techPresident - Chris Bowers - Comments

The feedback won't be that different, but the outcome may be.

Sarah Granger — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:03:12 -0400

She'll receive a lot of messages from people telling her to stay in, and she'll receive a lot of messages asking her to step down, and she'll receive a lot of inflammatory notes that go straight into the trash. I doubt much of it will be too different than what she's been receiving the past month or so. (As Gary Hart's online director, I was privy to his inbox when he was deciding whether to run in '04... the email gets predictable pretty quickly.)

She'll raise some money, and it looks like there are some campaigns pushing her as VP choice for Obama. She might receive suggestions as to whether she should stay in the Senate, go for a different post in the administration, take a hiatus, etc.

The real question is how much the campaign is actually listening vs. just doing this to buy time. They started out with an online announcement suggesting the campaign would be a "conversation", so how does that conversation end? James Carville noted on CNN last night that it takes time to figure these things out.

Ron Paul

marksstc — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:58:03 -0400

It's easy to be sarcastically dismissive of Ron Paul; sarcasm though, is a poor substitute for debate. Make no mistake -- Ron Paul is not delusional. He admits he's not going to win the GOP nomination. But he's campaigning to continue educating people about the need for constitutional government, individual liberty, sound money, and a sane foreign policy. If you actually listened to his recent video message, he says the campaign is about ideas, not about him.

Must be difficult for most people to accept a politician who's not simply in it for personal power.

Mark Smith

We should have noted this when it happened:....

Tex MacRae — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:40:17 -0400

I noticed.

Ron Paul surges past Obama

Here's a heads up. On August 8, Ron Paul will have been in the Technorati top search continuously for four straight months. That is unprecedented. Ask your brother. :)