Paul Raises More Than $3.5M in One Day [the most for any Republican - ever]

breitbart.com ^ | November 5, 2007 | JIM KUHNHENN

[grundle]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, aided by an extraordinary outpouring of Internet support Monday, hauled in more than $3.5 million in 20 hours.

Paul, the Texas congressman with a Libertarian tilt and an out-of-Iraq pitch, entered heady fundraising territory with a surge of Web-based giving tied to the commemoration of Guy Fawkes Day.

Fawkes was a British mercenary who failed in his attempt to kill King James I on Nov. 5, 1605. He also was the model for the protagonist in the movie "V for Vendetta." Paul backers motivated donors on the Internet with mashed-up clips of the film on the online video site YouTube as well as the Guy Fawkes Day refrain: "Remember, remember the 5th of November."

Paul's total deposed Mitt Romney as the single-day fundraising record holder in the Republican presidential field. When it comes to sums amassed in one day, Paul now ranks only behind Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton, who raised nearly $6.2 million on June 30, and Barack Obama.

Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said the effort began independently about two months ago at the hands of Paul's backers. He said Paul picked up on the movement, mentioning in it speeches and interviews.

"It's been kind of building up virally," Benton said.

The $3.5 million, he said, represented online contributions from more than 22,000 donors.

Paul has been lagging in the polls behind Republican front-runners. But he captured national attention at the end of September when he reported raising $5.2 million in three months, putting him fourth among Republican presidential candidates in fundraising for the quarter.

Paul as of Monday had raised $6.3 million since Oct. 1, more than half his goal of $12 million by the end of the year, according to his Web site.

Paul advocates limited government and low taxes like other Republicans, but he stands alone as the only GOP presidential candidate opposed to the Iraq war. He also has opposed Bush administration security measures that he says encroach on civil liberties.

[TBP]

Must be repeaters spamming.

[pcottraux]

Zactly.

[Hornitos]

Not surrendering; just giving Iraq fair notice that they're a sovereign nation now and we've completed most of our objectives.

No thanks to Ron Paul or his supporters, of course.

[Roy Tucker]

LOL. From Rambo II:

Trautman: You don’t seem to want to accept the fact that you’re dealing with an expert in guerilla warfare. With a man who’s the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who’s been trained to ignore pain, to ignore weather, to live off the land. To eat things that would make a billy goat puke. In Vietnam his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill, period! Win by attrition. Well, Ronpo was the best!

[Petronski]

Slick Willard must be stopped at all costs. He’s bleeding donations away from worthy, viable Republican candidates blah blah blah...

[Roy Tucker]

I am sure Ron Paul could do all of those things.

[hinckley buzzard]

He's running as a Republican, NOT as a third party candidate

He won't be, after the convention picks a candidate for the GOP and he has all this DUmmie money left over...

[Hornitos]

Correction: He won't be, after the convention picks a [rational] candidate for the [reputable]GOP and he has all this DUmmie money left over...

[oldfart]

"The delusion comes from the extreme extremists who conjure up in their minds a Ron Paul nomination from a reputable party."

Are you talking about the Republican party? Since when have they been reputable? They're almost as bad as the Democratic party and they're thinking about nominating Hillary.

[fortheDeclaration]

How quaint and apropos, commemorating a terrorist. It must be payday for all his big-government liberal supporters.

Actually the day is celebrated as a anti-terrorist day, that he was caught.

[fortheDeclaration]

Scared? You should be. We might actually get a conservative to win the Republican nomination! Also, I can’t speak for anyone else, but not one of these other jokers running would’ve gotten money from me - only Ron Paul. There’s been nothing to suggest he’ll make a third party run, but I’ll support him even if he does - I’m not going to be forced to choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

Exactly.

Only Ron Paul can generate any enthusiasm among the various pro-freedom groups.

[fortheDeclaration]

There are just enough goofy Libertarian/Republicans to make a difference. Just a couple of % of voters leaving reality for a 3rd party waste of their vote COULD hand the White House to the Democrat.

So return the GOP to its pro-freedom roots and they will not leave the Party.

[fortheDeclaration]

Paul is running on a Pro-American policy which does sell very well with GOP voters.

This WOT is being used to destroy American Sovereignty by the elites.

[DakotaRed]

http://www.smallgovtimes.com/story/07mar12.paul.official/index.html

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/local/stories/011207dntswpaul.2114595.html

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272616869.shtml

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17581400/

http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=179826&Disp=6

http://thenextprez.blogspot.com/2007/01/ron-paul-forms-exploratory-committee.html

http://drnozone.com/2007/09/27/cannabis-culture-magazine-endorses-ron-paul-and/

Every single one of the above mentions Paul admitting to being a lifelong Libertarian. There are several more, if you seek them.

[DakotaRed]

Is that why Democrats hate him with a passion?

[fortheDeclaration]

We're live in our basements here, Taco Bell leftovers cluttering our computers. That same crumpled $100 bill is being spammed throughout network servers.

Actually, we have caught on how the Fed operates and are just depositing the same funds in different banks and considering them 'deposits'.

Presto-new money!

[fortheDeclaration]

unconstitutional policies, big spending, open borders, big government, excessive interventionism, globalism that will eventually destroy this country, corruption and being only slightly different than the other "party."

Amen.

[fortheDeclaration]

This defies rational explanation.

This is madness!!!! (movie-300)

[fortheDeclaration]

Because if he wins, egomaniac Giuliani will probably run third-party himself and take all the liberal war hawks in the GOP with him. They’ll say Ron Paul usurped the Republican Party with spambots. /s

You remember how the Rockfeller wing of the GOP did not support Goldwater either when that grassroots campaign overthrew them.

[traviskicks]

Paul advocates limited government and low taxes like other Republicans

lol, well that certainly isn't true, he isn't anything like the other republicans on domestic issues, they tend to lapse into socialism here and there while he does not.