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Pre-primaries get so militant. Like a bunch of little hit-and-run commando raids on the other candidate camps. It's so tribal.

THAT is an excellent description.

On a happier note and a bit off topic -- I know you, GWB, will appreciate the ingenious nature of these PR/fundraising moves:

Did you see Mitt's newest addition to the website? He's got a mini ebay thing going on where you can sell your old stuff and instead of a small fee going to ebay it goes to the campaign! Wonder if his supporter, Meg Whitman, gave her blessings for that? Sell you stuff - help Mitt

This is also clever: 44 for the 44th President

” On a happier note and a bit off topic — I know you, GWB, will appreciate the ingenious nature of these PR/fundraising moves:

Did you see Mitt’s newest addition to the website? He’s got a mini ebay thing going on where you can sell your old stuff and instead of a small fee going to ebay it goes to the campaign! Wonder if his supporter, Meg Whitman, gave her blessings for that? Sell you stuff - help Mitt

This is also clever: 44 for the 44th President”

Of course you realize that if you schlep all your stuff
to Ebay and sell it, it won’t help Mitt get elected at
all...

it will merely allow Mitt to reimburse his loan to his
campaign. You will put money in Mitt’s pocket - since
he doesn’t believe in himself enough to actually make
a real donation to his own campaign.

You have to really believe Mitt needs money personally
to do this...

You Mittsters are such amateurs! LOL. How about this move to propagandize all the postal employees (a federal mail service is constitutionally mandated) and all the folks who work at companies that send you junk mail:

If you're like me, you get a lot of junk mail. Much of it comes with postage-paid return envelopes, like the kind shown above. Rather than just throwing them away, or recycling them, put it to good use with a Ron Paul rubber stamp.
More ideas:
While you're at it, throw in a Liberty Card, or a Founding Fathers flier explaining who Ron Paul is. AT LEAST two other people will see it - the US Mail carrier, and the person who opens the envelope, but other hands will handle it as well. This is a very inexpensive way of getting Ron Paul's name and image out in front of the public.
While some people might feel bad about using these free post-paid envelopes to promote Ron Paul, I personally don't. After all, I never asked the company to try to sell me something. Although I'm rarely interested in what these real-world spammers have to offer, I figure they might be interested in what I have to offer. Freedom and liberty!
However, if you feel bad about it, then drop a note into the envelope saying, "Please remove me from your mailing list" along with the Liberty Card, then go ahead and stamp the outside. I think that is a very legitimate use for their pre-paid envelopes.
Also - this stamp is not only for junk mail. I also stamp all of my bills - gas bill, electricity bill, credit card bills - and throw some info about Dr. Paul in there as well. It is a way of communicating directly with other working class Americans. And those workers talk to one another: "Hey, I got another one of these cards. Who is this guy? I'm going to go find out."
And with the holidays coming up, be sure to stamp all of your cards and packages, too. And don't forget your paper money. We've got to do whatever we can to get the word out. It is the best $13.87 (including shipping) that you'll spend. Make a statement without saying a word.

So instead of throwing away that junk mail, use it for your candidate. And maybe the spammers will decide you don't even deserve to be on their little spam list. LOL. After all, the tree has already been killed so it could be used to spam you. Why just let it go to waste?

We've got a million of these tactics. I'm surprised the other campaigns don't spy on us to steal these tactics. You know, lots of little old ladies get spammed to death. They just love this way of spamming the spammers back with their own spam.

This is also clever: 44 for the 44th President

What, are you guys a bunch of cheapskates or something?

Ron Paul is worth asking $100 for. Why don't you think Mitt is? And just because he's rich isn't a good enough excuse. Even Mitt can't afford to run an entire primary and general election campaign from his own pocket.

Mitt should do the live fundraising ticker too like Ron Paul has. It creates excitement among the supporters. They compete with each other, they snapshot their names going across the donation banner, they post snapshots showing it online, they challenge each other, they post their donation confirmation numbers, they feed off one another's excitement for Dr. Paul.

Surely you don't think Mitt is only worth some puny $44, do you? You know, a lot of RP supporters who can't afford the big money are committed to donating $17.76 (Declaration) or $17.89 (Constitution) every week from their paychecks. Some of these are retirees and college students or blue collar folk. So why is Mitt only worth some puny one-time $44 donation?

Raise the ante, do the forums and the Meetups, do the live fundraising thing. It helps build the grassroots.

Just because he's rich doesn't mean Mitt should be embarrassed to ask for money.

You should look for themes for your base supporters along with graphics and slogans and other little side efforts that they can fund through ChipIns and such. We had a tussle with Laura Ingraham at the Iowa straw poll. So after she said some nice things about Ron Paul on her show, RP supporters organized a flowerbomb for her and sent a polite CPA in a suit to present it to her at one of her book signings. We all enjoyed that, including Laura. Again, it's participation that unites people.

We even have an anarcho-libertarian Flowerbomber graphic for these things. LOL. Not so sure that buttoned-down pin-striped wing-tipped Mitt could use this kind of thing so well but you'll find your grassroots can be very very creative if you give them a chance.

Anyway, I'm not trying to deface your Mitt thread with RP stuff. But you should be looking at this kind of stuff to help your guy, to create some self-starter grassroots excitement. You know, Mitt and Ann would just love it. Anyway, that's how they strike me. You know, our grassroots is what gives Ron Paul the energy and the inspiration to run his campaign. He feeds off the excitement of the crowds, it inspires him, it pushes his campaign forward. Mitt could do the same things. For that matter, all the GOP candidates should be doing this because, in 2008, we're really going to need grassroots organization and excitement if we hope to win.