What can we do to catalyze momentum for the campaign?

[Liberty74]

There isn't anything new that we supporters can do. It's all up to Paul and the campaign. Ron needs to pound away that he is the only conservative and Tea Party candidate on the stage. That he has been consistent in his views and votes for over 20 years. No flip flopping and no reason to lie about his past. The other three candidates are modern day big govt Republicans who will compromise and sell their souls to the Democrats.

Ron Paul needs to let people know that he supports freedoms and liberties for everyone, no just certain groups. He will become the people's President.

It's all about delivering the message in a way the masses can absorb it.

 

[ohgodno]

Ron needs press,and without a clear cut win it will be difficult to get a press that already ignored him to pay any attention. We need debate watchers to pay attention. He's to soft spoken to stand out to people who are conditioned by the media to ignore him. He might want to get that fire back in his belly -- it worked for the Grinch. Something like:

 

[aclove]

I find it interesting that the title of this thread is, "What can we do to catalyze momentum for the campaign" yet most of the comments consist of what people think Ron should do.

Here are my personal observations.

1.) The best thing we ourselves can do is go around the media blackout and spin and take Ron's message directly to the voters. We've been handed a fantastic tool for that, one that targets likely Republican voters in the states where we have the most organization, and that's Phone From Home. Any kind of unfocused outreach is going to be less efficient than this, and will net fewer results. Get going today at http://phone.ronpaul2012.com.

2.) I think there is a great tendency among all people to project onto their preferred candidate their own desires. Most candidates try deliberately to be vague to allow people to do this, because they want to win. However, Ron doesn't do this, because he's not interested in obtaining power. He doesn't even really want himself to win, he only wants his ideas to win. The campaign itself is run by folks who are busily targeting his message to specific voting blocs, but Ron himself will never, ever do this. He is and has always been more interested in a revolution in ideas than any political victory.

What I'm getting at is this: we can't want the White House for Ron more than he wants it for himself. If we do, we're going to get extremely frustrated and maybe even a little resentful. Ron wants his ideas to win, but he will never, ever, EVER "do whatever it takes" to win a conventional political victory. He is not going to go against his own nature. He is not going to start cutting people off, angrily picking fights with debate moderators, and generally being a rude prick in the Gingrich style just to gin up controversy and grab headlines. If you think otherwise, you haven't been paying much attention to who Ron is and what his personality is like.

Ron views it this way: if Americans are ready to hear and accept his message, then he will win. If they are not, then he won't. He's not going to tailor it or compromise it because he's only interested in the dissemination and acceptance of his ideas. "Tricking" people into voting for Liberty would contradict his entire reason for doing any of this, in his opinion.

I get the impression that Rand is more likely to do the aggressive debating and focus-group testing of his message to get people to vote for Liberty even if they don't fully understand what they're voting for. However, Rand isn't running this year, Ron is. We have to work with the candidate we have, not the candidate as we wish he would be.

So get on the phones and do it.

 

[Peace&Freedom]

I will simply repeat: WE the grassroots can quadruple the turnout of our younger Paul supporters EASILY, through early voting. We should help them fill out the applications to get absentee ballots (or actively assist them in what ever the state's early voting process is) to get them to vote, rather than hope they show up at the polls. WE can still do this, and it would be a huge contribution to Paul's showings in the rest of the contests. The voter bomb can be as big as the money bomb, if we make it happen:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?353678-How-to-Boost-the-18-29-Youth-Vote-Guaranteed

 

[Mini-Me]

I will simply repeat: WE the grassroots can quadruple the turnout of our younger Paul supporters EASILY, through early voting. We should help them fill out the applications to get absentee ballots (or actively assist them in what ever the state's early voting process is) to get them to vote, rather than hope they show up at the polls. WE can still do this, and it would be a huge contribution to Paul's showings in the rest of the contests. The voter bomb can be as big as the money bomb, if we make it happen:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?353678-How-to-Boost-the-18-29-Youth-Vote-Guaranteed

I'll repeat my response:

I think Peace&Freedom's idea regarding absentee ballots is a great one for increasing the turnout of young people, but I also think it could backfire HORRIBLY through cooption if it caught on: Imagine what would happen if "Stop Ron Paul" trolls/criminals went to campuses, had kids fill out the absentee forms, "collected everyone's ballot," and discarded Ron Paul votes. The kids would think they've already voted, yet their votes will never be counted...

Perhaps we should bring people absentee forms, envelopes, and stamps, and babysit them while they fill them out, but leave it to them to actually mail them? If we did it like that and made it known that's the plan, that would eliminate subterfuge issues.

 

[WD-NY]

Ron's Budget Plan is very specific and very pro-citizen anti-cronyism in terms of priorities. We don't have to get esoteric about liberty at all, just sell the plan.

How awesome would it be if the campaign released the following "blueprints" during the lead up to February 7th (re: CO, MN & Missouri primary/caucus day):

• "Plan to Protect & Defend America" - Defense Spending/Plan & Foreign Policy

• "Plan to Preserve Liberty" - Civil Liberties (re: SOPA, PIPA, NDAA, Patriot Act, etc.)

Of course, their substance and specificity would have to give the "Plan to Restore America" a run for it's money... otherwise, the press won't cover it.

They could also save 1 plan/blueprint for after Feb 7th... as a way to drum up the ind/dem vote before Super Tuesday