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Ron Paul's presidential campaign is getting cash infusion today from grass roots activists on the internet. The activists plan to get 100,000 people to donate $100 each, boosting the campaign by 10 million dollars in a day. Whether the goal of 10 million dollars in a day is achieved remains to be seen. The campaign as of 10 PM Sunday night had risen just under 2.8 million for the quarter. As of Monday, 9:30 AM Eastern time, Paul’s campaign has risen over a million dollars bringing the total to over 4.1 million for the quarter. Paul’s campaign raised over 5...

Dr. Paul’s Writings › War on Terror? It’s as Bad as War on Drugs Summary: For the first 140 years of our history, we had essentially no Federal war on drugs, and far fewer problems with drug addiction and related crimes was a consequence. In the past 30 years, even with the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the drug war, little good has come of it. We have vacillated from efforts to stop the drugs at the source to severely punishing the users, yet nothing has improved. This war has been behind most big government policy powers of...

For presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the quest for the Republican Party nomination is an all or nothing game. While Paul ran for the White House in 1988 on the Libertarian ticket, earning 0.47% of the vote, the lawmaker told Washington Wire Friday that he’s not going to make a separate effort to get on the general election ballot if the Republican nomination doesn’t come through. “The thought does not cross my mind about a third party,” Paul told us today after speaking at the Americans for Prosperity conference, a forum for fiscal conservatives. “I did it and...

 Friday, October 05, 2007 What Ron Paul is (and what he isn't) http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2007/10/what-ron-paul-i.html I think Yoshi is overreacting to the Ron Paul boomlet. I can understand why: Paul is the lone antiwar Republican in the race, and thus it's assumed he's pulling all of his support from antiwar lefties looking to mess up the GOP.  That just isn't so. Ron Paul has a reputation of being the most virulent anti-government politician in recent memory.  He's known as "Dr. No," for his supposed insistence on voting against any government action (including innocuous, non-binding resolutions) that is not specifically enumerated in...

Ron Paul doesn't understand his own success. He didn't know his calls for an end to the Federal Reserve and the Department of Education would draw cheers, that his anti-income tax, anti-foreign intervention and libertarian message would resonate. He was reluctant to run for the Republican presidential nomination, he said yesterday: He was convinced it would take another "generation for education" before his message - rooted in Paul's reading of the Constitution - gained traction. "I have been just dumbfounded about what's happening," Paul said yesterday in Manchester's Veteran's Park, where roughly 500 supporters gathered for a glimpse of the...

New Hampshire: (Top Story) USAElectionPolls.com has recently posted an article on their web site entitled "Republican Debate - Five Things to Expect" and they claim that Ron Paul will be the winner of the online text poll / internet poll but be ignored. This is not shocking news when you consider that Ron Paul has fared extremely well in every post-debate poll and there is little reason to believe that this debate will be any different. Ron Paul received an incredible boost to his campaign in the last Fox News debate held in New Hampshire with his claim that "blowback"...