RP2012's Doug Wead just had an interview on Fox News (video added)

[RP4Peace]

Look at that interview with Bachmann by Wolf Blitzer yesterday. He wanted her to answer his questions about her staffers bolting, but the main message she got across was that Ron Paul is dangerous and his campaign is slipping, and she repeated it over and over again. She barely dealt with the questions at all.

To me Bachmann sounded arrogant and stupid and the whole interview is annoying. I'm not sure we need to go in that route. But I do see your point.. we might have to do that for those sheeples..

 

[Created4]

The risk of not answering the questions is to appear fake and fonny as she did.

About your main point - you may be up to something. But how would you reply to the following. What if the majority of Americans are wrong but the Republicans are right? For example, there were polls, if I remember correctly, that the majority of Americans like socialism, or redistribution, something ugly. It doesn't mean that the Republicans should follow that to beat Obama, does it?

No, it doesn't mean that and I am not espousing that logic. The main charge right now is he is UNELECTABLE. Even though he could win Iowa, and is polling upward in New Hampshire, the biggest charge against him is he is UNELECTABLE. The fact is, Ron Paul in a general election against Obama is MORE electable than the other candidates, and when it gets down to a two horse race between him and Romney, this has to be communicated, along with educating people what Ron Paul REALLY believes in on many of these issues, and not only defense. Just wait until they start attacking him on the drug issues.

Ron Paul, more than any other candidate, has to take more time to educate people because they just don't understand his positions or liberty concepts. So these main educational points that need to be articulated need to be worked into these interviews. Liberty is infectious. Once people understand it, they will become intrigued like all of us did when we first learned these things. After being intrigued, they will become addicted to the liberty message.

 

[Created4]

The China point was really good.

And the Federal Reserve.

Those were some tough questions and Doug is a great speaker.

He did a great job handling the passage of bills record in Congress and relating that to the Federal Reserve. No doubt. Home run on that one. If he had more time, there is a lot more that could be said also. The average record for sponsored bills being passed by all members of Congress is very tiny. Ron Paul's is only slightly worse, and it is because he cannot be bought out by party leaders. It is a positive, not a negative. And as President, he has the power of the veto, so that changes everything.

 

[Created4]

To me Bachmann sounded arrogant and stupid and the whole interview is annoying. I'm not sure we need to go in that route. But I do see your point.. we might have to do that for those sheeples..

That's because she was getting caught in her lies. That won't happen to Ron Paul.

 

[Publicani]

No, it doesn't mean that and I am not espousing that logic. The main charge right now is he is UNELECTABLE. Even though he could win Iowa, and is polling upward in New Hampshire, the biggest charge against him is he is UNELECTABLE. The fact is, Ron Paul in a general election against Obama is MORE electable than the other candidates, and when it gets down to a two horse race between him and Romney, this has to be communicated, along with educating people what Ron Paul REALLY believes in on many of these issues, and not only defense.

You are right, non-electability is the current mantra against him. There are three ways to address this issue. One, as Ron Paul said in a debate, anybody can beat Obama. Two, as in this interview, we can make a point, that in all polls against Obama Ron is doing ok, not worse than Romney. Three, and I think it's the best point, is to question the framing. Do we want to beat Obama or save America? What's the main goal here?

And then just develop this point. These two goals are different. What if we elect somebody like Bush to beat Obama? Somebody like Romney? Okay, we won. Now we have wars, Romneycare, and bailouts. Are we happy?

 

[Voluntary Man]

The Fox guy is asking him "how do you win the GOP nomination when everyone including your rivals are saying "he can't win" "he won't be the nominee"?

lemme get this straight: when the OPPOSITION says, "you're gonna lose," you're supposed to fold up your tent and go home?

Do people really buy that sh!+?!

 

[Created4]

You are right, non-electability is the current mantra against him. There are three ways to address this issue. One, as Ron Paul said in a debate, anybody can beat Obama. Two, as in this interview, we can make a point, that in all polls against Obama Ron is doing ok, not worse than Romney. Three, and I think it's the best point, is to question the framing. Do we want to beat Obama or save America? What's the main goal here?

And then just develop this point. These two goals are different. What if we elect somebody like Bush to beat Obama? Somebody like Romney? Okay, we won. Now we have wars, Romneycare, and bailouts. Are we happy?

In my opinion, the biggest obstacle we need to overcome is that Ron Paul is "fringe" ("outside of every decent American" as Gingrich said), and that he is unelectable. Why do you think they are tossing out the phrase "to the left of..." so much? The response should be "No! He is to the right, even farther to the right than Ronald Reagan was on some issues" and then explain that Ron Paul is a RETURN to traditional conservative values. Ronald Reagan was the last president that came close to those values. Talk about how the GOP has lost its way, and is no longer truly conservative. I think the words "conservative" and "traditional" need to be worked into every interview. Ron Paul said his favorite president was Grover Cleveland. So list all the conservative values Cleveland stood for, and then at the end say "Oh, and by the way, he ran and won as a democrat."

 

[ZanZibar]

Anyone see Jack Hunter's interview on FNC yesterday?


Apparently the directive has gone out to their anchors not let Ron Paul surrogates speak more than 5 seconds before asking another question. And no, I'm not joking.

 

[WD-NY]

Wow..

If that don't hit close to the average American.....

His answer to the FED question was possibly the best I've heard out of anyone all year.

Has the "rather audit waitress tips than the FED" line been used before??

 

[Emmitt2222]

Anyone see Jack Hunter's interview on FNC yesterday?


Apparently the directive has gone out to their anchors not let Ron Paul surrogates speak more than 5 seconds before asking another question. And no, I'm not joking.

I don't watch many of these interviews because I frankly can't stomach much, but hoooooly cow they cut him off so much!! How can any person sit there and watch this and not be disgusted by how rude it is? If someone were to cut me off that much in an average conversation, I would just flip out or walk away.

Thankfully Doug Wead is a consummate professional and handled it extremely well. We just need to get over this electability hump and Iowa could really help with that.

 

[JohnGalt23g]

The Fox guy is asking him "how do you win the GOP nomination when everyone including your rivals are saying "he can't win" "he won't be the nominee"?

Absolutely a fair question, and absolutely a brilliant response by Doug Wead.

I wanna be Doug Wead when I grow up