[jmeagan]

****With no line item veto he could not stop government spending on welfare and other entitlements. He could reduce the size of Executive Branch Agencies to reduce the size of government. But that does not stop Congressional spending.

Can you imagine this? No, not just ineffective ... down right disastrous.****

You forget that all most all politicians are “politicians.” They change with the wind. A win by Ron Paul will tell them that the public wants drastic changes. The house of reps will be particularly vulnerable, as the legions of Ron Paul followers will go all out in the mid terms. Bringing the troops home from Germany, Japan, Korea, Turkey, etc. will be hugely popular. Maybe not so much from Iraq and Afghanistan, but it will probably turn out well there too. Instead of spends $100’s of billions overseas, that money will be spent in the USA creating many good jobs. The National Guard troops will be home with their families. The prospect of sound money will stop the run on the dollar. Inflation will drop to zero. Funding the federal government with a non protectionist tariff will bring many more good jobs back to the US. Ending foreign aid is very popular with the average person struggling to pay his bills.

[George W. Bush]

Amazing. We had that 7pm peak of $225K p/hr and have leveled to $200K p/hr.

If this holds steady, that's another $600,000 to add to Q4 total of $6.47M currently for a Q4 total of $7.2M. I don't think we'll quite make 4M today though, probably just $3.8M or $3.9M unless the Left Coast comes in big later in the evening.

[Note: the fundraising day ends at midnight Eastern time so there less than 3 hours left.]



No signs they're letting up the pace.

[K-oneTexas]

Sorry, it will not happen. Sounds more like a Ron Paul SciFi novel.

Your tight, politicians are politicians ... but voters are voters. Politicians will never support smaller government and voters have short memories. Approximately 85% of the elected Federal Congress are politicians ... there are few who are Americans and believers in the American system of government.

Ron Paul doesn't have a snowballs chance in H..E..double hockey sticks of winning the Republican nomination. And this is where he has to be to win. The grassroots effort works better in State and Local elections ... at the Federal level grassroots has a hard time with third parties and they are always spoilers.

Peacetime may be a better time for Ron Paul and his belief of making a sustained run and a win. Not wartime. Too many people realize this is a war against terrorism ... not a game where you can pick up your marbles and just go home. I like Paul's belief in small government and getting out of the UN and abolishing the IRS, however his inability to see the threat posed to this country and the world by terrorism and fanatical believers of Islam nullifies any ability to achieve the other beliefs and goals at the present time.