Posted on 08/23/2009 3:22:28 PM PDT by freepersunite
Peter Schiff turns on his computer and checks his fundraising numbers with the studied nonchalance other guys might display while perusing last night's box scores.
It's a Friday in early August and Schiff's fans have set off a "money bomb" — a 24-hour pledge blitz they hope will persuade him to run for the U.S. Senate seat held for almost 30 years by Christopher J. Dodd.
Schiff, the Fairfield County stockbroker and author who has become YouTube's most popular prognosticator of financial doom, says he will make up his mind by Labor Day. But spurred on by a cadre of young and zealous followers from around the nation, and a fundraising total that is closing in on $1 million, he is leaning toward a run.
Unlike most politicians, including his hero, Ronald Reagan, he does not traffic in unbridled optimism: It's twilight in Peter Schiff's America, and, if painful and drastic changes aren't made soon, he foresees an economic depression lasting at least a decade. The future, as envisioned by Schiff, will be marked by rampant inflation — a gallon of gas could cost $10 — food shortages and rolling blackouts, unless government sharply shrinks and the free market is allowed to flourish.
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
He's been dead on right about pretty much all the things that have happened, unlike the legions of talking heads on virtually all major networks, not to mention virtually all of Wall Street and the "Investment bankers", but this journalism major just knows that Schiff is over the top.
Why do people keep reading their drivel?
THE TIDE IS TURNING-—A TIDAL WAVE IS SWEEPING DEMS FROM OFFICE
TAKE HEED DEMORATS A Delaware State Senate seat——reliably Democrat for forty years in a heavily Dem district-—— was just won by a Republican by an unbelievable thirty (yep, that’s thirty) percentage points.
We should support Schiff financially as well as other conservative candidates for 2010.
Marco Rubio (US Senate - FL)
Ryan Frazier (US Senate - CO)
http://www.frazierforcolorado.com/
Jim Deakin (US Senate - AZ)
I like this guy. He’s articulate, thoughtful, knowledgable, tells like it is, and is nothing like the current crop of pols in Washington...but I repeat myself.
I’ve donated to Schiff and Rand Paul so far this political season.
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I admire Peter Schiff
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