How the Over-Paid Campaign Staff Let Ron Down --- Again

Moles in campaigns are nothing new in fact they are to be expected. I read the Pillsbury piece a couple or three weeks ago via e-mail and from my background, I know it to be true.

I've known Ron for years and he always supports his staff no matter what. Sometimes it has taken years before he see the light. That is because he is a good honorable man and wants to see the good in everyone. Sometimes it just takes him longer to see what is going on because of the trust factor. That is not a bad thing but in a short time campaign cycle it can be deadly. I personally know that several people have documented pages of proof of inadequacies. It is too soon for Ron to see them as accurate. He has come further than he ever thought he would and largely we the volunteers have made that happen although I think he gives a lot of credit to the campaign.

When you look at all the top notch political advisors out there today - John Shroate, Richard McBride, Dennis Whitfield, Bill Lee etc., etc., it is hard to know why Ron isn't using them. Again, I believe that he believes his staff has a large role in where he is today. Not that he doesn't give all volunteers a large amount of credit as well - he does - but that does not negate his feelings about the competency of his staff.

I have also noticed that when other campaigns have "spokesmen" on national TV they have the honorary chairmen in the state, volunteers or people of the caliber mentioned above. I have been in and managed a lot of campaigns and the rule of thumb was that the staff be invisible. I don't think a press conference announcing the results of Ron's money bomb by Kent was appropriate and if the staff are professional at all they would know this. They would also be familiar with the AP day book.

Just "getting over this" and going on is tantamount to getting the majority to vote for Ron and then having no ballot security. In the long run you loose either way if you don't address the problems at hand. I think there are enough of us to keep up the good volunteer work and monitor any inadequacies we see in the campaign as well. It doesn't have to be either or.

Although many staff inadequacies and documentation of them come to mind, I have to use the word sabotage when I speak of ballot security for the upcoming elections. No one on Ron's staff is doing anything about it and in fact in a couple of conference calls I have been on, they seem to resent those volunteers who are taking things into their own hands. That attitude is either complete inexperience (given some of their backgrounds or lack thereof, that may be the case) or sabotage. There is just no other way to look at it from where I am standing.

I truly believe the best thing to do is for all of us across the nation to run Ron's campaign just as we are doing. When staff gets involved as they did in the once independent meetup groups, they want to control.

After months of dealing with them I think the volunteers just need to "roll" in planning events and a ballot security program as well as keep an eye on the campaign but not involve them.

Any criticism of the staff goes through Kent and I bet Ron never sees most of it. A couple of my close friends have talked on the phone to Ron about this directly so I know that approaching him about this is irrating and unbelievable becasue of how well he sees himself doing.

He is a wonderful human being and I think we should not just "move on" but "move around" the staff. That is the only way we will get him elected.

I've posted on here before and have been blasted so as someone else stated - please don't blast me for an opinion.

Texas Liberty Lady

And I mean Devil when I say enemy.
People inside and outside of this movement don't know what they are talking about alot of the time.
Not because they are un-intelligent or insincere....but because they are trying to read the situation through worldly eye sight rather than spiritual vision. Its kind of like night vision lenses. Things look almost opposite to what they are. the outcome keeps exceeding expectations. We do better everytime we get hit.
First, I have met this campaign team face to face. They are sincere, honest, hard working people. They may not be "slick" enough for some but they are principled. So all this talk about internal sabotage is BULLSPATTER.
This campaign is a classic David vs. Goliath story. We should by now realize that the more we are attacked, the happier we should be. It has served us well everytime. Not just because it serves to garner more attention. But because they are attacking an ambassador of God. Real simple-like it or not-that is what's happening.
I have first hand experience that this is true.
So BE HAPPY!

I read the campaign manager is the guy who ran Pat Buchanon's campaign buchanon did really good running I beleieve third party

I didn't read anything in the philadelphia inquire + daily news but it's tough the sunday paper is the only newspaper and sometimes if news doesn't come in they don't get reported till mon but I saw anything I bought the paper to specifically see something

Ron Paul is the boss.

You read a article from some journalist and start internal trouble with a campaign thats whoopin ass. Think about it.

Ron Paul's success is about speaking the truth not 'talking points'
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Sabatoge will be an ongoing problem that will loom larger as Dr Paul becomes more of a threat to the front runners.

Expect continued dirty tricks from the GOP neo-con Kool Aid drinkers. They are being paid by their campaigns to cause mischef in any and all opposing candidate's organizations.

There's nothing new here; this a fact of political life. This has happened to Ron Paul in his past congressional races by the way.

We must always stay vigilant as to who we allow on our state campaign committees. I have seen this kind of foolishness too many times to count over the years.

We cannot court every 'Republican' in every county. Simply because they can't all be trusted.

Find a small hard core of trustworthy staff for your county and stick with them.

Be careful of a big donar that appears from nowhere. Be careful of "true believers" who try to blow you away with activism.

This is going to be a knock-down drag-out bare-knukle campaign to the White House and, we still haven't encountered the thuggish marxists of the Clinton campaign yet.

Get ready.

Expect anything to happen; then, immediately deal with it, cut the head off of the serpant.

Don't just sit around a whine.