it is good enough for me. Most chip-ins I've donated too and not nearly as organized. I'll donate.

 

[xexkxex]

Isn't the art work already in production?

...so this entire 7+ page Hate fest is worthless...right?

...Why are you all so angry....it's done...it's happening....get over it....

If you don't want to support the blimp..fine

.....but don't bitch about something that can not be changed...

Lets try to be more productive with our time eh?

....that's my 2 cents and I'm done.

 

[Mastiff]

Most people I know aren't even following the race.
If it doesn't say "For President" somewhere people may not have any idea what it is about.

They might think Ron Paul is a new movie or pop star....yeah I know he is kinda of a pop star.

Agreed.

 

[slantedview]

Isn't the art work already in production?

Yes

...so this entire 7+ page Hate fest is worthless...right?

Yes

 

[KewlRonduderules]

Isn't the art work already in production?

...so this entire 7+ page Hate fest is worthless...right?

...Why are you all so angry....it's done...it's happening....get over it....

If you don't want to support the blimp..fine

.....but don't bitch about something that can not be changed...

Lets try to be more productive with our time eh?

....that's my 2 cents and I'm done.

You have to keep in mind some of these posts are from persons from other political camps.

 

[jp5065]

Goodyear and Fuji have been branded forever. People DO know who Fuji and Goodyear are.

Does everyone know who Ron Paul is? How many strangers that you ask will know who Ron Paul is?

We want people to make a mental note to go and actively find out Who Ron Paul is. Then it will be their idea. They will have a urge to have to find out Who this Ron Paul guy is.

Exactly.

Even the goodyear blimp is hard to read from the ground:

But it works because everybody knows it is "the goodyear blimp"

The less words on the blimp the easier to read
The easier to read the more likely that people will actually read it and look up Ron Paul.

 

[xexkxex]

You have to keep in mind some of these posts are from persons from other political camps.

I saw that some had very low post counts today.....

...but i did not want to accuse anyone.

It's a shame that there are people that just want to hurt.

 

[dante]

I'm hardly from another political camp. I strongly think who is kills momentum and portrays Ron Paul as unknown and thus can't win at this stage in the game. And it seems incredibly fishy to me that the artwork is already in production and thus we can't make changes when the blimp has only officially raised 13k.

 

[jp5065]

i don't even know if "Who is" will be readable from the ground.

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

Good, then let me climb up there and paint over it to make sure. Let's head off the obvious smart-ass objections right now.

 

[robinlynn]

good luck blimp people

good luck trying to raise all the money again after you switched things up on people.

i guess your marketing guys know how to spend our money better than we do. how hard would it have been to let the people who donated vote on what the slogan should be?

since the blimp website is already defending why they made the choice instead of asking people to come up with better ideas, it sounds like it's probably too late to change it now. that's too bad, because they already had more than enough pledges to make this happen and then they had to go and change things without notifying people.

it would have been nice to get an email from the blimp team explaining all of this rather than being confused when the website got updated, the pledges got removed and the message was changed.

personally, i would rather they don't do the blimp if this is the message they intend to use. good luck raising all the money again guys.

 

[michaelwise]

I added RonPaul2008.com, What do you think?

 

[JohnnyWrath]

I saw that some had very low post counts today.....

...but i did not want to accuse anyone.

I am not from any other camp for sure...I was subscribed to the freedom to fascism site, and I have supported Ron Paul since the very day I got an email saying "we have found the guy"....I am on the MSNBC boards every single day....JWrath.

I have donated several times.

I have been all over the internet since the very very beginning at gun forums, at legalize marijuana sites, at republican forums, and every other site I can think if...I am in 3 meetup groups, check my myspace (same name), I am on youtube every day, ...I am going to the local gun show on the 4th in Medina Ohio to support him, my truck has Ron Paul bumper stickers on it...etc etc

All I am doing is offering my opinion here....basically I disagree with not having "for president" on the blimp because I think it looks like he is an unknown without a chance, and I don't think people will google him that haven't already heard about him.

 

[Hook]

Maybe the best thing to do is to donate with the current layout, but change the graphics next month or so. Let people vote on which graphic they like best weighted by how much they donate.

 

[robinlynn]

don't the graphics cost like 50,000?

kinda expensive to change out in a month.

 

[FreeTraveler]

For the most part, I like the look and I agree with the reasoning that the purpose is to make the blimp as effective as possible-in terms of attracting attention and new supporters-folks who are turned off to politics and the traditional advertisements of a campaign.

I like the idea of two different looks, with one side having the RON PAUL REVOLUTION logo and the other side having something different. After all, Dr. Paul said himself in the CNN/You Tube Debate that there is a revolution

However, rather than have the text "Who is Ron Paul?" and under it "Google Ron Paul", I think it would be much better to simply have the text "RON PAUL" and under it "Freedom, Peace & Prosperity". People who do not know about Dr. Paul will most likely do a web search on the good doctor (if they are users of the internet) and if they are not internet users, they will ask other people and find out about Ron Paul via word of mouth and news reports about the blimp.

No need to say anything about the election.

+1

 

[Hook]

kinda expensive to change out in a month.

Well, it will give an opportunity for the people that don't like the current design to put their money where their mouth is.

 

[therealjjj77]

In the past when I saw anything political, I usually tuned it out subconsciously. I think Elijah has a good point. We need to wake up the sleeping populous and the only way to do that is to spark their curiousity.