Jonathan
I wrote a diatribe outlining my outright anger at HQ on this thread a couple of days ago...but pulled it after only being on for a few minutes. It did not feel right to direct this anger to you, someone who was willing to come voluntarily to this forum and shed some light on this....the mother of all political melt downs. For your courage to be here, I thank and applaud you.
But I am angry, Pissed, Seething, Jumping up and down and curseing mad.
This campaign had:
The best candidate
The best message
The best grassroots
This country has ever had in the last century.
I mean really!!! What does a campaign want that is any different from what HQ had?? You want a better candidate? There isnt any! You want a better message? There isn't any! You want a better, more involved, more passionate grassroots? THERE ISN'T ANY!!!
The failings of this effort has to be laid at the feet of HQ because.....There is no candidate, message or supporter base that will be any better that what HQ had.
I, like most of the supporters I have come in contact with, came across Ron Paul through the grassroots efforts...period.
Practically everything that came out of HQ was met with " What the F@#*???!! Are they trying to kill this thing?"
Thank you for the information that the immigration direct mailer was indeed from HQ.
The thinking that would put this out...and no I don't have to remember who it was targeting...is the same thinking that put out all of the TV ads generated from HQ.
Cheap, cheesy, not at all reflective of Ron Pauls base, destructive and created more hurdles for us to have to jump through when trying to talk to someone about Ron Pauls message which, of course, was no where to be seen in these marketing faux pas.
Not defendable unless the defense is " We had no idea what we were doing."
Does a campaign management team really need a marketing expert or "test group" to tell you that something that looks like it was made by the local cable company for the local furniture store, has no place in a presidential election? Really? Does it need an expert to tell you that something is tasteless, offensive and will downright disgust people? The marketing from HQ could not have been any worse and was heart breaking and demotivating for us on the front lines.
I mean there was actually someone in HQ that looked at the direct mailers and the TV ads and said, "Yes this is our best effort and this ought to get us a groundswell of new voters???"
Whoever pulled the trigger on any of this is a disaster to any political candidate. They should never work for any candidate that they actually want to see get elected at a federal level.
As for the accusations of which sexual preference anyone was in the campaign, I could care less.
Incompetance is what sunk this ship ( and by the way, it is sunk)....not lifestyle preference.
Thank you for doing the best that you could with the experience that you had.
But I've got to tell you, I've been in my industry for over 20 years and am extremely competant in what I do...to a degree. And while my company designs and installs custom electronic systems in Casino's, conference rooms etc If my company were offered a national contract to design and install a NASA electronics facility I would have to have the self knowledge to decline the offer as it would be over my head and an entire nation would be dependent on my success.
As an entire nation was dependent on your success, didn't you think that this was over your head considering that you had no experience at it?
Question: Why would a serious presidential campaign managment team hire someone fresh out of college with no previous experience to handle the most important life blood (fund raising) of the effort?
I mean this JB. How did you get the position? Would you have hired you considering the expertice that would be required for the success of that position?
