BillyDkid
01-09-2008, 08:06 AM
Okay, I have to admit I was furious about NH. It strikes me as simply absurd that we came in 5th in the Live Free or Die state. There is just no excuse for it. Then I read where someone posted that part of the strategy was not to win in NH. I find this incredibly implausible. The only way we gain credibility is to do well in the voting. That is the only way. And now the media has further excuse for ignoring and dismissing us. And all the new donors we would have gotten by a good showing - gone. I'm sorry and you can call me names - but this falls on the campaign. We did not have a fraction of the TV advertising of the other candidates and why? To be frugal with the 20 million we sent to the campaign?
Chris Matthews said and the other pundits agreed that McCain now has clear sailing to the nomination. I don't actually believe that, but you know as well as I do that the media creates self fulfilling prophecies. If people hear that constantly they take it forgranted that it is true. This idea of being conservative with your cash for the long run win each defeat makes you seem more and more unviable to the populace at large is mind boggling. The campaign should have made a MAJOR investment of time and money in NH. Instead we ended fulfilling the medias expectations and proving them right. It has to stop and there has to be a new strategy. There has to be a real effort by the campaign to win.
They need to take the risk and go all in somewhere. New money can only come in from new supporters and the campaign has to make a serious effort to reach those people and make them hear us. Optimism is fine, but realism is the only thing that is going to win us the nomination. God is NOT going to reach down and magically open people's hearts to the message of liberty. This is not a fairy tale and the good guys only always win in the movies. The grassroots has more than done their part and they will continue to do so - until they reach the point where they feel it is hopeless and each bad showing pushes us closer and closer to that point. This has to be turned around and it has to start to happen now.
The campaign has to start playing like they are in the big leagues and like they are as good as the other guys. There was no excuse for not winning or at least doing very well in NH and to loose to the likes of McCain (the 100 years war) and Huckabee and Guiliani in this state is simply infuriating. I'm done losing and the campaign needs to make up its mind that it is done too. They have to get out of this underdog/also ran mind set and stop depending on people like us to make this happen because we can't do it for ourselves. We can wave all the signs in the world and march down the street and knock on doors, but we can not have a fraction of the influence that mass media does and if the media will not give us the time and the credibility that they give to the likes of Huckabee and McCain then we have to buy it ourselves.
The campaign has to produce professional and effective adds and present Dr. Paul as a man who people can envision as their commander in chief. Most people are simply not smart enough to really understand the message - but they do understand the trillion dollar deficit and they do understand people dying pointlessly and they do understand not being able to pay for healthcare and they can understand that inflation is making their money worthless. We can not win the game unless we are in it and up to this point it seems the campaign has been playing and pretending at running for President. They need hired guns who understand the game. I love that Dr. Paul doesn't have a huge staff of high paid advisors telling him what to say and that he doesn't base his opinions on opinion polls, but they need to spend some of that money on political professionals who know how to make things happen. This is crunch time. We'll wave signs and knock on doors and we'll give them the money, but they need to start using it like we are playing in the big leagues. My two cents. Please don't flame me. I don't flame others for their opinions.
Chris Matthews said and the other pundits agreed that McCain now has clear sailing to the nomination. I don't actually believe that, but you know as well as I do that the media creates self fulfilling prophecies. If people hear that constantly they take it forgranted that it is true. This idea of being conservative with your cash for the long run win each defeat makes you seem more and more unviable to the populace at large is mind boggling. The campaign should have made a MAJOR investment of time and money in NH. Instead we ended fulfilling the medias expectations and proving them right. It has to stop and there has to be a new strategy. There has to be a real effort by the campaign to win.
They need to take the risk and go all in somewhere. New money can only come in from new supporters and the campaign has to make a serious effort to reach those people and make them hear us. Optimism is fine, but realism is the only thing that is going to win us the nomination. God is NOT going to reach down and magically open people's hearts to the message of liberty. This is not a fairy tale and the good guys only always win in the movies. The grassroots has more than done their part and they will continue to do so - until they reach the point where they feel it is hopeless and each bad showing pushes us closer and closer to that point. This has to be turned around and it has to start to happen now.
The campaign has to start playing like they are in the big leagues and like they are as good as the other guys. There was no excuse for not winning or at least doing very well in NH and to loose to the likes of McCain (the 100 years war) and Huckabee and Guiliani in this state is simply infuriating. I'm done losing and the campaign needs to make up its mind that it is done too. They have to get out of this underdog/also ran mind set and stop depending on people like us to make this happen because we can't do it for ourselves. We can wave all the signs in the world and march down the street and knock on doors, but we can not have a fraction of the influence that mass media does and if the media will not give us the time and the credibility that they give to the likes of Huckabee and McCain then we have to buy it ourselves.
The campaign has to produce professional and effective adds and present Dr. Paul as a man who people can envision as their commander in chief. Most people are simply not smart enough to really understand the message - but they do understand the trillion dollar deficit and they do understand people dying pointlessly and they do understand not being able to pay for healthcare and they can understand that inflation is making their money worthless. We can not win the game unless we are in it and up to this point it seems the campaign has been playing and pretending at running for President. They need hired guns who understand the game. I love that Dr. Paul doesn't have a huge staff of high paid advisors telling him what to say and that he doesn't base his opinions on opinion polls, but they need to spend some of that money on political professionals who know how to make things happen. This is crunch time. We'll wave signs and knock on doors and we'll give them the money, but they need to start using it like we are playing in the big leagues. My two cents. Please don't flame me. I don't flame others for their opinions.