[Turkey Day] Have you talked to your family about Dr. Paul?

[ShaneEnochs]

Yes. I talk him up to all of my family, but unfortunately none of them vote, and can't be persuaded to vote.

 

[McChronagle]

Spreading the good word is worth it even if they wont vote. If they can understand and agree with his views they can talk about it with others that may vote. Good work!

 

[JakeH]

Absolutely, I've convinced my mother, stepfather, and brother to vote for him. Working on my dad next!

 

[ElizabethR]

thanks for combining my thread... should have seen someone had a thread with the exact same title oops. i find that when i talk to people about the issues without mentioning ron it goes a long way. once you get some consensus and agreement that his ideas are best then you mention that ron shares the same views. happy thanksgiving!

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Meh, all the family already knows, in no uncertain terms, where I stand.

Hounding them does no good.

If they ask, I'll answer, but other than that, the hell with it.

Ditto.

 

[sailingaway]

He always comes up, and they know I support him. We have some rabid Obamites in the family, though, so I try not to derail the entire holiday.

 

[AggieforPaul]

I think it's kind of annoying to bring it up out of the blue. My family can't stand Obama thOugh and someone will probably bring him up. If they do I'll just star agreeing and then segue into Ron Paul.

 

[KingRobbStark]

The best way to get votes for Ron Paul is to focus on your apathetic friends and family memebers. Most of us were apathetic before we supported RP.

 

[Jbunker]

Everyone in my family knows I'm a huge Ron Paul supporter. They knew in 2007 too, and they all thought it was funny and didn't take me seriously. This year, they do take my opinion seriously and do not find it funny. I've even convinced a few to vote for him. I don't know if it's because I'm 20 now rather than 16, or because people are coming around to Ron Paul. Hopefully the latter!

 

[Lomez]

Everyone in my family knows I'm a huge Ron Paul supporter. They knew in 2007 too, and they all thought it was funny and didn't take me seriously. This year, they do take my opinion seriously and do not find it funny. I've even convinced a few to vote for him. I don't know if it's because I'm 20 now rather than 16, or because people are coming around to Ron Paul. Hopefully the latter!

It's all fun and games until the economy crashes.

 

[silk30]

I won't be having a thanksgiving this year due to my small family's work schedule. But on the positive side, it is not like I am missing an opportunity or anything for converts. I convinced my mother about Ron Paul, especially after I lightly pushed her into watching the "For Liberty" documentary and some other inspiring, truth telling RP vids. Her biggest hang-up was Iran and support for Israel. After I showed her some history of the U.S meddling in other countries affairs, bombing them, and how RP advocated zero foreign aid to ANY country due to our collapsing economy and flawed monetary system, she came around. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

 

[matt0611]

I talked to a few, but I've already been talking to them for the past 6 months or so.

So far I have on board with me about Ron Paul:

My uncle
My aunt
My other uncle
My mom
My grandmother

 

[KramerDSP]

Here's my story. I have thanksgiving with my parents, brother, aunt, uncle, and two cousins every year. The uncle is a superintendent for the NJ school system. Two years ago, when the discussion of Ron Paul came up, they laughed at me when I talked about the Federal Reserve printing money and debasing our currency. They also said it was unrealistic to bring the troops home from around the world (even my cousin who served in Iraq said it was unfeasible).

After dinner today, my dad, uncle and I were watching football. My dad brought up that I had 300 YouTube subscribers now."On what?" said my uncle. I said most of the videos were abour Ron Paul. He said "You like Ron Paul?" in an interested way. I said "No. I love Ron Paul". They laughed and I was asked why. I said "he's honest, he says what he means and means what he says. The rest of them are all puppets who will say anything to get elected". He said "I don't like Obama, and I don't like the tea party, and I don't like Occupy Wall Street". I said "The country has not had a truly revolutionary figure since the Kennedy brothers and Dr. King in the 1960's". He said he liked Reagan and that Clinton was pretty good too and would run circles around Obama.

I said "the country has to change course" and my uncle then started talking about how Greece and Italy are bankrupt. I said "so are we, but we are spending like there is no tommorow". My uncle says "you know, what's happening is we're printing too much money and devaluing the dollar". I laughed in my head because two years ago when I said that, they all laughed at me. But I did not call him out and just agreed with what he said. I talked about how no one is serious about cuts and showed them this video.



"So true" said my uncle. I said "Paul is the only one who will actually make the cuts we need and the only one who is not controlled by special interests in either party". I then showed them this brief video:



My uncle nodded and said "You are very smart". We then talked about Trump giving the electio to Obama if he runs third party and about how Gingrich of today does not sound like the Gingrich of 10 years ago. I then shut up (thanks to learning from forum members that you never oversell) and we talked about football again.

My cousin was apparently sitting behind me the whole time. I asked him if he still talked to his military buddies, and he said yes. He said they did not talk about politics, so I told him that RP has the most support from the military than the rest of the field combined and even more than Obama himself. He said "wow, really?!? Hmmm". I left it at that.

Official tally equals 1 convert (father), two seeds planted (uncle and cousin). I KNOW the next time they hear his name, they will be paying attention.


EDITED TO ADD - On an aside, is Ron Paul not directly responsible for EVERYBODY saying we are now "printing too much money out of thin air". I suspect so. He has already won.

 

[69360]

We had the RP thanksgiving talk. My Mom has liked Ron for a while now. She'll go to rallies and listen. We're actually planning to do the March for Life in Washington with RP signs in Jan. I hope Ron will speak again. My uncle is a democrat. He really likes Ron's non-interventionist policy, but is worried about cutting the size of government. Maybe he'll come around.

 

[jason43]

I went to a Thanksgiving party last night and wore my RP Hoodie, I probably had 10 different people come up and say they they are supporting him. All different ages, and people I hadnt talked to about him before. It was just a large group of mostly non-political friends, their parents, etc. But with the sweatshirt making the intro for a few political discussions, everyone bashed the other candidates and said Paul was the only one with any sense. I was very pleasantly surprised. I'm in Virginia too, not somewhere that has been pumped full of campaign ads. Everyone knew who he was, and all were supporting him.

 

[KramerDSP]

Is it possible that there are millions of "sleeper agents" out there, 90% of whom are thinking "I love that guy, but he can't win"?

 

[neverseen]

i wear a button all the time so it always sparks convo. Today was no different. Talked about him to the whole group. 1 was interested. It was a group of non voters though (extended family) oh well... still have 1 month to work on them before the cut off.

I did drop off a super brochure with my local groups links on it to the guy behind the counter at the gas station who noticed my button lol.

 

[Hospitaller]

My brother and his family all believe Obama is wonderful.

Bring them into the fold

 

[Alex540]

I went to a Thanksgiving party last night and wore my RP Hoodie, I probably had 10 different people come up and say they they are supporting him. All different ages, and people I hadnt talked to about him before. It was just a large group of mostly non-political friends, their parents, etc. But with the sweatshirt making the intro for a few political discussions, everyone bashed the other candidates and said Paul was the only one with any sense. I was very pleasantly surprised. I'm in Virginia too, not somewhere that has been pumped full of campaign ads. Everyone knew who he was, and all were supporting him.

I'm in Spotsylvania, pretty close to you. There are a lot of Ron Paul supporters around here.

I brought up Ron Paul tonight at dinner. My dad really likes him, and is gonna vote for him in the primary. My mom will probably vote for him too, she usually votes the same as my dad.

My grandparents are basically legit communists, they hate him. Not even gonna try to work on them.

 

[MelissaCato]

Everyone's on Ron Paul's side except my sisters husband.