Elwar
11-03-2007, 10:17 AM
Ok, I don't like posting negative threads (some good news, RP is solidly beating Fred Thompson on intrade) but I'm seeing some creeping going on that I don't like.
You are not owed anything for your voluntary efforts.
Do not think that your hours and dollars deserve return from the campaign whether it's implementing one of your "fabulous" ideas or going one place or another, or even a personal phone call from the man himself.
Volunteering is just that, if you expect anything in return for your efforts then you aren't really volunteering are you? Your only motive for volunteering to help Ron Paul get elected should be to get Ron Paul elected. We are not other campaigns. We are not a bunch of pharmaceuticals trying to help our candidate so that they will push our drugs on the kids. We are not big oil trying to get our candidate to get us some oil contracts in Iraq. We are individual Americans wanting the government out of our lives.
I'm starting to hear things like "I've donated $X, I've recruited X people, I've spend X hours handing out slim jims, blah blah blah, and if the Ron Paul campaign doesn't <insert demand here>, I am stopping my efforts." That's not volunteering.
Ron Paul and the campaign are too busy trying to win an election. Don't get in their way, get behind them.
Ron Paul will win. Keep your eye on the goal.
You are not owed anything for your voluntary efforts.
Do not think that your hours and dollars deserve return from the campaign whether it's implementing one of your "fabulous" ideas or going one place or another, or even a personal phone call from the man himself.
Volunteering is just that, if you expect anything in return for your efforts then you aren't really volunteering are you? Your only motive for volunteering to help Ron Paul get elected should be to get Ron Paul elected. We are not other campaigns. We are not a bunch of pharmaceuticals trying to help our candidate so that they will push our drugs on the kids. We are not big oil trying to get our candidate to get us some oil contracts in Iraq. We are individual Americans wanting the government out of our lives.
I'm starting to hear things like "I've donated $X, I've recruited X people, I've spend X hours handing out slim jims, blah blah blah, and if the Ron Paul campaign doesn't <insert demand here>, I am stopping my efforts." That's not volunteering.
Ron Paul and the campaign are too busy trying to win an election. Don't get in their way, get behind them.
Ron Paul will win. Keep your eye on the goal.