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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentElections · 1 decade ago

Do you agree: Ron Paul ran the best campaign?

I don't favour Ron Paul's libertarian ideas, but I would like to say that I thought in many ways he ran a great campaign.

First of all, clearly he has princples; he has ideas of what is wrong with America,and remedies he thinks would help. Sad to say, I don't think any other canditate, Romney to McCain to Clinton and Obama, come close to Ron Paul in having a clear set of beliefs and a straightforward programme.

Second, he would answer questions with clear, intelligible answers, not necessarily palatable to his audience. Every other candiate almost always answers with some mix of rhetoric, slogans and vagaries that leave you more confused than when you began. The other candidates seemed to be running corporate branding exercises ("Remeber 9/11", "Yes we can", "Yes we will", "Ready from Day One", etc).

In short I found Ron Paul's campaign very refreshing - to bad for me I don't agree with his ideas!

If you don't agree with me, who do you think ran the best campain and why?

Update:

Just to be clear, I don't mean most successful campaign (obviously he was a sort of second tier candidate who didn't win). I mean that he conducted his campaign with the principles you'd like all canditates to follow.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Of course he did. He didn't attack the other candidates, he stuck to the issues. He is a true American and only wants to restore this country to the great nation it was once.

    He "lost" because the media didn't focus on him. It's too bad that people won't look outside the box and learn about someone who can fix the problems in this country.

    Keep voting in the same old thing and you have absolutely no reason to complain when YOUR choice screws this country up more than it already is.

    Dr. Paul is an experienced, intelligent, hard-working man of the people. That cannot be said about the other 3.

    I was actually happy about this election year because there was Dr. Paul, he is refreshing. He actually wants better for the American people.

    What is so bad about small government and the U.S constitution?

    You knock Ron Paul, you knock this country itself.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    I think that Romney is running an honest campaign. The problem is that the candidates running against him don't want their record exposed. Huckabee has done a 180 on immigration, taxes, etc. in just a few months. He went from fighting a bill in AR to require id for people to vote and receive state $, supporting amnesty and rewarding illegals and their children with instate tuition and state $ for their tuition, even saying that to do less was racist to now being against illegal immigration. Does that mean he now considers himself to be racist?? I live in ARkansas and was betrayed by huckabee who ran as a conservative but ruled as a liberal. He raised taxes, and was soft of criminals by pardoning over 1000 convicts which included 12 MURDERERS. I hope that people actually look at his record instead of listening to his slick talk. He comes across as very sincere as he spouts his lies. Sometimes I even start to get sucked into supporting him when he talks and then I remember what he actually DID and stood for. Have you noticed that when he is asked a hard question or one he doesn't want to answer, he answers with a joke. Then the interviewer goes on without ever getting a straight answer. Edit................ What do you think Mitt got wrong in the ad?

  • Kelly
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I don't think it's been the best campaign, but for a candidate who is not an obvious mainstream choice it's been quite good. I sort of think of Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich as being similar types of candidates for their parties -- both not mainstream but with good ideas and strong supporters. If you compare the two, I think Paul ran a better campaign than Kucinich did.

    (This is not to say that I agree with Paul more than I agree with Kucinich, I'm just talking about their campaigns.)

  • 1 decade ago

    Just for the record, my friend, Ron Paul IS still running in the race. Though, he may not win, he has been running successful campaign, though, he does not appear on the media. He has done a good job in a few primaries beating former Giuliani, and Fred Thompson. I agree on what you say. You may not agree with his issues, but when it comes to his honesty and pure straight-talk since he was in Congress, that is when I get the feeling I still support him. The other candidates just talk the talk, but Ron Paul can talk and walk at the same time. He has his own consistent voting record to prove it. Laters mate, and remember, Ron Paul is still in the race, and his campaign is still on the ropes hanging tightly. Take care.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Ron Paul, with the help of the Internet, ran the biggest and best "Grass Roots" campaign America has ever seen. It Is Still Growing!

    Very unfortunately for Dr. Paul thousands of his supporters couldn't or wouldn't force themselves to bite the bullet, so to speak, and register or re-register as Republicans to vote in the primary elections already held across the country.

    Therefore the old Guard neo-con republicans that make up the majority of the Republican party, out-voted his eligible supporters at the polls.

    I handed out Ron Paul leaflets yesterday, {My state has not had it's primary yet.} and most Ron Paul supporters had not or didn't know that they have to be a registered Republican to vote for Ron in the primary.

    I imagine this happened all across the country!

    However, if his supporters don't give up the fight for Dr. Paul, I think come general election time {November} we may just be able to outnumber the chosen candidates in superior numbers.

    Ask yourself this:

    Who really runs America, the approximately 10,000 very wealthy elite class,,,,,or the estimated 200 million people of middle or lower income,,,,,who would benefit immensely from a RON PAUL President!!!!

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  • Edward
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    He ran a good campaign but the media didn't help

    By the way, you'll probably like the newest 3D Ron Paul commercial

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3MLTvYBQy0

    http://hightidepromo.com/large.html

    I am doing my part to spread the message around

  • DAR
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I think Ron Paul had the clearest set of issues because he was running on principle.

    However, if his campaign had been a bit more savvy, I think he might have gotten further. It needed an institutional push at the beginning before the grass roots essentially took it over.

    It really was a movement that found him.

    --

    yes, he absolutely ran a clean campaign.

  • Jason
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I agree that Dr. Paul is a great man with great convictions and he stands by them no matter what. I don't think that he ran a great campaign in the sense they couldn't do what Obama did and turn their online support into actual votes. It's unfortunate because he would have done our country a great good.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    How can you run the "best campaign" if you loose so badly? The idea of a campaign is to win the election. His IDEAS were the problem.

  • 1 decade ago

    Who?

    I'd have to say that Obama or McCain ran the best campaign, as both started signifigantly behind the front-runners and are now both pretty much their parties presumptive nominee.

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