fourameuphoria
11-06-2007, 05:11 PM
I guess this is more of a devil's advocate post than anything, but let's keep perspective:
I really don't think it will be significant if he's excluded from the debate.The recent debate appearances have helped the campaigns in increments, but nothing better or worse. The Huckabee-Paul thing was supposed to shoot us to top-tier, but nothing came out of it. It's the fundraising that's seemed to help us the most. Plus, the MSNBC/Fox Debates are jokes. They'll continue to give serious questions to Frudy McRomney and give Ron Paul the stupid questions. Plus, at least in this timeframe, the CNN/YouTube debate will be a far bigger event. Beyond that, the last CNN Debate was probably the fairest debate he had. He got to answer many questions outside of the "Why are you against the war" realm. He'll likely have a good appearance on CNN, the View, and the Boston Tea Party moneybomb in that three week timeframe, so there will still be plenty of good press for us.
What I'm saying is, if we get into the debate, great. If we don't, it's not worth making us look like jackasses. Ron Paul will have 10 Million+ by then, and just the angle of excluding him from the debates alone will give Paul more publicity, and FOX less credibility. However, if we make some sort of human shield infront of the auditorium or something, it will give us a shitload of negative publicity.
So, by all means, let's go balls to the walls to get him at 5% in Iowa. But if it doesn't happen, this won't be the end of the world, and we can reap a lot of gold from this without creating a firestorm.
I really don't think it will be significant if he's excluded from the debate.The recent debate appearances have helped the campaigns in increments, but nothing better or worse. The Huckabee-Paul thing was supposed to shoot us to top-tier, but nothing came out of it. It's the fundraising that's seemed to help us the most. Plus, the MSNBC/Fox Debates are jokes. They'll continue to give serious questions to Frudy McRomney and give Ron Paul the stupid questions. Plus, at least in this timeframe, the CNN/YouTube debate will be a far bigger event. Beyond that, the last CNN Debate was probably the fairest debate he had. He got to answer many questions outside of the "Why are you against the war" realm. He'll likely have a good appearance on CNN, the View, and the Boston Tea Party moneybomb in that three week timeframe, so there will still be plenty of good press for us.
What I'm saying is, if we get into the debate, great. If we don't, it's not worth making us look like jackasses. Ron Paul will have 10 Million+ by then, and just the angle of excluding him from the debates alone will give Paul more publicity, and FOX less credibility. However, if we make some sort of human shield infront of the auditorium or something, it will give us a shitload of negative publicity.
So, by all means, let's go balls to the walls to get him at 5% in Iowa. But if it doesn't happen, this won't be the end of the world, and we can reap a lot of gold from this without creating a firestorm.