It’s very sad, but the majority of voters pretend to care about the issues and principals of the candidates, but in reality they just want someone that they “feel good about”, lol, whatever that means.

That is exactly what I find with each and every “Republican” I have a debate with. The worst thing they can say about RP is his views on foreign policy, and that is simply because of their ignorance. Once I school them they usually move on to rhetoric (and I use that term loosely) “but he’s not a good debater” or “he can’t beat Obama because he looks ____” and that is when the palm of my hand smacks my forehead and I move on.

Tom! It’s truly pathetic.   I’m hoping, praying, somehow, somebody will succeed in tranquilizing the feral Elephant, Gingrich.  Even with Dr. Paul’s scathing ad, I don’t have faith in the Republican electorate.

Sorry about the typos. I’m on my phone.

I don’t buy it. How many polls are run everyday? We all know that polls are run with 95% confidence. Which means 19 out of 20 polls will be within the margin of error. The media picks and chooses the polls on which to focus. Because of the volume of polls done they are free to choose outliers (those 1 out of 20) that fit their pre-conceived storyline. They will never focus on a poll if Ron Paul is the clear leader. Meaning the results displayed to us are nothing more that the results that fit that news show’s storyline. It’s a scam. Ron Paul will win at the caucuses. You can’t fix a precinct caucus.

Face it Tom, most Americans want tyranny. The foolish automatons who will simply parrot whatever the idiot box tells them. Ron Paul is still polling only 8% nationally. There is absolutely NO WAY he will ever get elected. Most Americans are simply too thick or selfish to vote for him. 

A change in strategy and updated message is needed, otherwise polls will stagnate regardless of attacks on Newt.

Problem is that no candidate discusses their track record and do not distinguish that with track records of others.  Ads don’t do this either.  People don’t understand that history repeats itself, so if a candidate did something in the past or support legislation/policy, then they will do the same in office. 

A candidate’s positions are secondary because as Romney and Obama prove, as long as they say things well, it does’t matter that their history is full of governing failures, and they will still get the most votes.

To be correct about the Gingrich-Cain comparison, I don’t think Gingrich stood up in front of cameras repeatedly saying he didn’t do it and that there was a conspiracy against him.   It was also over a decade ago, and time does soften those things. Finally, it is still plausible that Cain is innocent of the accusations, even if unlikely. People don’t like their bubbles burst once they commit to a candidate. They’ll need to see proof.

As for their supporters, it’s pretty obvious why they still support them.  In their minds they have little choice.   For whatever reasons, they seem to want the following:

1.  A candidate who likes the military/foreign policy status quo.
2.  All the rest of the stuff.

Face it, there are more of them than of you.   I doubt 5% of American voters even understand what the Fed is, and far fewer why it’s dangerous.

Also, it’s not unheard of for voters to vote against their long term self interest when given a rousing speech about some unimportant topic.   Give it another 4 years of misery and maybe they’ll be a little more open to real change.  (Or, a socialist 3rd world type state)

Agree Tom!  However, CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS needs a new TV ATTACK AD against the Media which will wake up people.

Here is my idea:

We need…”ELECTABILITY” ads geared towards telling the public Ron Paul is for the PEOPLE, and that is why the Media is smearing him, and NOT to listen to them. Then, show the polls that show Dr. Paul favorably, that also show the major straw polls he has WON, including California!!

We need to…”SMEAR BIG MEDIA RIGHT BACK” ads, that prove the Media is bought & paid for just like the POLITICIANS & show who really owns the Media (& show them their bias somehow), and remind the public how the politicians NEVER READ THEIR BILLS, because they are too busy taking money from the lobbyists; Remind people that the MEDIA IS OWNED BY THE SAME PEOPLE who hire the lobbyists who pay off the politicians & that they think the public IS STUPID & will believe everything they say. TELL the Iowa/New Hampshire public THAT in TV ads. (We need to shake up Big Media)!

Nothing will inflame the passions of the public like telling them the Media thinks they are STUPID.  People don’t like to be USED!! So, let’s tell them what is happening via our TV ads and MAKE THEM MAD AS HELL AT THE MEDIA!

Sadly the analogy that I’ve come to use is that the GOP fascination with its presidential candidates closely mirrors the level of intellectual curiosity and discernment that pre-pubescent girls apply in choosing which boy bands to swoon for.

Screw the polls. As Ben Swann pointed out on his Facebook wall today ( https://www.facebook.com/BenSwannRealityCheck ), the leader in the polls in 2003 was …. Howard Dean.

Ben Swann is a TV news personality who has run some nicely positive features about our favorite candidate.

Your post is just all too true.  But, your conclusion “if people cared more about principles and less about whether a guy stands up straight…” is in error.  Republicans CARE deeply about principles.  They simply don’t know or understand anything about the Constitution other than it is there and it talks about “rights”.  They have been educated into a deep ignorance of their obligations under our Constitutional republic. Most of them have been educated into ignorance of what it means to be a Christian (the social justice movement has blinded the eyes of the church).  They are reading and listening to all the media messengers giving all the wrong information (many, many of them don’t even own a computer and the internet is not their friend).  There is no source of reliable information available to them.  The Libertarian party is filled with atheists and will not be able to break through to Christians (which by heritage if not by deed make up about 90% of Americans).

The information is not available to them because they do not have a source they can trust to give them the information.  The whole population has been educated into ignorance and they are completely unaware that they are part of the problem and not the solution.  I started a blog on google where I posted my attempt to carve out a message that will be in keeping with what I believe will reach the average “moral majority” voter.  It is acceptable to the educated, the evangelical Christian and the political activist (I have one of each in my family – they all love it.)  But, I need to find a way to mail it to the households.  It will not reach them on the internet.  I have an initial run of the publication printed,  but I have no resources to make another run.  I would appreciate it if you all would go to my blogspot and read what I have written its at http://remindingtherepublic.blogspot.com/. 

I have taken what I have been learning over the past few months and synthesized it into something for the sheep whose shepherds have been as deluded as they are.  I have more to say, but this is written for the people that will never spend the remainder of their lives trying to learn what they have missed being taught for the last 30-60 years of their lives.  I would appreciate your comments. Again, its my attempt.  Simple statements of truth.  Very few arguments.  Things the average voter can remember and put to use.

Laura,

I love your idea.  The official campaign will never do such a thing. 

Something like the RevolutionPac has to do it.  They put out better ads and marketing material than the campaign does anyway. 

Another ad is to contrast Paul’s track record and positions with those of Obama-Romey-Newt.  Another ad to give Paul the sole credit for exposing the seedy federal reserve bank that many are now speaking, including the left.

Yeah, people just don’t seem to realize that just because they put some sparkles on a piece of crap, that does not mean that it is no longer a piece of crap. That would be the entire GOP field, except Ron Paul.

It seems that elections are largely decided by the media elites. They craft a narrative and the public plays along. If even one Republican media bigwig — Rush Limbaugh, for instance — would wholeheartedly endorse Ron Paul, things would change dramatically. If the media in general would treat Ron like a serious contender instead of painting him as an oddball and possible spoiler, he would be riding high.

I say this because Ron has essentially been fighting an uphill battle all along. He has earned every bit of support he has today. He has not gotten any favors from the media. A “Ron Paul surge” is not part of their narrative. Despite this lamentable situation, he is doing remarkably well.

Of course, Ron is not alone. He has help from people like Tom Woods, and the rest of the grassroots movement. I wish we could find a way to turn the tide.

i know i know, i am being rude.  its fair enough what you say.  it is your site.  

it just that i find it much better when you talk about stuff i didn’t know before, like american history.  that is why i come to this site.  its a nice place to learn a thing or two.  but lately all you’ve done is to bang on about how cain is bad.  i think you might increase your readership if you concentrate on interesting stuff.   

I have concluded that Ron Paul supporters are bigger whiners than the current “occupiers”. After reading these comments and several others from different blogs it seems the general consensus is that anyone who doesn’t see the world through the Libertarian lens is uneducated, misinformed, brainwashed, and just programmed to think the way the media says they should. There is a growing conservative movement in America and the vast majority of the people who occupy that movement is far more in tune than you would all believe. The current field of candidates has been scrutinized like never before and people know exactly what they want and why. The field is simply weak and that’s why support is going up and down. The simple fact for Ron Paul though is that(get ready)he is simply not a good candidate. That’s why he has little support. So to rationalize that fact you people find it much more expedient to simply conclude that EVERYONE who doesn’t agree with you or support Ron Paul is a hayseed, backwoods Christian, uneducated moron. What a shame. You people sound about as elite and condescending as Bill Mahr without all the profanity.

Well, at least Ron Paul doesn’t have to worry about bimbo eruptions.

Wow, that’s an awful lot of foreign entanglement you got going on there, Comrad. So, how do we pay for it?

I think he was pretty clear. Our foreign policy needs to be re-evaluated. Our allies can continue to have our support in the form of military presence and ballistic missile sites in Europe but we have to reconsider why we’re there and if these countries still really need our help. I also believe we can drastically scale back but Ron Paul’s plan is too drastic and leaves us vulnerable. How do we pay for it? We drill for oil, abolish the Fed., repeal Obama Care, stimulate the economy and there’s plenty of tax revenue for the things that we actually need such as sensible military spending. Or, like Cajun1755 said, we start collecting payments from the countries that need our help. The point is that Ron Paul’s foreign policy would create an entanglement like the world has never seen.

You wrote a lot there but let me challenge just one point you made. You said Iran would nuke Israel. What is the basis of this claim? What is the historical basis? When was the last time Iran attacked or invaded another country? When has the leadership of Iran acted in a suicidal fashion?

Do you realize that Ahmadinejad is not the ruler of Iran?Do you know that the US initiated hostilities against Iran when, in 1953, the CIA helped orchestrate a coup against the democratically elected president of that country, and installed the brutal Shah, at the behest of British Petroleum?

Do you know that, during the 1980s, the US and other western powers armed Saddam Hussein’s Iraq with chemical weapons, which were used to attack Iran in a war of aggression? Do you know that the Iranians could have deployed chemical weapons in retaliation but did not because the civilian government believed it would be immoral to use such weapons?

The Iranians want a nuclear weapon because they know they will be attacked by the US if they don’t have one. The US bullies countries that can’t defend themselves. Those, like North Korea, with nukes, get respect.

I’m guessing that all you have in response to the aforementioned FACTS is your unsupportable OPINION that the Iranians are irrational, suicidal, evil reincarnations of Adolph Hitler, just itching for the chance to launch a nuke at Israel as soon as it’s ready.

Of course, if the Iranians do aquire a nuke and don’t use it, you and Rick Santorum will look silly. People might start wondering what all the fearmongering was about. Can’t have that.

I trust the teens more than the “adult” electorate.  Al least boy bands don’t command drones…  Well, sort of.

That is true.