Some weeks ago, I proposed that we use campaign ads to get the Mantra into the media, for exactly the same reasons that Kelso gives below.

Where this stopped was that a commenter in the Swarm said that an expert on Stormfront said, “Have Bob get in touch with me and I’ll tell him why a Mantra campaign would be a disaster.”

H. Avenger knows that I don’t have the energy to get to get in touch with anybody, but he said he knew who this guy was and would check with him if and when he had time to.

So I let it drop. I don’t know if I will have the energy to file candidacy here, and no one else is going to do it.

A few days ago I Skyped Jamie Kelso, who has me on the Board of the Alternative Party, and asked him if one of our candidates would like to do this, if I sent him the money.

This was the exchange:

ME: Could Brandt run an ad consisting of the Mantra? How much would it be? I could pay for it if it’s not…

KELSO: Yes, Bob, I’m sure that Ralph would like to run the mantra as a political ad. I’ll get the radio prices for this now, and get back to you with them. We’re talking VERY inexpensive when we’re talking radio ads run for a political candidate…the law requires three things: the station must run your ad, they may not edit it, and they must charge you their LOWEST rate. That lowest rate is always very low. In West Virginia our 30-second ads cost us between $4 and $10 each per run. That’s the best cluck-for-our-buck available to us today in mass promotion.

KELSO: This radio spot strategy is one of the innovations of A3P. This radio spot strategy is available only to political candidates. The law only applies to them.

Great minds think alike.

Now what I would like is for the candidate to simply recite the Mantra and say he authorized this ad.

But, as we few know all too well, the response to the Mantra at first is always “DUHHH!” A mass “DUHH!” and media silence is not what a candidate is normally looking for.

Would somebody else contact Kelso and discuss this and give us a new angle or a new start.

Kelso can be reached day and might at 561-351-4424.

I just called him and he has agreed to do a piece for us on his use of the media this way.

It seems to be our dream:

It is CHEAP — for campaigns — and it is UNCENSORED.

AP3 will be campaigning until next November.