Originally posted by Sikboy
I went to a Ron Paul meetup in Dallas last night. I think the biggest problem Congressman Paul is going to have are his biggest supporters. The quicker he can start to move his base away from the fringes the better his chances. Last night we had people from the Green party to former neo-cons, to borderline anarchists. I believe I was the only one there with Experience on Capitol Hill, and the only Poli-sci degree in the room...
Oi, we've got a long way to go and less than a year to get there.
-Sik
The Concord meetup group is an interesting mix too...
Not quite as fringe as you make the Dallas group sound, but the fringe-types are there. That's not really suprising though, it's pretty much the libertarians/independants who supported RP from the get go and are trying to "convert" the more traditional GOP-types... I would dare to say though, that his diverse support is a good thing. Those are people who will vote GOP who wouldn't necessarily do so otherwise, myself included. We DO have a long way to go though, I agree with you and have said as much. Getting his message out is what he needs help with, 'cause the MSM seems to love to ignore him. Something about Freedom must scare them...
Originally posted by lazs2
Yep.. panning out into the crowd of all those sensible pot heads is not gonna go over that well in the heartlands..
lazs
I was at the pre-debate rally yesterday at the St. Anslem campus in Manchester. The crowd of Ron Paul supporters was certainly not just a bunch of "sensible pot heads". The various camps looked very similar, sure there were more hippie/biker/blue collar/redneck looking types in the RP crowd than in the others, but for the most part you couldn't tell the difference in the way the different camps looked other than by the signs they were carrying and the slogans they were yelling. (and the fact that a few of the RP supporters were open-carrying...
I LOVE NH!) There was almost as many RP supporters there as there were for all the other candidates combined, and we were LOUD!
After the rally we went to Murphy's Tap Room in downtown Manch (owned by a local libertarian, btw...) as a group to watch the debate. There was 200-300 people in there, it was crazy. RP showed up around 11, was great to finally meet him. I'll post some pics/vid when I get a chance (need to buy a data cable to get the pics off my phone...)
The only group I'd say "hurts" RP, IMHO, is the truthers. They're pretty agressive in trying to spread their opinions on 9-11 and have a way of really turning people off. As to the rest, isn't cross-party/platform suport a good thing? That's more voters who will vote agains Hillary...
