Posted on 11/21/2007 9:51:02 AM PST by traviskicks
Larry Lepard, a venture capitalist and Ron Paul supporter from Massachusetts, has shelled out about $85,000 of his own money to throw what he told U.S. News is a "small hard rock at a good target": a full-page ad supporting Paul that will run in tomorrow's edition of USA Todaythe nation's largest circulation daily newspaperon the busiest travel day of the year.
He noted that he bought a right-hand position in the newspaper's front section.
"I'm trying to get maximum bang for the buck," said Lepard, 50, a Republican who says his strong opposition to the Iraq war drove him to take out the ad. His firm, Equity Management Association, invests in emerging markets, he said, adding, "I'm good at spotting early trends." The ad, presented as an open letter from the country's Founding Fathers, was designed with the help of supporters on www.RonPaulForums.com, where Paul campaign activists hold their virtual gatherings.
"We think the message is beautiful and pure," said Lepard, who first met Paul nearly two decades ago at an economic conference in New York. "He's not the odds-on favorite, but people have come from relative obscurity before and done it."
Since you mentioned borders, did you guys read the latest post on Irving Texas?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928970/posts
Apparently, the vets want to be “spit” on. Paul has received more money from them than any other candidate. Are you calling the Vets, who have already voted with their dollars, fools?
No, it is a loaded action and based on an untrue premise. I supported the Afghan war.
>> And how can you be attacked, when W is doing such an effective job of sealing the southern border?
The typical (il)logic of the typical ElRon supporter.
I don’t recall mentioning support of W at all, let alone his immigration policy.
They call that a straw man argument. By the way, it failed.
>> Paul has received more money from them than any other candidate.
Another RonBot scam, debunked many times.
“affiliated with military” DOES NOT mean active duty soldiers.
My goodness. Can’t y’all support your candidate without lying, spamming, and scamming at every turn?
Nevermind: I’m sure the answer is a a simple, “No, we can’t; without our lies, his performance would be even more miserable than it already is.”
This is not a slam against you. One thing I learned about campaign donation sites is that you can pretty much list any job you want to. I remember seeing so called local vets using their name and rank on John Kerry's campaign website. In the local phone book no such person lived at that address.
I asked a specific question, and I guess I have my answer in a weasely way.
You think that the sacrifice of vets in the Korean, Vietnam, and Iraq wars is all meaningless. Just wanted to be sure what Paul’s supporters believe.
So your idea is to continue running our military ragged fighting patches of terrorists throughout the Middle East, while our borders remain open and Muslims are emigrating here & becoming more belligerent at our way of life.
I prefer the Paul approach. Let these people stay where they are & kill each other, get rid of the foreign aid boondoggles, and stop meddling in these medieval hell-holes.
Let me know when you find the BS where he says this.
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Good for you.
Actually, one could argue plausibly that "free trade," which Paul claims to support, actually caused Islamofascism, because the trillions the Muzzies have earned selling us oil is the only reason why they have any geopolitical clout at all. I sometimes think the world would have been much better off if the West had just driven the camel jockeys into the Persian Gulf and taken the stuff. After all, it was our technology, men and capital who found and developed the stuff.
Nice ad, but it looks an awful lot like a giant campaign contribution. That’s fine with me, but is that still legal in America?
Ping for the full-page ad in USAToday. Travis has the image of it here. Pretty nice.
Gotta admit, it was a good strategy.
“Thats actually a very well made ad. Too bad that Ron Paul thinks hes worthy company of those great men, though.
Wheres the part about how Ron Paul thinks we should let terrorists strike first with a nuclear weapon? Or let tens of thousands die from a nerve gas strike?
Must be a simple oversight.”
Or an out and out GD lie, propogated by people with a socialist bent and a never ending ability to keep voting for socialists like McRomneysoniani.
Why don't you explain to us the meaning of the sacrifice that was made for the US in Korea?
What did it mean for their sacrifice when MacAuthur was fired for actually trying to win in Korea?
Do you support our continued presence there?
Explain why you support the failed intervention in Veitnam escalated by LBJ?
Apparently, Bush isn't so impressed with the sacrifices made in Iraq since he's allowing his military to seize the paychecks of servicemen for failing to serve out the time of their sign-on bonus while sending $500 million to Mexico.
What does Bush giving hundreds of millions of dollars to the imaginary Palestinian state mean for the sacrifices made in the war against Islamofacsim?
Explain why we have "rules of engagement" when fighting terrorists in the WOT in Iraq?
Try to explain your support for globalist interventions without betraying your schizophrenic allegience to their failures.
If not for America's servicemen, Korea would have been an entirely communist nation.
Paul never acknowledges that. And that clearly means nothing to you either.
Try to explain your support for globalist interventions without betraying your schizophrenic allegience to their failures.
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