Ron Paul Campaign Updates

because you have the ability to be educated online.

 

Michael, go to http://www.ronpaul2008.com/ and read about his positions and platform. If you are loathe to read, you can also check out the plethora of videos on the web where Ron Paul discusses his positions. A couple of good ones are:

Ron Paul on Candidates@Google (this one is very good)

Ron Paul interview on PBS' NOW (see the extended interview video)

Ron Paul on Mad Money w/Jim Cramer (CNBC show)

Ron Paul on CNN Headline News/Glenn Beck

Dr. Ron Paul For President 2008

 

Sure, when I have a few spare weeks to watch some useless political propaganda.

I'm just curious from the marketing point of view how did he manage to get that much attention and support online.

What makes his campaign different, in 3 words?

 

He has a remarkable product that spread itself virally, as Seth Godin would say.

Pete

 

Constitution. freedom. history.

 

lol... The Google video is 1 hour. All the others combined are probably a half hour long.

Anyway, Ron Paul's rabid support is because Ron Paul is not a typical politician (he's honest, doesn't spin when asked questions and believes in what he says) and his platform resonates with people who want a real alternative to the status quo. People are willing to go the extra mile for something they believe in.

I encourage you to do some research. Self discovery is imminently more powerful than having people trying to convince you of something.

 

Getting back to what makes our country great, the very foundation of it, not the watered down existance that exists today.

 

I think it's primarily because folks who are online a lot are far more informed than those that are not. There is a wealth of information and facts available to anyone who is truly curious about what is going on in the world. Unfortunately the MSM (TV etc) that many rely upon for their information give very little of it.

For example when they cover the election they rarely cover the actual issues. They cover who is ahead in the latest poll. They cover silly superficial issues. There's very little actual information on the TV news.

I watched a lot of CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News the other day to see what was going on on these channels. It's truly amazing how LITTLE information is actually on these programs. You can get more informed in about 5 minutes online than you can from watching Cable news channels for 24 hours.

All of this leads to why "online people" are so for Ron Paul, when you are informed about what's actually going on in the world and in this country, supporting Ron Paul becomes the obvious choice.

 

Please stop shitting in this thread. This has got to be like the 5th time you've done it. GTech, d16man, Mia, and others all have the respect to leave this thread focused on its single topic, and yet you are continually the one who tries to derail it. I encourage you to take your complaints and differences on policy into a debate thread with Guerilla, because I guarantee he will embarass you.

 

1. It's not useless propaganda, it's his views. His views are why he is so popular with people who are interested in being INFORMED.

2. It has nothing to do with marketing, it has to do with his message.

3. The idea that you can say anything meaningful in 3 words is a big problem with American politics today.

 

MSNBC: NORA O'Donnell interviews Ron Paul (1/02/07)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtNY4jaNW6w


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Ron Paul on the Ed Schultz Radio Show
(Grab from this directory)
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/600/files/


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Ron Paul on Larry King Live TONIGHT @ 8 PM EST (7 CST)


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Join Ron Paul for a STRONGER AMERICA RALLY with VETERANS FOR PAUL 7:00 PM- 8:30PM CENTRAL
Hotel Fort Des Moines Grand Ballroom, 1000 Walnut Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309

ON C-SPAN!

http://www.cspan.org

Rolling Thunder (POW-MIA Veterans Non-Profit) will be there!
http://www.rollingthunder1.com/


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NHRA Fans, "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, the King of Drag Racing has endorsed Ron Paul. This is a huge endorsement in the hardcore racing community.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NapSLjheTo4

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There are now over 300 veteran and military endorsements on the web site, as well as a growing number of other endorsements from a variety of segments in the population.

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/endorsements

A lot of "real" Americans there, not powerful business elites or superficial media types.

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Interesting articles from the Far Left. Can you say "full spectrum appeal"?

Good reading for conservatives with intellectual honesty.

Letter to a Liberal Friend : The Left and Ron Paul
http://www.counterpunch.org/taylor01022008.html


Ron Paul: a Means to an End
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_caleb_fr_071225_ron_paul_3a_a_means_to.htm

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please tell me you guys heard him on Sean Hannity's radio show right now?!!

omg he did so great! they agreed on alot of things and i think softened the tone towards Paul with most of the brainwashed ppl that listen to his show.

laughing at the end, Paul goes "you'll come around."

perfect.

 

3 words: An honest politician.

That sums up the entire campaign. A friend at work who does not support Paul, and in factor supports Biden, summed it up succinctly, "Paul says what you and me, at a table or at a bar, would talk about. He doesn't sugarcoat it or try to keep everyone happy, and it's why he has the support he does; it's also why I don't think he has a chance in hell." If you don't want to waste the time looking into him, that's fine. Paul is admittedly not the best public speaker, and he can't condense his policies and plans into 30-second soundbites. If on the other hand you want to put the time in, you'll probably end up supporting him. He's extremely intelligent, well read in the words and ideas of our founding fathers, and is a big history/economics buff. He backs up his arguments and principles with facts, history, and data, not feel good stories and appeals to emotions. He doesn't take money from special interests groups, and he tells it like it is. He's that candidate you always wanted to support but never thought had a chance, but this time around he's got an incredible grassroots organization and 20 million dollars in the bank.

 

I think Ron Paul owes a debt of gratitude to GW for publically wanting for doctors like RP to practice their love.

Ron Paul has gotten a lot of support because of tricks used by supporters to make it look like he has more support than he really does.

Obama and Clinton have raised over 100 million each. Nobody really cares. But, because nearly all RP supporters kept their money in their pocket until a specific day or few, he gets a lot of press for raising X million in one day. Clinton and Obama will continue to raise money. RP supporters have mostly maxed out their resources.

There's no shortage of sign spam for RP. It only takes one person to litter the city with a bunch of cheap signs.

Then there's the polling spam where RP supporters organize to ensure a disproportionate representation. This is why all polls where users choose to participate show inflated numbers over polls where the pollster has a random sample.

There really isn't a lot of excitement for Ron Paul. It just appears that way because the few supporters he does have are very vocal.

Then there is the classic spin. ABC and Fox realize that there are a lot of candidates and limited air time. So they cut out the loser RP. RP supporters claim that ABC and Fox are running scared.

 

Nate please dont speak those blasphemous words, especially on dp where alot of people just want the status quo of getting our soldiers into a lie of a war every 10 years and getting many of them killed for no reason at all.

 

RP supporters have maxed out their resources? Are you serious? 2% of supporters have hit the $2300 maximum. We donated $4.3 Million in a day, people said wow, and then a month later we added 50% onto that for the greatest fund-raising day in American political history, in ANY election. You don't know how much money we have.

Guess how an Iowa caucus works? The most vocal supporters stump speech to convince others to their side. The people with very low support are forced to go home or change candidates. The Iowa caucus will be very friendly to candidates with STRONG support, whereas just going into a polling station will benefit the candidate with the broadest support, enthusiasm and knowledge becomes meaningless.

As far as sign spam, you bring no facts to the table. Oh no it MIGHT be one guy. Or, in the case of my fine city of Orlando, it could be the 50-100 vocal supporters we had at our last sign wave. You tell me.

 

Kalvin, hillary and obama are puppets of the power structure, no different then bush and the rest of the cronies running for president this year on both sides. I would class hillary in the same mold as rudy guliani.
All puppets that are supported by one special interest group or the other.
Actually Ron Paul has much more support than the elitists are showing him to be. His campaign is purely grass roots while hillary and obama are strictly gold roots lol.

 

Ron Paul is the man. Just wait and see.

 

oh why didn't i say this, here are the 3 best words to describe him,

"just come home".

 

Kalvin is just trolling, as usual. Feel free to ignore him.