Ron Paul Campaign Sabotage

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that Kent Snyder actually spent a ton of money on his personal credit card for campaign expenses and materials, etc. The surge in funds was only a reimbursement for what he took on himself.

This guy could be intentionally lying to advance some personal vendetta, or more likely is just a paranoid ass and speaking about things he's truly ignorant of.

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a former WA Ron Paul campaign staffer posted on an internal message board -

Trust me, I worked for the campaign and there were decisions that were made that I didn't agree with. I tried to send recommendations up the channels that I thought were solutions to obvious problems. There were times where it seemed like ideas were falling on deaf ears, but mostly there was just so much happening so fast.


The campaign didn't really have the funds to run a national fight until November. Then they hired staff across the country like crazy, set up offices as soon as could be done, and tried the near impossible task of organizing the grassroots into a machine. The national staff did what they could to get us what we needed here in WA. We all made mistakes, though. I could rattle off several of my own.


Unfortunately, by the time of the caucuses, the party machinery was basically churning out the McCain front-runner/party-unity BS, and by the county conventions they had organized a fear campaign of their legions of old-hats against our swarm of newcomers. Campaign operations shut down sooner than many would have liked, and we were on our own. By the way, I'm glad we were because it made us work together in new ways and got us really learning how to organize for ourselves as a group.


Nationally, as far as big disappointments go, there was the infamous situation in Iowa, where the person who caused the loss of data, to my knowledge, may have been this campaign's Benedict Arnold. Many who were on the ground said we had the numbers for at least third in Iowa, but the GOTV was sabotaged.


Third in Iowa would have meant third or better in New Hampshire. As it was, we got second in Nevada, but the results that could have been would have made it closer. We could've won or placed top two in S.Carolina. More money would've been pouring in, McCain wouldn't have been dominating and would've stayed weak. Huckabee wouldn't have been top two. It would've been us and Romney. He had a buttload of money, but no organization outside the Western states and Iowa. We could've been looking at the presidency - without having to rely on convention battles. Woulda, coulda, shoulda... but I'd still like to find the Iowa Destroyer and...


Other than Benedict, you're looking at, what seemed to me, people as committed to the cause of Liberty as could be, trying to battle almost unprecedented forces against us, challenges within the party, in the media, and elsewhere that our candidate faced because the whole of his career, his philosophy, his campaign and all the people behind him pointed a steaming sawed-off shotgun at the establishment left/center. Ron Paul was not a good Republican candidate the intelligentsia/punditocracy/D.C.-crime-syndicate could simply pat on the head and command to fetch, roll over and ultimately play dead.


Were mistakes made? You bet. Were opportunities lost? Of course.


But we pick up and move forward, learning from the past and trying to do better. Unfortunately, particular people are called out in this recording. Spreading false or irrelevant information about people who have achieved more than most for advancing the Liberty movement in America seems irrational and reeks of a personal grudge.


I may have been a little aggressive toward you, ***. It is just that I've seen so many ridiculous accusations, and as participant, albeit a skeptical one, in that or any organization, I see more of a personal vendetta by this guy, not solid, rational and substantial accusations.

Everyone, listen to this recording if you must. I've now listened to the whole thing. Here's my analysis of the commentator's list of complaints on the program:


1. The campaign didn't hire anyone this guy knew(the plaintiff) to be at the top, or they weren't raving truthers. Truth or no truth, advancing 9/11 truth conspiracies does not a president elect.


2. Vote-fraud issue. Ames straw poll - who cares. NH could have been an issue. But mind you, things were moving so fast nationally that to take the focus off states coming up next to fight a lawsuit for what would be negligible gains, would have been insane and made Ron Paul a national laughing stock. The campaign did look at it. What they thought they might find wasn't worth the fight.


3. Tens of millions of dollars unaccounted for? The guy really, really needs to back this up, but never does.


4. Bad ads. There were a lot of great ads, a couple not so great. However, those couple crappy (first) ads were intentionally done that way because they consistently work in Ron Paul's district, where he wins by such huge margins that the Dems don't even run an opponent. I, too, wish there were more ads, though, and that those ads hit harder on the big issues. But, we have to remember, the kinds of ads many of us wanted to see would be appropriate for the general election, not a primary where the majority of GOP participants feel they need to defend a crap president.


5. "There was a lot of homosexuality in the campaign headquarters..." What does he mean here? Were some staff gay, or were there orgies in the call center funded by the $5 donations of little old ladies and mortgaged houses of the true believers? My guess is this is mostly speculation. Also, if this is a dealbreaker for people, then there are probably no presidential campaigns these nihilists could support.


6. The campaign wanted to protect the message and didn't want staff and materials advancing conspiracy theories. Seems like a good decision to me.


7. The bogus billionaire story he read about on Ron Paul forums. Now everything else he's suggesting is definitely suspect.


8. Ron Paul didn't see through a pointless, humiliating, career-destroying battle all the way to the RNC Convention. I say career-destroying with my self-interest and best interest for our country in mind, for if he were to do this, he would surely lose his committee seats, which would cut a lot of information we're getting as well as make Ron Paul a less-valuable commentor on the news stations. The message of Liberty and sound money would suffer.


That said, he was in negotiations to get whatever concessions he could get right up until before and even during the convention. The RNC essentially spit in his face and wanted to parade him around in handcuffs. The effort was pointless because even Ron Paul realized and referenced many times the rigged process. He did it with the class of a gentleman and statesman, though. You gotta love the guy!


9. Kent Snyder's salary. He earned it. The man worked himself to death and is the reason there even was a presidential campaign, a Campaign for Liberty - a revived passion for Liberty in America if you will. If Snyder didn't do what he did to earn his pay, we wouldn't be talking right now. There seems to be much insinuation in this piece that the top guy (Snyder) was gay. Who knows? Who cares? Does that make him less-deserving of his pay? New life has been breathed into this nation and into the fight for Liberty. Priceless. Whomever you sleep with will benefit as well.


10. The guy is upset the C4L isn't endorsing and funding candidates right now. The Campaign for Liberty is set up as a 501c4 and can't endorse candidates. It's not their job, and (my question is) what's their endorsement worth anyway? They're trying to organize the precincts where we can win this thing (the country back, not a single solitary office, or even a handful). There are many, many other and more valuable ways to support candidates than offering a petty endorsement. It makes sense that if they are able to endorse somehow, they would wait until their endorsement has power behind it and isn't something which puts a target on a candidate.


11. D-DAAAAAA Freemasons! Members of Ron Paul's family are 'involved with the Masons.' (can't you just smell the Illuminati boiling babies in the basement of C4L hq?!?!?)


12. Ron Paul didn't have a deep burning desire to be president. He was a fugazi. Deep down, you just knew it, didn't you.... (maybe it's because he's really a member of the Reptilian Race) For a man who seems to eschew power, Ron Paul seems to have assumed his role out of necessity and out of a sense of personal and ideological moral duty. He doesn't want to be a cult hero. Ron Paul never wanted to be the Pied Piper, so don't accept the two nitwits' contradictory round-about insinuation that we should all be lemmings.