[elizabetty]

The most realistic thing Paul has a shot at is shoring up the election for Hillary.

[Doogle]

YES

[WakeUpAndVote]

...netting $4.3 million in online contributions from 38,000 donors in a single day...

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And when he drops out after the primaries, I will laugh at their folly.

[Red Badger]

Yes, Virginia, I am FOR REAL!!!!!!!!..........

[incredulous joe]

In any gathering of peoples or communities, one can always find a cheeky few who simply delight in pissing everyone else off.

I think that’s what we have here. Let them have there day.

Make sure that they vote for the “most conservative” candidate. Who can actually win a presidential race in the end.

[Badeye]

Ron Paul won’t get the amount of support Howard Dean did in ‘real’ primaries.

[darkwing104]

They are real...Just check out the grocery store tabloids. they are mentions quite often. Last week they were seen posing with Elvis on Freedmont Ave. in Vegas...Can’t get anymore real than that.

[ClearCase_guy]

That second link is short, and worth reading.

It appears (from other stories) that Hillary is funded by the Chinese. Ron Paul seems to get a lot of his vocal support from overseas computers.

Our overseas enemies are working hard to make sure that a Republican does not win in 2008.

[The_Victor]

From an anti-war rally in Chicago detailed here:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918073/posts

[traviskicks]

“but Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has him beat at $6.2 million”

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I think this is may be false:

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/files/11-6-2007-PressConferenceFlier.pdf

Hillary Clinton’s Claim
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There have also been reports that Senator Clinton raised $6.2 million on June 30th.
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The most commonly cited figure for largest fundraising day ever is John Kerry’s $5.7 million haul on the day he accepted the Democratic nomination in 2004. It is curious that no press release was issued by Ms. Clinton’s campaign for breaking Mr. Kerry’s mark.
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We were curious as to these figures, so we did a little research into the FEC reports. It is strange to us that Ms. Clinton reports her three largest fundraising days to be March 31st, June 30th, and September 30th – the three closing days of each quarter.
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News reports show that around the end of June, Ms. Clinton held a fundraiser with Warren Buffet in New York City that raised roughly $1 million. A fundraiser was also held in Hollywood at the estate of grocery store mogul Ron Burkle which brought in $2.6 million. On the weekend of Friday, June 29th and Saturday, June 30th, it appears that Ms. Clinton was campaigning in Florida with Raul Martinez. Ms. Clinton reported raising $1.4 million from her 14 Florida events. Some of this was later returned, per FEC request.
• While each of these events were successful, all of them did not take place on June 30th. It appears very plausible that the money brought in from these events were all tallied on June 30th, despite taking place earlier in the week.

[alicewonders]

I don’t know if they’re real or not, but I’m seeing an awful lot of Ron Paul signs in people’s yards around where I live - and these are not crack neighborhoods either - regular middle-class homes.

[theDentist]

Are Ron Paul Supporters Real?

No, they're made of plastic, dust, and hot dogs.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“There has always been a pot of money that exists for unconventional candidates who believe the system is fundamentally broken and are only tangentially affiliated with a party. …”
This describes Kucinich perfectly. Not really a dem, just likes the lifestyle.

[bmwcyle]

SSHHHHHH they are liberals.

[Rick.Donaldson]

I think they are “real”, real Democrats trying like hell to throw the election early in favor of Hillary.

If a whole lot of these people are coming from the Left, and trying to convince everyone that a “third party” organization is in order, it will bode badly for whomever the nominee happens to be for the Republicans.

[thirst4truth]

My way leftest child hood friend, who hates Hillary, by the way. Just registered as a Republican, so he can vote for Ron Paul in the Primaries.

[George W. Bush]

Paul supporters flashed their cash in honor of Guy Fawkes Day, which commemorates the would-be assassin of England’s King James I on Nov. 5, 1605.

The Stiletto is a demonstrable boob who can't even do a basic Google search.

Guy Fawkes Day celebrates the foiling of a Catholic terrorist who was trying to kill King James and Parliament over grievances at the suppression of Cathlic religious life during the great Catholic/Protestant strife in Britain. The rest of this sad little blog entry barely merits the dignity of refutation.

This is why at a Guy Fawkes celebration they burn him in effigy. Often, they burn an effigy of the pope as well. That's not a "commemoration" in the sense of a celebration. Guy Fawkes Day is a very Protestant, somewhat anti-Catholic, and very anti-terrorist kind of holiday.

Stiletto, you ignorant slut.

[WesternPacific]

I remember stories about an Anti-American Idol group who would choose the most untalented contestant and attempt to rig the vote.

Could this be another attempt at manipulating the election outcome?

[taxed2death]

“Second tier”

...LOL
apparently not.

[ZULU]

On foreign policy, compared to Ron Paul, Hillary almost looks sane.