What Did Ron Paul Spend Our Money On?

By Daniel Miessler on February 9th, 2008: Tagged as America | Politics | Ron Paul

Not bitter or anything, just curious… Couldn’t we have purchased a superbowl ad or something? Didn’t we have a crapload of cash? Did we spend it all?

It just seems like we just faded away without seizing the opportunity we had.

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    He wasted it or kept it. Didn't you realize that the Paul campaign was a way of siphoning off money from people who thought they we're supporting a progressive canidate instead of a super right-wing Rebublican who happens to oppose the war. Next time spend your money on real change. End the war by supporting impeachment.

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    Thankfully not that stupid blimp

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    Most of it ($17 Million) got spent in the 4th Quarter (hard to believe, I know, but it did -- check the FEC report for the expenses).


    A solid $4.5 Million was spent on printing & mailings to NH (despite the statements of a 50-state campaign it was ALWAYS a NH centered effort).


    Another $1.5 Million was spent on those ATROCIOUS early ads (yup, someone saw the word "sucker" on a certain campaign manager's forehead -- that's what happens when you put BIG money in the hands of inexperienced people.)


    The rest -- well some was spent on air-time buys, and on transportation, printing, signs, salaries, office rent and equipment, etc. $500K here, $500K there and you can eat up a couple of million pretty quickly you know.


    So at the end of the year all they had left was the "extra" $8M that was never intended to be raised. THAT (plus most of the $5M raised this year) got spent on making the new (less atrocious but still useless) TV ads and one radio spot, and the subsequent airtime and other campaigning on the February 5th states.


    So that about sums it up. It basically all just got squandered on advertising and staff by a bunch of people who didn't know ANYTHING about advertising (and apparently not much about staffing either).


    One could WISH that they had spent say $2M on hiring a Good PR and Media Relations firm, or at least a few hundred grand for a serious professional PR PERSON. (Or heck, offer Frank Luntz a cool $1M in cash behind the scenes -- say a numbered Swiss bank account? -- so he would monkey his FOX focus groups FOR Ron Paul instead of against him. You know, just to outfox Fox, that would have been bittersweet.)

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    Comment #1 Jason pegged it.


    Here we have the least popular president in history closing out an 8-year run. He's a white, male, Republican, Conservative, Christian from Texas. So what better solution than to hype the next candidate, who is also a white, male, Republican, Conservative, Christian from Texas?


    George Bush rode into office with a lot of online flamers who claimed to be the poor, scrappy underdogs while actually being the voice of the mainstream, too. How dumb do we have to be to fall for it every four years?

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    ur all stupid. it's expensive to run an election and he didn' "keep" the money or any of that. he didn't squander it either. mitt romney squandered money u people are ignorant ass holes that have no brain. DO MATH and it'll add up.

 

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