This campaign needs an aggressive bulldog for a manager

Here's your bulldog.

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I was so impressed when I watched Kent talk to the press. But I hardly ever see him. Where is our Carville who will do anything to get in the camera and will spit and claw to get his point out?

A point below about keeping RP on message and controlling the interview is spot on. It may be a personality thing though, where Ron answers the question as asked, not with his agenda. Hard to change that. i think we have been sidetracked with correct but distracting topics time and time again. And all we should be saying over and over is...

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I think the world of Dr. ROn Paul here from overseas and think he would be even better than Reagan and the most Reagan like of all the candidates. It would of course have been better if Ron Paul had been a governor or senator, but I fully understand the reasons why he was not (do not want to elaborate on this here). Dr. Paul's mild and academic mannerdness makes the best impression on throughtful students and academics that take time to research him. Our challenge to cut into the mainstream Republicans massively would be to target the 40-6- year olds as well, while keeping our strength with young voters.

Kent Snyder is indeed a nice, kind and intelligent guy (same videos), but I agree going forward with our high ideals to get Dr. Paul elected, we need somone older, with more hands-on expeirence, well known and forceful with a good rhetoric. Many average voters are not sophisticated and rheroric plays a major role, and for these reasons Napolitano would be ideal. Kent Snyder can stay on as vice manager and perhaps focus on the younger voters and Napolitano the head strategists, wfocus on middle or older and established voters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IgTFHsUjoY

Napolitano endorsed Ron Paul and would the perfect/ideal combination with Dr. Paul. You need someone with a strong rhetoric and smart man with a lot of connections, he would complete Dr. Paul's personality, so to speak. I mean on a psychiological level, many voters feel secure with a strong perosnality, they feel "secure" and Napolitano would be perfect person to portray this and Dr. Pauls' mild diplomatic mannerdness perfect for president again and the US foreign relations.

Can you get HQ or someone close to Dr. Paul to actively engage with Napilitano. He is a contributor to Fox together with Brian K (who noted that RP should have been included in debate), wit radio-program, and not a Fox presenter. If Dr. Paul wins as we pray, Napolitano can get an important role in the govt. if he wants (he would be very good for all Americans).

In case Napolitano cannot, although he may want, identify now already someone similar as plan B. We heard Wolf Blitzer quoting Dole's campaign manager on CNN yesterday, critsizing the RP compaign, which of course we can all critisize (and he was not very successful in his job), but maybe he has a point.

Already the announcement of a new main pro-active PR manager will be a news event in itself.

that Judge Andrew Napolitano could have been RP's campaign manager. He would slap sense into the American media with Constitutional law. He's got a rough and tough tone inflection.

obviously trusts Kent Snyder. But I agree, certain problems are obvious and I worry that these weaknesses may cost Ron Paul many battles. I am often bothered by the amateurish look of TV ads, telling me that someone who should be hiring professionals to do certain things are either trying to do it themselves, or hiring amateurs. This saves money, but hurts the campaign in the long run because so much money that is spent on airing the ads is wasted. Another example is the way the New Hampshire town meeting looked on camera ... Ron Paul was awesome and the event was a great success, but it looked like a high school production. This stuff matters. It might have looked great there in the room, but it takes a media pro with know-how to set things up so that it looks more professional on camera, how to light the place. People complained about not being able to hear the questions ... the problem was, the well intentioned person holding the mic was not told to hold the mic closer to the person's mouth, he was holding it way down by his belt - just more amateur stuff.

Kent Snyder seems like a great guy, intelligent and well spoken, but he himself should be able to appreciate that he needs someone of a different personality type to be more aggressive. Maybe Kent needs his own bulldog??

If Judge Neopolitano was interested, he could sure do some good. I gotta agree with that suggestion.

These are just my own observations, sitting here in my rocking chair. For what it's worth.

If everyone would take their ideas to their local meetup group organizers and push hard at the local level to be sure people are registered to vote and vote - preferably, absentee ballot so it is traceable, Ron Paul would bounce up more in the polls and the votes.

Just like the idea to take coffee and donuts to those on the picket line for the Jay Leno show Monday night. What a great idea, give them food, drink and a brochure for Ron Paul. Ingenious.

Campaign Managers package their candidate and that's why people are fed up - fed up with packages. Dr. Ron Paul is the real deal and by not packaging him, people get to meet and talk with the real deal.

What do you think the people of this great land think when they see the candidates with so many people around them you couldn't even have a conversation. Most candidates have people come to an event, form a line and the candidate walks by shaking hands and it is all put on for media hype.

Not Ron Paul - you can walk up to him and ask him a question, get an autograph, shake his hand - he is genuine.

No the campaign needs more "foot soldiers" passing out literature, talking to their neighbors about Ron Paul, making phone calls and joining LOCAL meetup groups and working in and with the local group.

Hucks got the most aggresive guy out there those guys aren't very trustworthy

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you are suggesting. They say that the first victim of war is truth. Politics seems to be the same way in that too many people seem to be far more interested in perception instead of reality. Obama seems to have gotten a long way on looks, a nice smile and a continued inclination to shout the word: "Change" at every opportunity, without providing anything in the way of substance, except to imply, like the rest, that free healthcare is something that can be invented inside a ballot box and that government can, by a snap of his fingers, create well-paying jobs. McCain has no problem with staying in Iraq through 5 generations of soldiers, yet unborn, and instead of a public tsunami of protest, the issue fizzles. Huckabee wants to portray himself as a fiscal conservative; a piece of perception engineering which I'm confident all on this forum can see through instantly. Nailing Romney down is like trying to nail a glob of jell-o to the wall. Too many people seem to hear only those phrases that they want to hear and turn a deaf ear when Dr. Paul tries to warn them of the economic locomotive that is roaring down the track and coming straight for them and their children, or they tend to shy away when opponents throw their ad hominem mudballs at Dr. Paul. The campaign HQ and Dr. Paul would have to be the eventual decision makers in terms of campaign leadership. I do share your frustration, but I also respect Dr. Paul's decision on the subject. Good luck to you.

some more exposure. And he can't rely on the Old Media to give it to him.

That's why I keep touting Public Access TV. Channel Surfers will find the message if he puts it and himself out there on the public airwaves.

They are going to go AFTER EACH OTHER without Dr. Paul's help - let them do each other in and WE stay above the fray...
Ron Paul is doing VERY WELL right now.... let the other candidates destroy each other as they are going to do....

Exactly what he needs. Kent Snyder is too nice. You can see it in his personality. He's a very gentle guy. Someone aggressive and ruthless needs to be brought in. Politics, like business, is war.

I think this has to be done now if this is going to happen.