The consultants quoted here are out of touch with reality on the ground. They don’t talk to real people.
Can we make a deal with these folks that if Ron Paul wins the nomination, they will quit their respective professions? Haven’t they put their reputations on the line here like Namath did? (But he was right.)
By JOSH GERSTEIN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
December 21, 2007
Rep. Ron Paul’s stunning fundraising prowess may or may not buy him a ticket out of New Hampshire, but there’s no sign the Republican presidential candidate has managed to buy any respect from the Washington establishment. Asked for advice on how Dr. Paul could convert his millions to votes, several prominent political consultants and analysts said, in essence, he can’t.
“Ron Paul’s only option is to buy as many flat screen TVs as he can, put ‘Ron Paul’ bumper stickers on them, and hand them out to voters in New Hampshire,” the manager of Robert Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign, Scott Reed, said. “I just don’t see where he goes.
