Madison
02-07-2008, 03:11 AM
At this point Ron has a very small chance of attaining enough delegates to compete with McCain. The results of the first half of the states that voted will for the most part be a general indicator of how the other half will vote. The sooner we face this fact the better.
From this point on we should do whatever we can to support Hillary getting the Democrat nomination. This will leave us a huge pool of potential Obama voters who loathe Hillary. It will be our job to effectively capitalize on this opportunity by educating them in a creative, effective and simple manner about monetary policy and free market economics and non-interventionist foreign policy.
Conservatives who have not yet seen the light are splitting their votes between Romney and Huckabee which continues to boost McCain. This is another huge pool of voters who hate McCain and would never vote for him. Again it will be our job to get these voters on Ron's side. It won't be easy but it can and has to be done. Key issues stressed will be constitutional law, sound money, securing the borders and keeping the country safe with a strong defense that isn't over-extended around the globe.
We will need to get Ron into the debates and on the ballots ourselves. We will need to regain control of our nations electoral process state by state and count the votes ourselves. This new campaign is going to be 100% grassroots. We saw how effective a centralized campaign is against the corporate media. There is no question we did a phenomenal job with fundraising but as we saw that is not anywhere close enough to what we would need to compete with the candidates who get free media time. This method will not work. We need to buy all our own advertising, take canvassing to a whole new level, and most importantly be creative and devise new ways to get the word out. We have to go beyond sign waving and putting his name in the air. Canvassing has been proven to work and we must built on idea that gets information out there, not just his name.
Do not get let down. Ron is giving the GOP one last chance to regain its way, but many of us have accepted that they are going to choose more of the same. This will be the end of the GOP as we know it. The party is dying and is despised by America too much after 8 years of Bush. Just look at the voter turnout in all the states so far and see how Democrats have outperformed Republicans. It matters not though. We now have a movement of near or over a million supporters, maybe more. Think of all the closed primary states and how many potential people become Ron Paul supporters after party registration closed. Much has been gained and everything is in place for an Independent run.
From this point on we should do whatever we can to support Hillary getting the Democrat nomination. This will leave us a huge pool of potential Obama voters who loathe Hillary. It will be our job to effectively capitalize on this opportunity by educating them in a creative, effective and simple manner about monetary policy and free market economics and non-interventionist foreign policy.
Conservatives who have not yet seen the light are splitting their votes between Romney and Huckabee which continues to boost McCain. This is another huge pool of voters who hate McCain and would never vote for him. Again it will be our job to get these voters on Ron's side. It won't be easy but it can and has to be done. Key issues stressed will be constitutional law, sound money, securing the borders and keeping the country safe with a strong defense that isn't over-extended around the globe.
We will need to get Ron into the debates and on the ballots ourselves. We will need to regain control of our nations electoral process state by state and count the votes ourselves. This new campaign is going to be 100% grassroots. We saw how effective a centralized campaign is against the corporate media. There is no question we did a phenomenal job with fundraising but as we saw that is not anywhere close enough to what we would need to compete with the candidates who get free media time. This method will not work. We need to buy all our own advertising, take canvassing to a whole new level, and most importantly be creative and devise new ways to get the word out. We have to go beyond sign waving and putting his name in the air. Canvassing has been proven to work and we must built on idea that gets information out there, not just his name.
Do not get let down. Ron is giving the GOP one last chance to regain its way, but many of us have accepted that they are going to choose more of the same. This will be the end of the GOP as we know it. The party is dying and is despised by America too much after 8 years of Bush. Just look at the voter turnout in all the states so far and see how Democrats have outperformed Republicans. It matters not though. We now have a movement of near or over a million supporters, maybe more. Think of all the closed primary states and how many potential people become Ron Paul supporters after party registration closed. Much has been gained and everything is in place for an Independent run.