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Stephen Vincent: There does seem to be some buzz growing around this and folks are coming from as far away as Santa Barbara, Ventura and Riverside. It’s always tough to call. I would guesstimate 100-125 people.
100-125 people. In Santa Monica? You'd think the number would be much higher, given how liberal that area is!
The what? Does April know what the word Wehrmacht means? I've heard a lot of metaphors for the American politcal establishment but the German army is a new one on me. Were it remotely applicable Mr. Paul would hardly be engaging in political theater, he'd be looking at the world through the barbed wire of a prison camp.
In other words, he is an active member at DU.
wow
Ron Paul is a kook.
"Dr" (HAHAHAHAHA!) Paul is not a 'fellow Republican". He's not a Republican at all. He's just a weirdo, like the pot heads that support him.
That's paranoid moonbat talk. What a Maroon!
Theres no real way to gauge Ron Paul’s success, by comparing him to Ross Perot, because Ross Perot didn’t run in Republican Primaries.
Ron Paul is the reaction to the big-government conservatism and foreign adventurism of George W. Bush.
Add him and Mike Huckabee together on election day, and you have some idea of how many Republicans are just super-pissed off about how the GOP has bought into the same corporate socialism that Democrats have always backed.
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That picture makes both of them look as though they are on the edge of hysteria, especially Mr. Vincent.
The photo of Dr. Paul and Steven Vincent is not a good one of either. It probably took place on 9/14 at either the reception at USC (afternoon) or the fund-raising dinner. It wasn’t taken at the fund-raising breakfast for Dr. Paul at the Ritz Carlton that morning because Steven wasn’t there but I was.
Steven Vincent has very creative ideas about how to promote Ron Paul. On Steve’s own, he started a talk-radio program to support Dr. Paul, sign wavings that have expanded beyond anyone’s wildest dreams, walks to promote Dr. Paul, and now the Tea Party on the Santa Monica pier on Dec. 16th.
Mr. Vincent isn’t the only one with ideas about how to promote Ron Paul. The 5th of November “money bomb” was the idea of Trevor Lyman, a 37-year-old man who had never voted for anyone before. Completely outside the official Ron Paul campaign, the “money bomb” brought in over $4.2 million dollars - from over 36,000 supporters - a record breaker! That record breaker gave Dr. Paul’s campaign about $10 million dollars worth of publicity.
Now there’s the Ron Paul blimp. The beauty of the Ron Paul campaign is that the grass roots people are allowed to show their creativity. Talk astro-turfing if you want but this is truly a grass-roots phenomenon! YouTube is a great place to see what the volunteers are doing to promote Ron Paul.
About the only time that the official Ron Paul campaign said anything about fund raising was on 11/28 or 11/29. It was mentioned (something to the effect) that it would be nice if, by 11/30, fund-raising could out-do Fred Thompson’s end-of-3rd-quarter fund-raising efforts. After that were Romney’s and Guiliani’s totals. By 11/30, Ron Paul supporters heeded the call and their donations surpassed all three of Rudy McRomney’s fund-raising totals for the three months of the 3rd quarter. In just two months of the 4th quarter, Ron Paul’s campaign more than doubled what it had done in the entire 3rd quarter.
To date, Ron Paul’s campaign is completely debt free. And, NO, Dr. Paul is not dropping out of the Presidential race and keeping the money - he is going to stay in the House of Representatives, if he is not elected POTUS.
It is interesting to me that, during the “debates,” Ron Paul isn’t asked any questions for the first 30-35 minutes and then the questions are the same old ones he has been asked at previous debates. In addition, the alleged front-runners are now picking up parts of Dr. Paul’s campaign, e.g., no tax increases, smaller government, no illegal immigration, no empire building, etc., as part of their campaign rhetoric. (When Dr. Paul was asked about the North American Union or the NAFTA Super Highway at the CNN/YouTube debate, Tancredo and Hunter could have concurred with Dr. Paul as they had signed the same bill!)
Another interesting thing about Dr. Paul is the support of young people. Ron Paul said that prior to his presidential run, parents used to come to his congressional office and bring their kids along. NOW, the kids are bringing their parents to Dr. Paul’s office!
James Rainey, writer for the Los Angeles Times, visited the Pasadena Ron Paul MeetUp Group on 11/14, where 80 people sat elbow to elbow on folding chairs. His article appeared in the Times last week, if I remember correctly. What he didn’t mention was that 1/3 of the people were between 18-35, 1/3 between 35-55, and the remaining 1/3 were 55 and over. More than half of the people had never worked on a campaign before, while a handful had worked for Buchanan, Bush, Peroutka, Gore, Clinton, Nader, and others. One couple had worked on the campaign for JFK.
Of all the Ron Paul supporters I have met, I can’t say that there is a “moonbat” amongst them. They are, for the most part, fairly well read, enthusiastic, resourceful, helpful, and want a full return to the U.S. Constitution.
As Kent Snyder (Dr. Paul’s chief of staff for years) said on 6/12, “This is the coming together of the old guard and the new.”
Stay tuned...