Ron Paul Needs Nation-Wide Commercials Now
by James Buchanan
Ron Paul just added 1.2 million dollars to his campaign chest in an incredible one week fund-raiser. The organizers of the fund-raiser cleverly set up their web page so that it would flash up the names of the latest donors and their home towns. People from all over the nation and US soldiers based all over the world were logging on and sending money to Ron Paul’s campaign. Some people were sending multiple donations just so their name would flash up on the screen additional times so their family and friends could see them donating.
Simultaneous with the highly successful fund-raiser was a straw poll in New Jersey, in which Ron Paul scored 72 percent, giving him 11 first place finishes in straw polls. In an extremely quiet acknowledgment of Ron Paul’s popularity and fund-raising ability, one source reports that the RNC has invited Ron Paul and four other presidential candidates to “a special dinner (on Oct. 16th) to benefit the RNC Presidential Trust, featuring our 2008 Presidential candidates.” This is the first time that anyone in a position of power has admitted that Ron Paul is a top tier presidential candidate. Over the last two months, Ron Paul was repeatedly excluded from events for his anti-war position, which the neocons fear like a vampire fears a crucifix.
Ron Paul is still suffering from a mainstream media news black out and he needs to do something about this immediately. Ron Paul needs to start running commercials to introduce himself to the American public. He could start with some relatively inexpensive late night commercials on Cable TV as an experiment. If the commercials brought in a lot of new people and enough additional donations to pay for themselves, then Paul should expand the commercial campaign and take it to prime time. (more…)