First of all great job, and I can certainly share your frustrations with the Truthers that seem ever so prevalent in our campaign. I definitely never used them like you did as foil, that was some great work there.
To the rest of the posters,
What we all need to realize is that our own personal beliefs ARE NOT appropriate to share with anyone when promoting Ron Paul unless they coincide with what Ron Paul believes or what you audience wants to hear. What Landon did here was perfect; that's exactly the kind of message you win Republicans over with. Most of our VOTERS (I said voters, not supporters) are Republicans who will likely vote Republican in the general. It seems that so many of you fail to realize we are running in the Republican primary. While that personally doesn't describe me as well, you have to realize it DOES describe both a majority of our voters and even more of our target audience.
I understand many of you aren't happy about that, but in the Republican nomination run, you have to realize that you're out of your element and you neighborhood so to speak. You need to realize you have to do the say the right words and even do the superficial things that impress your target audience: Republican primary voters.
I know it's much easier for some of us to do it than others, some of us actually ARE Republicans and act, dress, and talk like them. How we just naturally go about our business, always wearing suits or dresses at events when we represent Paul, having conservative hairstyles, talking about how the Democrats will tax us out of existence are exactly the right ways to conduct ourselves around other Republicans. It may not be fair that we can be more ourselves and other Ron Paul supporters can't, but life isn't fair. The potential voters don't care about individualism and freedom of expression like we do; they support people that look and act like they do. We all need to realize this, and so either suck it up and give our audience what it wants or step aside and let someone talk who will do it.
To the rest of the posters,
What we all need to realize is that our own personal beliefs ARE NOT appropriate to share with anyone when promoting Ron Paul unless they coincide with what Ron Paul believes or what you audience wants to hear. What Landon did here was perfect; that's exactly the kind of message you win Republicans over with. Most of our VOTERS (I said voters, not supporters) are Republicans who will likely vote Republican in the general. It seems that so many of you fail to realize we are running in the Republican primary. While that personally doesn't describe me as well, you have to realize it DOES describe both a majority of our voters and even more of our target audience.
I understand many of you aren't happy about that, but in the Republican nomination run, you have to realize that you're out of your element and you neighborhood so to speak. You need to realize you have to do the say the right words and even do the superficial things that impress your target audience: Republican primary voters.
I know it's much easier for some of us to do it than others, some of us actually ARE Republicans and act, dress, and talk like them. How we just naturally go about our business, always wearing suits or dresses at events when we represent Paul, having conservative hairstyles, talking about how the Democrats will tax us out of existence are exactly the right ways to conduct ourselves around other Republicans. It may not be fair that we can be more ourselves and other Ron Paul supporters can't, but life isn't fair. The potential voters don't care about individualism and freedom of expression like we do; they support people that look and act like they do. We all need to realize this, and so either suck it up and give our audience what it wants or step aside and let someone talk who will do it.
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