HammerDR
08-19-2007, 07:12 AM
Or, rather, why you shouldn't.
Many people here are so enthusiastic and excited that they have decided to look at the national campaign critically. Suggestions, comments and complaints have ranged from firing Ron Paul's campaign staff and hiring Rove to having us write the good doctor's speeches for him. While these comments can be amusing, many of them are said in all seriousness.
We are the Grassroots Campaign. We are different. We are not the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign Committee. We are an entirely different entity. We have a great thing going for us--we are organized and widespread enough that we can do things that the national campaign could only DREAM about doing. We have put signs in every major city in the United States. We have gone to baseball games and handed out material. We have told parents, grandparents, siblings and children about Ron Paul. We are, in a single word, awesome.
Likewise, the National Campaign is different from us. In fact, they are regulated by the FEC to not contact us. To many this is frustrating but I see this as a plus--the national campaign is a "traditional" campaign while we run the non-traditional, revolutionary campaign. They have resources and assets that we could only dream of having--chief among them is Dr. Ron Paul himself. They have had a strong finish at Ames and have gotten great responses to each debate. They have successfully put Dr. Paul on the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Morning Joe, Tucker, etc. They are doing their job and they are surprising a lot of people--they are a very successful traditional campaign.
Grassroots and National. Both are important. Both are different. Neither should try to control the other. We here at the Grassroots should continue to create viral YouTube videos and dominating the small, local straw polls. We should continue to spread the message with the materials at hand and we should continue to be as enthusiastic as we have been. The National campaign should do what it has always done--slowly climb the ranks toward respectability, competitiveness and relevance.
We here at the grassroots really shouldn't worry about the National Campaign. We all know what Ron's message is. We all know that he isn't going to change that message. We all agree with it and we should all continue to support it. If we, the Grassroots, attempt to become the National Campaign Chair (poor Kent) then we have completely hijacked a completely different entity of this campaign as a whole that was working for the message.
Two heads at better than one. Two organizations are better than one. Let the National Campaign spread the message in their own way. We, the grassroots, should spread the message in our own way. Who cares how we get the people on board--it's getting them on the ship that counts.
Many people here are so enthusiastic and excited that they have decided to look at the national campaign critically. Suggestions, comments and complaints have ranged from firing Ron Paul's campaign staff and hiring Rove to having us write the good doctor's speeches for him. While these comments can be amusing, many of them are said in all seriousness.
We are the Grassroots Campaign. We are different. We are not the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign Committee. We are an entirely different entity. We have a great thing going for us--we are organized and widespread enough that we can do things that the national campaign could only DREAM about doing. We have put signs in every major city in the United States. We have gone to baseball games and handed out material. We have told parents, grandparents, siblings and children about Ron Paul. We are, in a single word, awesome.
Likewise, the National Campaign is different from us. In fact, they are regulated by the FEC to not contact us. To many this is frustrating but I see this as a plus--the national campaign is a "traditional" campaign while we run the non-traditional, revolutionary campaign. They have resources and assets that we could only dream of having--chief among them is Dr. Ron Paul himself. They have had a strong finish at Ames and have gotten great responses to each debate. They have successfully put Dr. Paul on the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Morning Joe, Tucker, etc. They are doing their job and they are surprising a lot of people--they are a very successful traditional campaign.
Grassroots and National. Both are important. Both are different. Neither should try to control the other. We here at the Grassroots should continue to create viral YouTube videos and dominating the small, local straw polls. We should continue to spread the message with the materials at hand and we should continue to be as enthusiastic as we have been. The National campaign should do what it has always done--slowly climb the ranks toward respectability, competitiveness and relevance.
We here at the grassroots really shouldn't worry about the National Campaign. We all know what Ron's message is. We all know that he isn't going to change that message. We all agree with it and we should all continue to support it. If we, the Grassroots, attempt to become the National Campaign Chair (poor Kent) then we have completely hijacked a completely different entity of this campaign as a whole that was working for the message.
Two heads at better than one. Two organizations are better than one. Let the National Campaign spread the message in their own way. We, the grassroots, should spread the message in our own way. Who cares how we get the people on board--it's getting them on the ship that counts.