Ron Paul’s Non-Traditional Guerilla Warfare Campaign: Campaigning in the Ronlogosphere
Ron Paul’s Campaign: So Poorly Understood By All Ron Paul is running a campaign that most seemed doomed to misunderstand because it is so unusual. Ron Paul is not running a traditional campaign, nor is he attracting the traditional supporters, in fact, Ron Paul is attracting those that have never been attracted to politics at all. That is because Ron Paul just makes sense. He is the man for the people, the real people not the corporations, or the big lobbyists, but you and me.
The media seems to have no idea that the common man is not pleased with the political system, so they try very hard to fit the Paul campaign phenomena in old boxes that do not fit in this case. It can be quite amusing. The funniest thing to watch is the media trying to explain these big money bombs that Ron Paul has brought in. The first one came on November 5, and brought in $4.3 million a figure that had every analyst scratching their heads and every candidate trying to copy the move.
The second one came on December 16 and brought in over $6 million dollars. Dennis Kucinich put on his own “money bomb” that he thought would bring in millions and instead it brought in less than $150,000. They all seem to think that it is the “concept” of the money bomb that is what did the trick. For this reason, many mainstream outlets are searching desperately for the mastermind behind these money bombs and have settled on Trevor Lyman, a man who agreed to help with the website. So the media thinks it now has its explantion for why Ron Paul did so well - he had a marketing genius behind him. Not so. Not even close. The Ron Paul phenomena is a phenomena because Americans are clamoring for Ron Paul’s message. What they fail to understand is that neither fund raising day was Mr. Lyman’s idea, in fact, Trevor Lyman had very little to do with either day, (even he will admit it) all he did was design and maintain a website, it took the work of multitudes to make the days successful. In other words, he was just one of thousands of cogs in the whole “money bomb” machine.
To advertise these two huge donation days, unknown numbers of Ron Paul’s supporters made videos, emailed who knows how many people, discussed the ideas in their Meetup groups and generally told every single Ron Paul supporter: donate on day X. That is how it was done folks. No mastermind. No top down management. No input from the campaign. Just a good old fashioned game of telephone where one person told two people who told two people who told two people etc. (and maybe a few people who told five or ten thousand people). That is how the Ron Paul campaign is run: it is not run at all. It is just regular Americans who want to see this man win. Ron Paul received over ten million dollars just because a few people told a few people who told a few people and everyone who supports him came running to help: that is how much support he has.
Ron Paul’s supporters are desperate to bring their candidate to the White House. They see what both parties have done to them and they are sick of it. On Sunday, December 16th, Ron Paul’s supporters decided to celebrate anniversary of the Boston Tea Party by helping their candidate. What happened? Over 53,000 people donated and brought in a stunning six million dollars plus. This dollar figure broke all records and yet the mainstream media made hardly a peep about it. This day cannot be attributed to the genius of any one person, this happened because the American people are sick of what they are seeing and in Ron Paul they see hope. They see a man who speaks the truth and will not steal from them, he wants to return their dignity to them and stop the IRS completely because no one has the right to see your finances or to make you work for them. You own your labor, every bit of it.
