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Just like Ronald Reagan did in the years from 1968 to 1980, Ron Paul’s organization is building itself into a force to move the GOP back to the right.

And many of the people contributing to the effort are volunteers who are donating their time and talents to the cause.

A group of independent artists have contributed their talents to a projec that rendered Congressman Ron Paul into a 3-D animation. They’re hoping that their video project, a 60-second commerial entitled, “The High Tide”, is able to be aired before the Pennsylvania primary.

The High Tide is not just about Presidential candidate Ron Paul, but about the idea of returning America back to it’s founding principles of freedom and liberty.

A small group of dedicated grassroots artists have created a new 60 second promo/TV ad for Presidential candidate Ron Paul, entitled “The High Tide”. The ad combines carefully edited audio from various Ron Paul speeches with high end computer animation, motion graphics, and a moving musical score, into a unique presentation that is reaching new eyes and reinvigorating the dedicated Ron Paul grassroots.

Serving as lead animator, Arcfx’s Nathan Evans conceptualized the project and reached out to various grassroots activists, tapping into individual creative talents the Ron Paul Revolution is famous for. Coming in early on, Ron Paul CNN/Youtube ad competition winner Chris Rye (AdamT from RonPaulForums.com) built the audio from famous speeches given at the Robert A. Taft Club and the Ann Arbor, Michigan rally where Ron Paul drew a crowd of over 2000.

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Ron Paul’s supporters are taking a page from the Barry Goldwater/Ronald Reagan history books: they’re continuing to build a grassroots organization to fight for the soul of the Republican Party.

Reagan, first campaigned in 1968 and later in 1978, losing to Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. But in the process, he assembled the organization that later propelled him to a historic victory against Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Rep. Ron Paul of Texas and his thousands of fervent supporters may be fighting more over the soul of the Republican Party nowadays than they are for the actual presidential nomination, No it’s not your eyes It’s Republican presidential candidate and House member Ron Paul on a giant TV screen in Killeen Texas a GOP House of Representatives member from Texas who continues to campaign against Sen John McCain. Paul reported his campaign finances March 19, 2008 having raised nearly $35 million with nearly $5.6 million cash on hand and like a good conservative no debts. Seeeing how the congressman is more than 1,000 delegates shy of what he’d need to head the ticket.

With John McCain having already secured the nomination–and having left the country–Paul supporters are actively continuing the campaign for the next election, whether Paul actually runs again or not.

The 72-year-old Paul has plenty of free political time now because no Democrat, not even in Texas, is dumb enough to take him on in the November House election, which will award Paul his 11th term. On March 4, Paul vanquished his main Republican challenger in the 14th District by capturing 70% of the vote. Other than that, it was close.

Paul says he’ll continue to take his conservative message of smaller government, more personal freedoms and an end to American troops abroad wherever his followers are strong and loyal, places like Pennsylvania, North Carolina, maybe Idaho. But they’re actually all over, even allegedly liberal California, where one branch posed nearly-naked for a Hotties4RonPaul pinup calendar.

Other Paul supporters have chipped in with a music video, while others have contributed the above 3-D animation commercial project.

Ron Paul’s organization is doing it the Reagan way: building an organization, one county at a time across the country.

And they’re finding plenty of people who feel the two main parties are not listening to them.

As noted here earlier this week, Paul’s volunteers are winning GOP influence the old-fashioned way, at the grassroots level county by county, tedious meeting after tedious meeting, largely under the radar of the national media, except The Ticket. Paul’s volunteers, many of them new to politics, hope to exert some influence on the platform in St. Paul and go from there, the way the 1964 Goldwater generation of conservatives finally won in 1980 with Ronald Reagan.

This is supposed to be a bad year for Republicans whose turnout in caucus states, for instance, has been low compared to Democrats. But although Paul has yet to win an actual primary or caucus, he’s taken some fourths, fifths and seconds.

As noted in the LA Times, Paul ran a stripped-down campaign organization that raised lots of money from 400,000 donors and won over 800,000 votes.

Which, in case you didn’t notice, is more than that New York mayor guy with all the ex-wives got and more than that tall, slow fellow from Tennessee who was a prosecutor and also played one on TV.

Paul continues to campaign for votes in the upcoming Republican primaries and likely will pull over 1 million primary votes by the time the GOP nomination is officially handed to McCain at the Republican National Convention.

That’s a lot of primary votes.

One reason the campaign soldiers on is issue of the future of the Republican Party.

In an interview with the Washington Times, Paul says he’s still out campaigning here and there — North Carolina, Pennsylvania, perhaps Idaho — as long as he senses the support from his fervent followers, who created quite a phenomenon during last fall’s campaign, raising more money in the fourth quarter than any of the other party big shots who, Paulunteers feel, have hijacked the Republican Party from its conservative, small-government principles and opposition to foreign intervention.

“We agree with the Old Right,” Paul tells Ralph Hallow, “and they’re the New Right, which is The Wrong.”

The Paul campaign has achieved small successes at the state level, especially in its ability to have conservative planks written into the individual state GOP’s platforms.

One success came in Alaska recently.

There is also much good news to report from Alaska, where the hard work, dedication, and great attitude of Ron Paul supporters resulted in several planks being added to the official Alaskan Republican Party platform. Several resolutions, which will stand for the next two years, were also agreed upon.

Planks added include:

“We recognize the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects as guaranteed in the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; recognize the right of the people to be secure from any search or seizure that violates the 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination; and oppose legislation that violates these two Amendments including, but not limited to, any infringements that may be contained in the Patriot Act, the Real ID Act, NAIS Act, and the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act. Furthermore, we propose that these acts be repealed immediately.

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These are small steps for the 2008 elections, but they are building blocks for the future in the battle for the soul of the national Republican Party.

And those small steps are important for the movement’s future.

Just consult the history books about another Republican candidate who did much the same in the years leading up to 1980.

by Mondoreb
images: connie talk
Sources:
* What’s this? Ron Paul runs a conservative campaign with no loans?
* Ron Paul, waiting to be wooed, defies concession to John McCain
* YouTube: The High Tide
* Grassroots Artists Create Ron Paul as a 3-D Animation
* Alaska is Ron Paul Country
* Ron Paul: Supporters Want to Move the GOP back to the Right


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