Paul campaign to unleash the dogs of war in the form of TV buys.

[RobS]

The campaign is smarter than what most thought... I know they wanted to do better in Iowa and New Hampshire, but those were battles. I think in the overall "war" we are still as well positioned as possible considering how things are stacked against us.

DONATE!

I'll be donating on the 1st, because I'll actually have money then and it is the money bomb day

 

[Ex Post Facto]

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/...d=news_view&newsId=20080128006442&newsLang=en

Ron Paul ‘The Only One’ TV Ad Runs in Tennessee and Arkansas
30-Second Spot Shows That Other Candidates Cannot Match Congressman Paul’s Record as a Fiscal Conservative

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul has unveiled a new television ad – titled “The Only One” – that is running in Tennessee and Arkansas.

“There are now five Republican candidates battling for the nomination, but only Congressman Paul can truly be called ‘the taxpayer’s best friend.’ His record as a fiscal conservative is unmatched,” said Ron Paul 2008 campaign chairman Kent Snyder. “Only Dr. Paul has never supported a tax increase, never supported an unbalanced budget, and never supported wasteful spending.”

The ad can be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWL7F4nK_Yw

The following is a transcript of the 30 second advertisement:

[Images of Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mike Huckabee]

Narrator: “Who among these men has never supported a tax increase? Never supported an unbalanced budget? Never supported wasteful government spending?

[All but Congressman Ron Paul fade away]

Narrator: “Congressman Ron Paul… the taxpayer’s best friend.

“We need to keep him fighting for our country. [Ronald Reagan quote]”

Congressman Paul: “I’m Ron Paul and I approve this message.”

 

[Naraku]

I'm not sure about this. The only way this works is if Rudy or maybe Romney wins Florida. If McCain wins there it's all over.

 

[Lord Xar]

right I am confused. I heard 8million left. SO, what happend to ALL THAT MONEY!!! If they are NOW buying ads - then he will have MUCH LESS THAN 8 million... where did over 15million go? And we aren't even talking about carry over from the previous quarters. I don't know. That sounds like alot of wasted money.

 

[Ex Post Facto]

right I am confused. I heard 8million left. SO, what happend to ALL THAT MONEY!!! If they are NOW buying ads - then he will have MUCH LESS THAN 8 million... where did over 15million go? And we aren't even talking about carry over from the previous quarters. I don't know. That sounds like alot of wasted money.

They idea is that Paul pre purchased tv slots in other states, while everyone blew their wads on a couple states.

 

[RobHino]

Radio Ads in Texas

I live in San Antonio, and I've already heard Dr. Paul's Immigration Ad twice today. Yesterday evening on my way back home from Austin was the first time I heard it. The ad I heard in Austin was during a show on 590AM where the host was interviewing Andy Gause about the Federal Reserve. The Ads I heard in San Antonio were on 550AM KTSA.

 

[Lou337]

I hope this comparison makes sense.

Remember that George Washington never won a single battle during his first year of command of the continental army. Their army was famous for retreating. In our campaign terms, let me clear this up.

Ron Paul has not won a mainstream media battle against the top commentators or networks. FOX news are the brits. Let's call msnbc, abc, and cnn the hessians.

We have been forced to retreat from the media spotlight by forces beyond our control but we still find a safe place to regroup & recruit (rallies at every other candidate's arrival, canvassing, phone canvassing, talking to people).

We must now make our crossing at the Delaware River (Super Tuesday) or suffer the british devils!

........I like history too much.

 

[literatim]

Ron only has around $8 Million left. This was acknowledged by Ron himself in a recent interview. Probably around $10 Million after the last money bomb where he got around $2 Million. But the question is whether or not he spent the bulk of his money for Super Tuesday buys or whether all that money was spent in New Hampshire and Iowa.

He only spent around $2.6 million in Iowa and less than that in New Hampshire.

 

[RonPaulFTW08]

Ummm California? What about KA-LEEE-FOURRRR-NEEYAAAAA????

 

[specsaregood]

right I am confused. I heard 8million left. SO, what happend to ALL THAT MONEY!!! If they are NOW buying ads - then he will have MUCH LESS THAN 8 million... where did over 15million go? And we aren't even talking about carry over from the previous quarters. I don't know. That sounds like alot of wasted money.

It may be wishful thinking, but I think he could claim honestly that there is only 8 million left that hadn't already been BUDGETED. ie: the rest had already been set aside for future buys. This would be a nice little deceptive tactic against the other campaigns (look weaker than we are) and still be honest.

 

[jblosser]

So, we're short of money to do the proper advertising in the Feb 5th states... we have two recent ads in the can (which fanboys seem to love, but which do nothing really as far as spreading the message on Paul)...

...and now we're buying ad time in Texas? (where the primary, BTW is **MARCH ** 4th.

So, the $20M question is: Is this about running for President ... or using PCC funds to get re-elected to Congress?

(NOW I undertstand... now the new "The Only One" advertisement finally makes sense... it comes off as if he is running for Congress... which he is... in Texas.)

Our primary is later than some but we have more delegates than all other states but CA and our delegate process is fairly open. It's not an unbound caucus but it's not a predefined slate either.

We also have people here very concerned about life, the border, the TTC, etc. Once we navigate the neocon fearmongering around the war, TX becomes a lock for Paul.

 

[Bilgefisher]

It may be wishful thinking, but I think he could claim honestly that there is only 8 million left that hadn't already been BUDGETED. ie: the rest had already been set aside for future buys. This would be a nice little deceptive tactic against the other campaigns (look weaker than we are) and still be honest.

Either way, if we expect to compete with the Romney self funded warchest, we need to continue donating. Better yet, recruit others to donate.

 

[newyearsrevolution08]

Mittens romney only has his money backing him, his voters and the % are dropping daily for him. Pretty soon his money will not buy anything except debt for his family.

That is the difference between Ron Paul and the other candidates, Ron Paul actually has supporters who support him unlike mittens who supports himself alone.

We are in for the long haul which we all can agree on, the real question is "how much money is mittens willing to lose?" He is not going to become president which we all know and is only a buzz word because he has money and nothing else.

If you put his views on someone extremely broke like the huckster for instance he would odds are be polling at under 1% nationally.... He has no real stance that is electable and is only inflating his numbers SOLEY with money that is getting used for a wasteful campaign that will not do a damn thing in the long run.

The great thing though is, once he realizes that his money alone cant buy the presidency his bought supporters will want to go somewhere and with all the bad campaigning done from the romney campaign and even against it they will behappy to come over to the ron paul group because ron paul does not talk down on the other candidates and has led a 100% honest campaign. Try and find another candidate who is actually campaigning respectfully?

 

[Kotin]

I hope this comparison makes sense.

Remember that George Washington never won a single battle during his first year of command of the continental army. Their army was famous for retreating. In our campaign terms, let me clear this up.

Ron Paul has not won a mainstream media battle against the top commentators or networks. FOX news are the brits. Let's call msnbc, abc, and cnn the hessians.

We have been forced to retreat from the media spotlight by forces beyond our control but we still find a safe place to regroup & recruit (rallies at every other candidate's arrival, canvassing, phone canvassing, talking to people).

We must now make our crossing at the Delaware River (Super Tuesday) or suffer the british devils!

........I like history too much.

Sweet!!


me too.

 

[satchelmcqueen]

What I still find funny is people still thinking that Ron Paul doesn't have a long term strategy for all of this.

With or without wins we WILL be in the general election, we are going LONG TERM and no SINGLE STATE or SINGLE DATE is going to collapse this campaign.

We need to focus on the big picture and realize that WE WILL BE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION so lets get him the money, supporters and as much effort that we can give him.

Too many people came into this OVERLY excited and now can only go down from there. Stop getting overly excited and stick to the plan. This is a long term battle and I always laugh when I see people giving up so quickly due to a single state or a few states giving rp low results.

WAKE UP PEOPLE - research the delegates and why we will still get the white house under control in the end whether we win the super tuesday states or not.

The best thing to do is to not get overly excited or overly depressed over the day to day poll results and bad publicity or good publicity. Just continue doing the footwork that ron paul has told us needs to get done.

9ui1ian1 will be dropping out
huckster will be dropping out

It will be one of these two scenarios below

Ron Paul vs. Clinton = President Ron Paul

or

Ron Paul vs. Mittens Romney vs. Clinton = President Ron Paul


the other candidates are feeding into the msm and thinking that they really are telling the nation which states matter, which votes matter and I think many Americans are starting to wake up and realize that their vote does count.

keep up a stead fight, dont get disappointed with day to day issues and think LONG TERM.

this is true!

 

[HenryKnoxFineBooks]

I hope this comparison makes sense.

Remember that George Washington never won a single battle during his first year of command of the continental army. Their army was famous for retreating. In our campaign terms, let me clear this up.

Ron Paul has not won a mainstream media battle against the top commentators or networks. FOX news are the brits. Let's call msnbc, abc, and cnn the hessians.

We have been forced to retreat from the media spotlight by forces beyond our control but we still find a safe place to regroup & recruit (rallies at every other candidate's arrival, canvassing, phone canvassing, talking to people).

We must now make our crossing at the Delaware River (Super Tuesday) or suffer the british devils!

........I like history too much.

LOL, what i like about this anology is FOX as the British. Remember at Boston Commons, the Boston Massacre, was started when Boston Citizens started throwing snow and Ice at the British at the Customs House....sound familiar?

 

[elahewu]

If he's now buying time for primaries a month from now, I'm sure he purchased the current ads a month ago. I remember posts and news articles awhile back about buying massive tv ad time.

TV ads are not the most important goal. His strategy is go get delegates. Most state's delegates are only bound to the primary election results for the first or second round of voting. We have to get RP delegates elected, even if they are bound to vote for someone else due to primary results. After the first or second round, they can vote their conscience.

Here is a video explaining this strategy - Delegate Recruitment

 

[RonPaulFTW08]

I love this article..

"On the Republican side, the race it is now less about paid media and more about momentum and endurance. Strategically, Rudy Giuliani's campaign has pinned all its hopes and cash on winning Florida, while the John McCain camp continues to use his recent primary wins to fund his next primary campaigns. Both campaigns would love to go back in time and put their squandered campaign funds in an Al Gore lock-box to use at this point in the race."

"There is no telling what cards the GOP contenders will have left to play post-Florida, and thus far no one is spending beyond the state except for one candidate. As it turns out, a consultant on the Republican side could take a lesson from none other than Rep. Ron Paul. Paul may have just guessed this race correctly. Paul, who has raised a reported war chest exceeding $20 million, has spent, by our analysis, only around $2.5 million on TV ads thus far. The Paul campaign as of yesterday has begun buying in states such as Texas, which hold primaries after Super Tuesday. Paul could outspend his rivals on TV down the stretch of the GOP races, and the way this campaign has gone, who would really be surprised?"

Ummm I heard someone somewhere say something like.. "RON PAUL FOR THE LONG HAUL! ...and I agree! ;-)

 

[HarryBrowneLives]

... And you can bet that those ads are just the start of it if this anaysis is true. I would bet $100.00 to the campaign that they bought the bulk of the ads backward from Feb. 5th.

 

[Ex Post Facto]

... And you can bet that those ads are just the start of it if this anaysis is true. I would bet $100.00 to the campaign that they bought the bulk of the ads backward from Feb. 5th.

lol that would be genious.