Negative reactions when handing out literature....

My 7 year old

I was handing out slim jims and flyers at Octoberfest a few weeks ago. My colleague handed a woman a flyer and she came back two or three minutes later and handed me the torn up pieces. I have no idea why she felt it was necessary to do that, very angry but didn't say a thing.

Otherwise the response has been absolutely positive. It doesn't hurt that I generally dress snappy and bring my outgoing six year old daughter. She charms them.


Exactly why I try to get my 7 year old son to help out. He's got such a cute kidish voice that I would think it would be hard to say no to him-lol.
 
Ever had really bad experiences while promoting RP?

I tried to hand a guy a liberty card today and he said, "Get the fuck away from me."

:confused:

Some people are like that. I'm also guessing that they don't vote, so to heck with them :)
 
My wife and I have had plenty of doors slammed in our faces, rude remarks on the streets and angry yells from passing cars.

It's just a matter of taking a bullet for the cause, which is to bring the truth about this election to those who are starving to hear it.

The trick is not to judge anyone by their reaction to your uninvited solicitation. Just move on to the next person, and cover as much ground as each opportunity affords you, then plan another one.

We've stood outside the debates in terrible weather. Weve gone door to door. We've talked to every family member and friend. We have our vehicle's windows adorned. We hit the internet. We've used our phones to call IA and NH. We worked the streets of Des Moines. We worked the streets of Manchester, NH. We've worked rural areas of NC.

Point is, there were 25 of us back in May at the second debate, hundreds of us in June at the Des Moines rally and there will be THOUSANDS of us at the Philly rally this month.

Never stop. I dig this thread. It inspires me.

My wife nearly lost her life during recent heart valve repair surgery and she spent 8 days on life support and a month in the hospital. The first day home, from her bed she said, 'Play some Ron Paul vids (on the pute in my office in the next room) and crank it up so I can hear them.' as one of the more emotional vids played (there are lots of them, as you all know), she shed a tear. Believe me, as soon as the docs say she can (and probably before that, if I know her), she'll be back out there slammin' boat loads of lit.

She won't sweat the angry or indifferent ones. She never does.

Bosso
 
Negative reactions are pretty rare. Most people will take the stuff. A few will politely decline and say no, or they will say they like another candidate.

At the one sign wave event I went to we got a lot of positive honks, a few fingers and a couple people yelling insulting comments. I think some people didn't even know what we were there for, they just thought it is funny to heckle anybody that happened to be standing by the road. Had one guy that took the time to roll down the window and berate us on how Ron is going to destroy the country. I just ignored him and let him leave when the light changed.
 
Angry negative people like that probably don't vote anyways so no there's no loss with these people. I'd just move on to the next person, and if they are a real ass then I would kinda snub them off.
 
My wife and I have had plenty of doors slammed in our faces, rude remarks on the streets and angry yells from passing cars.

It's just a matter of taking a bullet for the cause, which is to bring the truth about this election to those who are starving to hear it.

The trick is not to judge anyone by their reaction to your uninvited solicitation. Just move on to the next person, and cover as much ground as each opportunity affords you, then plan another one.

We've stood outside the debates in terrible weather. Weve gone door to door. We've talked to every family member and friend. We have our vehicle's windows adorned. We hit the internet. We've used our phones to call IA and NH. We worked the streets of Des Moines. We worked the streets of Manchester, NH. We've worked rural areas of NC.

Point is, there were 25 of us back in May at the second debate, hundreds of us in June at the Des Moines rally and there will be THOUSANDS of us at the Philly rally this month.

Never stop. I dig this thread. It inspires me.

My wife nearly lost her life during recent heart valve repair surgery and she spent 8 days on life support and a month in the hospital. The first day home, from her bed she said, 'Play some Ron Paul vids (on the pute in my office in the next room) and crank it up so I can hear them.' as one of the more emotional vids played (there are lots of them, as you all know), she shed a tear. Believe me, as soon as the docs say she can (and probably before that, if I know her), she'll be back out there slammin' boat loads of lit.

She won't sweat the angry or indifferent ones. She never does.

Bosso

wow, just wow.

Best wishes and a speedy recovery to your wife!
 
Had one guy that took the time to roll down the window and berate us on how Ron is going to destroy the country. I just ignored him and let him leave when the light changed.

Next time someone does that too me I'm going to be like "Oh, shit. Are you serious? I didn't know..." Then I'm going to drop my sign.

What the hell do these people hope to accomplish?
 
Next time someone does that too me I'm going to be like "Oh, shit. Are you serious? I didn't know..." Then I'm going to drop my sign.

What the hell do these people hope to accomplish?

I just blew coffee all over my keyboard at that. Thanks.
 
As we were sign waving at a busy intersection this weekend, a black pedestrian yelled at us, " I know what you really are, racists. " Less than 24 hours later, a Ron Paul supporter on another blog basically called me a Socialist because I am a cross-over voter from the Democratic party. Whew, getting it from both directions!
 
I was handing out things as people left the UA football game and had some drunk guy start yelling obnoxiously "Giuliani" "Giuliani" "Rudy, Rudy, Rudy" and soo on and soo on.
 
Yeah apparently Ron Paul is a liberal, even though he is the most conservative member in congress.

He's also "crazy". WTF? When did supporting the constitution become crazy?

The arguments against him our pathetic.

Apparently he's antisemitic because he doesn't support entangling alliances like Jefferson.

Apparently he believes in 911 conspiracies because some of his supporters do.

Apparently he is racist because some of his supporters are.



He can't help who is attracted to his message.
 
When I get a negative person, I just tell them that I hope they have a good day and move on. I figure that if you get negative back, then there is no chance they will look into it, and if other people are watching, I want to be respectful, thoughtful, and balanced, so that others have a chance to learn about respecting freedoms.
 
Got told off by a few people at the Texas Straw Poll. Only one was rude.

We did a sign wave at a Fred Thompson Fund raiser. Of course we didn't get any positive feedback, but we did get a nice wave from Fred Thompson. We had one guy stop and tell us he had nothing against Ron Paul, but what we were doing was in poor taste. [the event was at the Ft. Worth Zoo, we have done nearly every fund raiser in a public place, we skip the home based ones]

At the Sean Hannity concert, we got about 40 percent thumbs up, and 60 percent thumbs down. Got flipped off and laughed at a few times. But that was OK, Mitt Romney was there that day, along with Newt.

In all, we get more positive reaction than negative reaction, that is what keeps me going.
 
Pizza God I was at both the Hannity concert and the Zoo, and I was listening in on that conversation, give you a hint I was the one who said well Fred Thompson is in bad taste all by himself.
 
When I get a negative person, I just tell them that I hope they have a good day and move on. I figure that if you get negative back, then there is no chance they will look into it, and if other people are watching, I want to be respectful, thoughtful, and balanced, so that others have a chance to learn about respecting freedoms.
Good points. For those who might be watching, it makes your position look better if you are able to shrug off those who might not be so kind to you.
 
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