Posted on 12/16/2007 10:43:13 PM PST by grundle
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul's supporters raised over $6 million Sunday to boost the 10-term Texas congressman's campaign for the White House.
Called a "Money Bomb," the goal was to raise as much money as possible on the Internet in one day. The campaign's previous fundraiser brought in $4.2 million.
At midnight EST, donations were over $6 million, according to the campaign Web site. Those donations are processed credit card receipts, said Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton. Benton said the median donation is about $50 in the fundraiser, which was the idea of Paul supporters who are not officially connected to the campaign.
Trevor Lyman, a Paul supporter who is traveling the country following the Ron Paul blimp, said the date of the fundraiser coincides with the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
The Ron Paul blimp is an aerial billboard emblazoned on one side with "Who is Ron Paul? Google Ron Paul." The other side reads "Ron Paul Revolution." The blimp, another grass-roots effort, was in Chester, S.C., on Sunday, and organizers hope to get it to New Hampshire before the Jan. 8 primary there.
Duncan Hunter should FIRE his campaign manager and his fund raising manager.
25K request is an insult to DH and his supporters. The man deserves better.
I didn't realize that the Constitution was outdated.
Perhaps if he offered some Soros money for
drugs, he could get more.
***A little bird told me.
The little bird looked a lot like my credit card.***
About lost it when I read this. LOL. Very good.
I have a funny feeling too: it’s funny how, when something doesn’t conform to their narrow worldview, bubble-dwelling folks often resort to the most outlandish theories to explain away the data that just “doesn’t compute” for them. What’s that that anti-Paulites accuse his supporters of? Oh yeah, wearing the tinfoil.
One word: Soros
“I didn’t realize that the Constitution was outdated.”
Who said that? You know it’s rude to put words in another person’s mouth...?
His foreign policy view is outdated. That view died with Pearl Harbor.
Well, I did my part (again) for Hunter.
I don’t see any blame for Hunter’s campaign management for that... I blame the people who claim to support him, but won’t send him the money to help get his message across, and mostly, I blame the media (obviously) and the RNC for keeping this good man who would be a great President in the category of “Duncan Who???”
First, you ask for money,
Then, I call in and say that I'll send in a bunch of money (pledge),
Then, no actual money comes in (oops)...
That's the Paul story...that and the totally loony thing.
"A little after midnight on December 16th, Ron Paul reached his goal of 12 million dollars in campain contributions."
Funny thing is that the email arrived at 8:40PM.
Except that these were actual donations rather than pledges, as has also been debunked 500 times.
They are not pledges. They are actual money - well FRN’s anyway.
Except that these were small individual donations, averaging around $100 dollars, as has been explained about 1000 times.
What’s weird about that? That he sent it so late?
Is that EST?
Seriously, can you folks not see the mental acrobatics you’re performing to try and explain away the obvious fact that Ron Paul actually has a lot of support from actual people?
If you would all just let some fresh air into your minds and admit to it, I think you’d feel a lot better...
Take the MSM polls with a grain of salt. If I'm not mistaken, the phone polls are calling the remaining Republican base, who support the status quo - Paul has a lot of support from disillusioned Republicans who haven't voted in the last couple elections, third party conservatives, independents, libertarians, and young people who have never voted before. They are not being reached by the phone polls.
Also, I've heard that some of these phone polls don't even mention Paul's name. Take a look at this. They mention the candidates the MSM promotes, and then the category of "other".
and the high results in web polls are due to PRs poll-bots.
LOL. Riight. Wake up, the man has support, and passionate support at that. If you still think it's a half dozen poll spammers, even after today, you're living in the past. That was said a few months ago... but it no longer flies, in fact, it is laughable to claim that now.
Forget it. Most of these people are for the war becasue they believe 19 Arabs did 9/11. Trying to rationalize with them will get you no where.
What do they do with all this money?
Yes - it has become laughable hasn’t it. Denial is a river running through Free Republic.
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