I think that in future campaigns that the national campaign needs to pay more attention to the grassroots and listen to them. Someone famous once said "All politics are local" and that is so true. No one knows better what it takes to win a given precinct, town, city, state than the people that live there. I think that the national campaign was a bit arrogant and would've done better to work hand in hand with the grassroots.
Moneybombs, although newsworthy, cannot be the main source of fundraising. The message should be if you're serious about this campaign give as much as possible as often as possible. Don't wait until a certain day to donate what you could give today. If you have it now donate it now or you're depriving the campaign of resources they could put to use immediately. If some of the moneybomb money had arrived earlier it could've been spent in New Hampshire and a stronger showing there may have been all we needed to turn heads and give the impression Ron could win.
I think that the grassroots have done a great job and that even though Ron is a great man we made him the icon he was by putting our full faith and money behind him. Without the grassroots explosion hardly anyone would've mentioned Ron in this race. We do however need to not treat this as a defeat but as a win. Our movement is much stronger now than it was a year ago. People are not afraid to speak out against tyranny anymore and the message of a people who want their freedom is ringing out again. We need to take all the meetups and local organizations and coordinate them into a national movement. We need to start the 2012 campaign now even though we don't have a candidate. We need to be in the position that other groups like the churches and unions are in next time around to have candidates seek out our endorsement and be scared of pissing us off and having 20 million voters turn out to vote against them.
When you look at everything we've accomplished in just one year there is no reason for anyone to feel shame or anger. We outlasted the supposed front runners and are still in the race. Our candidate has not called it quits and thrown in the towel to endorse someone with the wrong ideas.
Everyone involved in this movement needs to keep their head up and refocus their energy on unseating congressmen and senators that work against what we stand for and set their sights on making a big difference in 2010 House and Senate races and taking a lot of momentum into the 2012 Presidential race.
Moneybombs, although newsworthy, cannot be the main source of fundraising. The message should be if you're serious about this campaign give as much as possible as often as possible. Don't wait until a certain day to donate what you could give today. If you have it now donate it now or you're depriving the campaign of resources they could put to use immediately. If some of the moneybomb money had arrived earlier it could've been spent in New Hampshire and a stronger showing there may have been all we needed to turn heads and give the impression Ron could win.
I think that the grassroots have done a great job and that even though Ron is a great man we made him the icon he was by putting our full faith and money behind him. Without the grassroots explosion hardly anyone would've mentioned Ron in this race. We do however need to not treat this as a defeat but as a win. Our movement is much stronger now than it was a year ago. People are not afraid to speak out against tyranny anymore and the message of a people who want their freedom is ringing out again. We need to take all the meetups and local organizations and coordinate them into a national movement. We need to start the 2012 campaign now even though we don't have a candidate. We need to be in the position that other groups like the churches and unions are in next time around to have candidates seek out our endorsement and be scared of pissing us off and having 20 million voters turn out to vote against them.
When you look at everything we've accomplished in just one year there is no reason for anyone to feel shame or anger. We outlasted the supposed front runners and are still in the race. Our candidate has not called it quits and thrown in the towel to endorse someone with the wrong ideas.
Everyone involved in this movement needs to keep their head up and refocus their energy on unseating congressmen and senators that work against what we stand for and set their sights on making a big difference in 2010 House and Senate races and taking a lot of momentum into the 2012 Presidential race.
