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Entry: Paul Campaign comes to an end ... I think Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/paul_campaign_comes_to_an_end_i_think#19234 Post contents: Wow... clueless AND wrong on several points concerning the campaign; to wit: 1) "Wind down" means that active campaign is over (well, that's an understatement, it has been OVER since February 5th) -- to elaborate that means NO more ads on TV or radio, NO more candidate appearances or "campaigning" (what little there ever was). But what it ALSO means is that the website will stay up, they will continue to take DONATIONS (make your most generous pledge today!), and the central campaign staff (aka Snyder, Moore & Co.) will continue to fiddle-faddle-fart around and draw their paychecks. Is that CLEAR now? 1a) Obviously that video was READ from a teleprompter, and the ambiguity was CAREFULLY CRAFTED. You cannot be that ambiguous without TRYING REALLY HARD! (Oh, and BTW, it was almost certainly written as a "committee" effort... the reason for the ambiguity? Obvious. Staff member FEAR and PARANOIA about nasty "blowback" from the more rabid supporters if they actually ENDED the campaign clearly... you know THAT is true. The movement is being squandered because the campaign staff are a bunch of wussies afraid of their own shadows, and unwilling to accept and take public accountability for their own actions.) 2) Mark Elam apparently did NOT have anything to do with the early "70's" style TV ads -- that was all under the stuper-vision of people with last names of Snyder & Moore. Elam did the later (more professional, but still ineffective) TV ads and the single GOOD 1 minute Radio ad. (Hey $32 Million to buy one good minute long radio ad... cheap at twice the price, right?). 3) Yeah, we know you're best buds with Dan McCarthy, but jeepers hiring someone to write one or two sentence "wrappers" around links to articles on other websites... does that even qualify as "blogging" ?? And it was done mainly as a sop to supporters, to get them to quit calling HQ; apparently it worked for a while, but certainly wasn't worth the price of admission. ON THE REST ...the worthless "march", the end destination of the remaining funds (what is left after salaries and those "Performance Bonuses" for the main team members. W00T!), as well as the wasted opportunities to actually sharpen the candidate for prime time... on those you're pretty much spot on. Well, so long and thanks for eating all of our fish! Sent at: 2008 09 07