8% - 10% consistently . . . CONSISTENTLY

[jmarinara]

I plan to bump this thread every single day until we win a state. I'm serious.

We must deal with the fact that Ron Paul is not winning. We can't be starry eyed optimists, we can't look to the future. We have to look to now. NOW. Look at the results. Look at the anti-paul backlash. Look at our wretched country.

The results. They are all that matter. Our moneybombs mean nothing. Our internet presence means nothing. Our volunteer enthusiasm means nothing. Votes mean everything, delegates mean more.

WE MUST BEGIN TO WIN.

Lives, fortunes, sacred honor. Put it on the line people and put your baseless optimism away. Deal with the facts. The facts are your friends. The facts tell you all you need to know. What could happen tells you nothing, what is happening is all that matters.

Deal with the facts. Let it motivate you. Let it make you mad. Let it educate you or make you get educated. Let it drive you. Deal with the facts.

Freedom isn't popular. It should be. Make it popular.

Bottomline: we are only getting 8% - 10%, sometimes less, rarely more. We have to do better.

You will hear from me with this same splash of cold water every single day until we win a state, then I will have more splashes of cold water until Ron Paul puts his hand on a Bible and swears to uphold the constitution on January 20, 2009.


8% - 10% consistently CONSISTENTLY We must do better.


P.S.

2 things:

1. If you are tired of hearing from me then make sure Ron Paul wins a state. Don't be mad, be motivated.

2. Don't ask me what I'm doing to help. You are reading what I'm doing. My friends are voting for Ron Paul. My family is listening to me about him, so are my neighbors and co-workers. I'll keep talking until I'm shut up. I've donated all I can, don't qualify to be a delegate and have plenty of slim jims to pass out. I'm doing this because it's the only way I can think of to contribute.

[BigRedBrent]

I am in almost complete agreement. Your typical pessimist will do absolutely nothing. But the moment that pessimist does anything about the cause of his pessimism he then becomes more useful then those who are optimistic but doing less then the pessimist.

The pessimist who fights to get an optimistic result is really an optimists. But only if he does not negatively affect what he is optimistic about.

Well all I am trying to say is that being realistic is always best as long as it is to the benefit of the goal.

We need to look into every kind of option that we can think of, we need to get desperate and should never have not been desperate. We have a very large and very difficult battle to fight and we need to understand that failure must NOT be an option.

[mczerone]

2. Don't ask me what I'm doing to help. You are reading what I'm doing. My friends are voting for Ron Paul. My family is listening to me about him, so are my neighbors and co-workers. I'll keep talking until I'm shut up. I've donated all I can, don't qualify to be a delegate and have plenty of slim jims to pass out. I'm doing this because it's the only way I can think of to contribute.

Then I can assume that you have signed up to be a precinct leader also...

Its great that everyone you know is going to vote for Paul, but we need more votes than any One person knows. you Need to talk to your entire neighborhood, and even county, if you have the time. I pledged my time as much as I could before my primary, and I'm encouraging all others to get outside and do the same!

[r3volution1776]

Im sorry, but most of us are not in the army and we don't respond well to pessimism and put me downs. Do not become a motivational speaker! Tough love is not something that works well with most of the people on the board, its early and there have not been too many victories, give it a rest and do your thing to support RP, but as you should know, dreamers need dreams to do things, so by crushing their dreams, you only make it that much harder for them to fight the fight. I'm not saying what is realistic or what is not, but all I'm saying is try to motivate people, not put them down.

[BigRedBrent]

Im sorry, but most of us are not in the army and we don't respond well to pessimism and put me downs. Do not become a motivational speaker! Tough love is not something that works well with most of the people on the board, its early and there have not been too many victories, give it a rest and do your thing to support RP, but as you should know, dreamers need dreams to do things, so by crushing their dreams, you only make it that much harder for them to fight the fight. I'm not saying what is realistic or what is not, but all I'm saying is try to motivate people, not put them down.

When people are doing something productive then motivation and praise is warranted.

However I do think people need to realistically understand that this is a battle. This is war. WAR!!!!!


We must understand that we must win as if our lives depended on it, because it is likely that they do depend on it. Those who do not understand this would be more useful to us if they did.

If something is not working then we should look into other things that will. We need to put our minds and our hearts together, and come to the conclusion that we will fail if we don't do everything in our power to ensure our victory.

[r3volution1776]

When people are doing something productive then motivation and praise is warranted.

However I do think people need to realistically understand that this is a battle. This is war. WAR!!!!!


We must understand that we must win as if our lives depended on it, because it is likely that they do depend on it. Those who do not understand this would be more useful to us if they did.

If something is not working then we should look into other things that will. We need to put our minds and our hearts together, and come to the conclusion that we will fail if we don't do everything in our power to ensure our victory.

BigRedBrent, Your statement is a lot more motivational than, "Money bombs don't matter, Ron Paul is Losing, etc." The whole point is to be motivational in tone, not pessimistic, as the OP was. I agree we need to correct the wrongs and things like that, but for those who are putting in a lot of effort, you don't say "We are losing!" you say, "Hey great effort guys, we managed to get 10% of the vote, which is so far ahead of where we were in the beginnig. We can do more though, freedom is catching on. Lets continue to canvass and create conversations with people, but lets also not forget that we could be doing (fill in the blank) to help even more."

[ddoggphx]

When we are older, will we change the world? Or will we be status quo voters?

Will we last that long?

How much do we care?

Or will we be saviours of ourselves, our children and our children's children?

Save Lives
Save Money
Save the Republic

www.RonPaul2008.com

[HenryKnoxFineBooks]

We've gone from 1% IN THE POLLS TO "8-10%", seems to me we may be hitting critical mass.

[seeker1]

I wanted to point out the same thing. We are his votes. The 6-10% are the grassroots.

So let me ask you...what is the national campaign doing to get votes?

The ads suck, the press coverage sucks the only good stuff coming out is from us.

I'm pretty sick of it.

[virgil47]

The national campaign should be focusing on getting the vote of the older americans. It does not appear that they are doing this. By the way complacency has lost as many if not more battles than negativity. We need to win in order to show the voting public that we are a serious about Ron Paul becoming president. Yes the money is important but if it is not used effectively it by itself is meaningless. Let's quit spinning our wheels and start thinking of ways to engage more of the public in our cause.