"Ron Paul Smashes Record With $6 Million Plus Haul; Expect hit pieces to go into overdrive as media tries to spin momentous day" by Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Monday, December 17, 2007
Ron Paul has smashed the all-time record for political donations on one day, beating John Kerry's previous effort as he hauled in over $6 million dollars during a 24-hour period that coincided with the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. The true figure could even tally up to near $7 million once all donations have been fully processed.
As of 12 Midnight EST, Paul campaign headquarters confirmed the total to be over $6 million while others had the figure at around $6.4 million. That total just represents processed credit card donations. The final total is likely to be closer to $7 million once checks, Paypal e-checks, and money orders are fully processed.
At 6am CST, several news agencies such as Reuters were still reporting that Paul had raised just $4.5 million, which is a little odd considering the fact that writers are employed around the clock. Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton confirmed that the average donation was around $50 dollars. Over 107,000 individual donors contributed to the sum of almost $18 million for the quarter and counting.
The Congressman is on course to quadruple his fundraising in comparison to the $5.1 million raised during the third quarter which itself was a doubling of the second quarter total.
We now expect the media spin machine to go into overdrive and hit pieces to swarm in the final week before Christmas.
An early CNN report on the record breaking fundraiser still sardonically refers to Paul as a "long shot" and fails to underline the true significance of yesterday's watershed and history making events.
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Nolan Chart
Monday December 17, 2007
Ron Paul celebrated the Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party by raising more than $6.0 million by 8:30 PM pacific time. He has already beaten his own record for the highest fundraising drive of any GOP candidate ever and, at $17 million and counting, he will probably be the best-funded Republican candidate in the 4th quarter. By the stroke of midnight, more veterans, homeowners, businesspeople, and families donated to Ron Paul's campaign than to any other campaign on any single day in history.
What this says about power dynamics:
An imposing new band of political allies have formed to take back the GOP. The Old Conservatives have returnedfor another battle over the Barry Goldwater / Jerry Falwell divide, including Goldwater the younger. We witnessed American mayors, wall-street traders, and quick-witted Texas judges open their pocketbooks to end neoconservative influence on the Old Conservative wing. In addition, the two youngest voter generations who will suffer the consequences of governmental largess are tipping this old balance of power.
Generation X is under fourty-five but they are coming into power. Their parents' obstinant polarization has become a burden. The government has already sold their their Social Security Trust to China and sent them to fight a preemptive war on a half-baked theory. Now it is taxing their own children before they are already born. They can only secure their future if they discipline the federal government's monetary diet and eliminate its incompetance.
Also, the college-aged generation has risen from its helplessness-induced lull to give the old political machine a proper sendoff. Paul convinced them that they don't have to be Democrats to be right, they just have to think more Republican than the GOP. They know the federal government compromises their freedom becase it can't deliver on what it promises.
Entire states may follow suit. Unlike many of Ron Paul's opponents, he is leading in at least one state. In Alska the citizens make the state pay them for the privilege of governing. Many other states already feel the crunch of federal mismanagement and they are taking increasingly devolutionary positions.
What this means for Ron Paul:
Ron Paul has already won huge. For his entire political career he has stayed fast to a core principle of governance while his colleagues buckled under the fear of party ostracization. So he took this chance to make his case in front of the public and he won, big time. His campaign did not have an infrastructure or an endowment. He sold only an idea when he motivated hundreds of thousands of people to volunteer their time and donate $23 million over the course of his campaign.
His supporters have also freed him. Just as Nelson Mandela had to be liberated in order to liberate, Paul's ideas ideas of conervatism had to be broken from the bondage of a below-average media and Washingtonian groupthink. To do it he didn't need to convince people that he would be a perfect leader, but that they are better fit to lead themselves. (that's right, I compared him to Mandela.
This is a measurable defeat for Ron Paul's opponents. They locked up inside all day, away from the press. Now they will badger their staffs about the internets and try to invigorate their bases by kicking them harder. They will regret every flip-flop, every public equivocation, and every soul-selling vote- If for no other reason, then because they envy Paul's spending power. (Except Romney who donates to himself).
No doubt, they will all misunderstand this victory as well. They will surely strategize to harness the grass roots. They will search for ways to reconcile a new platform of honesty and public empowerment with their own political ambitions, but they wil miss the point: you cannot pick this new demographic, it picks you.
Regardless of whether Ron Paul is the next President, he has taught hundreds of thousands (see the donations) of Americans that they need not tolerate secrecy and incompetence from a government that is prostituted to special interests. These Americans will be the new politicians in the next ten years. They already have vast networks of passionate, educated supporters united under common causes. The state GOP infrastructures will be wise not to stand in their way. Soon this will nudge-out an entire generation of spineless Washington indoctrination. Many of those who will campaign on Paul's political platform will communicate it with even brighter, more articulate, and more compelling zeal than he. They will be his legacy.
Paul's Constitutionalist platform has become the new populism. In this new era of information exchange, people can finally flourish. Today they proved they can circumvent the media cartel to choose their own front-runner. They have mandated that he discipline their government for violating the terms of its license to exist For their authority they need not cite articles, nor sections, nor amendments. They will invoke their power under the first three words of the Constitution.
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"The Big(ger) Story: Ron Paul Passes 100,000 Individual Donors for the Fourth Quarter"
"Would Ron Paul Be Endorsed by the Founding Fathers? Lawyer Says Yes
PRWEB
Sunday December 16, 2007
December 16, 2007 -- LawyerUCLA.com currently serves as a directory for over 6,000 lawyers across the United States. And when it comes to the 2008 presidential election, the website has decided not to keep quiet -- making a firm case for Ron Paul.
Ron Paul, self proclaimed champion of the Constitution, is a 10-term congressman from Texas.
According to the statistics provided on their website, 61 percent of the mentions of the Constitution at the 2008 presidential debates were made by Ron Paul himself, despite being a candidate that has not been given a fair amount of time to speak.
Assuming 10 total candidates, 39 percent of the references to the Constitution would be divided among the nine other candidates. If the total number of references were to be split evenly across the rest of the candidates, each candidate would roughly only contribute to 4.3 percent of the Constitutional mentions. So this means that Ron Paul is 14 times more likely to utter the words of the Constitution than the average candidate.
Excluded from the statistics provided on LawyerUCLA.com were references to desired constitutional amendments such as those proposed to ban abortion and gay marriage. Also excluded were references made to state constitutions that have frequently been uttered by the two former governors running for president: Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney.
A list of quotes by Ron Paul at these debates were also provided in their article entitled "Empirical Proof That The Founding Fathers Would Endorse Ron Paul".
The most highly publicized quote by Ron Paul occurred when Ron Paul challenged Mitt Romney's statement regarding needing to consult lawyers. "This idea of going and talking to attorneys totally baffles me. Why don't we just open up the Constitution and read it? You're not allowed to go to war without a declaration of war," said Ron Paul in a debate October 9 in Michigan.
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It May Very Well Be Ron Paul's Time
CT Johnson
Nolan Chart
Sunday December 16, 2007
Congressman Ron Paul did not want to run for president. He had tried in 1988 as the Libertarian candidate and found to his dismay a very undemocratic system. The system was so biased against third parties that it was near to impossible to get a podium at the debates. It was just as challenging trying to get on all of the ballots across this Republic. It would take a billionaire by the name of Ross Perot who was willing to spend vast sums of his personal money to get on the ballots and get in the debates.
Ron Paul went back to medicine and continued to support the Constitutional cause and eventually returned to Congress and has served continuous for the last 10 years (Note: he had served 10 years as a Republican Congressman before his 1988 run). Fellow citizens and family urged him for years to run again, but weary from his previous run he thought that the time was not right for the message.
The message that he and a small minority of Americans espoused and supported was that of the founding fathers. The message of Liberty, Freedom, and a small limited Federal government bound to the Constitutionour highest law in the land.
Close friends and family believed going into 2007 that Ron Paul should try another run for President. They believed that the time was nigh for the Message'the true American Message' espoused by our founders. Ron Paul was skeptical, but set up an exploratory committee and found that there was support. Still skeptical he started his run for President of the United States.
It wasn't long before in an early spring Fox debate that Ron Paul and destiny came together. Mayor Rudy Giuliani attempted to twist Congressman Paul's words about why the terrorists attack us. America's mayor received huge applause, but it was the opening the good doctor had been waiting for. This gave him the opportunity to explain to the nation the concept of blowback' which in the physics world is called cause and effect'. To be honest with my readersthis was the moment that this ex-neoconservative, ex-military writer encountered his own personal paradigm shift. Ron Paul went on to explain that they don't attack us because we are free and rich. They attack us because our government (not us the people) has an aggressive foreign policy and that they are angry with our troops being on their holy land (i.e. the Saudi Arabian peninsula). This writer was personally stunnedthen I started researchingthen I became angry.
Previously, I did not want to admit the obvious to admit it in my mind would be siding with our despised enemythe socialist democrats. Once I realized that many top tier Democrat presidential contenders had voted for this war and were really just pandering the anti-Iraq war message to their base, then and only then did I feel comfortable that I could be proud to be an anti-unconstitutional war conservative. [ For all of you Kucinich and Gravel supportersyes they are good menkudosI just cannot side with someone who espouses socialism/Vampirism which I talk about in a previous article]
Many other conservatives have had the blinders lifted and seen the truth in Ron Paul's message. Over the past couple of months his supportrealon the groundand financial is accelerating at a much faster rate than any other Republican candidate. As I write this articleDecember 16ththe anniversary of the Boston Tea Party on the East Coast has come upon us. TodayRon Paul will become the undisputed Republican money leader in this raceall of it from we the peoplezero corporate donations. My fellow Americanshe's catching on! It may very well be Ron Paul's timeour timethe perfect time for the timeless American message that our founders fought for!
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Ron Paul 'Listen to what he has to say'
Sioux City Journal
Sunday December 16, 2007
I’m retired Navy with 21 years active duty service and a registered Republican. I support Ron Paul for president. He is a true patriot of freedom and liberty.
Thomas Jefferson once said, “Experience hath shown that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
Our biggest enemy now is not a small group of radicals hiding in caves. If it was, we could have destroyed them a long time ago. Instead our government has chosen to take on Al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden by nation building and pre-emptive strikes on sovereign nations. This military expansion will cost taxpayers $800 billion just in the year 2008. A continuation of this policy will lead to military spending in the trillions of dollars. All that money and Osama bin Laden still remains at large. The tyranny of our well-intended government exists domestically as well with oppressive regulation and overtaxation. We cannot afford national health care, national public schools, or national Social Security. We can not continue to spend and borrow like we are doing now.
Ron Paul is the only candidate who has addressed these issues and he is the only candidate who can reign in our bloated, headless government. Ron Paul will win the general election when running up against a big-government, liberal Democrat. I urge everyone to research Ron Paul and listen to what he has to say. -- Joseph Reitman
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Dad, Let Me Tell You About Ron Paul
YouTube
Sunday December 16, 2007
Fourteen-year-old boy explains the facts of life to his father.
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Lew Rockwell.com
Monday December 17, 2007
For the Republican nomination, over his former fave John McCain:
"But the deeper reason to support Ron Paul is a simple one. The great forgotten principles of the current Republican party are freedom and toleration. Paul's federalism, his deep suspicion of Washington power, his resistance to government spending, debt and inflation, his ability to grasp that not all human problems are soluble, least of all by government: these are principles that made me a conservative in the first place. No one in the current field articulates them as clearly and understands them as deeply as Paul. He is a man of faith who nonetheless sees a clear line between religion and politics. More than all this, he has somehow ignited a new movement of those who love freedom and want to rescue it from the do-gooding bromides of the left to the Christianist meddling of the right. The Paulites' enthusiasm for liberty, their unapologetic defense of core conservative principles, their awareness that in the new millennium, these principles of small government, self-reliance, cultural pluralism, and a humble foreign policy are more necessary than ever - no lover of liberty can stand by and not join them.
"He's the real thing in a world of fakes and frauds. And in a primary campaign where the very future of conservatism is at stake, that cannot be ignored. In fact, it demands support. Go Ron Paul!" (Thanks to Brad Porter)
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Newsmax
Monday December 17, 2007
Barack Obama has surged to the lead among presidential candidates in the war of the Web — his campaign site on the Internet attracted more visitors in November than any of his Democratic or Republican rivals.
Hillary Clinton has dropped to third among Democrats — and Ron Paul continues to lead all Republican candidates, with nearly twice as many visitors as his nearest GOP rival, Mike Huckabee.
In October, Obama had 589,000 unique visitors to his campaign Web site, barackobama.com, but that number soared to 821,000 visitors in November, according to Nielsen NetRatings projections.
Clinton, meanwhile, in November had barely more than half as many visitors as in October.
In November, libertarian Republican Ron Paul’s site, ronpaul2008.com, counted 673,000 visitors, up from 451,000 in October. Though lagging in national polls, Paul has been running an aggressive Web campaign.
The number of visitors to Republican John McCain’s site plunged to just 94,000 in November, down from 182,000 in October.
Here are the numbers of unique visitors for each of the presidential Web sites, according to NetRatings Inc. projections.
REPUBLICANS
Ron Paul: 673,000
Mike Huckabee: 337,000
Mitt Romney: 229,000
Fred Thompson: 217,000
Rudy Giuliani: 106,000
John McCain: 94,000
DEMOCRATS
Barack Obama: 821,000
John Edwards: 487,000
Hillary Clinton: 355,000
Joe Biden: 178,000
Chris Dodd: 164,000
Bill Richardson: 32,000
Once again NetRatings did not post a number for Dennis Kucinich’s site, which attracted only 6,000 visitors in September.
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Ron Paul's Haul met with silence
Lew Rockwell.com
Monday December 17, 2007
Brad Porter tours the wingnuttosphere for commentary on Ron Paul's history-making fundraising day:
The fourth quarter is historically the lowest quarter for fundraising in the primaries. And by my count, Ron looks to exceed any other Republican’s haul for any quarter this season (for primary money). Yesterday was the biggest single-day haul (they say) in the history of the primary process, certainly for the GOP. And all of this in the Republican party. Ron Paul is now arguably the most successful GOP fundraiser in Presidential primary history—that’s not even debatable when return for investment or name ID is factored in. By all rights, this should be (is!) the biggest story in the Republican primary this year short of who actually wins the damn thing, and even then it’s close.
And yet, for all these partisan Republican sites, whose sole existence is predicated on covering Republican successes…not a word. Not…one…word. Not even a snide word, or a “maybe we should be thinking of how to harness this in the future” or even “we need to fight against it”. Nothing. It doesn’t rate a comment.
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Shawn Macomber
American Spectator
Monday December 17, 2007
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- Stores and restaurants nearby remained darkened, shuttered and without power from an ice storm the ended only hours ago. Few cars were on the roads, save for a peculiarly steady line gingerly easing into the still-glassy Mid-America Center parking lot. Inside nearly 500 Iowans gathered to hear a longtime Republican congressman from Texas nicknamed "Dr. No" break most of the conventions of modern campaigning by promising them less largesse from their government not more and spending more time discussing what he wouldn't do as president than what he would.
"Thank you for inviting me to your revolution," Ron Paul announced as an extended, raucous standing ovation finally simmered down. The roaring crowd would no doubt surprise members of his own party as well, many of whom -- if the booing and grumbling at Republican debates are any indication -- largely view him as little more than a pestering gadfly.
Yet here Paul was, standing before a throng as large as those crowds many of the frontrunners for the Republican nomination draw in similarly sized towns. It is difficult to imagine any candidate save Paul uniting those non-interventionist/anti-war activists who will also cheers calls for dismantling the Federal Reserve with local farmers, lawyers, scruffy college students and earnest young women wearing Prolifers For Ron Paul and Ask Me About Ron Paul buttons, all rising to whoop as one at promises to cut the North American Union off at the pass.
The crowd was brought to its hollering feet at promises to get the U.S. out of the UN, out of NAFTA, out of CAFTA, the WTO, NATO, the IMF... There are moments, truth be told, when a Ron Paul rally can make the John Birch Society look like a committee that might as well be weaving welcome baskets for United Nations delegations.
On television, Paul frequently comes across as a crotchety neighbor, exasperated that the damn federal government keeps kicking its ball into his yard. This night, however, he is warm and at ease, adopting a conversational tone as he leaned casually on the lectern, even telling jokes not so different from those his colleagues crack. The crowd is attentive and animated. When someone asks how many are new to the caucus process, hundreds of hands shoot up.
Not long before Paul took to the dais, I asked him why he thought that after decades of extolling the virtue of these principles -- during ten terms in Congress and a 1988 campaign as the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate, no less -- his message was finding a fervent following now.
"I've been presenting these views since the Seventies and they were pretty unknown back then," Paul, who admitted he had initially been "skeptical and reluctant" to make a 2008 run, said. "The most significant change since then has been the education of many, many intellectual leaders in this country in economics and limited government through the study of Austrian economics. The groundwork has been laid...and now comes a time when the failure of the system is becoming very evident. Social Security isn't working. Foreign policy isn't working. Taking care of New Orleans didn't work very well. It's just that government doesn't work very well and people are beginning to realize we can't continue this."
The fervor of Paulites is undeniable. Many Paul events and fundraisers -- including the record-breaking November 5 and December 16 hauls -- are dreamed up outside the campaign infrastructure.
"I always marvel at what is happening now because at the beginning of the campaign we were told you have to come up with a logo and make everyone do the same thing," Paul said. "The main characteristic of our campaign is that everything is different. It's a lot of creative energy that really shouldn't have surprised any of us since that's exactly what I believe in: Individualism with no centralized planning."
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Third Party Watch
Monday December 17, 2007
Joel give a excellent speech at the Ron Paul Teaparty yesterday in Vegas. Though I wonder if this counts as a endorsement of Paul?
JOIN THE RON PAUL REVOLUTION
by Joel F. Hansen
In 1765, the liberal tyrants in the British parliament discovered a way to enslave the American people and steal their wealth. It was called the stamp act. The Americans had a different name for it: Taxation without Representation.
On Dec. 16, 1773, the Americans threw the tea, and the hated tax stamps, into Boston harbor.
In 1775, they started the American Revolution, threw off the chains of tyranny, and became Independent Americans.
But they learned a bitter lesson, that the issuance of paper fiat money, unbacked by bullion, is another way that government can steal the wealth of the people.
So when they established a Republican form of government by adopting the US Constitution, they also established the silver dollar as their money: A dollar like this one. (Show silver dollar from 1985 coin act.) Silver and gold were the basis of our monetary system from 1792 until the 20th century. And the founders made it a capital offense to debase US gold and silver coins.
Then in the 20th century the liberals did it again: They found another way to enslave the American people and steal their wealth. It was called progressive taxation coupled with inflation. Thru this means they have inflicted the sickness of socialism upon the American people.
First they gave us the progressive income tax. (1913) They said it would never be more than 1 or 2%. This is called taxation by misrepresentation.
Then (1916) they gave us the Federal Reserve, which is neither Federal nor has any reserve.
Then (1934) they stole all of our gold coins and gave us federal reserve notes instead and promised to redeem them for lawful money.
Then, they gave us (in 1963) , federal reserve notes with no promise to pay in “lawful money”.
(1965) they gave us copper sandwiches in place of silver coins. But they still looked kind of like silver coins.
In 1977, Russell Munk, Asst General Counsel for the U.S. Treasury, admitted that federal reserve notes are not dollars.
(1979) Then they gave us Susan B. Anthony dollar coins. These were so bad no one would use them.
I think that was the last straw. These were the intolerable acts of the 20th century.
In 1985, the Ron Paul revolution began with the Gold and Silver Bullion Coin act.
Ron and his fellow Congressmen gave us back honest money. They created a gold and silver system to challenge the worthless FRN’s and its companion in crime, progressive taxation administered by our friends at the IRS.
Ron Paul gave us back gold and silver coins–honest money in which actual wealth could be stored and exchanged. The gold coins said on its face $50. The silver coin said on its face one dollar.
So some American people here in Nevada began using these gold and silver coins in business.
But the IRS said no to these folks. If you try to actually use these legal tender gold and silver coins in business, we will prosecute you. Because this would destroy our system of progressive taxation coupled with inflation, which is the way that we steal the wealth of the American people. Tax the rich! Well, everyone is in the rich bracket when a frn is only worth 7 cents.
The IRS said: You can’t calculate your income at the face value of the coins: Without a single law to justify their actions, they told them they had to declare the coins’ worth in Fiat FRN’s.
They brought 161 felony counts against these honest money folks.
They prosecuted them thru an excruciating four month long federal jury trial.
And what did the American people do? The American people as represented by the jury?
What did they do? Why, they threw the tea in the harbor, that’s what they did!
They returned not one single guilty verdict against these good folks.
Who gave the American people this opportunity for a 21st century Boston Tea Party? Ron Paul!
Who gave us this chance to have honest money again? Ron Paul did?
Which candidate for president remembers the Boston Tea Party? Ron Paul!
Which candidate for president understands the American Revolution? Ron Paul!
Which candidate reveres the United States Constitution? Ron Paul!
Which candidate for president believes in honest money? Ron Paul!
Which candidate for president is not a big government liberal? Ron Paul!
Which candidate for president not a big government conservative? Ron Paul!
Which candidate is a doctor who knows how to cure the sickness of socialism? Ron Paul!
Which candidate is a doctor who can deliver a new birth of freedom to the American people.
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David A. Utter
WebProNews
Monday December 17, 2007
The Texas candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination has amassed plenty of donations for his campaign, with Google topping the list.
Though $22,250 may not sound like a lot of money, among Ron Paul donors it's the top amount the candidate has received from one source.
However, Google's place at the top of the OpenSecrets.org list of campaign donors requires a caveat, one that the site lists next to the table of donors:
The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families.
Another technology company rated in the top five of Paul donors. After the US Army and the US Navy, Microsoft contributions added up to $12,863. Networking company Cisco had $8,900 listed too,
Though the technology community, dominated by California's Silicon Valley, resides in a hotbed of Democratic voters and supporters, Paul's message has resonated with a few people. A site called the PaulCash Tracker shows his ongoing donations, excerpted from the official candidate site, totaling over $18 million since October 1st.
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"Neo-Libs Label Record Breaking Ron Paul Money Bomb "Abject Failure"
"Neo-Libs Label Record Breaking Ron Paul Money Bomb "Abject Failure; Smashing historical fundraising record not enough for Obama sycophants at Wonkette" by Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Monday, December 17, 2007
Neo-liberal establishment wannabe e-rag Wonkette and its sycophantic bloggers have dismissed the 2007 Tea Party fundraising event, which set a new campaign record by hauling in a record $6.6 million dollars for Ron Paul's presidential run, as an "abject failure".
Last month we reported how smarmy Wonkette, whose writers make a career out of attending DC parties and fawning over Bill Clinton and other elitist scumbags, ganged up with frothing Neo-Con blog Red State to form an alliance and "declare war" on Ron Paul supporters.
Wonkette's writers are routinely recruited into the establishment media following their ever-eager willingness to lick boots and uphold the left-right political carnival circus.Reacting to the Texas Congressman's momentous success over the weekend, Wonkette, who maturely refer to Ron Paul's supporters as "Paultards" attempted to scoff at the final amount raised.
I was going to wait until after midnight to post the results of the Dec. 16 Paultard moneybomb, but, well, reloading Ron Paul Graphs every 15 minutes takes its toll on the ol’ patience. It appears that “Tea Party 07” will accrue $6+ million dollars, breaking the $4.3 million dollar tally from the Nov. 5 moneybomb.
This figure was determined by applying advanced algebraic extrapolations to on the accompanying graph trend line — in other words, I looked at the line and said “I bet it will end up there.” OK, so I’m not a mathematician. I can, however, determine that (a) $6.something mil doesn’t reach the ‘tards $10 million dollar goal and (b) Paul’s 4% national polling average probably won’t win teh elekshinz. So the bomb was, in fact, a bomb, and thousands of people are broke as a result.
The fact that Congressman Ron Paul has shattered a historical record for fundraising set by John Kerry matters little to these ninnying hacks, who have seemingly chosen to throw their weight behind CFR globalist stooge Barack Obama.
Judging by the fact that this blog post received a paltry 7 Diggs, it seems that the only "abject failure" in this instance is Wonkette's abysmal "declaration of war" against the Ron Paul campaign, which, even with the added support of their drooling Neo-Con attack dogs over at Red State, is falling flat on its face while the Ron Paul Revolution soars in popularity."
"Rand Paul Worried Vote Stealing May Hinder Ron Paul Campaign; Congressman's son warns that corruption could be costly" by Steve Watson Infowars.net Monday, Dec 17, 2007Dr. Rand Paul – son of Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul says he is worried that corruption and vote stealing may hinder his father's push to win the GOP nomination during the early primaries next year.
Speaking last Friday prior to his scheduled appearance at the record breaking fundraising rally marking the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, Rand Paul spoke about the issue live on the Alex Jones show.
"I'm worried about corruption in general and people stealing votes, they steal them in multiple different ways. Back in LBJ's day he was stealing them by buying the chairman of the county and getting all the votes, and they were paper ballots, so you know, you can steal votes any time you have corruption."
Dr. Paul's concern is well founded given recent reports alleging that Mitt Romney has been buying victories in Straw Polls and State Fair contests.
A report from the St Petersburg Times two weeks ago suggested that Romney bought votes for his supporters, some of whom admitted to voting more than 20 times, at the Florida Straw poll. Romney got 893 votes, besting second-place Ron Paul's 534 despite Paul supporters dominating the crowd.
Further reports have alleged that Romney was overheard joking about cheating in a State Fair popularity contest, stuffing the ballot box in Ames, Iowa, and dodging questions across the state. Romney won the Iowa poll by a landslide last August.
Concerns were raised by Paul supporters over potential security vulnerabilities in Diebold voting machines at Iowa. Since the machines have been de-certified in other states, Paul's campaign had asked for a hand recount of paper ballots cast in the non-binding poll of Republicans. When the state party said it would count the paper ballots only if Paul's campaign covered the $184,000 cost of the count, the campaign withdrew its request.
At the time Jesse Benton, spokesman for Paul's campaign, said "We didn't want to use and will not use this as a public relations opportunity."
However, the machines will once again be a concern during upcoming primaries, particularly given that a new $1.9 million federally financed study found that voting machines and central servers made by Elections Systems and Software; Premier Election Solutions, formerly Diebold; and Hart InterCivic; were easily corrupted.
With everything riding on the early primaries, Ron Paul needs every vote he can get and any form of vote rigging could decide the difference between winning and losing. Furthermore, polls have suggested that 45% of Independents in New Hampshire are undecided on who they are going to vote for, Ron Paul is counting on drawing these votes for success.
Rather than pinpointing any individual case Rand Paul has suggested that the voting system as a whole needs to be subject to more stringent independent oversight.
"I think being conscious of trying to change our system, and I've talked with the people that want to change away from computer back to paper, New Hampshire has paper ballots which I think is good, the whole thing is that its a long term fight, you won't change that in one election if you want to change away from the system." Dr. Paul commented.
"But what you can do in an immediate election is go to the campaign, if you're in New Hampshire or Iowa or one of the early states, South Carolina, is you go to the campaign and say look I want to be a poll watcher. When you stand there in front of them, they may try to steal votes, but it's much harder with someone standing there." Paul concluded.
Rand Paul is the middle son of Ron Paul. Like his father, he is a physician. Dr. Paul's professional field is eye surgery, though he also has a penchant for politics. The younger Dr. Paul also is involved in health care reform and founded the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic which provides eye surgery and exams for those who otherwise cannot afford proper care.
Prisonplanet.tv members can hear the full audio interview with Dr. Rand Paul here.
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"Ron Paul on Mad Money 12-14-07
"RON PAUL (R)
Top Contributors
| Google Inc | $22,250 |
| US Army | $21,018 |
| US Navy | $14,105 |
| Microsoft Corp | $12,863 |
| Huffines Communities | $11,850 |
| US Air Force | $10,950 |
| Cisco Systems | $8,900 |
| Verizon Communications | $8,351 |
| Ford Motor Co | $7,650 |
| General Dynamics | $7,100 |
| US Postal Service | $6,961 |
| Andres Properties | $6,900 |
| Welcom Products | $6,750 |
| US Dept of Defense | $5,900 |
| Apple Inc | $5,560 |
| General Motors | $5,451 |
| Deutsche Bank AG | $5,400 |
| Verax Chemical | $5,244 |
| Raytheon Co | $4,964 |
| Robbins Design Services | $4,819 |
Percent of Contributions Coded:
(How to read this chart / methodology)
 | Coded | $2,600,481 | (62%) | |
 | Uncoded | $1,568,006 | (38%) | |
Total | $4,168,487 |
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You say Ron Paul doesn't have a chance? But who is...
"Do I have some evidence to support that statement? Yes.
Here is a link to Google Labs search statistics.
You will clearly see that Ron Paul is the number one search amongst
the comparative terms of:
Ron Paul, Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee.
You will note that Dr. Paul (light blue) is researched FAR MORE by
general internet users than any of the other candidates.
I mean its not even close! Searches for Ron Paul simply dwarf the others.
Why? Probably because Freedom is popular.
However, in the second graph, you will see that despite eclipsing all
other candidates in terms of raw searches, the fact is that in terms
of news coverage on the net, Ron Paul as the LEAST COVERED of the five
named people. The most popular candidate name searched on the net is
the lowest reported on the net. Interesting, is it not? Even further
below on the page you will see that by state, Ron Paul also dominates
internet search activity.
What does this mean? At the very least it means that Ron Paul is far
more popular than you are being told.
I believe we are supposed to accept the message that he has no chance,
and they give us that message by simply ignoring the single most
popular candidate in the field. It's not just an internet phenomenon
either. Ron Paul is cleaning up the large majority of straw polls,
and Republican Parties all over the country are reporting that the
swell of registrations are due to Ron Paul supporters, and the number
of Democrats switching to Republican is unprecedented.
This massive gap between search popularity and news media reporting is
a story in itself, and yet mostly unmentioned. Am I supposed to
believe they just forgot? Are we supposed to trust these same news
organizations whose "polls" rate Dr. Paul so very low? In several
major news media polls, Mr. Paul is not even offered as an option to
choose. Several non-partisan media analysts have written extensively
about the major media outlets ignoring him. It's all out there if you
look. If YOU look. If you wait for reporting, you will be waiting a
while.
And yet, despite this transparent slanted journalism, Dr. Ron Paul is
receiving record-breaking amounts of support. In fact, on this very
day, in remembrance of the Boston Tea Party, the People supporting
Ron Paul are setting records for rate of donations and unique
donators. It's happening today, RIGHT NOW. As I type this, the
campaign just passed 14M USD. This is happening primarily to generate
some news coverage. It's historic. You can be a part of it if you
want.
History in the making! See it here:
http://ronpaulgraphs.com/dec_16_vs_nov_5_total.html ...a plot
showing Tea Party 2007 compared to 5th of November
https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/
http://paulcash.slact.net/ ...this one's very popular, might need to reload it.
Finally, a link to my wikipage for Ron Paul support:
http://www.titanomachy.net/titanowiki/Ron_Paul
Don't expect your Democrats or other Republicans to make any real
changes. At a recent debate, not a single Democrat would commit to
pulling troops out of Iraq before 2013--the very same Democrats who
keep saying its time to get out of there. The Republicans seem to
have climbed aboard the Big Government train along with the Democrats,
apparently to erect Huge Goverment together. Where will it end?
--
activate or abdicate, the future is in your hands..."
Memo to MSM: Ron Paul IS Popular
"
It's 10:40pm EST December 16, 2007 and history is in the making.
The same man who the mainstream media insists doesn't have a chance in hell of winning the election has so far raised over $5.4 million from over 51,000 people - and counting - IN ONE DAY!
What does this mean?
It means that contrary to what the mainstream media wants us to believe Ron Paul IS popular.
Moreover, considering most people still don't even know who he is or where he stands, it means that he's not just mildly popular, or moderately popular, but wildly popular among the people who know him.
Most importantly - it's speaks volumes about how UNPOPULAR other candidates are who CANNOT and DO NOT raise this kind of money from this many people through a medium that's just as accessible to them as it is to Ron Paul.
Indeed, you could argue that most other candidates started out with far more resources to make the internet work for them as fabulously as it has worked for Ron Paul.
In short, not only does his remarkable ability to raise so much money from so many people prove that Ron Paul is popular, it proves that any candidate who cannot meet or exceed what he's done is not!
I can't begin to tell you how excited I am.
Finally, after years of merciless death and destruction, zero accountability and corruption, endless propaganda and lies - finally, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
There is hope for America.
Given Ron Paul's demonstrated popularity, there is NO WAY that the mainstream media can rig the elections now!
No one will believe them if someone other than Ron Paul wins the republican nomination - clearly he's the most popular."
"Forbes Says Bloomberg to Spend Big Bucks to Derail Ron Paul
"Source: Free Market NewsThe recent “mass donation day” that just netted the candidate around $6 million or more in 24-hours is likely the last straw. The mainstream media surely cannot continue to pretend that Ron Paul is anything less than a leading Republican candidate, one who may finish high in both Iowa and New Hampshire, and then go on to do well in the Super Tuesday primaries.
Could he even become the Republican candidate for president? What about a brokered convention? As such, with a low tax, anti-war platform, Ron Paul would probably be difficult for any of the current crop of Democrats to beat. No doubt all of these contingencies are being discussed at fairly high levels in the political establishment.
Enter Mike Bloomberg, the founder and owner of the financial data and news company Bloomberg. Forbes says the mogul is contemplating spending up to 20 percent of his $11 billion fortune to run as an Independent candidate for president.
http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2007/12/15/bloomberg-mayor-independent-oped-cx_daa_1215bloomberg.html
An “activist” mayor, Bloomberg has run New York City more or less from the left, banning smoking in bars and planning to tax residents and visitors exorbitant amounts of money to discourage them from driving into downtown Manhattan. He obviously sees the role of political leader as a transformative one.
$2 billion can buy a lot of TV time – and perhaps even drown out the increasingly successful message of Ron Paul. Would blitzing the airways with a “mainstream” message paper over “Mayor Mike’s” fairly radical New York City political record? That may be what his backers are hoping.
Though nobody will say so, Bloomberg’s candidacy, if it comes to pass, would likely be aimed - to begin with, anyway (certainly if momentum builds) at Ron Paul. The more successful Ron Paul is, the more desperate his opponents are to stop him. Even if it means hauling in a Wall Street business mogul to spend up to $2 billion of his own funds to do so."
"An Open Letter to Anarchists on Behalf of Ron Paul Anthony Gregory
Lew Rockwell.com
Monday December 17, 2007
I do not believe the state – any state – is legitimate. All states, at a minimum, use aggressive means to maintain a territorial monopoly on legal violence and to finance themselves, most commonly through taxation. In practice, their aggression never stops there. Morally I cannot support such institutions, and as a strident believer in free markets and voluntary cooperation, I oppose the use of violent, institutionalized central planning for practical reasons too. The economic case against state socialism applies to the state’s law-and-order functions as well as it applies to the socialist provision of any other good or service. Empirically, government justice is a sham.
Why, then, am I asking fellow anarchists – those who also reject the state on ethical or practical grounds – to lend support to Ron Paul, a Republican politician running for president? How can an anarchist of any stripe get excited about a man who seeks the most powerful office in the most powerful state in world history?
Some anarchists oppose Ron Paul’s candidacy simply because he is not an anarchist and the presidency itself is an office that can never be defended, no matter who holds it. This is a respectable enough position, but it neglects the full significance of this campaign, both short and long term, to the cause of liberty.
If Ron Paul were to actually win, he would indeed fail to smash the state entirely. That is neither his intention nor his promise. However, he would clearly move American society far closer toward the anarchist ideal. He would put to rest the most tyrannical and hierarchical organization as it concerns international affairs – the US empire. He would close down the American bases on foreign soil, halt the murderous invasions and bombings, stop dictating terms to other nations, and end the horrifying US regime of torture and indefinite, unchecked detentions. He would end the war on terror, which the two parties intend to maintain for a lifetime. All this alone would make Paul a remarkably unique president. On the world scene, it would finally mean anarchy between nations: There would be no global policeman, the role currently executed by the US government.
We would also see an end to the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on currency – the very mainspring from which the entire US corporate state emerges. We would see the federal drug war finally ended. We would see the greatest retrenchment of American state power since the end of World War I, if not ever.
How could an anarchist not cheer all of this? Most anarchists will admit some preference among different forms of government, different rulers and different regimes. As much as we all agree that all states are evil and intolerable, it would be extreme myopia to pretend there is no difference between Hitler’s Germany and the modern Swiss government, for example. We would all prefer less oppression to more, and a Paulian system of government would mean much, much, much less. It would rate among the most radical revolutions in all the course of human experience.
The poet and pioneer in pharmacology, Dale Pendell, has formulated the concept of "horizon anarchism."* Our goal should be to move ever closer toward anarchy, toward freedom and voluntarism, even if we do not achieve the full ideal in our lifetimes. To eschew all radical reform proposals that do not go all the way toward our ideal would be folly. After all, we will likely never see all criminality and violence eradicated, even if we were to somehow achieve political anarchy; yet that is no reason not to move forward and celebrate all progress toward our goal of a peaceful, voluntary society. Similarly, we might never see the total absence of government – this is no reason not to welcome all steps in that direction.
Since all social conditions, including political structures, are a reflection of public ideology, the Ron Paul Revolution has grand implications for the anarchist struggle, even should he not win the presidency. It has already woken many people up to the principles of liberty. It has exposed many of the contradictions of the state. It has encouraged the idea that the government is far too large and powerful – a conceptual first step for nearly anyone who comes around to adopt anarchism altogether. Most of us anarchists were not always such, and we owe much of our own understanding to intellectual movements over hundreds of years, especially the classical liberal tradition, which had a relationship of mutual influence with individualist anarchism in the nineteenth century. And today, Paul himself welcomes this long-established relationship, even pointing out at speaking engagements that the Ron Paul Revolution has its share of anarchists. What other politician would explicitly boast his anarchist support? Ron Paul's movement is one that puts liberty at the center, and can only be of great benefit to the anarchist cause in the future.
This brings me to a word for the left-anarchists. Many of you have, with some justification, pointed out that rightwing libertarians and conservatives sometimes misunderstand the true essence of state power and have political priorities that are not just flawed but counterproductive to the cause of liberty. Minarchists and conservatives who embrace the government’s police power, its law-and-order functions and military wing, and save most of their animosity for the welfare state, just don’t get it.
Although I consider the welfare state to be a truly stifling and reactionary organization – Noam Chomsky’s brand of anarchism notwithstanding – this left-anarchist critique of the right has some merit. Indeed, stealing money from taxpayers and giving it to welfare recipients is not as despicable or aggressive as stealing the same amount of money and using it to murder children abroad or lock up peaceful people at home.
Well, for what it’s worth, Ron Paul is not a typical conservative, or even like all too many libertarians, in this respect. He is running mostly to dismantle the empire and national-security state; his first priority is not to kick anyone onto the street, and he has stressed this many times. He further understands that just because the military is a Constitutional function of government does not mean it should get a pass whereas the food stamp programs should not. He really does want to dramatically slash the state’s most egregious instruments – those of mass murder, mass destruction and totalitarian control of foreign and domestic subjects. When the issue of social entitlements comes up, he makes clear that his top priority is eliminating the entitlements to the military industrial complex, which he considers the most immoral and unjustified subsidies of all. No liberal Democrat of any stature goes nearly as far as Ron Paul does in opposing the warfare state. While he also opposes the welfare state, he knows that he’ll have his hands full with ending the war and will be somewhat restrained by Congressional prerogative. He also knows the most pressing moral mandate is to stop the killing. When asked about what he considered the most urgent ethical crisis of our time, he says it is the American culture’s adoption of aggressive war as acceptable policy.
As for corporatism, taxation and economic issues, Ron Paul says what the phony limited-government Republicans never dare to utter: The most evil and destructive of taxes is the inflation tax, the printing of money that robs from the value of the poor man’s dollar and shovels profits into the coffers of Wall Street, the big energy and pharmaceutical firms, and especially the defense contractors.
Every time the subject of spending comes up, he focuses on cutting the military. Every time the subject of taxes comes up, he focuses on the most regressive one of all: inflation. All too many leftist radicals ignore this clandestine and cruel robbery of the working and middle classes, and those on fixed incomes, to fund lavish corporate welfare. Ron Paul, in contrast, has for decades considered it a fundamental issue. Taking the federal government’s legal tender monopoly away would truly be the most revolutionary economic reform in a century, and it is near the top of Paul’s agenda.
Anarchists should take notice that Paul is also nearly alone in opposing the state-corporate partnerships that emerge in American agricultural policy, phony international "free-trade" agreements, and the administration of health care subsidies to Big Pharma. When he champions free trade, he takes it seriously, condemning trade sanctions as tools of war and agitating to normalize relations with the Cuban people. He is opposed to the government having a monopoly on weapons, and so he rejects all federal gun control laws. He opposes censorship in all forms.
There are a few particular issues where I don’t agree with Dr. Paul. I take issue with his positions on intellectual property and immigration. But even here we cannot expect the imperial and police-state practices we would get in practically any other administration. There is no reason to expect Paul to use the empire to enforce US copyright laws in the Third World. As to immigration, he has made clear that immigrants should not be scapegoated and would be welcome in the freer, prosperous America that he would work tirelessly to achieve. He has emphasized the cutting of excessive and unsustainable welfare benefits to illegals – a reduction in state activity – while ruling out mass deportations, a national ID card, and violations of the freedom and privacy of employment contracts. While my position, the position that I believe is most compatible with anarchism, is to seek the end of all national borders and the elimination of all border protection and immigration restrictions, we cannot expect anyone running for president to get anywhere with that abolitionist position. For those anarchists who oppose all politicians out of principle, the particular critique of Paul on this issue is of secondary concern. But if we’re going to concede any value whatever in electoral activism, it is understandable that he takes the stance he does, given that he is not an anarchist.
Even on those particular issues where anarchists might most disagree with Paul, his position is far less tyrannical and nationalist than the likes of Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, and still offers a better approach than we can expect to get from US politics. And while we disagree, his movement is still a blessing for the public’s overall consciousness regarding liberty. Finally, to reiterate, he is running not so much on the few issues where he accepts a somewhat active role for the state, but mostly on his strongest issue – the most important issue of our time – the long-overdue dismantling of the American empire, after more than a century of international mayhem, financial fraudulence and relentless assaults on our liberty at home.
It is from his priorities that we can tell Paul has no interest in power for its own sake. He does not promise to feed the masses from cradle to grave and protect them from every cave-dwelling extremist in the Middle East because he knows the limits of power and the superiority of liberty over false security. He knows the full danger of centralized power in particular, which is why he would not use the central state even to impose his agenda on local polities. This decentralist emphasis we see in his campaign – which parallels nicely with the spontaneous, voluntary, decentralized and anarchic nature of his grassroots support – is an important component in any meaningful program to actually reduce state power. The federal government, being the largest and most internationally belligerent in all the world, must be shrunk first, and as much as possible, for any of us to have a lasting chance at freedom.
When it comes to understanding the true meaning of liberty and having the right priorities, Ron Paul is actually better than many mainstream libertarians and even self-described anarchists. He has awoken Americans to the key issues of foreign policy, civil liberties, and inflationary finance in a way no politician ever has. He might not excite those anarchists who, not engaged in the real world, do not care particularly much about what form or powers our government takes or how many people it kills and tortures and imprisons. On the other hand, for all anarchists who see US aggression abroad, the destruction of habeas corpus and privacy, the secret torture chambers, the economic fascism, the drug war gulags and the burgeoning domestic police state as crucial issues, constituting a colossal national emergency, Ron Paul’s movement is one to be cheered far and wide.
And if Ron Paul does win, ushering in the era of limited government, we anarchists can and should oppose what is left of the state. I look forward to a time when government is so small that anarchists and constitutionalist libertarians have something serious in the practical world to argue about. In the meantime, I can only support and root for the one man most likely to bring us far closer to that glorious day.
*Thanks to my great friend Tony Burke for explaining to me the connection between Ron Paul and horizon anarchism, and also for helping me convert to anarchism years ago.
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