This is Ron Paul’s Last Chance to Run Effective Ads and Turn Things Around.

by James Buchanan

I desperately want Ron Paul to win the election, but his campaign staff is apparently trying to lose. Ron Paul absolutely should have fired his campaign manager months ago when he was stuck at two to three percent poll numbers. The low percentages for Paul in Iowa, New Hampshire and Michigan are more signs that his campaign is not being run competently.

Here are some important points:

*Ron Paul is too used to running for re-election in Texas. He’s assuming people know his positions on immigration and the Iraq War. He’s also assuming people can spot which of his competitors are lying on these issues.

*Ron Paul should fire his campaign manager now. He should have done this back when he had all those terrible poll numbers in the months before the primaries. McCain replaced his top campaign officials and made an amazing comeback.

*72 percent of the population wants to end the Iraq War and over 80 percent want immigration laws enforced. These are unquestionably the two most important issues for 2008

*Ron Paul needs to run commercials focusing on those two issues exclusively, and needs to be defending his positions from the dishonest political chameleons, who are trying to steal those issues from him.

Ron Paul needs to run national ads NOW focusing on immigration and the Iraq War and telling Americans his competitors can’t be trusted on these issues. He still has a chance to win on Super Tuesday in February if he starts running national ads now. If he keeps wasting his efforts trying to look “tough on terrorists” he will confuse people and look like a war hawk.

The commercials Ron Paul is running in California right now are HORRIBLE. The business about hunting down terrorists with “stealth warriors” is not going to win any votes. You just wind up sounding like the chickenhawks Giuliani and McCain.

Ron Paul can still win the election. Opinion polls have shown that a slight majority of Republicans want to end the Iraq War, and an overwhelming majority of Republicans want a candidate, who can be trusted on immigration. Ron Paul needs to stick to running ads on those two issues and not let anyone steal those issues from him. If he does that, he can still win the primary.

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