Get OFF your computer and DO SOMETHING!

[Sematary]

I went out with my seven year old daughter today and put slimjims on hundreds of windshields in two different shopping areas. I spoke to a bunch of people and got hot as hell. ;-)
It is my goal to get out and do SOMETHING, ANYTHING, every single day, to try and get his name out there. Every one of us should strive to get his name out to as many people as humanly possible, every day. There are dozens of grocery stores, walmarts, kmarts, etc... not to mention too many small parking lots to count all over the country. The campaign will give you campaign material if you tell them why you want it. Or you can print it yourself.
Monday, I am going to be in the parking lot at Ozzfest in Mansfield, Ma. passing out 10,000 custom made fliers plus thousands of slimjims and dvd's (for the parents). 20,000 people attend Ozzfest - this is going to be AWESOME!
So get off your computer and DO SOMETHING!!
We can't get his name out sitting on the forums talking about it.

[Lord Xar]

You are right. I am learning that. I am sorta a shutin... I mean, me and my daughter go out and have fun, but I have a "thing about politizing.." so I try to do my thing in other ways... but I DO think it is very important to put your shoes to the ground.

I will ante up more on this end.....

thanks for shaming me!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahhaahhaahahh...

Listen, I was driving on Saturday and I am stopped at a light and I look up and see RON PAUL SUPPORTERS ON EVERY corner of the boulevard... waving signs, passing out flyers/cards.. I couldn't believe it.. there were a TON Of them... cars are honking!!!

Can you imagine my surprise just driving along and I see this!!!!

I was meeting a friend for lunch (way out of my area) and I just had to park my car and run over to a corner and give kudos to them.. the guy looks at me and it ends up being Steven Vincent from the radio program. This guy is a hardcore Ron Paul activist.. he is out ALL the time doing this.. I felt like "shit, I am not doing my part!" hahahahah...

Semetary and others like you, people in booths and just putting shoes to the ground is an AWESOME THING... I will step it up!

[MsDoodahs]

:p

(eta: stop making me feel guilty, dammit.)

[mconder]

I do.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=12010

[quickmike]

I live in Decatur IL which is a socialist nightmare town in a socialist nightmare state. Regardless of that, I still go out and knock on doors on the weekends and talk to people if they want to talk and hand them a flyer. I do about 50 a day on sat and sun and have been doing this since about mid May. Anyone with 2 working legs and a voice needs to do this. Theres no excuse not to, not even "well im not good with talking to the public. Just think, Ron's wife had heart problems from the stress and the heat, stuck with it for the long haul. Ron sacrificed being by his wifes side for a while, and some of you pussies say "oh im just too scared to talk to people" SHAME ON YOU.

For those who are doing things.............. congrats and keep it up.

To the rest of you........................................ shame.

One on one conversations work far better than holding up signs to get people interested. Just put the seed in their head and the curiosity seems to win them over, or at least go check him out further.

This is the only thing thats gonna win it for him.

I know I sound like a broken record about this, but nobody seems to pay attention to it.

[tmg19103]

I live in a VERY liberal, democartic Philadelphia suburb and the city itself is like 75% democrat. Yes, you can convert, but I'm planning trips to highly Republican, pro-gun central PA. Lancaster County, an hour away, is the exact opposite of this liberal cesspool I live in. That's where I plan some legwork - and to recruit some feet on the street.

[Patriot]

I'm going to print up some fliers this week and pass them out over the week end. I will probably use my avatar image on one side and some things for Ron Paul's site on the other side. Like this http://www.ronpaul2008.com/about or http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues and maybe include something about restoring the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

[tsetsefly]

well, I am moving out of the country so the best I can do is spread the message to friends, donate and vote in the primaries as an overseas voter.

[Elwar]

From all of the stories I keep seeing "slim jims" and think people are giving out some sort of promotional beef jerky.

A web search showed otherwise :)

[ghemminger]

You are right. I am learning that. I am sorta a shutin... I mean, me and my daughter go out and have fun, but I have a "thing about politizing.." so I try to do my thing in other ways... but I DO think it is very important to put your shoes to the ground.

I will ante up more on this end.....

thanks for shaming me!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahhaahhaahahh...

Listen, I was driving on Saturday and I am stopped at a light and I look up and see RON PAUL SUPPORTERS ON EVERY corner of the boulevard... waving signs, passing out flyers/cards.. I couldn't believe it.. there were a TON Of them... cars are honking!!!

Can you imagine my surprise just driving along and I see this!!!!

I was meeting a friend for lunch (way out of my area) and I just had to park my car and run over to a corner and give kudos to them.. the guy looks at me and it ends up being Steven Vincent from the radio program. This guy is a hardcore Ron Paul activist.. he is out ALL the time doing this.. I felt like "shit, I am not doing my part!" hahahahah...

Semetary and others like you, people in booths and just putting shoes to the ground is an AWESOME THING... I will step it up!

Just talked with Steve (Ron Paul Radio)
He said you suprised the Hell out of him. :) I've been telling him for weeks all the great stuff you guys have been doing on RpForums! I'm glad you guys finally ran into one anther!:)

[Jennifer Reynolds]

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[Wendi]

Amen. I was in a meetup group that tried to shame us into spending all day, every day, on the internet "digging" this article or "boosting" that article and yadi yadi. Then I found a group that is actually out every day of the week DOING something. The difference is striking. Online popularity is great but it doesn't win elections. VOTERS in the REAL WORLD do that.

Jennifer - The campaign does need MONEY as you have said and I applaud any and all efforts to help. But you might want to check out what they wrote on their official website about people trying to collect donations through local groups:


Federal law regulates the amounts and means by which funds may be legally contributed to a federal election campaign. As such, contributions to the Ron Paul Campaign should be made directly to the official campaign committee through the secure Official Donation Webpage (https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/) . Those collecting contributions through Meetup.com groups may be unwittingly running afoul of complex campaign finance regulations or may be deceptively collecting money for other purposes.

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/get-involved/

[MsDoodahs]

:)

Thanks for posting that, TC.

[4Horsemen]

I''ll be putting up RP signs all over the Sarasota area very soon. I'm using a staple gun, and plan on putting them on the wooden power poles at major intersections around town. I got about 95 RP yard signs to display, should be fun.

[Jennifer Reynolds]

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[Sematary]

How about raising some MONEY? Raising awareness is good. But what about ideas for raising MONEY???????

Car wash? Bake sale? T-shirt making drive? Anyone got any ideas?

We hand are going to campus next week to hand out those articles from the Operation College Campus idea. Anyone else doing that? Now that the draft is coming back, they are really on target.

Money is great but it is name recognition that will get him elected.

[Sematary]

I''ll be putting up RP signs all over the Sarasota area very soon. I'm using a staple gun, and plan on putting them on the wooden power poles at major intersections around town. I got about 95 RP yard signs to display, should be fun.

You have to meet people. Let them know that he's not just a name.

[LibertyEagle]

Sounds to me like we need additional information about the FEC reg. I'm not seeing why car washes, bake sales and the like could not be held. Well, especially if Ron Paul's name wasn't mentioned. What about the whole Bands for Ron Paul concert thing? Is that still going to happen, beyond Ronstock? How are they going to get around these rules, if they do in fact prohibit advertised fundraising?

Do we have any resident lawyers who could check further into this FEC rule? I know we have at least a couple on board. Chicago Lawyer and Douglass Bartley. If I remember correctly, one or both of the gentlemen who were holding down the fort on Ron Paul Radio on Saturday, are also attorneys.

[Sematary]

Sounds to me like we need additional information about the FEC reg. I'm not seeing why car washes, bake sales and the like could not be held. Well, especially if Ron Paul's name wasn't mentioned. What about the whole Bands for Ron Paul concert thing? Is that still going to happen, beyond Ronstock? How are they going to get around these rules, if they do in fact prohibit advertised fundraising?

Do we have any resident lawyers who could check further into this FEC rule? I know we have at least a couple on board. Chicago Lawyer and Douglass Bartley. If I remember correctly, one or both of the gentlemen who were holding down the fort on Ron Paul Radio on Saturday, are also attorneys.

While these are important questions, NOTHING beats getting out on the street and talking about Ron Paul. It's free. There are no rules to worry about and it is the best advertising you can do.

[LibertyEagle]

While these are important questions, NOTHING beats getting out on the street and talking about Ron Paul. It's free. There are no rules to worry about and it is the best advertising you can do.

We were talking about fundraising, Sematary. Not just advertising.

[Sematary]

We were talking about fundraising, Sematary. Not just advertising.

If you want more fundraising - get more people involved in the campaign. The more people who know who he is and become involved, the more money will be donated to his campaign. I would say, at this point, that fundraising is best left up to the campaign and we need to be the street team. We promote, we energize, we organize, but fundraising for anything other than our own projects is not our job.
If you have a car wash to raise funds but can't mention his name, then what have you accomplished?

[AMack]

Me and a buddy made two RP signs last night and put them up over I-495 in southeastern MA. Came out pretty good, too.

I found out about RP because I had heard about him and looked him up. Simple name recognition and a little curiosity is enough to get more support for Dr. Paul.

[4Horsemen]

Me and a buddy made two RP signs last night and put them up over I-495 in southeastern MA. Came out pretty good, too.

I found out about RP because I had heard about him and looked him up. Simple name recognition and a little curiosity is enough to get more support for Dr. Paul.

Your correct, most people don't like being talked down to. People like to feel intelligent and find special things on their own. Informing people about RP when it's unsolicited can rub them the wrong way. If they see a RP sign and look him up, then they feel empowered in some superficial way.

[pennycat]

I will throw in with the 'get off your computer and do something' theme.

This is the most incredible opportunity to get a libertarian candidate elected that I have ever seen. No one has ever had the kind of grassroots organization that RP has right now.

And I think that it will be a long time before we have another RP. In my many years of following and working in campaigns I've noticed many fine candidates with great ideas. But few of them catch fire like RP. You can say it is the message but I think it also has a lot to do with the person.

And yet there are a lot of people here (yes here on this forum) who sit around and do nothing. Oh yeah, they talk to a few people and post thousands of emails and then wait. For what? Not sure since they really are doing little to advance the campaign.

And to people that think that they are 'not in the right place' I say YOU SUCK! What do you mean you live in a 'Socialist Nightmare' as one poster put it. Get out there and do something radical like glue a sign somewhere. Do anything. Do we have to come hold your hand? We call this a REVOLUTION and a lot of people here (yeah right here on Ron Paul Forums) are wetting their pants because their SCARED!? Or else just to lazy to go out in the public square.

You know it's hard to get new supporters of RP to go out and do events when these so called 'experts' here on Ron Paul Forums are hiding under the bed or behind a computer screen. Sure glad you guys weren't around during the Civil Rights days or Viet Nam war protests. We'd have to designate thousands to clean your britches.

Many here including myself work hard for this campaign and ask NOTHING in return. You guys have my undying support. Others who would rather analyze this campaign to death... well all I can say is THANKS FOR NOTHING!

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

Freakin' Oprah just held a fundraiser for Obama and charged $2300 a plate for dinner. I just want to wash cars and charge 15 bucks.

2 different things: The $2300 was a contribution from the purchaser of the plate directly to the Obama campaign. Your car wash could work in one of two ways: you could sell your labor for $15 per car and contribute the money personally, keeping in mind you have a $2300 limit, or you could collect the name and address of each donor and submit each individual contribution. Or just have them write the check for $15 to Ron Paul 2008.

[klamath]

For the guys and gals in the liberal strongholds, remember that this is the republican nomenation proccess You need to reach that 25% of republicans in your area and maybe convert a few democrats as well. Remember that Paul is different in that he can inspire people of all parties. We are not playing the old rally around your partiy games here.

[slantedview]

I live in a VERY liberal, democartic Philadelphia suburb and the city itself is like 75% democrat. Yes, you can convert, but I'm planning trips to highly Republican, pro-gun central PA. Lancaster County, an hour away, is the exact opposite of this liberal cesspool I live in. That's where I plan some legwork - and to recruit some feet on the street.

You can DEFINATELY convert, I am living proof.

Two things to play up when converting democrats are the facts that all the leading democrats are warmongers (bomb Iran, go into Pakistan, etc.). People who are against this sort of crap should be easy Ron Paul supporters.

Also, I like to play up the fact that Ron Paul is the only one who understand what is wrong with our economy and how to fix it.

[ronpaulhawaii]

Your correct, most people don't like being talked down to. People like to feel intelligent and find special things on their own. Informing people about RP when it's unsolicited can rub them the wrong way. If they see a RP sign and look him up, then they feel empowered in some superficial way.

I'd say all people don't like being talked down to. My experiance has shown me that people are interested in finding out about candidates in the election. They know the MSM is skewed and appreciate a live person stumping. Some ask if I am being paid and are impressed even more to find out no. There is no excuse for not going door to door. I did in Hawaii, the most corrupt Democratic Machine in the USA, and was well recieved, I am now doing it in NY, and am being well recieved, people glance at signs, the curious people with time to spare look him up. People hear someone at there door and are "moved" to look him up.

I go to give people valuable information. I sell nothing.


You can DEFINATELY convert, I am living proof.

Two things to play up when converting democrats are the facts that all the leading democrats are warmongers (bomb Iran, go into Pakistan, etc.). People who are against this sort of crap should be easy Ron Paul supporters.

Also, I like to play up the fact that Ron Paul is the only one who understand what is wrong with our economy and how to fix it.

Democrats are just as sick of the status qou as Republicans.

There is no good excuse for not hitting the streets, unless you are sick or disabled.

Get out there, I'm leaving for another session now

[libertygrl]

I agree it's important to get his name out there, but don't forget the bigger picture - the poll states are pushing their primaries up much earlier. That's when the big buck$$ will really be important. IMO it can make or brake a candidate.

Maybe those of us in our individual meetup groups around the country, can split up into teams within our groups:

Team A: Does fundraising

Team B: Does marketing

This way, we'll have both covered at the same time. Just a thought..

[Sematary]

I agree it's important to get his name out there, but don't forget the bigger picture - the poll states are pushing their primaries up much earlier. That's when the big buck$$ will really be important. IMO it can make or brake a candidate.

Maybe those of us in our individual meetup groups around the country, can split up into teams within our groups:

Team A: Does fundraising

Team B: Does marketing

This way, we'll have both covered at the same time. Just a thought..

It's all about name recognition. Think of us as a rock band's street team. OUR job is to get the name of our band (candidate) out to as many people as possible. We hand out literature with quotes and websites and hopefully, DVD'S as well. What we are "selling" is freedom and the constitution and it costs nothing more than a look. That's all I ask people for when I'm handing out slimjims - please, I ask, just check him out. Most people are agreeable to this. I don't push him on them. If they have questions, I answer, but otherwise, I don't do anything more than ask them to check him out. NEVER argue with someone. If they don't agree with a position, simply say "thankyou" for looking, and move on. I intend to distribute thousands of slimjims, and tri-folds and anything else I can get my hands on and I also intend on holding registration drives at the college I attend (after some appropriate time for literature disbursement, of course). The BEST thing any of us can do is simply to get his name out there. I have people ask me all the time about him because I have his name plastered all over my car. I carry bumper stickers, slimjims, tri-folds, dvd's, etc.... with me at all times. Lots of times people say things like - I saw him on the news recently. Now it's starting to sink in to them. Now they are starting to get to know who he is. NAME RECOGNITION IS THE NAME OF THE GAME!!!
Get his name out there - any way you can.

[Sematary]

By the way, I'd just like to say that I am HONORED to have my thread stickied. :)

[ronpaulhawaii]

It's all about name recognition. Think of us as a rock band's street team. OUR job is to get the name of our band (candidate) out to as many people as possible. We hand out literature with quotes and websites and hopefully, DVD'S as well. What we are "selling" is freedom and the constitution and it costs nothing more than a look. That's all I ask people for when I'm handing out slimjims - please, I ask, just check him out. Most people are agreeable to this. I don't push him on them. If they have questions, I answer, but otherwise, I don't do anything more than ask them to check him out. NEVER argue with someone. If they don't agree with a position, simply say "thankyou" for looking, and move on. I intend to distribute thousands of slimjims, and tri-folds and anything else I can get my hands on and I also intend on holding registration drives at the college I attend (after some appropriate time for literature disbursement, of course). The BEST thing any of us can do is simply to get his name out there. I have people ask me all the time about him because I have his name plastered all over my car. I carry bumper stickers, slimjims, tri-folds, dvd's, etc.... with me at all times. Lots of times people say things like - I saw him on the news recently. Now it's starting to sink in to them. Now they are starting to get to know who he is. NAME RECOGNITION IS THE NAME OF THE GAME!!!
Get his name out there - any way you can.


By the way, I'd just like to say that I am HONORED to have my thread stickied. :)

And with work like above backing up your OP, you deserve it.

<applause>

[Sematary]

And with work like above backing up your OP, you deserve it.

<applause>

:)

[bygone]

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That
will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- Ernest Hemingway

[mika813]

I'm with this!! I'm a paraplegic and my wife and I get out twice a week (5-8 hrs) and this week we'll be out two days in three different locations. We sit on a bridge during morning rush hour waving signs and then spend time on our Open air Mall with a table & banner setup with lit. for the curious. SO if you don't want to to talk then get to the side of a busy street/road with a sign and a smile and wave!! If you are willing to engage then do that too!!!! But lets all do something and save our Constitution, Country and the World!!!!! WE ARE NOT JUST THE INTERNET!!!!!

[shadowhooch]

How does one go about getting slimjims, trifolds, and bumper stickers to hand out?

I can print them from the Ron Paul website, but they are rather poor quality when they come out.:o

As for me, I've got my car decked out with Ron Paul Signage in the rear and back side windows. Sure, it creates blindspots when driving. But it is so worth it.:D

I've converted 4 people so far. Most poeple are pretty unresponsive though. People just couldn't care less about politics.:(

[ronpaulhawaii]

IIRC, HQ will send lit for free to those who ask...

[Shink]

:( My problem is my babies. I have to watch them all day while my wife is at work (I'm a disabled vet, otherwise, I'd be the one working) with the only vehicle we have. My capabilities are very limited due to my situation. I wish I had never joined the Army...

[ronpaulhawaii]

:( My problem is my babies. I have to watch them all day while my wife is at work (I'm a disabled vet, otherwise, I'd be the one working) with the only vehicle we have. My capabilities are very limited due to my situation. I wish I had never joined the Army...

Forgive the cliche but, most "problems" contain unrealized opportunities. While I am sorry to hear of your Army experiance, watching your kids grow is quite a blessing.

And I can't help but think how effective you might be canvassing the neighborhood with your kids Even a house a day is something.

Of course, for some, this is impossible. These people can still be very effective by supporting internet/MU campaigns with phone calls, research, sign making, etc.

Alls we can do is the best we can.

[Sematary]

How does one go about getting slimjims, trifolds, and bumper stickers to hand out?

I can print them from the Ron Paul website, but they are rather poor quality when they come out.:o

As for me, I've got my car decked out with Ron Paul Signage in the rear and back side windows. Sure, it creates blindspots when driving. But it is so worth it.:D

I've converted 4 people so far. Most poeple are pretty unresponsive though. People just couldn't care less about politics.:(

you can request campaign materials through the ronpaul2008.com website.

[Sematary]

:( My problem is my babies. I have to watch them all day while my wife is at work (I'm a disabled vet, otherwise, I'd be the one working) with the only vehicle we have. My capabilities are very limited due to my situation. I wish I had never joined the Army...

I take my seven year old out with me while I'm putting literature on people's cars.
Could you not do the same, while rolling them around in their carriage?