Serious supporters are thinking this is over...

[Malum Prohibitum]

I have been receiving emails from meetup members, including one very prominent 20 year libertarian activist who assume that the campaign is closing down. I think that email that went out the other day is confusing at best, and downright deflating at worst.

Even this board seems to be suffering from a relative lack of activity.

Can someone in the campaign get a video made or something where a real plan can be communicated to the grassroots? The worst thing that can happen here is that no real direction is communicated, and folks just kind of drop off and lose interest...

[nate895]

It's on that and one will be released tomorrow, at least according to Wolf Blitzer.

[billjarrett]

I wish I could find it on the website, but the campaign made a "clarification" of their initial e-mail, I just wish they would put it on their front page or e-mail the clarification out to us. They claim they are in it for the long haul.

I too would like more direction from HQ, but we haven't had much so far except for the precinct leader program. Inspiring videos/e-mails occasionally, but I never remember them giving us much direction. But I think I remember in an interview somewhere that Ron Paul basically thought that was the beauty of this campaign, that it was being driven from the roots up.

[Ex Post Facto]

I wish I could find it on the website, but the campaign made a "clarification" of their initial e-mail, I just wish they would put it on their front page or e-mail the clarification out to us. They claim they are in it for the long haul.

I too would like more direction from HQ, but we haven't had much so far except for the precinct leader program. Inspiring videos/e-mails occasionally, but I never remember them giving us much direction. But I think I remember in an interview somewhere that Ron Paul basically thought that was the beauty of this campaign, that it was being driven from the roots up.

The roots are exactly what props the campaign up. Ron Paul is always saying "I'm proud to be part of your Revolution." A good leader empowers his people. We are empowered to take this to the next level.

[LibertyEagle]

http://people.ronpaul2008.com/campaign-updates/2008/02/09/this-candidate-doesnt-quit/


This Candidate Doesn’t Quit

A few news sources are misreporting Ron Paul’s e-mail from last night. The presidential campaign is not ending, not being suspended, and not even drawing down. It’s slimming down and ramping up — with over twenty states having already voted, we’ve shed staff, and we’re concentrating financial and organization resources on the remaining states. We’re going to the convention, and we’re fighting for every vote and every National Delegate along the way.

Republicans do not want John McCain to be their nominee. He has only been able to become the front-runner because the field was so divided and because he’s a media darling. We can see just how unpopular McCain is in the heartland by his performance in the Kansas caucuses today. Kansans resoundingly rejected the Arizona senator, and McCain’s big wins so far have mostly been in blue states — states he won’t win in November if, heaven forbid, he’s the Republican nominee.

Republicans want and need an alternative. Some people think Mike Huckabee provides an alternative to McCain. But Huckabee, who now tries to sound like Ron Paul when he talks about abolishing the IRS, raised taxes in Arkansas and vastly expanded spending in that state when he was its governor. Huckabee is no alternative at all. Ron Paul, on the other hand, has never voted for a tax increase, never voted for an unbalanced budget or for an unconstitutional war or government program.

At stake here is not just the Republican nomination — which McCain still has not locked up — but the future of the Republican Party and, much more importantly, the future of our liberties. We have to organize in every single state, including the ones that have already voted in the primaries and caucuses, to continue the fight to take back the Republican Party and to ensure that Ron Paul’s principles, the principles of Washington and Jefferson, prevail. For the sake of that cause, Ron Paul’s campaign continues, all the way to the convention.

[LEK]

This candidate Doesn't Quit
http://people.ronpaul2008.com/campaign-updates/2008/02/09/this-candidate-doesnt-quit/

[billjarrett]

http://people.ronpaul2008.com/campaign-updates/2008/02/09/this-candidate-doesnt-quit/


This Candidate Doesn’t Quit

A few news sources are misreporting Ron Paul’s e-mail from last night. The presidential campaign is not ending, not being suspended, and not even drawing down. It’s slimming down and ramping up — with over twenty states having already voted, we’ve shed staff, and we’re concentrating financial and organization resources on the remaining states. We’re going to the convention, and we’re fighting for every vote and every National Delegate along the way.

Republicans do not want John McCain to be their nominee. He has only been able to become the front-runner because the field was so divided and because he’s a media darling. We can see just how unpopular McCain is in the heartland by his performance in the Kansas caucuses today. Kansans resoundingly rejected the Arizona senator, and McCain’s big wins so far have mostly been in blue states — states he won’t win in November if, heaven forbid, he’s the Republican nominee.

Republicans want and need an alternative. Some people think Mike Huckabee provides an alternative to McCain. But Huckabee, who now tries to sound like Ron Paul when he talks about abolishing the IRS, raised taxes in Arkansas and vastly expanded spending in that state when he was its governor. Huckabee is no alternative at all. Ron Paul, on the other hand, has never voted for a tax increase, never voted for an unbalanced budget or for an unconstitutional war or government program.

At stake here is not just the Republican nomination — which McCain still has not locked up — but the future of the Republican Party and, much more importantly, the future of our liberties. We have to organize in every single state, including the ones that have already voted in the primaries and caucuses, to continue the fight to take back the Republican Party and to ensure that Ron Paul’s principles, the principles of Washington and Jefferson, prevail. For the sake of that cause, Ron Paul’s campaign continues, all the way to the convention.


Exactly what I was looking for before. They really need to put this on the front page of the website. As much flak as they've caught for that original e-mail and they still leave it up there proudly front and center. But what do I know, maybe theres a method to the madness....