The Plan
12-09-2007, 07:27 AM
OK ya'll......
Everybody saw the FOX News report wher they referred to us as "Paulheads" about 5 times in the report. That term really pisses me off because i know what it inferres. They want to compare us to "Deadheads" and marginalise us to a conservative audience as a bunch of hippie college students.
WE CAN NOT LET THIS HAPPEN!!!!!!!
If we lose this election it will be because we didn't sweat the details like this one. I know most of you hate to think that we have to brand ourselves because you believe it will amount to giving into playing their warped media game and i understand that. We have to be realistic here, we all know that it doesn't matter what the numbers are it won't change the fact that we don't own the media and with america' fat asses glued to the couch every night we better find a way to break through the gap. We have to play the game and we can do it better.
We have to take the power of labeling us away from people like FOX News. We need to brand ourselves now. We've branded the movement but we havn't branded the people and we have to sell ourselves as a group to the people just as much as we have to sell Ron Paul.
Here's are the choices and i'm not gonna lie i have a preference for only one of them. Every music marketing instict i have is telling me this is the one, but in order to pick a name we all need to vote. This is a list of the best:
Paulites - Very classy and serious sounding, sort of biblical at the same time, my favorite by far. I will be voting for this one.
Paulians - Kind of like aliens from planet Ron Paul or something
Ronulans - Star Trek nerdy and pretty clever
Patriots - A little general but descriptive
Americans - Even more general a term but it is true
Paulies - Kind of cutesy, a little Canadian sounding but good
The Remnant - A term from the man himself, i think it's great but we need to dumb it down a tad
Paul-iticians - This is very clever, i actually like this one
The rules:
We will narrow down the names by voting on this thread. The top 2 names will then be taken and put into another poll where a winner will be determined. This poll will run till tuesday night.
After a winner is picked a formal letter will be written to the campaign themselves explaining how we would like Dr. Paul to refer to us in public so we can make sure the term sticks with the press.
I would like you all to take this very seriously. Picking a name is VERY important to the media. In a consumer culture like ours we have to be smart enough to be able to talk their language and this is just part of it.
Thank You
Everybody saw the FOX News report wher they referred to us as "Paulheads" about 5 times in the report. That term really pisses me off because i know what it inferres. They want to compare us to "Deadheads" and marginalise us to a conservative audience as a bunch of hippie college students.
WE CAN NOT LET THIS HAPPEN!!!!!!!
If we lose this election it will be because we didn't sweat the details like this one. I know most of you hate to think that we have to brand ourselves because you believe it will amount to giving into playing their warped media game and i understand that. We have to be realistic here, we all know that it doesn't matter what the numbers are it won't change the fact that we don't own the media and with america' fat asses glued to the couch every night we better find a way to break through the gap. We have to play the game and we can do it better.
We have to take the power of labeling us away from people like FOX News. We need to brand ourselves now. We've branded the movement but we havn't branded the people and we have to sell ourselves as a group to the people just as much as we have to sell Ron Paul.
Here's are the choices and i'm not gonna lie i have a preference for only one of them. Every music marketing instict i have is telling me this is the one, but in order to pick a name we all need to vote. This is a list of the best:
Paulites - Very classy and serious sounding, sort of biblical at the same time, my favorite by far. I will be voting for this one.
Paulians - Kind of like aliens from planet Ron Paul or something
Ronulans - Star Trek nerdy and pretty clever
Patriots - A little general but descriptive
Americans - Even more general a term but it is true
Paulies - Kind of cutesy, a little Canadian sounding but good
The Remnant - A term from the man himself, i think it's great but we need to dumb it down a tad
Paul-iticians - This is very clever, i actually like this one
The rules:
We will narrow down the names by voting on this thread. The top 2 names will then be taken and put into another poll where a winner will be determined. This poll will run till tuesday night.
After a winner is picked a formal letter will be written to the campaign themselves explaining how we would like Dr. Paul to refer to us in public so we can make sure the term sticks with the press.
I would like you all to take this very seriously. Picking a name is VERY important to the media. In a consumer culture like ours we have to be smart enough to be able to talk their language and this is just part of it.
Thank You