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wfd40
01-04-2008, 05:33 PM
Just got done reading his most recent 2 posts over at Lew Rockwell...

The first post (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/018238.html) calls for a unifying message along with a monumental SPEECH.. Personally, I could not agree more. Paul needs to CLEARLY and CONFIDENTLY address just why he will CHANGE AMERICA for the BETTER.

What is Paul really after? Sure, restoration of values, non-intervention, a freer America, lower taxes, smaller government, etc. But these do not encapsulate the whole theme as New Frontier did, say. And some of them do not sound positive. A theme should be positive. Paul wants to bring back the traditional and unrealized old America. He wants to see realized the American potential. Kind of a New Old America. But that's confusing.

At this point, the theme may as well be a New America, because we've had the existing one for so long and it's so pervasive that it's now the Old America, and it's a Failing America. Only a New America can save us from becoming part of a Failing America. A New America has the ring of redemption.

Tie the 20th century roster of politicians now running for office to the Failing America. America needs a New America led by a new kind of leader with new policies.

One speech can turn this around! Martin Luther King made one speech. That is all that it takes. One speech. One speech that means what it says and says what it means, and that has real content that tells a true story and appeals.

The second post (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/018236.html) goes a bit deeper into what this campaign is really all about and what drives the majority of its supporters. This POST IS A MUST READ.. and hopefully HQ READS IT...

There need to be new messages. They cannot only be the old ones of cutting taxes, say, or ending inflation. These have far too many associations with political hot wires that turn off various voters.

There need to be new over-arching themes that resonate. The content ultimately may be the same in terms of actions, but the packaging is different. That is what political leadership is about.

Bring all (or many) queries back around to this costly, futile, and dangerous war. Pakistan? Iraq shows us we should stay out. The domestic economy? Iraq has fueled sky-high oil costs and borrowing. It has weaskened the private sector.

Attack the Democratic Party for its unswerving support of war-funding and its efforts to bring us more war in central Asia. Attack Clinton on this. Root out Obama's support for this and attack him.

By all means, attack McCain and other warmongers among the Republicans.

Who funded this war? Who sponsored this war? Democrats and war-making Republicans.

Stay on message and attack strongly and repeatedly and consistently. Here is a stream of possible thematic material:

War-making has weakened the dollar, the domestic economy, and America's standing in the world.

We need to repair all three. The war industries, the war media, and the war politicians are constantly stimulating harmful reflexes: interventions, wars, higher taxes, inflation, debt, and foreign interference. We must reject these special interests who are destroying our money, our home economy, and our country. We must reject the twentieth-century politics and politicians who have chosen to keep us in endless warfare. We must look ahead to a period of rebuilding.

Whomever you are Mr. Rozeff, thank you very much for your amazing insight it what it will take to bring this campaign to the next level. I can only hope that Dr. Paul hears of your wisdom.

angrydragon
01-04-2008, 05:41 PM
I like the second one, which I think is true.

There need to be new messages. They cannot only be the old ones of cutting taxes, say, or ending inflation. These have far too many associations with political hot wires that turn off various voters.

There need to be new over-arching themes that resonate