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Have to wonder just where is all this money coming from?

How many donors does that say? 120,000 with an average donation of $89 per person. Now I know I've donated $200 and several others I know have donated about the same amount. This is the first time in my entire life I have given a penny to a political campaign. Contrary to the party faithful we aren't receiving checks from George Soros. No, what upsets the party 'faithful' is we aren't choosing from the 'mainstream' candidates whose mealy mouthed responses are the same I've heard for decades now. What upsets them even more is they can't track these people because dang it they either haven't played the party game before or they had given up on most politicians long ago. They can't track them to know what they'll do when it comes to the precious voting system that has been dominated by Idiot Party 1 and Idiot Party 2

Dud? Let's see. I heard about Rudy's Reading Day about 7 days before. Most others probably around the same time, perhaps a few days extra. So in 10 days supporters of Ron Paul, without the help of the campaign, got out the message and raised over $500,000. Yeah that's a dud alright. A dud any of the 'frontrunners' would gladly accept.

Better wake up Johnnie my boy. The libertarians are back and this time your little closed party of nanny statists and interventionists are going to be put out to pasture hopefully once and for all. It may not happen this election, it may take 16 years like it did between Goldwater and Reagan. But I'm thinking not. As fast as information travels now, the clock for the big government Republicans to go away will be ticking a lot faster

*****Dud? Let’s see. I heard about Rudy’s Reading Day about 7 days before. Most others probably around the same time, perhaps a few days extra. So in 10 days supporters of Ron Paul, without the help of the campaign, got out the message and raised over $500,000. Yeah that’s a dud alright. A dud any of the ‘frontrunners’ would gladly accept.****

They also didn’t mention that, when Ron Paul’s person in charge of fund raising sent out the e-mail saying the campaign needed money now, Ron Paul supporters chipped in somewhere between $200-300,000 on that day. (I couldn’t find the numbers, but I think that my numbers are close.)

With such an up front primary schedule, I thought making the next money bomb Dec. 16th, after the Nov. 5th money bomb, was pretty late. I think Trevor was looking for something that could not be spun by the MSM, so he selected the date of the Boston Tea Party.

In any case, Dec. 16th will be huge. It will not get the overlay that Nov. 5th got. (About $1.8 M pledged, $4.2 M received.) I expect that about $3 M will be pledged and about $6 M. will be received.

Good showings in Iowa, top 3, and N. H., top 2, will give Ron Paul the momentum to pull off the greatest political upset in our history.

The comparison to Goldwater is, I think, an apt one.

Goldwater excited a generation of future conservative leaders while they were still just college kids, and that's what Ron Paul is doing today. On another forum I visit, one of the guys posted a picture of Ron Paul with the caption, "Yes, mom's going to be pissed that you donated next semester's tuition"

That's pretty funny because it has some ring of truth to it, something you couldn't say if it were about another Republican candidate. Who else is getting college kids in large numbers to learn about individual freedom and limited government? No one.

Goldwater lost big time, but he left behind a legacy - a group of young people who had become interested for the first time in politics. Ron Paul is doing the same thing today. Every day, some more or less apolitical college kid whose opinions have been formed mostly by the mainstream media hears about him and goes to his issues page. Where else are these kids hearing positive things about property rights and low taxes and gun ownership? Almost all of them know Social Security is a political scam and they'll never see a dime. Who else is saying so right on his campaign website?

Ron Paul may not even be in the race in a couple of months, but he has already changed the world by waking up some youngsters, just like Goldwater did before him. The GOP is just being stupid by shunning Paul and cozying up to northeastern liberals, IMO. Pushing away potential allies. It's like they want a third party to emerge.