Publicani
01-04-2008, 10:53 AM
A few comments first.
Ron Paul is in charge of his campaign. He is not an absent - minded professor, who is being manipulated by some people around him. He is a doctor, a Congreeman, he knows how to run business.
And he wants to win.
So I don’t believe that he does not understand that his campaign is, as many of us feel, underperforming. I also don’t believe that he would not be able to make some changes in his staff if he thought it’d improve his chances.
The problem is that his campaign has greater obstacles.
Other campaigns have to sell the candidates. His campaign has to sell the message. It is much harder to do. Try to sell groomerics before anybody knows what it is. It is much easier to be selling a particular kind of groomerics after majority is sold on this concept. All other republican candidates have more or less the same message (staying in Iraq indefinitely, keeping bases in other countries for centuries, increasing the role of the federal government in solving our domestic and foreign problems, sacrificing our liberties for our perceived safety.) Ron Paul is the only candidate opposing all of these. But the MCM, and therefore the people, supports their message not his.
There is another problem with taking high principled road. He just can’t use sleazy tactics in his campaign without affecting negatively his message.
So what is he to do? Should he bring in some high paid professional to run his campaign as many have suggested?
There are not many libertarians who ran successfully national campaign. I don’t know any.
So suppose he brings in Dick Morris, one of the top managers in this country. What can he learned from him? Put on a cross in your ad and insist that you did not notice it? It was a bookshelf, people, a bookshelf?
At least his people know him, know his message, and want to run an honorable campaign. No problem if they are negative but they want to be truthful. So we have to convince them if we want to win.
Here are two suggestions to his campaign. Actually they are suggestions to Ron Paul, because I don’t believe that his campaign will do anything not approved by him.
First suggestion is general. We have to have two way unfiltered communication with Ron Paul. I believe that he is aware of main points made on dailypaul and this forum. Is it not enough. We should be able to argue our point of view on various issues. It is in his interests to respond and make his case. Not just to get the money, but to make our efforts more efficient.
It does not have to take a lot of time from him. We can vote on, say, a top dozen questions of the day and it should not take Ron Paul more than 10 -20 minutes of his time to answer them. That would be best spent 20 minutes of his time. Hopefully every day.
My second suggestion is specific, and I may be wrong on that one. I don’t like the official ads. They are not professionally done. I would prefer to have more Ron Paul there then some other talking heads.
When I see some of McCain or Huckubee ads, I like them. I realize that they are lying, but I see how efficient they could be. None of them are as good as some of grassroots’ ads of Ron Paul. But all of them are better than the official campaign ads. In my opinion.
What do you think?
Ron Paul is in charge of his campaign. He is not an absent - minded professor, who is being manipulated by some people around him. He is a doctor, a Congreeman, he knows how to run business.
And he wants to win.
So I don’t believe that he does not understand that his campaign is, as many of us feel, underperforming. I also don’t believe that he would not be able to make some changes in his staff if he thought it’d improve his chances.
The problem is that his campaign has greater obstacles.
Other campaigns have to sell the candidates. His campaign has to sell the message. It is much harder to do. Try to sell groomerics before anybody knows what it is. It is much easier to be selling a particular kind of groomerics after majority is sold on this concept. All other republican candidates have more or less the same message (staying in Iraq indefinitely, keeping bases in other countries for centuries, increasing the role of the federal government in solving our domestic and foreign problems, sacrificing our liberties for our perceived safety.) Ron Paul is the only candidate opposing all of these. But the MCM, and therefore the people, supports their message not his.
There is another problem with taking high principled road. He just can’t use sleazy tactics in his campaign without affecting negatively his message.
So what is he to do? Should he bring in some high paid professional to run his campaign as many have suggested?
There are not many libertarians who ran successfully national campaign. I don’t know any.
So suppose he brings in Dick Morris, one of the top managers in this country. What can he learned from him? Put on a cross in your ad and insist that you did not notice it? It was a bookshelf, people, a bookshelf?
At least his people know him, know his message, and want to run an honorable campaign. No problem if they are negative but they want to be truthful. So we have to convince them if we want to win.
Here are two suggestions to his campaign. Actually they are suggestions to Ron Paul, because I don’t believe that his campaign will do anything not approved by him.
First suggestion is general. We have to have two way unfiltered communication with Ron Paul. I believe that he is aware of main points made on dailypaul and this forum. Is it not enough. We should be able to argue our point of view on various issues. It is in his interests to respond and make his case. Not just to get the money, but to make our efforts more efficient.
It does not have to take a lot of time from him. We can vote on, say, a top dozen questions of the day and it should not take Ron Paul more than 10 -20 minutes of his time to answer them. That would be best spent 20 minutes of his time. Hopefully every day.
My second suggestion is specific, and I may be wrong on that one. I don’t like the official ads. They are not professionally done. I would prefer to have more Ron Paul there then some other talking heads.
When I see some of McCain or Huckubee ads, I like them. I realize that they are lying, but I see how efficient they could be. None of them are as good as some of grassroots’ ads of Ron Paul. But all of them are better than the official campaign ads. In my opinion.
What do you think?