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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

On Nov. 5, supporters of Ron Paul raked in more than $4.2 million in donations in 24 hours, mostly of them collected over the Internet.

Today, they're at it again. Hoping to detonate what they call a "money bomb," the supporters started fundraising at midnight Saturday and have already raised $2 million as of about 10:30 a.m. today, more than at this point on Nov. 5, according to figures they posted online. They hope to collect a total of $10 million by midnight Sunday.

Last time, they tied their fundraising to Guy Fawkes Day, which commemorates a British mercenary who tried unsuccesfully to kill King James I on Nov. 5, 1605. This time, they're seizing on the 234th aniversary of the Boston Tea Party and converging on this snowy city to rally.

They plan on gathering on the State House steps at 1 p.m. and parading down to Faneuil Hall, where they will listen to speeches in tune with Paul's libertarian platform. Speakers will include the Republican presidential candidate's son, Dr. Rand Paul, an eye surgeon, and Carla Howell, the libertarian who ran unsuccesfully for governor in 2002.

There are also plans to dump some tea (or at least some boxes labeled tea) into the Harbor, though the details were still sketchy as of this morning.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


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To: cowdog77

http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block88.html


201 posted on 12/17/2007 8:21:53 AM PST by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: CJ Wolf
She would have to run turd party to even be in the nov election is my point.

I agree with that. Meanwhile, Ron Paul continues to benefit from her desperate 3-party strategy, is my point.

202 posted on 12/17/2007 8:25:39 AM PST by Migraine (...diversity is great... until it happens to YOU...)
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To: rineaux

YAWN!! A fool and his money are soon parted


203 posted on 12/17/2007 8:30:56 AM PST by TexasMatty (No More aPAULogist, http://www.chrispeden.org/ !!!)
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To: traviskicks

What an eye opener. We really give away too much money with little if nothing in return.


204 posted on 12/17/2007 8:59:08 AM PST by rineaux (How dare you, how dare you question the Clinton's wrecked record.)
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To: Migraine

So you think hillary would run turd party if she didn’t get the nomination? As a sitting Dem Senator?


205 posted on 12/17/2007 9:04:50 AM PST by CJ Wolf (The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens pay nearly half of everything they earn)
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To: traviskicks; billbears; rineaux; dcwusmc; Extremely Extreme Extremist; George W. Bush; ...
Paul supporter or not; check out this touching painting of Dr. Paul holding a newborn wrapped in our American flag. (I would have posting the image, but I'm not very good at that...)
206 posted on 12/17/2007 10:07:57 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: who knows what evil?

Not good at posting images as well. Need a refresher course.

Thank you for the link. Great picture.

***they must consider and evaluate all points of view. In this way, they themselves can decide what opinions to adopt, what to dismiss and ultimately how to create a world view as individual as they are.***

Very good advice.


207 posted on 12/17/2007 10:12:44 AM PST by rineaux (How dare you, how dare you question the Clinton's wrecked record.)
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To: CJ Wolf
So you think hillary would run turd party if she didn’t get the nomination? As a sitting Dem Senator?

No, I don't think that. I think you misunderstand. SHE doesn't know yet that she's going to lose the nomination, so she's diligently covering the necessary bases, one of which is to make sure there is a 3rd party on the right, just in case she DOES get the nom. Meanwhile, any 3rd party she can egg Ron Paul into will help whoever DOES get the dem nom to get elected in the gen. Yes, I am speculating. So are we all, when it comes to anything beyond today.

208 posted on 12/17/2007 10:25:03 AM PST by Migraine (...diversity is great... until it happens to YOU...)
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To: pupdog

You don’t live in Texas, so piss off.


209 posted on 12/17/2007 11:21:20 AM PST by TexasMatty (No More aPAULogist, http://www.chrispeden.org/ !!!)
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To: who knows what evil?; traviskicks; billbears; dcwusmc; Extremely Extreme Extremist; ...

You guys read this article? Positive on Paul.

http://www.nolanchart.com/article561.html


210 posted on 12/17/2007 12:10:57 PM PST by rineaux (How dare you, how dare you question the Clinton's wrecked record.)
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To: rineaux; traviskicks; dcwusmc; Extremely Extreme Extremist
Today's funny

Tax Hike Mike made a non political commercial. Hmmmmmm....I remember another candidate that's already done that. Can you guess which one will be shown on Fox more than once? He'lll probably even be praised for it. Course Dr. Paul's supporters aren't trying to have a 'money bomb' on Christmas Day either.

211 posted on 12/17/2007 12:34:21 PM PST by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: billbears

Not being bias here, but Mike is acting in his Christmas video, RP’s was really heart felt.

The Huck staff is taking notes from the RP supporters and using them as their own. Its time for the RP staff to really step up to the plate and get his message out.


212 posted on 12/17/2007 12:54:42 PM PST by rineaux (How dare you, how dare you question the Clinton's wrecked record.)
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To: rineaux

The young lady that painted that has released it into ‘public domain’, so feel free to share with as many as you wish.


213 posted on 12/17/2007 1:38:16 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: marsh_of_mists
Thanks for reminding me about the horns growing out of their heads. I had forgotten.Now, let me remind you of the ''Bats in their Brains''!
214 posted on 12/17/2007 2:27:36 PM PST by Bush gal in LA (Don't tread on the Fred! ''Fred Thompson 2008!'')
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To: Bush gal in LA

That picture isn’t representative of the Paul supporters as a whole.


215 posted on 12/17/2007 2:33:28 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Congratulations Brett Favre! All-time NFL leader in career passing yards)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
‘’That picture isn’t representative of the Paul supporters as a whole.’’,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Maybe not, but consider this, if I were to come over to your house and offer you an apple pie that I had just baked, and mentioned, by the way my kids were playing near where I was baking, and happened to spill some mud from the sewer in it by accident. But don’t worry it only got on a little piece of the pie. Would you still eat the pie after I left or throw the whole thing out? I know what I would do.,,,,,,That’s why Ron Paul will not win..........
216 posted on 12/17/2007 3:09:48 PM PST by Bush gal in LA (Don't tread on the Fred! ''Fred Thompson 2008!'')
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To: Bush gal in LA
I bake an apple pie, and set it on my window sill, and among the clean-cut people who show up, you get a few unshaven misfits.

Think of the apple pie as Dr. Paul's message, which is attracting everyone from all backgrounds and beliefs. Yes, there are nutjobs who support Paul, but is Paul actively courting them?

If Paul told them not to support him, he'd be going against everything he has espoused over the last 30 years.

217 posted on 12/17/2007 3:17:52 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Congratulations Brett Favre! All-time NFL leader in career passing yards)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The BushBots will never get the fact that this isn’t at all about Ron Paul winning the election. I suspect a win for him would consist of getting his message across to the eventual GOP candidate along with having the passion of his supporters taken seriously. Some of us haven’t been taken seriously for about 8 years now - just taken for granted.


218 posted on 12/17/2007 3:56:15 PM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .....)
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To: marsh_of_mists

Oh a ron paulie girl telling ME to get MY facts straight?

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!

Sure thing cupcake, just as soon as you p’tards start getting YOURS straight.


219 posted on 12/17/2007 3:59:27 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (ron paul has lied to YOU)
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To: billbears

“Big difference. Dean’s support, while grassroots, was driven by the campaign. This is not”

Bullsh*t!

EVERYTHING is being carefully orchistrated by the village idiot’s own handlers.

“Republicans have created a lot of p#ssed off conservatives who finally have a candidate saying what we’ve been saying for at least 20 years.”

More bullsh*t.

IF and that’s a huge IF “conservatives” were as “pissed off” as you claim, then your little village idiot would be polling at 90% or better. The problem is is that a vast majority of the village idiot’s support are not “conservatives” because they are cross overs from the hillary camp who have ZERO intention of voting for that senile hick in the general election IF he gets nominated.

“So a candidate whose message is freedom and liberty you compare to one of the most statist governments of the 20th century.”

From a friend of mine:
“ron paul is a charlatan... a snake oil salesman with an American flag label on the “cure-all” bottles with “We the People” scrawled across them. Every time I see him speak, I’m waiting for Josey Wales to walk up to his podium and spit tobacco juice on his lapel.”

I’d show you where your heerow has lied to you and your fellow sheeple, but I would be wasting my time since your blinders prevent you from seeing the truth.

So keep on chugging that koolaid that your false idol has been giving you.


220 posted on 12/17/2007 4:15:14 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (ron paul has lied to YOU)
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