Ron Paul, Buy a 15 Minute Block Of TV Time. Subvert The MSM! Speak To The People!

[pauliticalfan]

This would be amazing and effective.

 

[TheTexan]

Obama: "As President, this is what I'll do: more of the same"

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

I remember Paul did this before Iowa caucus last cycle - and the campaign just put his '07 straw poll speech there.

If they want to do it, do it right.

Not sure - their recent campaign ads - poss exception on the last one - have been good - not like last time, but I have a feeling the grassroots might do a better job.

 

[parocks]

NO!

This election will be won by:

1- phone banking
2- door-to-door
3- donations to the campaign for
4- direct mail


We only want to target likely Republican voters.
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You're wrong.

It's one thing to shout that the campaign asked people not to come to Iowa, so don't come to Iowa.

Of course, the campaign should not neglect those things. But we're just going to have to find votes from unlikely sources. His message does not appeal to enough
traditional Republican voters. We have to find a lot more. Polling indicates that the youth are responding favorably to Ron Paul. We are going to have to get them to vote, even though they don't vote as regularly as 65+.

 

[Andrew76]

Again, I encourage everyone to stay focused on the original idea/link I posted that began this whole thread. Simple is best.

We've all got some really great ideas, but there's oh.. I dunno tens of thousands of us, so the best thing we can do - in my opinion - is offer our support if/when the Campaign decides to run with this idea.

If the grassroots were to do a decent job of it, a 15 minute prime time, nation wide, pre-recorded and WELL scripted speech could easily be in the low millions. I say, as the grass roots, let's focus on goals we can realistically achieve - donating our time and money to the campaign and doing our best to educate whenever the opportunity arrises. The youtube videos are great. I'm going to send this link/thread over to the folks at Lewrockwell.com to let them know everyone's excited about their idea. This thing has legs!

It's very easy for us to get super excited about this possibly going down and getting into super detailed discussions of exactly how it should look, sound, feel and who should be writing it. I get it, I'm doing the same thing. But in reality, we will really have no say unless the campaign asks us our opinion or sends us a few different versions to vote on or something. Then again, we are the "already converted" we do not need anymore convincing. Could we really raise a few million on our own, book the t.v. time on all major networks and hire camera men, lighting crew, editors and speech writers? It's unlikely, I think we can agree there. We could prepare a youtube video and if it takes off then buy time to air it on t.v. But then, we're getting off target.
This specific idea is about a 15 minute, pre-taped, well prepared/delivered speech on Foreign Policy and it's related topics to the American People. On this issue alone, he is the most mis-quoted, misunderstood and misrepresented. I for one am sick to death of Paul getting snide remarks, getting cut off, having the issue reframed by a conniving interviewer, etc. I want to see these bastards squirm while he delivers at least a 15 minute truth bomb into the living rooms of America. As always, just my two cents. Glad everyone's super excited on this one.

 

[D.A.S.]

I think we could finance this with a little help from our friends on radio in promoting the moneybomb, if possible. This TV spot idea is a very important one and would be a MAJOR muscle flexing from the campaign and presenting Dr. Paul as a credible figure to the mainstream that's trying to black us out.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

Andrew,

they do not sell 15 min slots.

30 sec, 60 sec and 28.5min slots yes - 15 min slots NO!

If done right, your viewership numbers are really low.

The grassroots could pull this off.

-t

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

You're wrong.

It's one thing to shout that the campaign asked people not to come to Iowa, so don't come to Iowa.

Of course, the campaign should not neglect those things. But we're just going to have to find votes from unlikely sources. His message does not appeal to enough
traditional Republican voters. We have to find a lot more. Polling indicates that the youth are responding favorably to Ron Paul. We are going to have to get them to vote, even though they don't vote as regularly as 65+.

I still like this one...

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?313274-A-secret-tactic-for-the-r3VOLution

As to the 65+ we really need to push that their savings/SS is RAPIDLY loosing value and the gold standard is the way to retain it. Inflation and why the FED is bad. Also that Ron and Rand have the only viable plan to save SS.

-t

 

[Napoleon's Shadow]

But we're just going to have to find votes from unlikely sources. His message does not appeal to enough traditional Republican voters. We have to find a lot more. Polling indicates that the youth are responding favorably to Ron Paul. We are going to have to get them to vote, even though they don't vote as regularly as 65+.

Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

No, the only chance we have for electoral victory is to convert Republicans who will be voting / caucusing in the primaries this upcoming cycle.

If we identify them, segment them based upon which issues are important to them, and then target them with issue specific information, then yes we can win this thing.

So have you gone door-to-door to every likely Republican voter in your precinct yet? How many phone calls have you made from the campaign's phone-from-home system?

 

[mstrmac1]

"Great" Idea to come from the grassroots ... this is EXACTLY why we have these forums. For something BIG!!!

SO LETS STOP TALKING AND DO IT!! TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!!!

Who can start a website? We all can promote? Who will be the lead? LET JUST DO IT!!

and to those who say it's bad... well, it's my REVOLUTION TOO!!

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

So have you gone door-to-door to every likely Republican voter in your precinct yet?

NO. I went door to door to EVERY house in my area! When we distributed campaign newspapers - yeah - supplies were restricted so we limited those to republicans. Slim Jims are cheap.

How many phone calls have you made from the campaign's phone-from-home system?

NONE, ZERO, NADA!

-t

 

[AgentOrange]

Well, I will echo the people who say maybe this will work, but only after Dr Paul has won the primary. Dr. Paul's finances are unfortunately limited, since the richest of individuals & corporations don't support him. He *must* use his funds wisely. A nation-wide ad is disproportionately prohibitively expensive compared to the possible results (reminds of that movie where the guy had to spend millions of dollars before a deadline, so he was running commercials of himself running for New York mayor in Alaska) At this point, his target audience is registered republican voters. These voters need to be individual targeted whether door-to-door, phone-banking, or direct mailing. The heaviest emphasis *must* be in early states, and in the few states where people don't have to formerly register Republican to vote in a Republican primary.

Now if he were going to buy time....it needs to be all about senior citizens. He already has the youth vote, he will *never* get the neocon vote. At this point, he needs to be focusing on the senior citizen vote. These people are the most likely to vote, and the least likely to be familiar with him. My opinion, he needs to focus on the concerns of senior citizens, and how his proposals will enhance their lives. Foreign policy is part of that, but he needs to focuse more on how ending military actions will free up money to save/reform social security/medicare. He needs to focus on his excellent health (I have heard many senior citizens I know personally, say they won't vote for Ron Paul because they don't think someone of his age has the "stamina" to be president.) Whatever issues are concerning the average senior citizen Republican, these are the issues that Ron Paul needs to be addressing.

 

[Patriot123]

Recall Obama's infomercial before he was elected.

http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/10/obama_price_tag_25_mil_for_net.php

We could do this for just under $900 million on one network, just under $2 million on two. It's just a matter of whether the campaign would be willing to do it. They might argue that at this point in the campaign, it would mean very little. Don't forget, the people running the campaign -- at least as far as we know, are professionals. They're going to have a much, much better idea of strategy in terms of political campaigns than most if not all people on this forum. If I had to take a guess, I'd say this sort of "infomercial" would be best right before the first caucus or primary -- Iowa, I believe? It would probably be best then as opposed to now.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

and to those who say it's bad... well, it's my REVOLUTION TOO!!

If I can't dance - I don't want to be in your R3volution!
-Emma Goldwin

 

[parocks]

I still like this one...

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?313274-A-secret-tactic-for-the-r3VOLution

As to the 65+ we really need to push that their savings/SS is RAPIDLY loosing value and the gold standard is the way to retain it. Inflation and why the FED is bad. Also that Ron and Rand have the only viable plan to save SS.

-t

Porn stars wearing ron paul tshirts on monday.

It's not our job to determine the content of the message really. Ron Paul does what he does to get people to like him. And we find those people who like him and make sure they're registered to vote, and that they actually do vote. The campaign will be coordinating things at the end, but before that, finding the Ron Paul supporters, and getting them organized, so that they can be contacted easily for work by the official campaign is really what we should be doing. Building your meetup groups. And the events the meetup groups do should be done with an eye to building the meetup group.

 

[mstrmac1]

If I can't dance - I don't want to be in your R3volution!
-Emma Goldwin

Oh you can dance... dance all you want emma!! Your Free to do as you like!

In fact, I would encourage it.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

If we don't do this to WIN the primaries - we will not be in the general.

just my humble opinion.

2M - WTF?? at teh outside we were talking about a quarter mil for a weekly TV show!

45K could do a one time, with one rebroadcast thing. We could raise this easily.

seniors - yes - we really need to address these ppl

-t

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

Porn stars wearing ron paul tshirts on monday.

It's not our job to determine the content of the message really. Ron Paul does what he does to get people to like him. And we find those people who like him and make sure they're registered to vote, and that they actually do vote. The campaign will be coordinating things at the end, but before that, finding the Ron Paul supporters, and getting them organized, so that they can be contacted easily for work by the official campaign is really what we should be doing. Building your meetup groups. And the events the meetup groups do should be done with an eye to building the meetup group.

Did you read the entire thread? - 128M US citizens potentially contacted...

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

Oh you can dance... dance all you want emma!! Your Free to do as you like!

In fact, I would encourage it.

YEAH BABY!

 

[parocks]

Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

No, the only chance we have for electoral victory is to convert Republicans who will be voting / caucusing in the primaries this upcoming cycle.

If we identify them, segment them based upon which issues are important to them, and then target them with issue specific information, then yes we can win this thing.

So have you gone door-to-door to every likely Republican voter in your precinct yet? How many phone calls have you made from the campaign's phone-from-home system?

We need to do both.