It is time to open our eyes.

[rjl]

One thing everyone can do for effective advertising is donate to buy air-time at

http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com

This project is all about getting well-made, impactful ads for Ron Paul in key markets in primary states. I basically had to learn to put a website up from the ground up and have been up til 5 in the morning every night for a week getting the site up, setting up a bank account, starting a PAC, etc.

Everyone wants effective ads and I think we've made that possible. I've been on the phone with Jeremiah and Tyler from 30 Days to Iowa pretty much non-stop, brain-storming on ways to get people excited about the project, planning a new ad (that is going to happen in the next couple of days BTW), among other things.

Bottom line is this thing will work if the grassroots gets behind it. All I want is to do everything I possibly can to get Ron Paul elected. I know the rest of us on this site feel the same way. This project could be funded very easily if people will just spread the word and realize that this is a great opportunity for the grassroots to make yet another massive impact.

Robert

http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com

 

[ClayTrainor]

One thing everyone can do for effective advertising is donate to buy air-time at

http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com

This project is all about getting well-made, impactful ads for Ron Paul in key markets in primary states. I basically had to learn to put a website up from the ground up and have been up til 5 in the morning every night for a week getting the site up, setting up a bank account, starting a PAC, etc.

Everyone wants effective ads and I think we've made that possible. I've been on the phone with Jeremiah and Tyler from 30 Days to Iowa pretty much non-stop, brain-storming on ways to get people excited about the project, planning a new ad (that is going to happen in the next couple of days BTW), among other things.

Bottom line is this thing will work if the grassroots gets behind it. All I want is to do everything I possibly can to get Ron Paul elected. I know the rest of us on this site feel the same way. This project could be funded very easily if people will just spread the word and realize that this is a great opportunity for the grassroots to make yet another massive impact.

Robert

http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com

Yea, these commercials are 10x better than the campaign ones!

Im going to start putting my money into this as opposed to the official campaign.

 

[coboman]

This project could be funded very easily ...

Yes, it would take like one day's donation to the official campaign, and that is exactly the problem

We cannot have the luxury of considering the millions given to the campaign lost. They are the ones that should be doing ads like these, or even better.

They have to. We must make them do it.

 

[rjl]

Yea, these commercials are 10x better than the campaign ones!

Im going to start putting my money into this as opposed to the official campaign.

Thanks for your support! I think we can really make this thing go and dramatically increase Dr. Paul's name-recognition in South Carolina, Michigan, and Nevada. Jeremiah has created some really great ads--and has more in the works--and now it's time to get them where it counts. On the air in strategic markets.

 

[electronicmaji]

I said this before and got laughted out


We have internet popularity but it doesnt translate into a lot of votes

we need to help people

we've heard of people who couldnt vote at primaries cause they had kids...lets get volunteer babysitters

we've heard of people who didn't vote cause they wanted to make money at jobs...lets compete and offer them a job of our own: Voting!

We've heard how popular these ideas are amongst college students: well lets take huge buses to the colleges and drive people to the election!

We CAN win back America for the Americans!

 

[rjl]

Yes, it would take like one day's donation to the official campaign, and that is exactly the problem

We cannot have the luxury of considering the millions given to the campaign lost. They are the ones that should be doing ads like these, or even better.

They have to. We must make them do it.

I agree. I've given $1,800 to the official campaign and I'll probably max out in the next month or so, but so far it doesn't seem like the advertising they've produced has really satisfied the supporters. And I don't see a lot of responsiveness from the campaign on the issue, hence the new project. If they won't do the advertising we want, no matter how hard we work to convince them, then we at least have an option. Also, if grassroots ads start over-shadowing the official campaign ads, it may force them to respond and produce better material.

Robert

http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com

 

[coboman]

we've heard of people who couldnt vote at primaries cause they had kids...lets get volunteer babysitters

we've heard of people who didn't vote cause they wanted to make money at jobs...lets compete and offer them a job of our own: Voting!

We've heard how popular these ideas are amongst college students: well lets take huge buses to the colleges and drive people to the election!

All this is done by other official campaigns. Why isn't Ron Paul's doing it?
It can't be the lack of money.

Huckabee had much less money, and yet he managed to pay for buses, babysitters and even food.
What the f#$% is wrong with our official campaign? We need professionals. NOW!

 

[jabrownie]

Read a thread on here earlier that a grassroots person contact the political advertising company who helped win Ventura the governor spot and helped Dean do well before the 'dean scream'. They mentioned that they wanted to work with the Paul campaign, that they'd tried over and over to contact the campaign and they hadn't gotten so much as a phone call back from anybody.

Professional help is out there, the campaign is just refusing it.

*Edit: Pardon my french, but holy shit these are good. !!!!

http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com/

 

[Fields]

I still don't understand ... why isn't there a single Campaign Staffer communicating directly with us on the Forum? Why is it always that the campaign messages are indirectly published on the forum. This is probably the biggest campaign supporter website and we still haven't heard a fucking word directly from campaign in this forum.

+10000000

 

[peacemonger]

I don't think enthusiasm has to blind us from the truth. We have to learn from our mistakes, and evaluate right now what went wrong.

I decided to have an attitude of wait and see. I have waited, and now I have seen, and I am not going to keep this silent: THE OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN IS DOING ALL WRONG.

The grassroots has done a great job on the internet, and canvassing. But we need a good Main Stream campaign.
That means good advertising on radio and TV. Good PR to get more exposure in MSM (Yes, a good PR can get that, even against the conspiracy of big media). And coordination of our efforts.

We need the official campaign to step up to the challenge, and it is abundantly clear, that the current people running it cannot do it.

So, I propose that the first order of business must be to pressure Ron Paul, to fire his current campaign managers, and use the millions we have given him to hire and effective PR company, and a great advertising agency.


I know that I will be labeled as a troll, and be told to STFU, but unless we realize this fact, we are doomed to repeat these same mistakes.
The polls were almost dead on. That means another fifth place for NH if we don't do something right now.

It is not being a troll to question things. Personally, I disagree with you. I don't think the campaign is the problem. I think Iowa WAS the problem. There is little or nothing that a limited government republican can do in that state. Even Rush Limbaugh said he thinks that the Iowans are only playing shallow identity politics. It is a state with a huge evangelical population who voted for Huck only because he is one of them. The other idiots were duped by Romney's slick image or Thompson and McCain's fearmongering.

A perfectly good campaign can lead a gaggle of fools to freedom, but it can not make them THINK. All of the smart people supported Ron Paul. All of the mediocre people supported Obama. Everyone else is just a bunch of idiots.

New Hampshire people will be much better

 

[Frankie Lee]

I have also been saying this since the "he's catchin' on!" ad...ESPECIALLY when they tried defending it.

I have literally lost hope that the campaign people will resign, and am almost 100 certain they are not there for paul, but their resume's.

Anyway, I advise everyone to keep donating! Just donate to the grassroots projects that are producing professional ads!

 

[coboman]

New Hampshire people will be much better

Then how come the polls put us in 5th place?

We have to listen to the polls now. They proved incredibly accurate in Iowa.

If we ignore these polls, we are not learning from our mistakes. We must get those numbers up. We need the official campaign for that.

 

[jblackpost]

hey this jeremiah black

Yes, it would take like one day's donation to the official campaign, and that is exactly the problem

We cannot have the luxury of considering the millions given to the campaign lost. They are the ones that should be doing ads like these, or even better.

They have to. We must make them do it.

Thanks for the kind words about the ads I made. It looks like we have raised about $1640 for ad production, so we can nearly begin the next two spots- one will target seniors and the other will be a high profile endorsement piece. I'll go ahead and start the planning tomorrow, and hopefully the $$ will be there when it's time to pay the costs. Please donate if you can to keep these coming. A lot of meetup groups from various states are going to run the ads in their communities, and we encourage any meetup group to contact us to get a free copy of the spots to run locally where you are!

Donate:

http://www.operationbroadcastfreedom.com

- jeremiah black

 

[rjl]

Then how come the polls put us in 5th place?

We have to listen to the polls now. They proved incredibly accurate in Iowa.

If we ignore these polls, we are not learning from our mistakes. We must get those numbers up. We need the official campaign for that.

All the candidates have an official campaign. Huckabee has Ed Rollins for crying out loud. The greatest strength Ron Paul has is his grassroots support. NONE of the other candidates has that. My last few hundred dollars in donations have basically been given just to make sure Dr. Paul has enough money to travel. I'm not counting on the guys at the campaign to be able to compete with the sharks Huckabee, Giuliani, and Romney have assembled.

 

[electronicmaji]

I reccomend we mail bomb the campaign and you all ignored it...I think now might be a good time to follow my advice!

 

[Oliver]

I have an idea. You send an email to the campaign and say that you are requesting hi-res photos for some brochures you are trying to produce, create, print, and pass around.

Then you tell us how many days it takes till the campaign even responds.

I wrote to 30 official campaign people to get
their help to change Ron's Wikipedia Photo to
the actual one.

Only one replied, but she was very helpful.
Basically every mail or call should be answered
to keep things running and react to important
questions.

 

[coboman]

,,, I'm not counting on the guys at the campaign to be able to compete with the sharks Huckabee, Giuliani, and Romney have assembled.

Why not? It cannot be the lack of money. Huckabee has almost no cash, and look at his GENIUS campaign.

The grassroots for Ron Paul is great. But it is like running with only one leg, we need both a good grassroots and a great campaign.
Iowa has shown us that the best grassroots in the world is no match to a good official campaign.

I reccomend we mail bomb the campaign and you all ignored it...I think now might be a good time to follow my advice!

Let's do it, man. Whatever we can think of.
NH is around the corner, and (according to the very accurate polls) we are going to loose bigtime.
If we do not do something now, morale is going to go down.

 

[prlgrl]

I don't think enthusiasm has to blind us from the truth. We have to learn from our mistakes, and evaluate right now what went wrong.

I decided to have an attitude of wait and see. I have waited, and now I have seen, and I am not going to keep this silent: THE OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN IS DOING ALL WRONG.

The grassroots has done a great job on the internet, and canvassing. But we need a good Main Stream campaign.
That means good advertising on radio and TV. Good PR to get more exposure in MSM (Yes, a good PR can get that, even against the conspiracy of big media). And coordination of our efforts.

We need the official campaign to step up to the challenge, and it is abundantly clear, that the current people running it cannot do it.

So, I propose that the first order of business must be to pressure Ron Paul, to fire his current campaign managers, and use the millions we have given him to hire and effective PR company, and a great advertising agency.


I know that I will be labeled as a troll, and be told to STFU, but unless we realize this fact, we are doomed to repeat these same mistakes.
The polls were almost dead on. That means another fifth place for NH if we don't do something right now.

One thing that Huck's doing, IMO, is looking at what's driving RP grassroots and adopting some of the buzzwords... he knows we have momentum going. We're the rEVOLUTION, yet he's saying that about his campaign and has MSM onto it now. We're focused on Liberty, but he's throwing that around, too. Next thing we're going to hear is 'constitution'. When Ron Paul finally gets the media coverage he deserves, people are going to think he's riding huckster's coattails instead of the huckster's riding his.

We need some of messages on radio/tv like some of those YouTube clips. They are RP magnets. How could someone watch them and not want to check Ron out? We need to take back the rEVOLUTION and we need to do it NOW!

 

[FreeTraveler]

THE OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN IS DOING ALL WRONG.

The grassroots has done a great job.

That means good advertising on radio and TV. Good PR to get more exposure in MSM (Yes, a good PR can get that, even against the conspiracy of big media). And coordination of our efforts.

WE can do all this without telling Ron what to do with the "OFFICIAL" campaign staff. Support the Blimp and the ads put out by Operation New Hampshire, since those are already both proven winners.

Support other projects that you KNOW will be effective. Donate to those projects TODAY. Call South Carolina radio stations, play the song "Landslide" over the phone, and tell them where they can download it to play on their station. Decide YOU have to be a delegate, and get as involved in the process as possible.

THIS IS A FREE MARKET CANDIDACY. The LAST THING we need is to get more involved with the bureaucracy of the official campaign. It would be good to have more communication back and forth, but let them do what they MUST do, and let the FREE MARKET take care of the rest.

 

[apc3161]

I said this before and got laughted out



we've heard of people who couldnt vote at primaries cause they had kids...lets get volunteer babysitters

we've heard of people who didn't vote cause they wanted to make money at jobs...lets compete and offer them a job of our own: Voting!

We've heard how popular these ideas are amongst college students: well lets take huge buses to the colleges and drive people to the election!

These are great ideas. This is what Obama, Hillary, Huckabee, and Romney did. Did Pauls campaign do this? No. Why not? I have no idea, but it sure wasn't lack of money. They need to bring in real professionals. It really isn't funny anymore.