Comments on: Is this any way to run a presidential campaign? UPDATED

By: eric-odessit

eric-odessit — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:02:47 +0000

Bookworm,
I’ve tried volunteering for Giuliani’s campaign, and that was exactly what they wanted me to do: call people. I told them that I was uncomfortable bugging people, so they had me assembling yard signs.
I think you can simply continue writing here on your blog and at American Thinker. You can also write letters to newspapers. Unfortunately that is the only thing you can do.
Eric.

By: suek

suek — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:34:02 +0000

>>Sadly, a brain is not an asset for a volunteer.>>

I agree with Helen on this. I was thinking about it on my drive home last evening… Those who make up the core of the campaign are most likely paid employees. A volunteer who is as capable as they are is a threat - because the volunteer doesn’t get paid. Volunteers may have a high opinion of themselves - warranted or not - but we don’t really have time to do “job interviews”…so we give volunteers jobs that require no skills. That way, they can’t really mess up. Volunteers are temporary workers…we don’t really expect anyone with any talent to be available on a temporary basis - otherwise, they’d have paid jobs. If you’re available, obviously you don’t have marketable skills. Unless, of course, you have buckets of money, but we’d know that because you’d be a donor if you really wanted to help, and we’d know your name. We don’t, so you aren’t a major donor.

I suggest a job application, if you really want to help. You know that old conservative idea of something being worth what you pay for it…I think they’re just telling you that they don’t value very highly what they get for free.

Make them pay for your skills. Then you’ll be appreciated.

By: Deana

Deana — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:39:26 +0000

Helen - There you are!!! I’ve been waiting since our discusion on the 13th for you to start redistributing your wealth in my direction and then it was like you disappeared! I was starting to wonder if you were having second thoughts on the matter . . .

Bookworm, I think you are correct. There is no shortage of things that local offices could be doing. I would love to believe that this election won’t even be close and McCain will win in a landslide but I’m afraid that the forces of darkness are arrayed such that it is going to be a tight one. Every vote is going to count.

Deana

By: Helen Losse

Helen Losse — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:36:49 +0000

Bookworm, This is about volunteering in general. The powers that be want to retain their power by using your free manual labor. This is not about the Republicans. Sadly, a brain is not an asset for a volunteer.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:33:23 +0000

The Republican party is like the Army. There’s a right way to do things, and then there’s the Army way of doing things. Usually it takes a war to teach the Army to change their ridiculous rules and regulations. For a political party, it’s a loss. Or it’s an inspirational leader that can macromanage and micromanage things.

By: Tiresias

Tiresias — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:37:16 +0000

Which of course begs the question: what has there been about the Republican party’s conduct - locally or nationally - over the last five years that has struck you as OTHER than foolish?

Or, for that matter, McCain’s conduct over the past twenty years?