Yes, I'm critical of the Paul campaign staff
Submitted by alaney on Thu, 06/16/2011 - 12:08Because they are seemingly doning nothing different from last election. They're letting our man get bullied by the media neocons without even a word of opposition. I would have thought that the campaign staff, with a couple of years to prepare, would create a strong group of credible Ron Paul supporters to "think tank" what to do to combat all the biased media. There are people out there that could help, if they were only asked, and enlisted. There's people like Jesse Ventura, Judge Napolitano, Preacher Baldwin, even Rand Paul...and many more that could be tapped for spokespeople. Media professional should be enlisted to openly question the reporting. Public relations people should help guide the national effort, and even legal council to challange some of the discrediting attempts. We DO have some campaign laws. In other words, don't take this lying down! Fight back, quickly and hard. Even if you have to step out and create contraversy, which is not exactly Ron Paul's style, but he's going to have to do something to wake folks up. And Ron Paul, himself, needs to sternly address this. He's getting quite a bit more microphone opportunities these days. I say SOUND OFF.
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It would be nice to start seeing at least a weekly video link on the Ron Paul 2012 website with campaign brass talking about anything and everything that is moving and shaking on the campaign trail ... I want to hear Ron's right hand man talking to us and not just reading campaign newsletters ... who is the campaign pit bull at Ron's back?
The campaign has no pitbull.
The campaign has no pitbull. None that I've seen or been made aware. They obviously need some impartial advice that is not sugar-coated.
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I agree, unfortunately alot
I agree, unfortunately alot of RP supporter's don't realize this and you're probably going to get some attack's for what you said, some think Ron can just sit in a cave and his message is all that's needed to win, well, in a dream world yes, I think the problem is most RP supporter's hang around each other so much and don't realize RP doesn't have to convince us, he already has, but we, atleast now, are not the majority and we alone are not going to get him elected.
I would never say Ron should compromise who he is or what he stand's for, but definitely his campaign could use some polishing.
RP: "My first name is Ron and my last name is Paul"
SP: "Wow, you have two first names. Nobody is going to elect 'Ricky Bobby' for President."
RP: "Do you care about anything important?"
SP:"One time I killed a moose and took a picture with it."
I'm prepared to give the campaign staff benefit of the doubt.
Have you ever heard of PEAKING TOO EARLY? Quick, how many pre-primary "front runners" have gone on to win the nomination of EITHER party in the last 60 years?
Exactly!!!!
Giuliani was a prime example.
This is an Important Subject
The Campaign is way too passive about everything.
Ron Paul performs admireably in debates, in speeches, in TV appearances, etc., but the Campaign is totally clueless in terms of working to market him, and taking control of and shaping the public perceptions.
Awhile back there was a poll that showed Ron Paul neck-n-neck with President Obama, and ahead of all of the other GOP hopefuls. Where was the Campaign?
Then awhile back Juan Williams declared that "we live in the age of Ron Paul" because of the movement in his direction. Where was the Campaign?
A properly run, aggressive Campaign would have made this a repeated "soundbite", and drumed it into the heads of the voting demographic. They could have done TV ADVERTISEMENTS on these points alone (to educate GOP Primary voters).
As we see, over and over again, when Ron Paul is incorrectly called "an Isolationist", or left out of major polls, or the Polls are distorted (CNN) or ignored to make it appear that he is just some "fringe candidate" .. Where is the Campaign?
As Michelle Bachmann, Hermain Caine, and even Mitt Romney flip-flop around their rhetoric and positions to falsely appear more compatible with "Tea Party/Libertarian/Ron Paul" voters, and in the process clearly contradict their lifelong Voting records and their past statements .. Where is the Campaign?
This campaign needs to have surrogates whose job it is to set the record straight and keep the Mainstream Media honest 24-hours a day.
It also needs to make sharp and very specific contrasts between all of the pro-establishment candidates (who are deceptively co-opting some of Ron Paul's rhetoric) and Ron Paul.
You cannot possibly win any Presidential campaign if you are naive enough to rely upon either the Media, or the voters just "doing the right thing" on their own. That will never happen (otherwise our Country would've never even been in a mess this large). You have to control the public perceptions. You have to create and control the contrasts. You have to make sure that your story (and not some other agenda) is out there in the 24-hour News Cycle each and every day.
Where is the Campaign? This Campaign needs to decide whether or not it wants to really win, or just watch the World go by.
By now they should know that this is not going to be a "fair fight", and that they will have to run an aggressive, and Media-savvy Campaign in order to compete.
They should be flogging CNN and FOX all over the airwaves for their misrepresentations.
i could not agree more...
awesome post...
I agree, and he doesn't have to lie to do so
as they do. He just has to point out their past positions and records, (By the way, he has been doing this in the debates, but the campaign, once again, is letting the ball drop.) and that could very well shut them up. A few well-placed press releases would be a good way to combat this, as would a few well written ads comparing the other candidates to Ron Paul.
But that man should play the tyrant over God, and find Him a better man than himself, is astonishing drama indeed!~~D. Sayers
McCain has the wrong type of birds in sight: Angry Birds are the type!
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Very good points, Baby!
Did any other candidate start a political machine? No! Ron Paul started the C4L. His machine should be a giant Sherman tank. Yes, I know the C4L can't outwardly support Ron, but it certainly should be able to muster thousands of troops by now. Shouldn't it?
Lying
is the biggest part of campaign marketing, unfortunately. Using Rovian tactics that are turning voters off now would be very ill advised. Bad timing.
Missed the point
No one is saying that the campaign should use Rovian tactics.
But the campaign does need to have an alert and aggressive staff and campaign surrogates and spokespeople who work each and every day to go out there and set the record straight (which means telling the truth), and to take control of the public perceptions.
well
to your first two "where's the campaign?"s:
Ron Paul announced he was running for President after those events, so there was no presidential campaign at that time to do anything about them.
"You underestimate the character of man." | "So be off now, and set about it."
Completely agree.
Completely agree.
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