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Posted: Fri 2007-06-08 14:18
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| Ron Paul - Five Million Dollar Man? |
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| From freemarketnews.com |
GOP Ron Paul - Five Million Dollar Man?
Thursday, June 07, 2007
FreeMarketNews.com
Congressman Ron Paul’s donations have moved up - not by hundreds of thousands - but by millions as a result of his debate performances and groundswell of support on the Internet and in New Hampshire, observers close to the campaign say.
The move is especially impressive since as of March 31, 2007, he had perhaps $500,000 on hand (see candidate estimates below).
FMNN had previously reported – after the GOP presidential debate in South Carolina - that candidate Ron Paul’s (R-Tex) donations, large and small, had nearly doubled.
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=42336
Now observers close to the campaign are revealing – with some astonishment – that donations to the campaign in recent weeks have pushed the total up to perhaps $4 or $5 million.
“That’s a huge number at this stage,” says one observer. “That starts to put him in a position where he can compete – state by state, anyway – with the major candidates.”
And this source added, “Of course, it’s hard to tell because the numbers keep changing – and thus nobody at the campaign has a firm count, at least not hour to hour. But the numbers are big. It’s definitely over three, probably over four, and if it hasn’t hit five yet, it will soon.”
To be sure such amounts are somewhat speculative. But to put the amount of money Ron Paul is said to have raised recently in perspective, here are the figures of cash on hand for GOP candidates as of March 31, 2007:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/money/gop.html
Sam Brownback - cash-on-hand: $806,626
Jim Gilmore - cash-on-hand: $90,107
Rudy Giuliani - cash-on-hand: $11,949,735
Mike Huckabee - cash-on-hand: $373,918
Duncan Hunter - cash-on-hand: $272,552
John McCain - cash-on-hand: $5,180,799
Ron Paul - cash-on-hand: $524,919
Mitt Romney - cash-on-hand: $11,863,653
Tom Tancredo - cash-on-hand: $575,078
Tommy Thompson - cash-on-hand: $139,723
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Holy crap!!
The only excuse that the media has had thus far for excluding Ron Paul is that he was a "poor" candidate, and therefore relegated to the "2nd tier". But now that Paul's campaign is fast approaching the cash reserves of "top tier" candidate McCain, I wonder what excuse the media will try to use in order to exclude him now!
The truth is that there is no longer any reason to treat Paul as a '2nd Tier" candidate. Ron Paul is now "Top Tier" material!!!
BTW.... I just found a wonderful website which tracks the campaign finances of all the major candidates.
They haven't updated their statistics since March 31st (So the numbers don't show Paul's post-debate success yet), but I expect that they will update the numbers soon. But even though it is slightly out-of-date, this site still provides an extremely thorough look at the finances of each candidate. Take a look.
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Posted: Fri 2007-06-08 21:03
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That money might be high. However, I have developed the following call to action now that Ron Paul's campaign his about to explode:
I honestly think that now Ron's supporters have succeeded at getting him on comedy central, I think it's time he gets on another big venue where there are a lot of diastisfied certerists with libertarian leaningings: the Howard Stern Show. Stern has ran as a libertarian, a producer of the show (Benji) voted for Badnarik last election, and because the show is literally put together by a bunch of interns in a haphazard fashion, if we apply pressure to Howard Stern like we did to the Daily Show, he can get on.
The audience is about 5 million mostly anti-war Republicans. This is the sort of mainstream audience Ron needs to speak to.
So, we can apply pressure by doing the following:
1. You can call 1-888-9-ASSHOLE (1-888-927-7465) Monday through Thursday and ask Stern on his thoughts concerning an anti-war Republican.
2. Email SternShow@HowardStern.com non-stop asking them to interview Ron.
3. If anyone wants to get creative and mail material or whatever, here's the address:
The Howard Stern Show
c/o Tracey Millman
Sirius Satellite Radio
1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
Paul may be the 5 million dollar man and getting onto cable. If he get's on Stern, he'll be catapulted into a major frontrunner.
If people hammered Stern like they hammered the Daily Show, he would definitely get on. I am going to spam the prisonplanet.com comments pages with this, because they're a bunch of militia nuts with time on their hands in which to do this. We have to get this out there.
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Posted: Fri 2007-06-08 23:14
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So this pretty much disproves the claim that Ron Paul's support is made up of a small selection of organised internet-savvy nuts. Ok, he certainly has plenty of those behind him, and that's great, but they're hardly the people to put up $5 million. Taking into account the lack of wealthy support for him, one can only conclude he really does have some serious support after all.
You Americans never cease to surprise me. Who'd hav thoughted tat their where so mani sm&rt Yaunkies lefte?
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Posted: Sat 2007-06-09 05:40
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It probably won't make a difference unless he gets more news coverage. It seems that the media has its eyes on those two fucktards, and can't focus on anything else.
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Posted: Sat 2007-06-09 08:52
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This is the first post I've made about Ron Paul, and it will probably be my last...
First, let me state that I think Ron Paul would make an excellent president. If I voted (and I don't) I would proudly vote for him, and not just against his opponent. I like his stand on the issues and I like the way he seems to think.
Second, he will never, ever fucking get elected. I would bet money on this.
American elections do not include the best guy in the running, it's always between the two biggest scumbags from the two biggest parties. So please, drop all the threads on how great Ron Paul is, because it's bumming me out.
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Posted: Mon 2007-06-11 18:44
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| James wrote: |
Second, he will never, ever fucking get elected. I would bet money on this.
American elections do not include the best guy in the running, it's always between the two biggest scumbags from the two biggest parties. So please, drop all the threads on how great Ron Paul is, because it's bumming me out. |
When you say that there is "no way" he can win, I can only imagine that you are basing this statement on the prior performance of 3rd party candidates in national elections. The difference between Ron Paul and Nader or Perot is that Ron Paul is running as a Republican. If he gets the nomination, he will have the GOP behind him. At that point, he stands just as good of a chance as any other GOP candidate.
It will be a hell of a lot easier or Paul to win the GOP nomination than it would be to run as a 3rd party candidate against the Republicrats in a general election. This is especially true since the neo-con "frontrunners" are extremely weak. Giuliani is a jackass, and Romney is a friggin' Mormon. Neither of these two guys has a snowball's chance in hell at beating Hillary in a general election. McCain might be able to pull it off, but his support in the GOP is dwindling. The other candidates are losing steam while at the same time Paul is gaining a very dedicated following. Even though the "frontrunners" have already spent millions of dollars campaigning, the GOP base is largely apathetic towards them.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get a decent candidate into the White House, and we cannot let it pass us by. If Paul doesn’t make it to the White House, he will probably be too old to try again in 5 years. This is the time to act.
Even if Paul doesn't get the nomination, his candidacy will be successful at renewing interest in classical libertarianism. And that alone is good enough reason to carry on the fight. GOP strategists will soon realize that if Paul doesn’t get the nomination, they risk losing a lot of conservative votes to the Libertarians (even if Paul doesn't run as a third party candidate, the Libertarians will still run a candidate. And this candidate will pick up a lot of support from what’s left of a defeated Ron Paul grassroots organization).
Over the next few months, I fully expect Dr. Paul to start showing double-digit numbers in the nationwide polls, and I expect his campaign to receive funding that will allow him to compete with the other corporate-sponsored candidates. The only thing that can stop his campaign is this widespread belief that democracy is dead, and that there is no way that a decent candidate can defeat the scumbag sell-outs paraded in front of us by the mass media.
I seriously believe that the only way for the GOP to win the next election against the Dems is to nominate Paul. The problem for Paul is that the leaders of the GOP would probably prefer the Dems to win rather than to have Dr. Paul in the White House. We definitely have an uphill fight, but if we win, it will change the course of the United States forever. It is definitely a worthwhile cause.
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