Akus
01-04-2008, 12:25 PM
I cannot believe that we were #5 in 8/11/07 Straw poll and we are still #5 in 01/03/08 Caucus. This campaign is 80% dependent on grassroots and those guys up in IA really didn't have their crap together. There is absolute no improvement in Ron Paul's ratings in this state in 5 months that separate two events.
I don't know for the fact, but I am seriously suspecting it's because, unlike well oiled PR machines of Clinton, Romney and Guliani, our grassroots are mostly amateurs some of whom have never campaigned for their local railroad commissioner, much less a US President. They didn't know their audience. Some one here said that many people wouldn't care for Ron Paul immediately upon hearing that he is anti-war. Well, duh. You need to know your audience.
Did you see the demographics of the voters that CNN put out? Most Huckabee supporters would give two shits about Bhutto being assassinated. Hell, they probably didn't ever know who Benazir Bhutto was. So what are the chances that they would know, much less care about Federal Reserve, Gold standard and borrowing money from China to fight Saddam?
The message should have been that RP loves guns (true), Ron Paul loves Jesus (true) and Ron Paul wants a tall wall on the border to keep them foreigners out (true). I bet though that was not the pitch. I bet it was about Federal reserve, getting out of the war and legalizing weed or some such. The grassroots must have really not known the audience they were targeting. Because that is the only way Ron Paul scoring this low makes sense.
I had no high hopes. I expected 2nd or 3rd, but DAMN. And the only reason he beat Rudy is because he wasn't even in the state. I have a strong feeling that if we are to fail, it's not because Ron Paul isn't popular, it's because the grassroots lack any campaign knowledge or sense. I say that because I highly doubt that Hillary Clinton campaign staff would ever call anyone at fucking eleven o'clock in the evening to try to convince them to vote for her. How can anyone be this stupid to call people about Ron Paul this late?
What is really upsetting is not that Ron Paul's lost Iowa, but the fact that we give ammo to O'Reillys and Hannities. We prove them right, we make their point that we are nothing but a bunch of bored internet nerds and Moon landing conspirasists, who are too unruly to translate the money power and the supporters' power into what matters - a victory at the voting booth. We are supposed to make them look stupid and out of touch, not the other way around. This can't be another Ross Perot or Howard Dean.
/vent
P.S. I know most of you will probably tell me to go to hell, but I see so much stupid shit that I really am no longer certain that Ron Paul can win.
I don't know for the fact, but I am seriously suspecting it's because, unlike well oiled PR machines of Clinton, Romney and Guliani, our grassroots are mostly amateurs some of whom have never campaigned for their local railroad commissioner, much less a US President. They didn't know their audience. Some one here said that many people wouldn't care for Ron Paul immediately upon hearing that he is anti-war. Well, duh. You need to know your audience.
Did you see the demographics of the voters that CNN put out? Most Huckabee supporters would give two shits about Bhutto being assassinated. Hell, they probably didn't ever know who Benazir Bhutto was. So what are the chances that they would know, much less care about Federal Reserve, Gold standard and borrowing money from China to fight Saddam?
The message should have been that RP loves guns (true), Ron Paul loves Jesus (true) and Ron Paul wants a tall wall on the border to keep them foreigners out (true). I bet though that was not the pitch. I bet it was about Federal reserve, getting out of the war and legalizing weed or some such. The grassroots must have really not known the audience they were targeting. Because that is the only way Ron Paul scoring this low makes sense.
I had no high hopes. I expected 2nd or 3rd, but DAMN. And the only reason he beat Rudy is because he wasn't even in the state. I have a strong feeling that if we are to fail, it's not because Ron Paul isn't popular, it's because the grassroots lack any campaign knowledge or sense. I say that because I highly doubt that Hillary Clinton campaign staff would ever call anyone at fucking eleven o'clock in the evening to try to convince them to vote for her. How can anyone be this stupid to call people about Ron Paul this late?
What is really upsetting is not that Ron Paul's lost Iowa, but the fact that we give ammo to O'Reillys and Hannities. We prove them right, we make their point that we are nothing but a bunch of bored internet nerds and Moon landing conspirasists, who are too unruly to translate the money power and the supporters' power into what matters - a victory at the voting booth. We are supposed to make them look stupid and out of touch, not the other way around. This can't be another Ross Perot or Howard Dean.
/vent
P.S. I know most of you will probably tell me to go to hell, but I see so much stupid shit that I really am no longer certain that Ron Paul can win.