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Pinging some RP supporters and some others posting on the threads today.

A fresh new shocker from the FEC, reported by Army Times. It turns out that now that the FEC has verified the employers, that Ron Paul is leading McStain (by a nose) among active-duty personnel!

RP's total military employee contributions: $22,140
RP's total active duty contributions: $14,840

From the August 6 edition of The Army Times (print edition only, not online):

Washington
Surprise fave among troops
WHAT'S UP: Among Republicans running for president, the anti-war candidate — Texas Rep. Ron Paul — has the highest total of campaign contributionns from service members, according to the most recent Federal Election Commission reports. Paul collected $14,840 from service members, slightly more than the $14,775 collected by Arizona Sen. John McCain, a supporter of the war in Iraq. The other Republican candidates got $2,600 or less from contributors who identified themselves as service members.
WHAT'S NEXT: Paul, who served as a flight surgeon in the Air Force in the 1960s, and McCain, a Navy pilot who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, could not be further apart in their views of the Iraq war, which is the biggest military issue so far in the 2008 campaign that is just beginning. The current front-runner in the race, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, received $2,550 from military contributors, the FEC report shows.

Read 'em and weep, all you Paul-hating big-government trolls. Two-thirds of his support is from troops, matched by McStain. And the other pro-war GOP candidates can't break $2600! Your denials and fantasies have been exploded by ArmyTimes, well, unless they're another Leftie rag. LOL.

Earlier related threads:

Ron Paul leads ALL ‘08 candidates with one-third of military contributions for Q2
Military Favors Ron Paul Over McCain
Military support for the Republican candidates (Ron Paul wins)

[note to the Ron Paul cadre: we have two good RP threads already. We may post this tidbit as a thread tonight or tomorrow because we don't want to abuse FR with RP articles, especially since the other campaigns are so boring and dead in the water at present. Certainly, it isn't our fault that RP gets so much attention but we should be reasonable, I think.]

A fresh new shocker from the FEC, reported by Army Times. It turns out that now that the FEC has verified the employers, that Ron Paul is leading McStain (by a nose) among active-duty personnel!

RP's total military employee contributions: $22,140
RP's total active duty contributions: $14,840

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Nonsense! - the numbers are doctored or the question was asked wrong or DU'ers voted (or sumpthin'...(trailing off muttering)

A) The Army Times is a liberal rag. It's published by Gannett and has no more connection to the US military than USA Today (another Gannett publication) -- regardless of what said liberal rag calls itself.

B) Where does it say anywhere the employers of all contributors have been independently verified?

Donors are asked to specify their employer. You're telling me the federal government is following up on this information from every individual contributor to make sure they're all telling the truth? (Ironically, this might be the first time I've ever seen self-described "libertarians" touting the government's ability to gather personal information about private citizens.)

I don't buy it. And given the way Paul's supporters have conducted themselves in a manner similar to Truthers and Kos Kids with their relentless spamming, there's no good reason to believe they're telling the truth about who they work for. The most notable thing about Paul's campaign thus far has been the campaign of mass deception waged by his rabid supporters. There's no reason in the world to believe this is any different.