We need to do something to give Ron exposure and momentum

[Jamesiv1]

We all show up someplace wearing phrygian caps..... make them the che shirt of the ron paul revolution

think about it... the phrygian cap has ALWAYS represented liberty... its even on some state flags and seals.... on the seal opf the senate too

Cool idea! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap

A centuries-old symbol that hardly anyone knows about today. Would get a lot of people scratching their heads.

HA!! Just bought one! from Cool phrygian caps

Maybe a Liberty Lover could make a bunch and sell 'em cheap for the cause?

 

[RonPaulRules]

RON PAUL BLIMP 2012!

 

[bbwarfield]

Cool idea! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap

A centuries-old symbol that hardly anyone knows about today. Would get a lot of people scratching their heads.

HA!! Just bought one! Cool phrygian caps

Maybe a Liberty Lover could make a bunch and sell 'em cheap for the cause?

support the cause.... change your avatar to a liberty cap for a few days!

 

[bbwarfield]

Bumping for context

Ok, I had do check out the cap and wasn't' liking the red color.

After some digging, it seems to fit Exactly the message.

From wiki

Use in American iconography

The Seal of Iowa showing a red liberty cap at the top of the soldier's flagstaff. The 1847 written description did not specify that the soldier has to wear the cap; thus he is commonly depicted with a Civil War-era Cavalry hat.
The Phrygian cap has been used to symbolize liberty in numerous countries of the Americas. For example, starting in 1793 United States of America coinage frequently showed liberty wearing the cap or, on many 19th Century pieces, holding it on a Liberty Pole. The cap's last appearance on circulating coinage was the Walking Liberty Half Dollar, which was minted through 1947 (and reused on the current bullion American Silver Eagle). The U.S. Army has, since 1778, utilized a "War Office Seal" in which the motto "This We'll Defend" is displayed directly over a Phrygian cap on an upturned sword. It also appears on the state flags of West Virginia (as part of its official seal), New Jersey, and New York, as well as the official seal of the United States Senate, the state of Iowa, the state of North Carolina (as well as the arms of its Senate,[8]) and on the reverse side of the Seal of Virginia.

If they do try to make fun of it in any way,(commie color, smurfs, etc), it would have Blowback in some very High profile States that haven't voted yet and also with ALLtea partyPatriots across the land..

I'm think I'm going to have to put a Liberty Pole in my yard.

from wiki

Liberty poles were first often erected in town squares in the years before and during the American Revolution.....An often violent struggle over liberty poles erected by the Sons of Liberty in New York City raged for 10 years. The poles were periodically destroyed by the royal authorities (see the Battle of Golden Hill), only to be replaced by the Sons with new ones....During the Whiskey Rebellion, locals in western Pennsylvania would erect poles along the roads or in town centers as a protest against the federal government's tax on distilled spirits, and evoke the spirit embodied by the liberty poles of decades earlier.

 

[mosquitobite]

support the cause.... change your avatar to a liberty cap for a few days!

Done!

 

[TheGrinch]

I support your awareness campaign, but I must say that I rather enjoy my name and avatar displaying the dickheadishness of the man who actually used to have his office less than a mile from my house. He is very lucky I wasn't a politically active teenager, or he would have had eggs to clean up daily

 

[sailingaway]

I support your awareness campaign, but I must say that I rather enjoy my name and avatar displaying the dickheadishness of the man who actually used to have his office less than a mile from my house. He is very lucky I wasn't a politically active teenager, or he would have had eggs to clean up daily

I posted a bunch of stuff earlier in the thread for your video, if it helps.

 

[TheGrinch]

I posted a bunch of stuff earlier in the thread for your video, if it helps.

Yeah, I saw that, and I was meaning to get back up with you... I guess I need to get in touch with (ummm, drawing a blank on the name) who posts a lot of the videos here for source files... I will certainly incorporate the pics of large crowds, thanks!

 

[Jamesiv1]

support the cause.... change your avatar to a liberty cap for a few days!

Done!

 

[wgadget]

<---------------The new me.

 

[wgadget]

I support your awareness campaign, but I must say that I rather enjoy my name and avatar displaying the dickheadishness of the man who actually used to have his office less than a mile from my house. He is very lucky I wasn't a politically active teenager, or he would have had eggs to clean up daily

Aw, come on. The chap would look well with a liberty cap. Photoshop?

 

[Esoteric]

Have seen a lot of support for my idea.. maybe someone could suggest this to Wead?

1) The campaign sends a release to the media that Ron is going to make an "announcement".

2) Media speculates about dropping out, endorsement, etc.

3) Ron takes the opportunity to give a WAKE UP CALL to Republicans, giving a bold speech on how the parties change, but nothing changes, and that there is no path to the whitehouse without him. This will excite us, and get a ton of press.

 

[bluesc]

Have seen a lot of support for my idea.. maybe someone could suggest this to Wead?

1) The campaign sends a release to the media that Ron is going to make an "announcement".

2) Media speculates about dropping out, endorsement, etc.

3) Ron takes the opportunity to give a WAKE UP CALL to Republicans, giving a bold speech on how the parties change, but nothing changes, and that there is no path to the whitehouse without him. This will excite us, and get a ton of press.

You're not being silenced by Josh anymore, since he doesn't exist now. We live in a lawless town. Be adventurous and create a thread!

Good idea though.

 

[bluesc]

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[Captain Shays]

Have seen a lot of support for my idea.. maybe someone could suggest this to Wead?

1) The campaign sends a release to the media that Ron is going to make an "announcement".

2) Media speculates about dropping out, endorsement, etc.

3) Ron takes the opportunity to give a WAKE UP CALL to Republicans, giving a bold speech on how the parties change, but nothing changes, and that there is no path to the whitehouse without him. This will excite us, and get a ton of press.

Do you really think the press will put that out?

 

[Carson]

<---------------The new me.

Nice.

 

[sailingaway]

<---------------The new me.

You completely stole that from a post of mine...

but you wear it well!

 

[bbwarfield]

You completely stole that from a post of mine...

but you wear it well!

lol... and I didnt see your post and reposted the same pick later.... that lady liberty sure is popular

 

[bbwarfield]

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Frig-BaşlığıPHRYGIAN-CAPLiberty-Cap/109987002393403

lol... apparently in some other country they got the "liberty cap" fad going ; ) cant read the language but TONS of photos of the caps on people and things

 

[Barrex]

This is what I am talking about for few months:

People with whom I agree ... or better said who agree with me (I was pointing about this for a while):

The issue we're having, is that Ron Paul supporters are unified in spirit, but not unified where these grassroots generated idea's could be viewed. Centralization is bad for government, but when you need a source of information in order to organize, you need it. We need to get all Ron Paul supporters onto a centralized information source, in order to maintain momentum, or generate more.

We have to analyze our own base. From where I sit, we have 3 types of supporters. We have the hardcore that are addicted to the cause, we have the "decided" voters who don't spend as much time as the hardcore, and then we have soft supporters like every other candidates. This is an intellectual revolution, so getting all of them to a "hotspot" or a "bed" of trustworthy information that keeps all of them up-to-date would be a great step. I view forums as a great way, but many people don't like the forums. For the millions of supporters we have, there's no easy accessible source of information for people. Everything is done by word of mouth, and it works. But when time is of the essence, we need something more concrete, reliable, and speedy.

Maybe we need a DAILY TWEET THREAD.

Have suggestions each night, pick the most popular one, then after midnight it's on like Donkey Kong!

If we are all tweeting, face booking the same thing the "trending" and "popularity" will pick up each daily idea.

I agree with this thread. We need to promote something like we do with the money bombs but it doesn't have to be a money bomb...just promoting Ron Paul to people in an organized way.

Centralization, centralization, centralization...

Nothing is more powerful than a group of organized people working toward a common goal.

Time is running out for the Ron Paul campaign. I don't know what the national campaign is doing now or if it intends to change strategies after dismal Super Tuesday, March 10th, and March 13th results.

The campaign and grassroots cannot keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

Something...somewhere is wrong! Maybe it's because Dr. Paul feels "obligated" to continue (spoken at 1:08 of this video clip):

http://ronpaulflix.com/2012/03/ron-paul-on-cnbc-possible-brokered-convention-mar-13-2012/

I'm ex-military, I'm an ex-manager, I'm an innovative thinker, and I'm not phased by long odds.

How many pro-Ron Paul organizations are there? There's Ron Paul Forums, Daily Paul, etc. How many thousands of active members are there?

This entire 'group' needs to be organized. The larger bodies need to communicate with each other and pursue common goals.

The members need to be asked to volunteer for teams, and the teams need to have team leaders. The teams I imagine are a Twitter team, a Facebook team, a Google TV ads team, Fox "News" counter response team, Other national media counter response team, team to pursue Bill O'Reilly boycott, etc.

What does a team do? For example, Twitter; the power of Twitter can't be denied. Everyday or for one week the team leader directs the team to tweet the same message (Romney supports NDAA, http://youtube.video).

I believe that there's too much wasted energy. Even though it seems like we're one I think most of the potential is lost to individuality or the illusion of accomplishment.

Maybe the idea can be put before the RPF masses (many of whom seem to be chiefs and not Indians).

These things (flaws; failings... whatever you want to call them) were obvious to me from first few weeks on this forum.I dont want to hijack this thread by posting links to my threads pointing about these things (if I wanted I would have bumped them) but you can verify it by visiting my started threads.

Gain momentum by having small part of homepage (small window) that will say: ACTION OF THE DAY!!! In that window would be listed things to do today. (PFM; do daily tweet; do free facebook ads; wear "liberty" cap; send message about moneybomb; send message to Barrex to stop posting things and threads that seem obvious only to him... etc.)
It is so obvious to me that I can not explain how it itches and annoyed me that no one sees it.
I liked this:

Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul (fourth from right), Idaho Republican Rep. George Hansen (left) and other members of Congress gather around a truck loaded with 44,300 simulated gold bricks on April 25, 1979, in Washington to indicate their opposition to the estimated $4.1 billion it would cost U.S. taxpayers to give away the Panama Canal.

What grassroots can do:
Make piles of "simulated gold bricks" (made of bricky or other material like snow or styrofoam etc.) all over United States and glue few charts on them so people can stop and read (or leave few brochures explaining this).
In Texas pile of "simulated gold bricks" that represents national debt.
In California pile of "simulated gold bricks" that represents money spent on wars in Middle East.
In xy place pile of "simulated gold bricks" that represents how much money US pays subsidizes farmers
Huge piles in areas where grassroots are strong and smaller ones where they are weaker (this way every grassroot group can build/make pile that is not too big and hard for her capacity). Imagine effect it would have (like crop circles)...