How to deal with the "Ron Paul isn't a leader" opinion.
Submitted by Boru on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 16:34
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When pressed to say what people have against Ron Paul, they often say something like "Ron Paul is conservative, but he isn't a leader."
Of course, you and I think Ron Paul is an amazing leader, but the fact remains that the *perception* of him not being a leader is out there. Certainly, the DeceptiCon media is all too happy to perpetuate this image, but really there is a hard issue here.
I like to view it as a one of the last remaining challenges between us and liberty.
With 2012 arriving, we need to think of ways to *SELL* Ron Paul's leadership. Adding some leadership bullets to his pamphlets is an obvious thing to do.
What other things can we do or encourage Dr. Paul's organization to do to sell his leadership ability to the masses?
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Ask
Ask them what is the most important quality in a leader?
Charisma? Hitler was spell-binding in his charisma.
Willingness to compromise? That's how we got where we are.
How about a deep understanding of, and demonstrated committment to, a set of sound principles for government - principles that also happen to embody everything good about this country and were cherished by the Founders.
Once you establish that sound and firmly-held guiding principles are what is really important in a leader, Ron Paul wins hands down.
You need to check
Your wordage.
Ron Paul=TEACHER
Obama=Leader
If you go through and replace LEADER with TEACHER you'll see why Ron Paul is so respected in the freedom movement. He is teaching people how to wake-up. He's not leading people to wake-up.
Ask them to define "leader"
Then tell them how awful it is that we've chosen to pick our leaders
based on Style, over Substance. and look where we are now!
I prefer Substance over style.
"I don't endorse anything they say"
~Ron Paul On the 911 Truth movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGyhlNY0y1k
This is the new neo-con
This is the new neo-con criticism. They know that they will lose the war and drug war arguments, so they have reverted to this primitive ideology.
Ventura 2012
who says that?
The same people that say Obama is a leader? Or other things that are equally not true.
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"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."
Meister Eckhart
American politics ...............
another episode of American idol to the sheeple.
I think their are plenty of
I think their are plenty of voters that would be ecstatic to text their "official" vote for president...
"A government of reason is better than one of force." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 1820
I just inform them
that RP is a leader, and has shown it by being right about all the things he predicted in this economy, while ALL of the other "accepted leaders" have been totally wrong.
Obama is in the toilet.
McCain is nowhwere to be found,
All the other "so-called candidates" are marking time, trying to host some talk show somewhere.
And RP?
Well he's just running the "Audit the Fed" bill thru Congress, and being interviewed by all the pundits who are amazed at how right he has been about everything.
Now, ask them this.
Would they rather be led down the wrong path by an "accepted leader", or down the right path by one they hadn't previously considered?
By the way, 99% of the time, when somebody says "he isn't a leader", what they really mean is that he doesn't support the war that the person you're speaking with, DOES support.
It's usually a comment from a warmonger neocon.
I don't think it is 99% of the time
No doubt sometimes they are using it as an excuse to avoid discussing something.
But they go to the leader thing because there is something to it.
Again, I am talking about perception, rhetoric, marketing. Other politicians make an effort to be seen building houses, kissing babies, and so on.
I think we need to make a big deal about Ron Paul's accomplishments.
-he's a doctor...did he run his own practice? did it make money?
-legislation: we know he prolifically creates legislation...what has gotten passed. What boards is/was he on.
-economist: what groups of people is he leading?
-texas: what has he actually done for them
-presidential candidate: we need to sum up what he did in terms of leadership: raised funds, harshly debated, etc.
From the masses point of view, Bush had corporate leadership credentials. Obama has communitiy organizer credentials. McCain had POW/political leadership credentials.
All I am asking is for some simple hard leadership examples to break through the barriers.
Delivering thousands of babies is neato...but how about "leading thousands of couples through the most important event in their lives: having a baby".
Serving in the military as a doctor sounds good, but how about "having the grit to be the stead-fast healing hands as a military medical officer in the harsh confines of military combat environments."
See the difference?
It goes back to people being trained
they have been trained that they have to have someone instruct them in every aspect of their lives. They can't think for themselves. Dr. Paul, is completely at odds with what they think leadership is. He is not a babysitter or a sugar daddy. We have got to work on folks thinking and doing for themselves, before they will ever see him as a "leader".
"What was taken from the boomers, it ain't there, what was taken from the X'ers it ain't there, what is being taken from their great, great, great squared grandchildren it ain't there. Some generation just has to have the guts to quit passing it on." Me
*May the only ones to touch your junk, be the ones you want to touch your junk.*