More campaign ineptness

[Bradley in DC]

I agree, we need to quit giving money to the official campaign and put it into grassroots advertising instead.

No question.

Everyone take a look at the polls in your state--most importantly, check the crosstabs! Search on here for my posts on the polling industry if that isn't obvious. Determine, together with others in your state, what the situation is based on the demographics of the crosstabs and plot a strategy of whom to target. Act accordingly.

Assume HQ will have no idea how to do this nor what I'm even talking about which is Elections 101.

 

[Eric21ND]

+100000000000000000000000000

I mean, the ONLY anti-war candidate and he doens't even have an anti-war ad.

If it wasn't so true and tragic I might laugh at this so obvious idea.

 

[Redcard]

Why isn't RP doing anything about this? I mean, you've got to think he's dead center in the decision making process here? Is this really what he wants to be doing? I'm having serious doubts here.. what if he makes it? What if he wins? Is this the kind of people he'll be putting in office? I know he won't be picking ME to sit on his cabinent.. those jobs go to CAMPAIGN STAFFERS.

 

[RonPaulR3VOLUTION]

We need a professional anti-war ad YESTERDAY.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsVp938LNEg

 

[i2ambler]

He has one anti-war ad, but its just not very good.. We need a very good one with a strictly anti-war message.

"I am Ron Paul, I was a flight surgeon in the air force during the Vietnam war. As a surgeon I saw the damage that battle can wreak upon a human life, and the horrible wounds both mentally and physically inflicted on our young servicepeople We currently have thousands of young men and women overseas in danger fighting a needless battle while our borders are left undefended here at home. I want to all of bring our troops home from overseas so they can defend the land our forefathers helped us create."

or some crap.

 

[Bradley in DC]

Attack John Mccain

we have internal sabotage going on, we have people in the campaign working against us

this is the only explanation i can come up with

Do not make personal attacks. I can give a long explanation but please just trust me on this one.

There is no internal sabotage (if only the explanation were that kind).

We need to focus more on character, vision, integrity and WHY AND HOW Dr. Paul's philosophy will make us all better off.

Also, we have a HUGE problem with the (mis)perception that Dr. Paul is some Hannity caricature of a left-wing, conspiracy crazy surrendering peacenik. He is a solid conservative with a record against taxes and spending and abortion better than any of them.

 

[AlexMerced]

Depending on the campaign is like depending on the government, if you do, you just don't get what this movement is about

 

[i2ambler]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsVp938LNEg

Is that ad being aired?? That /is/ a kickass ad.

 

[Johncjackson]

What we really need to do is an attack ad on Duncan Hunter- saying that RP is much harder on illegal immigration and pro-military.

 

[i2ambler]

What we really need to do is an attack ad on Duncan Hunter- saying that RP is much harder on illegal immigration and pro-military.

I hope that is sarcasm..

 

[Ulf5]

McCave

We should send a post-card to every household in NH. The front has the photo from 2004 with McCain hugging George W. Bush. The back of the card just features one word....

"Maverick?"

 

[i2ambler]

No, what we need to do is show that eLIB3RTY anti-war ad to every human being in america today.

 

[Bradley in DC]

Why isn't RP doing anything about this? I know he won't be picking ME to sit on his cabinent.. those jobs go to CAMPAIGN STAFFERS.

By temperament and experience, Dr. Paul will be the last to know there is a problem.

He has a few decades of contacts with good people (most of whom turned down positions offered on the campaign) including the current and former Congressional staff, etc.

 

[Redcard]

By temperament and experience, Dr. Paul will be the last to know there is a problem.

He has a few decades of contacts with good people (most of whom turned down positions offered on the campaign) including the current and former Congressional staff, etc.

That's not reassuring me.

 

[McLane2007]

Run the ads you would like to see in local NH newspapers we can't control what the RP campaign is doing so roll your eyes, email your suggestion to the campaign then move on to doing something positive to get Ron Paul elected.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=75102

 

[Cindy]

I agree, we need to quit giving money to the official campaign and put it into grassroots advertising instead.

And the grassroots needs to get a dose of reality and realize middle of the month moneybombs will be extremely little help, and that neglecting SC as the official campaign has done will get us like a 4th place finish here. Maybe even 5th, and if McCain beats us in SC then we'll be needing some divine intervention to win because people in SC hate McCain.

I second that and will add that Floridas primary is only 3 1/2 weeks away and paul hasn;t spent any time or money camapaigning here either.

Florida is prime country for him with gun rights, immigration, evangelicals, taxes, property rights, home schoolers, housing bubble crashes, and grown hippie flower children still fighting the revolution form the late 60s.

HQ is clueless and I do not understand their strategy at all or if they even have one.

HQ gets no more money from me. Grass roots projects running High Quality comercials will be it from here on.

Look, the RP grass roots have proven to be a formidle force that is highly organized. Bottom line is that we need to stay tight and work at getting many within to run for Congressional district seats, people the media will adore.

The more I pull back and reflect on why such an honest wise and trustworthy candidate isn't rising faster, I can only find fault with HQ being off and behind and Mostly, what is hurting is the media either pretending like Paul doesn't exist, the negative press, and the lack of fair time and good questions in debates.

Maybe the MSM is what we should be working at taking over instead of the REC. It does seem that the media at the end of the day, selects our parties nominess and Countries Presidents for us.

To make up for them, we need to start keeping the money and funding our own proffesional comercial ads in primary states as they come up.

We gave Paul the highest fundraising quarter of them all and it's as if it means nothing.

Lets start spending future donations on funding Great comercial ads.

 

[Paulite]

ron paul pbs tonight

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2008/01/bill_moyers_rewind_ron_paul_20.html

 

[josh24601]

Omg Itz A Dizaster

 

[Jesubub]

Do we know for sure that the campaign mailed those out and not some other group?

 

[manny]

We need a professional anti-war ad YESTERDAY.

qft

We should be pushing this message. For anyone of any party who wants to end the killing in Iraq and Afghanistan plus know there won't be US soldiers going to Pakistan or Iran - basically for anybody who loves peace, Ron should be the obvious candidate.

We need some way of making it so that anyone anti-war knows that to express that feeling they need to vote for Paul.

Don't know how to do it. Can you believe people think Hillary is anti-war?!