Start preparing, Ron Paul WILL run for President in 2012!!! [Mod Note: RUMOR]

[specsaregood]

Some folks really despise Ghemmy.

I'm in agreement with you though, I've found a number of InflationUs videos to be spot on, so I'm willing to give Ghemmy a pass.

What's not to like about a guy that wants to "spam" every person in the US "just once".

Why haven't we created a mass email marketing effort for ron paul.....stating the obvious...everyone has email

is it spam if everyone in the country get's it only once? After it's over we could be polling 18% and Ron Paul has 50 million in the bank

LOL, dude was a riot.

 

[trey4sports]

Marc, first thank you for all of your hard work. I live in MO, doesn't make me necessarily an expert to give advice, but I think Springfield is more like Oklahoma or Arkansas than any other town we have here. Most of it is very Protestant, evangelical bible-belt Protestant. You know that video televangelist chick down there who made a video like four years ago where she said the problem was that people think too much, because humans aren't able to get Jesus' message through our "Leeeeeeettle teeny-weeny brains" so we should just sit back and accept the church's word on everything? That kind of says it all. Then you have like 10% rebellious punk kids who are probably just radical left-wing because it's trendy, and counter to the GOP voting morays of the church elders.

I think what you have to do is talk to individuals, signs won't do anything if people know who he is but made up their minds already. Ron Paul is right when he says the freedom message brings people together. It does, but the political corollary to that is that you can angle the message toward the listener. I wouldn't talk to old people in Springfield about personal liberty in general. But you could talk about Ron Paul's support OF the church against certain government restriction & intervention. Most proselytizing Christians are big local-education-control fans because they wouldn't have D.C. imposing rules about praying, teaching evolution, black history, science in general, A = A or electricity...powered appliances...um, sorry, got carried away there. They like local education. Ask them if they watch Glenn Beck, he's solidly in Ron's corner now. Talk about the drastically lower taxes and gun rights, property rights, etc. All kinds of traditional GOP issues that were perverted by neocons and church opportunists are good Ron Paul talking points for getting the Archie Bunker vote.

And there are colleges down there. We need to campaign hard at all colleges. Not with signs but with direct communication and encouraging young liberty activists. If you run into liberals, just explain how Ron is more of a true liberal than Obama. Talk up his stances on the Patriot Act, gay rights, drugs, the "War is Making you Poor Act" w/ Kucinich and the ongoing dialogue/friendship with Nader. Mention that he did not favor cutting unemployment benefits & how he plans to spend approximately half of the current war budget to tide over the poor and elderly.

I think "Ron Paul 2012" or "Revolution" are still the best bet. Prosperity is a what-not-how rhetorical proposition, Integrity is a common political boast, and Consistency falls flat because many voters are regretfully starting with the proposition that libertarians are consistently fucked up. But keep the ideas coming! Great work and thanks!

(It's wrong for a newbie to take the reins & give such advice, but it's 4:50 AM MO time and I thought I'd help a brotha out).

Hey your from Springfield, right on! Do you go to Mo state by chance?

 

[GabrielHandler]

I feel funny...

I feel funny about this "announcement". As much as I would like for it to be true it feels more like a ruse for increased name recognition and donations. Hopefully it doesn't back fire and make Ron look bad in the long run. Either way this does feel like an announcement from Ron Paul's camp, but more like a personal assumption. I'd love to be proven wrong.

 

[speciallyblend]

Ron Paul 2012 will happen. The gop better make it happen! Honestly as a new republican i feel like the gop is hanging by a thread and i am in no mood for the typical gop establishment bs!! Ron Paul's Platform is why i am a republican. If the RNC or the GOP cannot figure out the Ron Paul platform and follow it! Then i suspect my vote will have to look elsewhere!! Period

I think Ron Paul needs to throw the hammer down and show the gop/rnc the gravity of the situation! If the gop wants to blame anyone for putting themselves into this position of having to nominate Ron Paul to gain their own credibility back. The blame lays at the feet of the current failed gop leadership and past!!!

The line has been drawn in the sand by the failed gop, we just poured concrete to solidfy that line!!

 

[mello]

See the sig...

I tweaked your Ron Paul Signature to make it look a little more like
an "R".

 

[RPgrassrootsactivist]

For the price of ONE BLIMP, according to another poster, we could have OUR OWN RADIO STATION for an ENTIRE YEAR in IOWA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, SOUTH CAROLINA, and whatever other primary state we choose, or TWO RADIO STATIONS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

For the price of TWO BLIMPS, we could have EIGHT RADIO STATIONS FOR A YEAR!


Think about it...

This is really a great idea. Is there anyone in the liberty movement who has the knowledge to plan this out so it can be launched as soon as funds are available? Maybe someone like Ted Anderson? If so, whoever has done the research on this idea should send the facts and figures to Anderson (or whomever else is capable of organizing it) right away.

Maybe Jack Hunter would want to lead the radio effort in South Carolina?

 

[Elwar]

The official word has been given:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showpost.php?p=2843663&postcount=7

 

[DjLoTi]

This is really a great idea. Is there anyone in the liberty movement who has the knowledge to plan this out so it can be launched as soon as funds are available? Maybe someone like Ted Anderson? If so, whoever has done the research on this idea should send the facts and figures to Anderson (or whomever else is capable of organizing it) right away.

Maybe Jack Hunter would want to lead the radio effort in South Carolina?

I started RonPaulradio.com back in 2008 and I know all about the process. I wrote a 15-page paper detailing the benefits and challenges of having a radio station. I know about getting press passes, getting to debates, broadcasting from anywhere, and yes an added benefit is that we could have great shows by people like Jack Hunter! If they are interested of course!

I lost that 15 page paper I wrote (otherwise it would already be up) but I will write it again and I promise I'll get it up this weekend

 

[Bman]

Facebooked!

Got a lot of High School friends from Central PA who are big Ron Paul fans. I will help to get them mobilized.

 

[JamesButabi]

As silly as this is....its awesome. Im enjoying all of the buzz a simple rumor can muster up, and realize this is merely a sneak peek of something legit and an explosion of activity the second RP 2012 is official.

 

[Elwar]

I started RonPaulradio.com back in 2008 and I know all about the process. I wrote a 15-page paper detailing the benefits and challenges of having a radio station. I know about getting press passes, getting to debates, broadcasting from anywhere, and yes an added benefit is that we could have great shows by people like Jack Hunter! If they are interested of course!

I lost that 15 page paper I wrote (otherwise it would already be up) but I will write it again and I promise I'll get it up this weekend

Make it so...

Your 4000th post...the Iowa Ron Paul radio write up.

 

[AuH2O]

There are a couple scenarios I can see here.

A) Matt is speculating.

B) Matt has inside information, which he has decided to leak in violation of trust. Unless of course it's option C...

C) Matt was given inside information and told that he should be the one to make the announcement.

Unless there's another alternative I'm missing, I'd say this is probably a thread that shouldn't have been started.

 

[the_shez]

If this is true, I'm packing up my s**t and moving from Canada to the US to put all of my efforts into this. Any patriots with some advice how or where to make the move down and get directly involved?

 

[erowe1]

If this is true, I'm packing up my s**t and moving from Canada to the US to put all of my efforts into this. Any patriots with some advice how or where to make the move down and get directly involved?

Iowa would probably be best, perhaps close to Ames. That way you could be involved in helping with the straw poll, including perhaps letting some out-of-staters spend the night at your place and helping make arrangements for some other places they could stay as well. And then you'd be there to help campaign for the Iowa caucuses as well.

 

[Legend1104]

I have a feeling like maybe Collins was told by either Dr. Paul or someone very close that Paul has quietly decided that he will run again. It may have even been a sort of off handed conversation that swung into that topic instead of a direct meeting specifically for that purpose. I would bet that he was probably told that it is ok if he mentions this here as long as he does not give any real details until at least after Nov. 2nd (Matt may have even pushed the source to be able to at least give us that much info.) That way Dr. Paul could maybe get an idea by the reaction given what feelings are and plus give us something to look forward too. Just my thoughts. Thing is, the secret has got to be killing him. He is probably like a magician with a new magic trick. He really wants to show it off a lot, and loves being the center of attention, but he must realize that the line from that movie the prestige is so true, "Never let them know the secret because then you will be nothing to them."

 

[Wren]

So is this official, or is it just a rumor now?

 

[YumYum]

So is this official, or is it just a rumor now?

It's an official rumor.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

So is this official, or is it just a rumor now?

Truly it's a mystery.

Start preparing, Ron Paul WILL run for President in 2012!!! [Mod Note: RUMOR]

 

[WaltM]

I highly doubt, if they wanted us to know, they'd still be sitting on it and let us rumor from now.

As for why they've not decided, it's beyond me.

 

[Matt Collins]

Thing is, the secret has got to be killing him.