The campaign is over (split)

[hells_unicorn]

I am interested in what you think "the problem with the movement" is.

I can sum up the problem in 3 words: circular firing squad. Brandon's tone is indicative of a person who wants to plunge everything into complete disarray over a few tactical/strategic moves that he didn't like. People turning Trump supporter simply because they are pissed off about 1 or 2 isolated issues are among the more extreme examples, and I fear there are quite a bit of them.

 

[RonPaulMall]

Agreed, Trump has been successful in being both crass and through fear mongering. Perhaps it is time to consider some of this tactic. When they say he doesn't belong on the stage, and they will, he should respond with something crass, like "we are playing a very dangerous game. It looks like the other candidates on this stage are all asking "mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most fascist of them all?" He should then go into fear mongering saying "the policies proposed by all of these candidates WILL result in war. With the way Obama has decimated our military, hopefully this pending war they are all blindly marching towards won't be fought on the streets of our neighborhoods, resulting from a foreign invasion."

Yeah, I'm sure attacking the most popular candidate on the GOP side in the same language used by MSNBC and the Huffington Post is sure to go over well. Rand's problem, and it is probably too late to fix at this point, is that he has spent the past 6 months doing and saying things calibrated to make him as unpopular as possible among GOP Primary voters. He is in the minds of voters a "Detroit Republican" and he'll probably end up getting a similar percentage of the vote than a Republican running in Detroit would actually get.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Agreed, Trump has been successful in being both crass and through fear mongering. Perhaps it is time to consider some of this tactic. When they say he doesn't belong on the stage, and they will, he should respond with something crass, like "we are playing a very dangerous game. It looks like the other candidates on this stage are all asking "mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most fascist of them all?" He should then go into fear mongering saying "the policies proposed by all of these candidates WILL result in war. With the way Obama has decimated our military, hopefully this pending war they are all blindly marching towards won't be fought on the streets of our neighborhoods, resulting from a foreign invasion."

With exception of the one sentence, I think this would be GREAT for Rand to say!

In this vein...



LBJ aired this to defeat Goldwater.

 

[derek4ever]

With exception of the one sentence, I think this would be GREAT for Rand to say!

In this vein...



LBJ aired this to defeat Goldwater.

It would be very interesting if Rand were to launch a Daisy ad aimed at all the warmongers. LBJ aifred this just once and he won the 64 election in a landslide! Maybe it's time for the roles to be reversed!

 

[RonPaulMall]

LBJ aired this to defeat Goldwater.

After the media had invested over a year of non stop media coverage depicting Goldwater as a warmonger. Battles are not one in a single commercial or a week long campaign. Rand needed to be spending every day for the past year talking about how Hillary's War in Libya turned the entire coast of North Africa over to ISIS and how Obama has been supporting ISIS in Syria and undermining Putin's efforts to defeat the Islamic terrorists. All Rand's supporters in the Liberty Movement needed to be doing the same thing. If Republican voters saw Rand Paul as "the guy who says Barrack Obama is on the side of ISIS rather than the side of America" Rand's poll numbers would be at least five times higher than they are now.