Lesson from New Hampshire

Its been said many times by Ron Paul Patriots that, the
“People are misinformed. In New Hampshire, 44% of Republicans who DISAPPROVE of the war in Iraq yet voted for John McCain”

This is incorrect.

People where very well informed.

Despite that, they voted for John McCain.

Here is the exit poll source that many people site, saying that New Hampshire voters somehow "got it wrong".

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTI...

Upon review, I beg to differ, they got it right. How could this be? This is because most voters, 95%, are "Rational Voters". So how do "Rational Voters" vote? What is so important for THEM? --- as opposed to Ideological Voters like us who make up 5% of the voting public?

Look at the link. Most voters did not think Ron Paul a “viable” candidate who “had a chance” to win. Voting for Ron Paul was a “wasted vote”. That is the lesson to be learned, not that we failed to get the message out.

For candidates seeking public office, VIABILITY is like a golfer's sand traps. Rational voters do not pay attention to candidates stuck in these political sand traps. Pay close attention because Rational Voters make up 95% of all the voters anywhere there is an election. Rational Voters are voters who seek to make their vote “count”, and so will not vote for a fringe candidate, no mater what.

Hence, what was a RATIONAL republican voter to do? Recall that a RATIONAL voter is by definition someone whose vote is not ideological, but “practical”. That is they do not wish to “Waste” their vote. So, not wanting to waste their vote, the choices for the antiwar Republican was, Huckabee, McCain, Giuliani, and Romney. Now, who would YOU vote for given these 4 choices? They went with the most liberal among them, John McCain.

What does this mean? This means that the Ron Paul campaign failed to make Dr. Paul a VIABLE presidential candidate. His ideas and warnings were to be listened too and considered, but NOT the man himself. The Ron Paul Campaign staff allowed the MSM to time and again “frame” Dr. Paul’s Campaign as NOT VIABLE, NOT HAVING A CHANCE, AN OUTSIDER, a wasted vote…etc. The Ron Paul campaign never purchased air time Specifically to OVER COME this Number ONE Hurdle of all candidates for ANY office ANYWHERE, which is you must be viable candidate.

Why am I telling you this? Because we all must learn our lesson from New Hampshire, not repeat a campaign falsehood that came out of New Hampshire.

The lesson we must learn is that it is 100% necessary to be sure the voting public sees our candidates as VIABLE candidates, which means he/she has a GOOD chance to win. The Rational Voter will not WAIST their vote on “fringe” candidates (unless they are terribly angry at the “viable” ones).

The LESSON: Revolutionary Candidates can never be seen as Fringe Candidates. Dr. Paul, must never be thought of as Fringe. We must fight and argue to the death that our Ron Paul is indeed a VIABLE candidate worthy of the Rational Voters support. Never forget, this is how 95% of all voters, left and right, THINK. First comes Viability so I do not “waste my vote”, then comes the Personality, then comes the Vision, then last comes the issues. That is HOW a Rational Voter goes about his/her thinking and voting. Unlike the ideological voter, they spend just enough time to get to that decision. They are selfish rational voters, not dwelling over the issues and candidates for more than a month. Why? Because in the larger scheme of things, the Rational Voter has better things to do with his/her TIME.

Rational Voter’s Decision Matrix: {note, the Rational voter will take a few weeks to a month, seriously thinking and reading}

1) --Candidate Viability; Simply put, “Will I be wasting my vote or does this person have a real shot at winning?” {Here enters name recognition & credentials}

2) --Candidate Personality; Simply put, “Do I like him/her?” {Here is where trust, honesty, religion, ethnic group, etc come into play}

3) --Candidate’s Vision; Simply put, “Do I feel good listening to what he/she is hoping/trying to do?”

4) --Candidate on the Issues; Simply put, “Do I agree with the candidate on the issues?”

5) --Candidate’s competition: Simply put, “Does this person ‘seem’ better than the competition?”

Finally, the Rational Voter casts his/her vote…..based on the above, they choose McCain. Once this happened, South Carolina Rational Voters had FEWER choices, and so did Florida Rational Voters, and by Super TUESDAY the Rational Voter had two choices, "McCain & Romney". They chose McCain on Super Tuesday and Romney suspended his campaign.

The Rational Voter is split with Obama and Hillary. Perception has it split, yet Obama has the delegate win and there is nothing Hillary Can do but work on the Super Delegates and and try to increase her VIABILITY position among the public, (hence offered to Obama the VP seat). She seeks to increase the perception of Viability, thus should the Super delegates give her the nomination, the voting public will think it "fair". For Obama, he needs to end this race now and unite the party fast, just as John McCain is trying to do. The General Election is 99% Rational Voters, most Ideological Voters have by then dropped out.

Contrast this decision matrix above, with the decision matrix below that most Ideological Voters go through.

Ideological voters Decision Matrix: {remember, less than 5% of the voters are ideological voters, the rest are Rational Voters}

1) -- Candidate ideological/philosophical/economic/vision: Simply put, “do I agree with him/her ”

2) -- Candidate’s Personality: Simply put, “Do I like him/her?”

3) -- Candidate On the Issues; Simply put, “Is the candidate showing courage and speaking straight to the issues?” Bravery is respected.

Finally, the Ideological Voter casts his/her vote….. {note, the ideological voter will take many months, perhaps a year, thinking and reading}

So Please post up the correct lesson to be learned from the New Hampshire experience-----Viability is everything !! Indeed, it is step one.

The MSM media knows the above, thus they know where their power lies, in perception of Viability. But Campaign money can buy advertising and good advertising will make one appear viable, hence the instant Respect Ron Paul received after the two big money bombs. Unfortunately for us in the revolution, Campaign Headquarters blew most of their money on a 5 page New Hampshire brochure, and NEVER EVER sought TV ads to do Damage Control over Ron Paul's perceived Viability Problem. Campaign HQ did jump upon every FREE MSM news interview event for Ron Paul, but they
FAILED miserably in fighting what MSM did to Ron Paul, which is FRAME his campaign as marginal, fringe, NOT VIABLE. Wisely placed TV ads on the right news shows could have COUNTERED this message.

I am asking that all of us in the Revolution, to wise up on the VIABILITY issue and its amazing importance to the Rational Voter.

Lets not be foolish children and fail to learn our $30 million dollar lesson.

Treg / Ron Paul meet up / Tempe, AZ