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Ron Paul raises millions in today's Boston Tea Party event ($3.2 million @ 3:00 EST)
Boston Globe ^ | 12/16/07 | Michael Levenson

Posted on 12/16/2007 11:57:44 AM PST by traviskicks

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To: Nathan Zachary

Do you call all your doctors “Doctor” Lastnamehere?


101 posted on 12/16/2007 4:38:28 PM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: live+let_live

“My comments are colored by my not supporting Ron Paul, but does it matter how much money he raises?”

No.

These fools think that by raising all this money that it somehow proves that the village idiot is “viable” as a candidate despite the fact that 95% of Republican voters are against him.

Just ask howard dean how all his fundraising and internet buzz worked for him LOL.

The idiot only has 77,000 supporters nationwide (not including those on neo-nazi sites such as stormfront and resistance), and that’s based on the membership rolls of his “support groups”.


102 posted on 12/16/2007 4:45:23 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (ron paul has lied to YOU)
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To: traviskicks

“Ron Paul raises millions in today’s Boston Tea Party event ($3.2 million @ 3:00 EST)”

“A fool and his money...”

But seriously, good for him and I still wouldn’t vote for him.


103 posted on 12/16/2007 4:46:26 PM PST by Grunthor (Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.)
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To: Labyrinthos

“Just curious... What happens to the money he has raised after the primaries are over and Ron Paul is not the candidate?”

He’s going to use it with his buddy kucinich in their bid to run as a third party scab.


104 posted on 12/16/2007 4:46:50 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (ron paul has lied to YOU)
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To: Hurricane Bruiser

“Many people support him in spite of his foreign policy because he is the only person with the record on wanting to reduce government”

I’m one of those. I can’t see foreign policy changing overnight, no matter how much Dr. Paul would like it to. But he has my full support on everything else.

In 40+ years of voting, I’ve never agreed completely with any candidate, there is always one part of their platform that I would have liked to see different. I vote for the candidate who has views closest to mine on issues important to me.


105 posted on 12/16/2007 4:50:59 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: traviskicks

“Another factor is that he has all these volunteers, over 75,000 meetup members that will work fanatically for him,”

Just like the brownshirts were fanatical about hitler during his rise to power.

“This grassroots activism is what wins elections.”

Really?

And how did howard dean do with all of that “grassroots” support he got?

Oh that’s right he FAILED!

YEAAARRG!!!

ROFL


106 posted on 12/16/2007 4:55:31 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (ron paul has lied to YOU)
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To: incindiary
This is one old-line Republican who has sent money to Saint Paul. He doesn't have a chance of being elected and that is probably good. He is, however, exposing the new political faultlines and keeping alive the ideal of Liberty.

This is a foreshadowing of things to come. Hopefully, it is the rebirth of the Republic.

107 posted on 12/16/2007 4:57:16 PM PST by MARTIAL MONK
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To: 2CAVTrooper
the fact that 95% of Republican voters are against him

The way y'all are alienating that 5%, sure hope the Republicans don't need them come November.

108 posted on 12/16/2007 5:01:18 PM PST by michigander (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: JediHal

“Regardless of your views on Dr. Paul it is astounding to see a candidate get this much financial support in such a short period of time.”

And if you look at the graphs, you will see that from the time this silly “Tea Party” gimmick was announced, donations to his campaign was $0.

They save it so they can all give on one day. It’s nothing more than some childish publicity stunt by a desperate campaign of a senile old coot.


109 posted on 12/16/2007 5:03:31 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (ron paul has lied to YOU)
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To: MARTIAL MONK

Beautifully said. The RINO infection has become gangrenous.


110 posted on 12/16/2007 5:03:55 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (Global warming is the new Marxism.)
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To: cowdog77

This isn’t 1810. Isolationism doesn’t work anymore. Face the threat THERE, or HERE.

There also isn’t 10% support in America for returning to just what is in the Constitution. If there was any significant support for that concept, the Democrats wouldn’t control Congress.


111 posted on 12/16/2007 5:04:17 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Amnesty is Huckabee's middle name!)
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To: traviskicks; OKSooner

Apparently he needs the $$$. In flyover country, his campaign consists of spray paint graffiti on public signs and some private property. Nice.


112 posted on 12/16/2007 5:06:36 PM PST by Honeybunch ("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." ~Rudyard Kipling)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Paul has inspired thousands of people with his message and you think he's going to fade into oblivion? You think the volunteers and grassroots that's supporting him now are just going to pack it in and return to their apathetic lives?

I applaud you for your politically astute evaluation of the Paul phenomenon. The "smear and sneer" anti-Paul bashing won't bring all these political novices into a functioning coalition, and unless tapped with care their energy will otherwise dissipate into Third Party impotency.

113 posted on 12/16/2007 5:10:06 PM PST by Dumb_Ox (http://kevinjjones.blogspot.com)
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To: West Coast Conservative
I don’t agree with allot of what Paul has said, but one thing I feel he may be right on....we don’t need to be all over the world playing policeman.

We went to war with Iraq....now, it is Iran who is the bigger threat.

I am leaning toward getting America out of playing world cop.

We are spending trillions upon trillions over many years to stop drugs, stop nuclear proliferation, stop illicit arms deals, unseat dictators and so on.

This world is no safer, and we have no less drugs on the streets than twenty years ago.

I’m starting to believe the feds are trying to keep us in a constant state of fear. It’s just one damn crisis after another.

Iraq was no threat to us. Besides, we removed Saddam and his sadistic son’s....can we like bring our troops home now?

I was shocked to learn we maintain approx seven hundred bases around the world....what the heck?

If the feds were so dedgum worried about terrorism, then why leave our borders wide freakin open? Makes no sense.

I think it’s time for Americans to wake up and demand Congress protect American industry at home, protect our jobs, stop spending like a teenager with a new credit card. Bring our troops home and putt’em on our border.

Pass term limits for the senate...get these old bumbs outta there, build the damn border fence, negotiate FAIR trade deals.

Demand Congress criminalize foreign lobbyist and gain control over corporate sweetheart deals in the halls of Congress.

114 posted on 12/16/2007 5:10:09 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: 2CAVTrooper
They save it so they can all give on one day. It’s nothing more than some childish publicity stunt by a desperate campaign of a senile old coot.

These "stunts" buy lots of free publicity.

115 posted on 12/16/2007 5:14:13 PM PST by Dumb_Ox (http://kevinjjones.blogspot.com)
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To: gunnyg

Funny that you as a veteran support that village idiot.

ron paul has voted against the military budget time and time again.

He has voted against pay raises for the military.

He has voted against improving quality of life for hte military.

He has voted against increases in veteran benefits such as healthcare, education and retirement.

He has voted against funding for critical equipment such as body armor.

He called our own military war criminals after Desert Storm.

He said that he was disappointed in that the clinton military cuts didn’t go deep enough.

ron paul has failed in his constitutionally mandated duties as a congressman under Article I Section 8 of the Constitution.

ron paul has stabbed our troops in the back and now wants to complete his betrayal by pulling the rug out from under them.


116 posted on 12/16/2007 5:15:26 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (ron paul has lied to YOU)
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To: West Coast Conservative

“But I am curious to why you criticize both?”

Because they’re not ron paulie girl cheerleaders


117 posted on 12/16/2007 5:16:51 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (ron paul has lied to YOU)
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To: 2CAVTrooper
Wow. Easy there. You sound like someone at the Kos railing on about how Bush is "EEEEEEEEVIL" and a "FASCIST" blah blah blah.

And how did howard dean do with all of that “grassroots” support he got?

And how did the grassrots do in '94 with the Republican Revolution?

Oh, thats right, they WON.

With people like YOU out there, why in God's name would a Paul supporter consider voting for the Republican nominee? You've called them kooks, fascists, white-supremecists, Code Pinkers, and a variety of other names.

Guess what, if the Republican candidate doesn't get their votes, they'll LOSE the general. And I won't blame them either, because people like YOU have tried their hardest to make them feel unwelcome in the GOP.

People are tired of Bush and all his broken promises, his baby steps towards socialized medicine, his failure on social security, and his abandonment of Republican principles. We don't Huckabee or any of the other big government Republicans, we don't want an ever expanding federal government stealing our liberties piece by piece.

I probably wont vote for Paul, I'm willing to compromise with Fred. But I completely understand why so many support Paul so fervently.

118 posted on 12/16/2007 5:32:26 PM PST by Bastiat_Fan
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To: JediHal

“$3.5 million today with 12,208 new donors.”

So?


119 posted on 12/16/2007 5:38:59 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (ron paul has lied to YOU)
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To: Bastiat_Fan

You’re wasting your time; he’s off his meds.


120 posted on 12/16/2007 5:40:00 PM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .....)
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