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This thread is like watching the Hannity and Colmes version of why Ron Paul failed.
How many of you expert pundits are delegates to your state conventions? How many RP delegates are you sending to the national convention?
We have 365 members in our meetup. 20% aren't registered to vote and another 20% are registered Democrat or Independent. 40 of us showed up at our county convention to become delegates.
This means that our RP delegates will not be going to the national convention having lost the recommendation vote 2 to 1 instead of completely dominating the vote by 4 to 1.
If anyone can tell me what TV ads have to do with this pathetic situation, I'm all ears.
I spoke to some RP supporters in Pennsylvania last night. They have no idea when their county convention is or was, nor have any idea what delegates are. They only knew what day their primary is.
You know, that popular vote means everything. If we run a million ads, we'll get all of the votes in the primary.
This information has been available for the entire campaign. We sent out letters in the mail, followed by e-mails. We discussed this strategy for 1/2 a year at our meetings. We saw 40 RP supporters at our convention.
And I KNOW FOR A FACT that our county is not unique in this failure.
Yeah, but it's Kent Snyder's fault. He should have run national ads. THAT would have done the trick.
You insipids who actually believe there was ever a chance that Ron Paul would win the popular vote if campaign HQ would have done this or that used to only cause a chuckle. At this point it's just pathetic. Please find anything else to carp about. for your own sake.
Grassroots raised money and voted in the primaries. A very small minority canvassed, attended rallies and waved signs and an even smaller minority actually got involved in the party to get RP elected.
All of the YT vids violated copyright laws. YT vids could have been handled entirely by Aravoth. If grassroots was serious about production of a national ad campaign, I saw zero viable examples of it. It would have been extremely costly and would have been like pissing on a bonfire in combatting the media blackout.
Ron Paul IS the campaign. He kept a pace that would have sent most of you to the hospital and he kept up that pace for a year. He won the vast majority of straw polls in this country. He amassed the largest grassroots following in history. He shook the establishment to its foundations. He slew the competition in every debate, despite blatant attempts by the organizers of those debates to smear him, marginalize him and limit his time to next to nothing. He won every debate poll but one, in which he placed a close second. He won the support of the majority of active military personnel. He showed the most consistent growth in 2007, despite his complete lack of media face time. He drew the second largest crowds to his rallies of all candidates. He never held back from telling Americans the truth. Despite the media's refusal to report this record breaking campaign, he still did indeed shatter the political record books.
It is we who failed him. We should be sending a 51% majority of unbound delegates to national with the ability to vote for either candidate in the first round. This was the achievable goal that we failed miserably to accomplish. This is the goal that most RP supporters still don't even understand at all.
HQ set and broke records, against all odds. The tiny, tiny, miniscule, loud-mouthed minority of people who have come to this forum every day for the past 1/4 of a year to piss all over the tireless efforts of people like Kent Snyder are the true losers.
Bosso
