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Ron Paul: It's Like He's Made of Money
Ron Paul a week ago called on his supporters: raise a fresh half a million before the end of the fundraising quarter (which ended just minutes ago as I write).
He raised the half million in three days, and then upped the ante: a cool million.
According to his web site as of this posting, he handily exceeded that new goal as well, ending up with $1,201,860.52 raised in a week. This ought to help generate some press attention, as well as being an impressive sign of widespread, and undimming, enthusiasm for his campaign.
Kurt|10.1.07 @ 12:19AM|#
And there's still time for people to donate in central, mountain & pacific. This baby ain't over!
|10.1.07 @ 12:29AM|#
We dont need the key - we'll break in. We will force the
controlled mainstream media to take notice. Ron Paul's campaign is
about shifting the power from the corporate controlled elites back
to the people whom this constitution is supposed to protect. I view
this campaign as the beginning to a revolution. People are so
dumbed down in this country that things may get much worse before
they get better. I hope that before that happens and before the
Neocons ruin us and turn this country into a police state that the
freedom movement will prevail peacefully.
we gotta take the power back
|10.1.07 @ 12:38AM|#
"And there's still time for people to donate in central,
mountain & pacific. This baby ain't over!"
So what counts is where the donor is sending from?
asg|10.1.07 @ 12:41AM|#
No, it means that the fundraising period ends at midnight, not midnight EST.
|10.1.07 @ 12:51AM|#
Hey Jordan Selvidge, it's cute quoting Rage Against the Machine, but you understand that Paul's ideology and theirs are almost polar opposites, right? Just checkin'.
Pace|10.1.07 @ 1:20AM|#
Reading this post, I felt compelled before midnight Pacific time
to make a donation. I have just donated $50 to Ron Paul.
Also, I will mention I am all the more enthusiastic because having
talked casually with family members and random people in the
nations capital over the weekend, people who had never heard of Ron
Paul, I have made some recent converts.
danb|10.1.07 @ 1:30AM|#
graph showing total over time.
http://www.chowda.net/fundraiser
there will be updates later
Ted|10.1.07 @ 1:41AM|#
I'm amazed, when I saw the fundraiser at $200,000 I thought
there was no way it could make it to $500,000.
I sent $25 anyway. Feels good.
|10.1.07 @ 1:57AM|#
I live the graph! Can you change the ratio by the hour? and
remove the constant? Then repost it.
Thanks
Luke|10.1.07 @ 2:30AM|#
Dear Reason Staff,
Why hasn't there been a peep about Paul's campaign in the print
version of your magazine? He's the best thing happening for
Libertarians right now ... He should be on the cover every month!
What gives?
Hope for America|10.1.07 @ 2:30AM|#
"Aggressive wars, income taxes, national IDs, domestic spying,
torture regimes, secret prisons, Federal Reserve manipulation -- we
don't have to take it any more."
~Ron Paul, candidate for President of the United States
|10.1.07 @ 2:41AM|#
I started a $100 million Pledge site for Paul
pledgebank dot com/Pauls-100mill
It might not make it but It might generate some PR even if I only
get several thousands.
Have fun see how many respond, sign on.
steve
|10.1.07 @ 3:23AM|#
I gave the 500 dollars that I hit on a Massachusetts scratch ticket to Ron Paul!! I wanted to keep 250.00 for myself but decided that what Ron paul is trying to do for our country is more important because without our freedom's what do we have?
|10.1.07 @ 3:57AM|#
No tax money, no lobbyist money, no union money, no foreign
money.
Ron's the first candidate who's ever gotten a campaign contribution
from me.
-jcr
Jason Nugent|10.1.07 @ 6:17AM|#
Ron Paul is the only candidate I would vote for, on either side of the aisle. I was not able to donate during this fundraising 'surge', but I will begin donating next month. $1.2 million in a week!? What other candidate can say they've done that with most of the donations coming from individuals who gave $200.00 or less? There's a lot more support for RP than the media is letting on.
|10.1.07 @ 6:35AM|#
Luke -
I'd speculate it mostly has to do with the fact that Ron Paul isn't
the best thing to happen to Libertarians. That if we were to give
him too much attention, it would highlight exactly how
un-libertarian Ron Paul really is and cause people to question us
along the lines of, "Oh you mean a libertarian LIKE RON PAUL?"
Untermensch|10.1.07 @ 7:14AM|#
Bradford C.-
Interesting response. Are you in favor then of a libertarian
ideologue who wouldn't get half the attention? I'm just curious
what you're getting at. For what it's worth, having people ask "Oh
you mean a libertarian LIKE RON PAUL?" is a lot better than what I
get today:
• What's a libertarian?
• You mean the guys who don't believe in roads?
• Aren't those the guys who believe in sexual excess? (from a
cousin who thought I'd said "libertine")
• So you're a John Bircher?" (I get this one a lot and I don't even
know where to start to answer anyone that misguided)
To me it looks like your dreaded response is a real step up, even
if RP isn't ideologically pure. I'd much rather answer
that question than any of those I listed above, so in my
estimation, RP is a great boon for actually engaging someone on
what libertarian ideas are, and I'd welcome anyone who would ask
that question. At least then they have some idea of what a
libertarian might be and then we can bring up where RP might differ
from a "purely" libertarian standpoint.
So bring on your problem...
Untermensch|10.1.07 @ 7:16AM|#
Aren't those the guys who believe in sexual excess?
I do realize that on this list, there will be many who would argue
this isn't such a bad definition, although they might disagree
whether "excess" is even possible, but I'll ignore that group…
|10.1.07 @ 8:35AM|#
Argh! Blech! $*&@^*^*^%(@!!
Giving to Paul is like donating directly to Al Qaeda! He'll cut and
run, and won't use government money to buy even a SINGLE NUKE. If
you're wondering, "Well, what will we bomb Iran with?", then you've
answered your own question.
Islamofascists, etc.
Oh, and 9/11.
(incoherent mumbling)
|10.1.07 @ 8:36AM|#
I sent money twice.
When have I done that before? Never.
It's worth it, if for nothing more than the entertainment
value.
Elemenope|10.1.07 @ 8:44AM|#
re:Bradford C.
I'd always thought of Ron Paul as a paleoconservative who, due to a
respect for the Constitution acted for the most part like a
Libertarian, and subordinated his paleo- (and occasionally
religious-) leanings to the restrictions outlined upon federal
powers.
Occasionally he slips, but he's pretty good on any metric I've seen
compared to any other seated politician in the US on what Libs tend
to care about. What is the point of waiting for a "true" lib
politician who is too extreme to get elected? Ron Paul is pretty
close to the edge as it is.
|10.1.07 @ 8:46AM|#
I'd rather give $100 to a losing Ron Paul than $1 to a winning
Rudy McRomThompson.
It's a question of morals which, for you bible thumpers out there,
do exist outside of Theology...
Sean|10.1.07 @ 8:53AM|#
My girlfriend and I both donated 150 this past week and got to see our names pop up on the site!!
Edwards|10.1.07 @ 9:19AM|#
I knew there were some idiots on this site, but this takes the cake. I'm through with you nutjobs.
|10.1.07 @ 9:23AM|#
RON PAUL is the real deal. This is it folks. Anyone not on board
with the PAUL in 08 campaign at this point, is an enemy of
liberty.
Ron Paul will change the political establishment. He already has.
Big piles of cash simply can't be ignored. Indeed piles of cash may
be the only thing the establishment truly cares about.
Ron Paul has got their attention. And his grass roots support gives
him credibility that other politicians don't dare dreaming
about.
RON PAUL is the HOPE FOR AMERICA
Be part of it, or be part of the problem.
|10.1.07 @ 9:28AM|#
First time ever donated to a candidate or even gave a SH#% about
the people in congress. THEY ARE ALL LAIRS! exp. Ron Paul it felt
good go give money to the right person.
RUN RON RUN!!!
|10.1.07 @ 9:28AM|#
Anyone not on board with the PAUL in 08 campaign at this
point, is an enemy of liberty.
I'm on board with Ron Paul, but that statement smacks of "If your
not with us, you're against us" nonsense. Besides which, I just
don't think RP would agree.
Let's refrain from stooping to the level of the opposition, shall
we?
|10.1.07 @ 9:37AM|#
Ron Paul is the first candidate to ever see a dime ($100) from
me.
As a far as libertarian purity test results go I'm sure in the
libertarian utopia Ron Paul would be considered on the right and
the LP would be more on the left.
If Ron Paul is as far a compromise that has to be made to return a
defender of The Constitution,liberty,sovereignty and sanity to the
White House. I for one am not going to lose any sleep. Well I won't
lose any from worry. Giddiness maybe but not worry.
robc|10.1.07 @ 9:44AM|#
I knew there were some idiots on this site, but this takes
the cake. I'm through with you nutjobs.
Edward, you are a liar.
robc|10.1.07 @ 9:46AM|#
Taktix,
It's a question of morals which, for you bible thumpers out
there, do exist outside of Theology
Ron Paul is a gift from God, so it still falls under theology.
:)
|10.1.07 @ 9:58AM|#
Oh come on folks, that wasn't the real edward. After all, how many people miss-spell their own name?
|10.1.07 @ 9:59AM|#
Smappy,
It's a fair cop. Allow me to revise and extend. The usual suspects
for not supporting a libertarian candidate for office, do not apply
to Ron Paul.
He is a serious candidate with serious support. Claims to his
"loonyness" are disingenuous. The rest of the supposedly more
acceptable candidates are also "loony".
I find no legitimate reasons for a libertarian not to support RON
PAUL. I do find his nay sayers to be LINOs
Tom W|10.1.07 @ 10:00AM|#
What I want to know is how we're going to channel all of this
just enthusiasm for Ron into real and lasting political change. We
need Ron Paul-style candidates running in every Congressional
district. I'm active in the RLC (rlc.org), which is one way of
organizing libertarian Republicans.
And ditto what Smappy said, about Paulistas ranting 'him what is
not my friend is my enemy' and all that.
Tom W|10.1.07 @ 10:04AM|#
Also, I do agree with Warren's followup, about wanting the perfect so badly so you become an enemy of the good.
libertreee|10.1.07 @ 10:04AM|#
Dear Reason Staff,
Why hasn't there been a peep about Paul's campaign in the print version of your magazine? He's the best thing happening for Libertarians right now ... He should be on the cover every month! What gives?
Actually, IMHO, you should be ragging on Cato. They seem to have it
against Ron Paul so far. They did on puff piece on Fred Thompson
because he is supposed to be so "frederalist" while dissing Ron
Paul, who is supposed to be "too interested in the Iraq war" to be
concerned about "domestic" issues.
No wonder Murray Rothbard broke with Ed Crane.
|10.1.07 @ 10:08AM|#
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|10.1.07 @ 10:15AM|#
Ron Paul is the only candidate I would ever donate money to, take a bullet for(yes even if that means I die and he lives), or actually have real faith in what he is starting. Im actually going to feel great voting for him. He's too important to this country to pass up.
|10.1.07 @ 10:18AM|#
Dear Reason Staff,
Why hasn't there been a peep about Paul's campaign in the print
version of your magazine? He's the best thing happening for
Libertarians right now ... He should be on the cover every month!
What gives?
I seem to remember this coming up in a previous thread.
From what I recall (staff, correct me if I'm wrong), Reason would
lose it's status under election law or whatever if they advocate
for a specific candidate, rather than merely advocating for certain
issues.
Any help here would be, well... helpful.
|10.1.07 @ 10:30AM|#
Reason would lose it's status under election law or whatever
if they advocate for a specific candidate
Whatever. Reason has written many article about many politicians. A
Ron Paul piece would be desirable. I hope to see one in the January
issue, just ahead of the primaries.
|10.1.07 @ 10:37AM|#
And Perot thought the great sucking sound was coming from Mexico
-- close it was southern Texas as libertarians part of their funds.
Millions raised but far, far less being spent in the reports I see.
Sitting down in the low single digits and the money flows in but
for what? I suggest they will find that they are financing a
Congressional race when Paul drops out not a presidential race as
they assume. Second, I suggest even then a huge amount of money
will be left over and then what will he do it with it? Meanwhile
actual libertarian organizations that have worked hard for years
are hurting.
And why do people now think libertarians are Birchers? Ask Ron and
his proBirch Society positions and his repeating in public of Birch
Society paranoid conspiracy theories. Paul is as close to a Bircher
in Congress as one has today. But since libertarians is now being
equated with Bircher theories, anti-immigration nativism,
opposition to separation of church and state, anti-abortion
activism, etc., the confusion is warranted. Libertarians brought it
on themselves in this case.
Millions that would have helped the long-term changes required to
promote a libertarian society will be consumed in a
flash-in-the-pan campaign. And since many donors are taping
themselves out heavily now they won't be able to help libertarian
groups for sometime to come. The long term damage will be
immense.
Tom W|10.1.07 @ 10:57AM|#
Reason giving fair coverage of RP is not the same as an
endorsement. As a longtime fan of both reason and RP, I'd love to
see Ron's mug on the cover. It would surely burn up the newsstands.
All the Paulestinians and other interested parties would snatch it
up off the shelves faster than you can say New World Order (and be
exposed to libertarian ideas in unadulterated form, hint
hint).
The Reason Foundation, being a nonprofit, certainly cannot endorse
a candidate. I don't know if there are any strings attached to the
magazine because of this.
The beltway libertarian/free market nonprofits are likewise unable
to endorse a candidate due to their legal status. I also think they
tend to distance themselves from Ron Paul's attacks on CAFTA and
the non-existent NAU, although many individual staff support him
100% on their own time.
A friend who works at an unnamed policy institute says all
right-of-center think tanks are worried about Clinton II
potentially sending the IRS to audit them.
> From what I recall (staff, correct me if I'm wrong), Reason
would lose it's status under election law or whatever if they
advocate for a specific candidate, rather than merely advocating
for certain issues.
|10.1.07 @ 11:14AM|#
# JParker | October 1, 2007, 9:37am | #
# Ron Paul is the first candidate to ever
# see a dime ($100) from me.
Last time I looked, today's "dollar" was worth only about 3 cents
in pre-Federal Reserve dollars. So that means you gave Dr. Paul the
equivalent of several dimes in "real money," but not all that
many.
My wife has had a Series 1934 ten dollar bill in a shoebox for a
long time. The other day, she pulled it out and we looked at it.
From a distance, it looks pretty much like the "small portrait"
ten-spot we had before the recent redesign. But looking at it up
close, we saw significant differences. At the bottom of the note,
for instance, it says "(the United States of America, named at the
top of the bill) will pay to the bearer on demand TEN DOLLARS." The
"fine print" message in the top-left region of the front of the
bill says, "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and
private, and is redeemable in lawful money at the United States
Treasury, or at any Federal Reserve Bank." (This wasn't a "silver
certificate," by the way.)
That is to say, in 1934, paper notes STOOD FOR money. Today,
however, while the Federal Reserve notes remain "legal tender for
all debts, public and private," they declare themsevles AS money.
There is no promise to exchange the notes for "lawful money" (or
any other kind of money, for that matter). The piece of paper is
what you get. If you go to the Fed or the Treasury and offer up
Federal Reserve Notes, you can get more (different) notes, or coins
in exchange. The change has taken place within the lifetimes of
many people who are still living and alert. It's been strange to
watch it happen.
|10.1.07 @ 11:19AM|#
depressed,
Snap out of it! The fact that he's sitting on millions of dollars
is what counts. I don't give a rats ass what he spends it on. He
can take my contributions and buy a south pacific island for all I
care. He has done more than enough already to make it worth
supporting him.
You need some perspective on the Birchers thing. The only people
who see Ron Paul as a conspiracies supporter are other conspiracy
supporters. I see no evidence for your claim that "people now think
libertarians are Birchers".
Your lamenting of Ron Paul diverting funds and efforts better spent
elsewhere, really leaves me scratching my head. I've been a
Libertarian activist for the past twenty five years. Ron Paul's
candidacy is the most exciting libertarian development I've ever
seen. All the efforts to bring about "long-term changes required to
promote a libertarian society" are going to be much better severed
by this "flash-in-the-pan" campaign than all the ballot issues and
LP members on the school board put together.
sadcox|10.1.07 @ 12:33PM|#
Sean Hannity implied that it was actually 1,201,860.52 donating
the same dollar over and over.
Nothing to see here...
|10.1.07 @ 12:38PM|#
Yo, depressed. You are way off base. Money to Ron Paul is not
coming at the expense of the Libertarian movement. If anything, the
heightened exposure of Ron Paul will enhance the cause and bring
more people (and money) to the fold. Regular people, not the ones
who populate this site but the ones who pick up your trash or fit
you for eyeglasses, are dissatisfied with the whole lot of
candidates on both sides and are looking for an alternative. Having
a candidate in a major party who so closely mirrors Libertarianism
can only be a boon.
Here's a question that's been nagging -- how many of you folks who
support Ron Paul have actually made the effort to join the
Republican Party? He not only needs your money -- he needs your
vote in the primary.
sadcox|10.1.07 @ 12:39PM|#
Dammit! Screwed that joke up...should have read:
"Sean Hannity implied that it was actually one person donating the
same dollar 1,201,860.52 times."
|10.1.07 @ 12:48PM|#
Ron Paul makes a far better definition of libertarian than Eric
Dondero every would. That people think he isn't libertarian just
shows how rigid the purists have made the definition.
Ron Paul is a libertarian because his basic political philosophy is
minimalist government and maximal freedom. He wants radical
slashing of taxes, radical slashing of regulations, abolishing the
bureaucratic monoliths in DC, stop the drug war, stop the poverty
war, stop the Iraq war.
Heres some shockers: You can be a libertarian and not be an
atheist! You can be a libertarian and not an anarchist! You can be
a libertarian and not be an Objectivist. You can be a libertarian
and not be 100% Rothbard Pure™.
|10.1.07 @ 12:55PM|#
Technically, it ran from noon Monday to midnight Sunday, and that's 12 hours less than a full week.
|10.1.07 @ 12:57PM|#
Not bad for a guy who the MSM says "can't win".
Freedom does work. People know it. AND people will vote for
it!
Thank goodness for Paul and Kucinich with the four "front runners"
Clinton, Obama, Romney, and Giuliani saying last week that they
would NOT be out of Iraq by the end of their terms if these 4 were
to win next November. Also with these four Iraq would be off the
table in any future debates after the conventions.
What a crazy world when these 4 are the "front runners" and 2/3 of
America want us out quickly! What do they know? What polls are they
reading?
Go Ron Paul!
Ernest Hancock|10.1.07 @ 12:59PM|#
Newspapers are soooo last century. I have 4 children 17 - 22 and
they don't even know what channel the news stations are on but they
are well informed via the Internet. If you are so worried about
convincing those that helped vote us into this mess to admit their
many mistakes and support Ron Paul, then you'll have to do it with
a lot more than TV coverage from the beast's belly. Quit your damn
complaining and communicate directly with the people (signs,
shirts, fliers, events, Pauloween, take Ron Paul home for the
holidays with a nice DVD package for Mom and Dad etc) the bad guys
hate this because they know that the truth is very difficult to be
unlearned.
The media effort is focused to place fear and doubt into the minds
of Ron Paul's supporters. What they didn't count on were so many
activists with the mission of a true r3VOLution between the ears of
the American people, and the political process is just a
tool.
Computerized vote totals and massaged polls are nothing more than
Matrix controls used to distract us from the truth about every
effort to enslave us and our children for the benefit of
"they/them/those".
Want to know who "They" are? Simple. 'There are those that wish to
be left alone and there are those that will not leave them alone'.
Determining who the bad guys are is much simpler than most think.
If another is using force and/or the threat of force to prevent you
from doing something or making you do something while you are not
violating another's rights then they are the bad guys. And those
that help them via communications (media) are also the bad guys.
And bad guys are not going to help good guys (that's one of the
easy ways to determine that they are bad).
A single sign on the freeway will communicate to hundreds of
thousands of people each rush hour. Some of the most successful
national talk radio shows are thrilled to have 20,000 listeners in
a big city. Just something to think about.
|10.1.07 @ 1:06PM|#
In the list of reactions/questions people have when they say you
are libertarian, you forgot"
"Libertarian? You mean you're like that Lyndon LaRouche guy??
|10.1.07 @ 1:08PM|#
I too, disagree with Ron Paul on some issues. But I agree with him 90% of the time, and agree with "mainstream" candidates about 10% of the time, so I'm not going to bitch about it.
Egosumabbas|10.1.07 @ 1:20PM|#
To all the Libertarians out there, I'm going to say something controversial. The LP is Dead Man Walking. This is due to the way that our government in the US is constructed at all levels: along two-party lines (sometimes just a single party, like in Chicago). If the US had a parliamentary style government, the LP would have some hope of gaining traction. As it stands, the *only* way big-and-small-L libertarians can gain traction is within the two-party system. I can see two candidates fitting this bill in the primaries: Ron Paul, and Mike Gravel. Since Ron Paul has much greater Vegas Odds right now, and several orders of magnitude more money, he's the man to support. The Democrat and Republican parties are just socio-political constructs - their positions shift all the time; left vs. right and conservative vs. liberal are all just smoke and mirrors. All thats needed is to infiltrate one (or both).
|10.1.07 @ 1:48PM|#
Ron Paul is the best thing to happen to Big-L Libertarians in a
long time.
The MSM has repeated the word "Libertarian" so many times, that
people are really starting to notice. While they mean it as a
smear, their audience doesn't even know what it means. This gives
us a huge opportunity to step in and provide that definition.
Ron Paul is not 100% Libertarian - true. He's not even 100%
libertarian. But he is so much closser to it than anyone else
running that we'd be fools not to support him with every asset we
can muster.
The GOP is weak right now, due to people being lied to consistantly
by the neocons. My own Mother (who was 100% in *love* with Dubya
only 4 years ago) now hates him. The GOP stabbed their base in the
back, on the assumption that they would not have anywhere else to
go.
The GOP is seriously under-manned, and we can take it over - in the
same way that Pat Buchanan took over the remnants of the reform
party in 2000.
It's too early to know for sure, but we may be witnessing the
demise of the GOP, just as the whigs crumbled in the 1850s.
Register Republican, go to the meetings, and takeover their
conventions.
Later.
|10.1.07 @ 1:52PM|#
I subscribe to Google Alerts for all the Republican candidates
and a couple of the democratic candidates. I spend many fun hours
reading all the articles, blogs on the candidates and on all the
comments and post. It blows me away how many people post comments
on articles and blogs on Ron Paul... it can take an hour to read
them all. On all the other candidates especially Fred Thompson it
takes 3 minutes to read the couple of comments.
This says something to me.
I like so many others out there have never contributed to a
presidential candidate until I contributed my hard earned money to
Ron Paul. I have made 2 donations and will donate money every month
out of my retirement check until I max out.
In 60 years I have never seen this kind of a person run for
President. If Dr. Paul does not get elected I have contingency
plans to move to Panama and leave this police state behind.
I just pray that America wakes up and learns the truth. I also
agree that the RP campaign should come out with a quality 20 or 30
minute DVD and get them out to the people to pass around. I get
most of my news on the Internet and I refused to watch FOX news
network. I however do like Prison Break....
Go Ron Paul and may
Egosumabbas|10.1.07 @ 2:00PM|#
collin28: There is an unofficial dvd that you can either
purchase or download and burn.
http://ronpauldvd.com/
It's not the highest quality, since it's videos taken off the
internet, but it will have to do until the campaign headquarters
releases their own DVD.
Also I'm totally with ya on the contingency plans.
Manqusso|10.1.07 @ 2:20PM|#
Go Ron! From L.A. to N.Y. I will help get out your message! God bless you sir!
|10.1.07 @ 2:38PM|#
Ron Paul has done more for the libertarian movement in the few
months of his run than all the LP campaigns and libertarian think
tanks have ever done. This will not take away from the libertarian
movement it will enhance it! This will promote libertarian ideals,
think tanks, scholars and perhaps the Libertarian Party!
For the first time there is actual and real momentum behind a
candidate advocating ending whole federal departments, ending the
IRS and Social Security, ending the War on Drugs, respecting the
Constitution, and many other libertarian positions. Sure Ron Paul
is not a "pure" libertarian whatever that means. I agree with many,
many planks of the libertarian movement but 100% of them no. Taht
100% candidate does no exist! Some comments here suggest that
because of some differences you would not support a candidate like
Ron Paul? This is the same line of thinking that causes some
libertarians to not support a bill legalizing marijuana if it
includes taxation of marijuana. In my opinion a large step towards
ending the prohibition trumps the details of such a bill.
A strong showing for Ron Paul in this primary season will show
better than any scholarly book, think tank paper, or third party
run that the general ideas of liberty and freedom are still popular
and practical in the country today!
I sent Ron Paul the maximum contribution proudly as well as
supporting Cato, Reason, the LP, and other causes throughout the
years and I urge all libertarian minded people to put aside small
differences with various stances and get behind this candidate!
|10.1.07 @ 4:08PM|#
Just tuned into CNN doing a story on how all the D's and R's did fundraising this quarter. They mentioned EVERYBODY BUT Ron Paul and his amazing fund raising this week. Even McCain and Huckabee were discussed. Flood them with complaints!
|10.1.07 @ 9:03PM|#
# Mitch C | October 1, 2007, 4:08pm | #
# Just tuned into CNN doing a story on how all
# the D's and R's did fundraising this
# quarter. They mentioned EVERYBODY BUT Ron
# Paul and his amazing fund raising this week.
# Even McCain and Huckabee were discussed.
Yeah, I picked up on that last night. RP's fundraising surge should
have been big news -- or at least SOME news. At the time, I chalked
it up to the networks running canned reports on the weekends. But
if the 24-hour news networks haven't caught up to this piece of
information by now, then they're simply not doing their jobs.
I observe that even Libertarian Party candidates get some
"coverage" on news networks where they advertise. So perhaps we'll
start hearing about RP when he starts spending some of his warchest
with the networks who are now ignoring him. It would be wonderful
if he would start by spending money with any outlets that reported
this weekend's news while it was still fresh. Perhaps the others
would get a clue.
Steven Talcott Smith|10.2.07 @ 1:20PM|#
The longtime problem with Libertarian-style politics is an
over-obsession with doctrinal purity. It is the habit of
left-brain, iNtuitive Thinkers, and the type of interaction
typically observed among their numbers are a turnoff to many.
Ron Paul's campaign is the best thing to happen to this movement
which now crosses so many party lines. Think of all the young
people being introduced to these ideas! Many future politicians are
undergoing formative experience right now. Get in and get
involved.
This rising tide will lift all Libertarian boats and will move the
political discussion decidedly in our direction along the
libertarian/authoritarian axis where it belongs. Online political
discussion seems always to reduce to this axis and it was only a
matter of time before we would ride the Internet to broader
popularity. The present administration simply handed us a golden
strategic opportunity and Ron Paul was courageous enough to take
it. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event. In your heart, you know
it.
|10.3.07 @ 1:35PM|#
Although Ron Paul might not be considered a full libertarian, he is a self-described constitutionalist (and his record backs certainly backs it up). Perhaps Reason could do an article highlighting the many similarities between Paul's positions and those of libertarians, which would have the effect of showing how libertarians, moreso than either the Republicans or Democrats, have a platform closest to that of the Constitution.
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