He's just poison, poison, poison, poison--not a freaking drop of honey. Genuine analysis takes some intellect, not pedestrian opportunism.Originally Posted by Anti Federalist
Those who want liberty must organize as effectively as those who want tyranny. -- Iyad el Baghdadi
Yes, exactly, what Teh Banana said.
Your reasoning is not sound and does not hold up to scrutiny.
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"A politician will do almost anything to keep their job, even become a patriot" - Hearst
Well, I don't really, but there are some potential problems...
The candidate no longer has control of his message if the grassroots begin to do their own thing... and that money could likely be better spent doing other things than running ads in the paper.
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"A politician will do almost anything to keep their job, even become a patriot" - Hearst
Read: Legal Defense Slush Fund.
@Collins, what was your position on the blimp back in '08?
I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States...When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank...You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, I will rout you out!
Andrew Jackson, 1834
oh, snap.
Complete waste of money
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"A politician will do almost anything to keep their job, even become a patriot" - Hearst
He was against it. A blimp is a BAD IDEA - here is why.
Although in that thread he did say that PACs were acceptable:
"You cannot solve these problems with war." - Ron Paul
Sure. There are potential problems, like if it made RP look like a loony (it didn't), but you don't have the expertise or the authority to tell or even advise anyone on how to spend the money they made. Most people do real work to earn their money and will resent you immensely for getting on your high-horse and acting as if you know better than them.
Usually I just antagonize you, because you can be so offensive, but in this post--I'm actually giving you valuable advice--for free. You ought to take it.
That'll be the last time.
Those who want liberty must organize as effectively as those who want tyranny. -- Iyad el Baghdadi
Lol. From that link:http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...EA-here-is-why
Bwahaha! What a putz.
Soooo...let me get this straight, I take your advice, (unknowingly, because, to be honest, after all this, I'd be inclined to do the exact opposite of what you say) act on it, IT WORKS, and you come back and say my logic is unsound.I have a minor in marketing. I work in advertising (among other things).
A blimp for Ron Paul is a bad idea and the reason is because it is not very targeted.
If you fly a blimp over a city and 1,000,000 people see the blimp, only x% of those people will be registered voters, and only about 10-20% of those registered voters will vote in the primary, and if it's a major city I would venture to say most of them will be Democrats (urban areas are almost always Democratic - in closed primary states this is a waste).
This means that out of 1 million people that see the blimp, you might only reach a few thousand people that might possibly vote for Ron. This seems like a colossal waste of money for the result.
THE KEY IS TARGETED ADVERTISING!
This means instead of buying a blimp spend money on the following things (in this order):
- Assemble and deliver packets to SuperVoters in your region. Supervoters are people who have voted in the last few elections and are likely to vote in the primary. Your state coordinator should have a list of these people.
- Buy air time on your local conservative talk radio stations including any commercial Christian stations in town
- Buy TV ads on your local nightly and morning news programs, buy ads locally via your cable company on FOX, CNN, and MSNBC
- Buy ads in local papers close to the editoral pages, in the business section, and in the local section
- Purchase billboards in geographically strategic areas
I am sorry if I am raining on anyone's parade (or deflating their baloon - pun intended) but if we want Ron Paul to win the primary, then we need to market him professionally with the best intelligence we can!
Genius...STFU Matt, OK?
myillogicalphallus.com...blargh,blargh,blargh.Soooo...let me get this straight, I take your advice, (unknowingly, because, to be honest, after all this, I'd be inclined to do the exact opposite of what you say) act on it, IT WORKS, and you come back and say my logic is unsound.
Genius...STFU Matt, OK?
Newspapers have declined heavily since the anti-blimp post I made back in 2007.... And also I understand marketing better now than I did then because I have a lot more experience with it.
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"A politician will do almost anything to keep their job, even become a patriot" - Hearst
LULz
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"A politician will do almost anything to keep their job, even become a patriot" - Hearst
You posted your resume on craigslist?
So were you full of $#@! then or are you full of $#@! now?
I was not as informed then as I am now... I have a lot more experience with political marketing now than I did at that point in time. What I wrote at the time made sense, but it was not founded in as much experience as what I have now.
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"A politician will do almost anything to keep their job, even become a patriot" - Hearst
The Bastiat Collection · FREE PDF · FREE EPUB · PAPER Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
- "When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law."
-- The Law (p. 54)- "Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
-- Government (p. 99)- "[W]ar is always begun in the interest of the few, and at the expense of the many."
-- Economic Sophisms - Second Series (p. 312)- "There are two principles that can never be reconciled - Liberty and Constraint."
-- Harmonies of Political Economy - Book One (p. 447)· tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito ·
This is how I read it.....
What scrutiny? Whose scrutiny?
Where is this mythical scrutiny?
Got some scrutiny in your pocket? Well, let's see it!
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