How Ron Paul Can Win: Part Two
My earlier predictions about the Ron Paul campaign have proven true.
by James Buchanan
First of all, don’t blame Ron Paul’s ten percent finish in Iowa solely on the evangelicals. The reason Huckabee and Romney did so well in Iowa was that they LIED about their position on immigration. The Iowa voters heard several candidates all claiming that they wanted to “secure the borders.” No one challenged Huckabee’s brand new and highly dubious position on immigration or pointed out that his entire previous political history has been in support of Open Borders and Amnesty. With all of the candidates apparently saying the same thing about immigration (that they wanted to “secure the borders”), the people of Iowa then turned to a fellow evangelical, Mike Huckabee.
Last September, I wrote an article suggesting that Ron Paul follow a simple strategy of focusing on the two biggest issues of 2008, ending the Iraq War and Enforcing Immigration Law. I suggested making short, direct commercials that focused on those two key issues and running them nationally.
Instead, the Ron Paul Campaign spent three months running ads in four small primary states. Ron Paul supporters after seeing these ads on youtube, widely condemned the ads as terrible. The Ron Paul campaign -finally- in its last week in Iowa started running an ad that clearly spelt out Ron Paul’s position on illegal immigration –something I suggested doing three months earlier. Unfortunately, clearly stating your position on immigration is only half the battle. You have to expose the other top tier candidates as phonies, who are claiming to be tough on illegals after a career of being for Open Borders.
I suggested running national ads to “sow the seeds” of a Ron Paul Revolution all over America as soon as possible. I mentioned that these ads would pay for themselves with donations from new members recruited by the ads. (more…)