The campaign has a long term strategy. Santorum will be out soon enough. We are in it for the long haul. We will pick up delegates. Gingrich and Santorum haven't qualified to be on the ballot of many states, and proportional delegate allocation helps us.
The campaign was never active in SC
Only TV was present and Ron Paul was there for 6 of the 11 days
The campaign never planned on spending too many resources on SC similiar to Florida.
People have a 2008 mentality. This was set up to be a long race, way before any of these guys announced their candidacy. The reason was the primaries were so front loaded, that most of the states really did not have a say in choosing the nominee. The way it is set up now, more than half of the contests will vote before it is even mathematically possible for someone to win the nomination.
This works to our favor as it allows the campaign to conserve money, time and energy and focus on the next phase of the campaign which is the four caucus states in early February. We never got any traction in SC, which is why we did not spend much money there, and never really had a focused PFH effort there either. FL is a waste of time and money as they have few delegates up for grabs in a winner take all primary in a very expensive state.
The campaign was never active in SC
Only TV was present and Ron Paul was there for 6 of the 11 days
The campaign never planned on spending too many resources on SC similiar to Florida.
this. when Ron got a bump after New Hampshire it surprised them, but we didn't even have phone from home working in SC, it went from NH to Nev, remember?
Ron had better win Nevada. I am not interested in taking a few hundred delegates to the convention and Ron giving a speech and Mitt or Newt can stand up there and lie about sound money and debt reduction. If we don't get Nevada it is time to get out and run on the Libertarian ticket.
Oh geez. We don't have time to "remain calm." I'm a freaking marketing black belt. I've consulted with Universal Studios and a bunch of other corporations and I will freaking say this right now. If the campaign doesn't get on top of the following two things RIGHT NOW Paul will get embarassed even if it's down to two people.
1. Electability. PLEASE make ads with the CNN polls showing Paul ties with Obama unlike the others (except Romney). How this hasn't happened yet is beyond me.
2. Foreign policy. You've got to pound away that it's not that Paul is weak on this but that he wants to protect our borders and our currency and make us safer by not stirring up hornet's nests. And that we're currerntly funding our enemies and Israel's enemies and Ron Paul would stop it.
Address that. Get ads on that or hang it up. That's all there is to it. It is so freaking frustrating watching one of my heros have a mismanaged campaign and I just don't get how these obvious things haven't been seen and jumped on.
