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[Ron] Paul Raises $6 Million in 24-Hour Effort [December 16, 2007]
breitbart.com ^ | December 16, 2007

Posted on 12/16/2007 10:43:13 PM PST by grundle

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul's supporters raised over $6 million Sunday to boost the 10-term Texas congressman's campaign for the White House.

Called a "Money Bomb," the goal was to raise as much money as possible on the Internet in one day. The campaign's previous fundraiser brought in $4.2 million.

At midnight EST, donations were over $6 million, according to the campaign Web site. Those donations are processed credit card receipts, said Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton. Benton said the median donation is about $50 in the fundraiser, which was the idea of Paul supporters who are not officially connected to the campaign.

Trevor Lyman, a Paul supporter who is traveling the country following the Ron Paul blimp, said the date of the fundraiser coincides with the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

The Ron Paul blimp is an aerial billboard emblazoned on one side with "Who is Ron Paul? Google Ron Paul." The other side reads "Ron Paul Revolution." The blimp, another grass-roots effort, was in Chester, S.C., on Sunday, and organizers hope to get it to New Hampshire before the Jan. 8 primary there.


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To: John D

How sad, you should teach your 25 year old son reading comprehension...


301 posted on 12/17/2007 11:23:38 AM PST by Dreddnafious
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To: dennisw

“We need oil idiot.”

Oh yeah, and we need big government to supply it, because all conservatives know the free market doesn’t work dont they???

What a crock. Some of you conservatives are nothing but DUmmies with a pro war stiffy. It’s really sad.


302 posted on 12/17/2007 11:27:25 AM PST by Dreddnafious
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To: Dreddnafious

What are you going to do. Snap your fingers and a genie from Saudi Arabia will supply it? You Paulistas are fools. Oil come from hard work these days. It’s not a simple matter of just paying some Arab. World politics and armies factor in/

You are so spoiled living in the USA. You can buy things anytime you want here. The geo-politics of oil is much different. It involves armies, militaries, nukes, raw power and raw politics


303 posted on 12/17/2007 11:35:25 AM PST by dennisw (Islam - "a transnational association of dangerous lunatics")
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To: ksen

You are a master at stinging together irrelevancies and thinking you have made a brilliant point. And I love that Switzerland riff you have. I read Harry Brown books years ago where he extolled the Swiss and their semi gold backed currency

73 years old is all Harry Browne got to for all his alleged brilliance. Such an über libertarian could surely figure out how to do better than that


304 posted on 12/17/2007 11:40:06 AM PST by dennisw (Islam - "a transnational association of dangerous lunatics")
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To: End Times Crusader

I have encountered three types of Paulites:
1) Libertarians (small or large L) who are primarily looking at Paul because they are for minimal government. They’re for Paul because the GOP had 1994-2006 in charge of Congress and failed to deliver the GOP promise of less government. I don’t think these will vote for Hillary. Usually they either vote Libertarian, Constitution Party, or GOP.

2) Anti-war Dims who are having an amusing time screwing about with the GOP primary process. They’re going to Paul also because they’re mad at Nancy Pelosi for not doing their bidding. These will vote for Hillary or any other Dim.

3) Angry “paleo-cons” who are just mad at ‘neo-con’ policies, want our troops on the border and not Iraq, hold ill feelings towards Israel, or are upset about ‘fiat currencies.’ (emphasis on ‘or’ there, usually it’s one of the above and not all). I have no idea what these guys will do. The people I know who fit this bill stayed home in ‘06.

IMO that’s two of three categories that fits some sort of conservative definition or at least are *not* natural Dim voters.

The sad thing is I can see Paul hanging on long enough that the nomination of a total RINO is inevitable, whereupon the groups 1) and 3) will decide that their fringe position is justified (rather than caused _by_) the fractured conservative vote.

If we could get all the conservatives pulling in one direction (preferably FRed IMO) we could get a candidate we could be proud of.


305 posted on 12/17/2007 11:46:52 AM PST by No.6 (www.fourthfightergroup.com)
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To: incindiary
You are simply incorrect, but if it makes you feel better somehow to think that Paul's support is all from the far fringes, then go ahead and believe the MSM BS that has been fed to you.

Essentially, if Giuliani and McCain had hired a gang of ill-mannered Internet bashers to go around slamming Ron Paul on public forums, I would expect their posts to sound just like the shallow, thuggish, anti-Paul comments on FR.

I don't know who these people are, but they aren't interested in "conserving" the Constitution. They sound like a bunch of defense industry lobbyists, concerned that if we stop fighting Islamic radicals for five minutes, a whole quarter's profits will be lost.

306 posted on 12/17/2007 11:50:38 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: dennisw

Ever heard of the free market? Look into it.


307 posted on 12/17/2007 11:55:20 AM PST by Dreddnafious
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To: miss print
a 1,000-person throng for the Santa Monica Tea Party

Perot got 20 million votes - and won no state.

308 posted on 12/17/2007 11:57:27 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Because we all know limited gov't and social conservatives would vote for Hillary, right?

Because Paul won't get enough votes. Not enough to win the primary, not enough to win in the electoral college.

309 posted on 12/17/2007 12:00:03 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Dreddnafious

There is nothing wrong with my son’s reading comprehension. He graduated at the top of his class. It is people who do know an anti-American coward when he makes public announcements stating so that is sad.


310 posted on 12/17/2007 12:05:54 PM PST by John D
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I am amazed at Ron Paul’s successful fund raising. His message is clearly consistent with his actions.
He has overwhelming grass root support for limited government, defending the Constitution, pro-life and protecting individual liberties. His position is even stronger than Perot’s because he is in a major party and there are apparently a flood of volunteers working to get him the nomination. Hopefully this will be a rebirth of Conservatism.


311 posted on 12/17/2007 12:06:24 PM PST by Barry Goldwater ("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!")
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To: cinives
And so lil kim is flirting with nukes as a way to neutralize us and take S. Korea..

In addition to power in general, yes. The alternative scenario is he would have used conventional weapons to kill millions and take S. Korea already and be on his way to Japan.

Peace through strength, weakness is provocative. These are basic brutal facts throughout history.

It's a false view to think we are the cause of tyrants escalation in arms. Of course we could easily avoid it: let Kim, and have let the Soviets, win militarily with lesser arms. But freedom and lives would have been lost.

This simplistic and I believe naive aspect of the Paul view is dangerous in this world we live in.

312 posted on 12/17/2007 12:08:25 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: rineaux
Thanks for your reply:

The wall came down in Berlin, maybe the same happens with Korea.

I think it's inevitable but then I have a hopeless confidence in the human spirit's will to be free.

I appreciate the strength of the S. Korean military. However, Kim has an amazing amount of first strike destruction aimed at Seoul. I believe the U.S. soldiers there have prevented him from firing them. Even if the South eventually won; the carnage would be inconceivable.

So, I disagree with the younger Koreans. Really appreciate your experience there...

313 posted on 12/17/2007 12:13:03 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: No.6

Good post, spot on analysis of the Paul Phenom, IMO..


314 posted on 12/17/2007 12:30:23 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: camerakid400
ME!!!

And quite a few others around the country if you haven't noticed.

315 posted on 12/17/2007 1:17:09 PM PST by MarcoPolo (Say yes to Dr. No!)
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To: D-fendr

You know, you need to get out more.

You still think N. Korea is all-powerful and S. Korea is weak. You need to take another look. Additionally, China would not support N.Korea if it tried to overrun S.Korea.

If we left S. Korea, the S. Koreans would decide whether they needed more military or their current troop/weapons level was adequate to contain N. Korea. They are a prosperous economy and could afford to protect their own country.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/08/goldwater_is_to_reagan_as_ron.html


316 posted on 12/17/2007 1:40:04 PM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: John D

well, i felt a bit bad putting your son out there like that, but i was following your lead. If your thought process is so binary as to separate the crowd into bomb first ask questions later, and “anti-american cowards” then he probably never had a chance. Environment plays a big role in intelligence.

Hopefully he’ll get out in the world a bit and expand his horizons beyond mealy mouthed fake patriots and sloganeers.

Best of luck to him, and you.


317 posted on 12/17/2007 2:08:57 PM PST by Dreddnafious
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To: D-fendr

I’m a firm believer in peace through strength as well. Oddly enough it brings me to support the opposite view that you take.

Strength is the ability to exert force, not the haphazard application of it.(IMHO)


318 posted on 12/17/2007 2:11:03 PM PST by Dreddnafious
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To: logician2u
I wonder how many of the newbies are aware that a sizable number of FReepers opposed the PATRIOT Act when it went through Congress without a single member having read the whole thing?

Heck, I remember a FreeRepublic that bashed Bill Clinton, for sending troops overseas with vague intentions and attacked him for blowing up terrorist targets. And this was AFTER the first terrorist attack on the WTC and the terrorist attacks on the Cole and Khobar Towers, so there goes the "9-11 changed anything" excuse.

Ron Paul's just saying the exact same thing Republicans have been saying for years. He just didn't change his story to avoid disagreeing with another Republican.

319 posted on 12/17/2007 2:18:25 PM PST by VirginiaConstitutionalist (Hold on, Hank Williams, Jr. I am not yet adequately prepared for some football.)
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To: D-fendr
Because Paul won't get enough votes. Not enough to win the primary, not enough to win in the electoral college. 309

Sure buddy, whatever you say.

320 posted on 12/17/2007 2:34:44 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Congratulations Brett Favre! All-time NFL leader in career passing yards)
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