Kregener
12-13-2007, 11:39 AM
Win or Lose, Paul Good for America
American FreePress
Volume VII #51 December 17, 2007
americanfreepress.net
Populist candidate successful in opening national dialog on ‘taboo’ subjects
By Mark Anderson
Dec. 16—the anniversary of the 1773 Boston Tea Party —is the next planned “money bomb” for the Ron Paul for President campaign, which keeps getting booster shots despite a hostile media that would prefer not having to report the facts.
Rep. Paul (R-Tex.) won the Virginia Republican Party of Virginia’s straw poll by a large margin Dec. 1, receiving 182 votes, followed by former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson with 112 and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 51. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani had 43, Sen. John McCain of Arizona 23, Rep. Duncan Hunter of California 19 and Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado four. The poll highlighted a weekend where more than 600Virginia Republicans gathered to plan strategy for the 2008 election campaign.
“I urge you to vote Ron Paul because he is the only candidate that the Founding Fathers would claim as one of their own,” said lawyer Chris Kachouroff. “Do you remember what it meant to have the conscience of a conservative?”
Paul would be the first to reject foreign support, but he won a global poll in spite of himself. A website that has collected more than 72,000 votes around the world found the vast majority would elect Paul if they could influence the election. Of 72,566 votes cast around the world, Paul got more than 50% with 36,902. His nearest rival was Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) with 14,934.
Paul’s Nov. 5 one-day fundraising total of $4.2 million was “the largest primary fund-raising day in the history of political campaigns,” according to Rep. Paul’s fund-raising manager Jonathan Bydlak. Bydlak, speaking inWashington, said it also was the “largest GOP online day” for fund-raising. Paul’s funds came from scores of donors, including 17,396 new ones on Nov. 5. According to the Paul campaign’s own figures, $4 million of the total was raised online, with the remainder received through other means.
Some initial corporate media reports gave the impression that all the money was raised online. And while many of those reports said the money came from 37,000 individual donors, the actual number for Nov. 5 was 36,672. But since some individuals made more than one donation, the total number of donations for Nov. 5 was 38,869.
As Paul, a 10-term Texas congressman running on the Republican ticket, dominates the other presidential candidates from both dominant parties in cyberspace and raises that kind of money in a single day, the big media cannot help but notice.
Paul, having appeared recently on NBC’s highly popular Jay Leno Show, also recently received considerable national coverage on NBC’s Nightly News, in Associated Press articles and in other big media outlets, print and broadcast —some before but mostly after Nov. 5.While many still call him a “dark horse” and a “long shot,” his viability is getting harder and harder to ignore. Another money bomb could truly make Paul a force to reckon with.
Michael Cornfield, a political scientist who studies Internet campaigning, was quoted by the neo-conservative Washington Times as saying, “That’s going to be big. If you do something once, that gets everyone’s attention. If you do something twice, you’ve got a movement.”
The Times, in a Nov. 19 piece online, acknowledged the upcoming fund-raising day: “When some [Paul] supporters called for a mass-donation day on Nov. 5, the British Guy Fawkes holiday, taking their lead from the “V for Vendetta” movie, the campaign was fine with standing back and watching the money roll in—more than $4 million in one day. Supporters have vowed to try to top that figure with Tea Party ‘07, timed for Dec. 16, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.”
This reporter, speaking in Dallas at the Peace, Justice & Freedom Conference cosponsored by AFP and Freedom Law School, said “The [Paul] campaign shows what happens when people hear unfiltered facts and logic, some for the first time. Let me clarify: By running on the Republican ticket and therefore getting a platform he otherwise would not have, Paul is something akin to a freelance news commentator. After all, he’s one of the few congressmen who writes a column. So, he already is an established commentator.
“But something’s vastly different now, and for the better. Having set an all-time primary fundraising record of $4.2 million on Nov. 5, Paul has become a big-money candidate who has been on Jay Leno and other high profile media outlets; thus, we now have a ‘constitutional commentator’who’s allowed to say what regular news commentators are not allowed to say—and he is saying it to millions of people. So the Paul campaign—which is uniting a growing mass of people under the Constitution—is a perfect example of what happens when large numbers of people finally get to hear information that is normally restricted....
“But the real kicker is that these millions of people, for the first time ever, are hearing ‘heretical’ things like abolish the privately owned and controlled Federal Reserve. Abolish the income tax. Stop intervention in other people’s wars around the globe. We can conclude fairly safely that the American people would react in a similar manner to a steady diet of unfiltered news if and when enough of them are allowed to hear it and read it.”
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American FreePress
Volume VII #51 December 17, 2007
americanfreepress.net
Populist candidate successful in opening national dialog on ‘taboo’ subjects
By Mark Anderson
Dec. 16—the anniversary of the 1773 Boston Tea Party —is the next planned “money bomb” for the Ron Paul for President campaign, which keeps getting booster shots despite a hostile media that would prefer not having to report the facts.
Rep. Paul (R-Tex.) won the Virginia Republican Party of Virginia’s straw poll by a large margin Dec. 1, receiving 182 votes, followed by former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson with 112 and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 51. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani had 43, Sen. John McCain of Arizona 23, Rep. Duncan Hunter of California 19 and Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado four. The poll highlighted a weekend where more than 600Virginia Republicans gathered to plan strategy for the 2008 election campaign.
“I urge you to vote Ron Paul because he is the only candidate that the Founding Fathers would claim as one of their own,” said lawyer Chris Kachouroff. “Do you remember what it meant to have the conscience of a conservative?”
Paul would be the first to reject foreign support, but he won a global poll in spite of himself. A website that has collected more than 72,000 votes around the world found the vast majority would elect Paul if they could influence the election. Of 72,566 votes cast around the world, Paul got more than 50% with 36,902. His nearest rival was Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) with 14,934.
Paul’s Nov. 5 one-day fundraising total of $4.2 million was “the largest primary fund-raising day in the history of political campaigns,” according to Rep. Paul’s fund-raising manager Jonathan Bydlak. Bydlak, speaking inWashington, said it also was the “largest GOP online day” for fund-raising. Paul’s funds came from scores of donors, including 17,396 new ones on Nov. 5. According to the Paul campaign’s own figures, $4 million of the total was raised online, with the remainder received through other means.
Some initial corporate media reports gave the impression that all the money was raised online. And while many of those reports said the money came from 37,000 individual donors, the actual number for Nov. 5 was 36,672. But since some individuals made more than one donation, the total number of donations for Nov. 5 was 38,869.
As Paul, a 10-term Texas congressman running on the Republican ticket, dominates the other presidential candidates from both dominant parties in cyberspace and raises that kind of money in a single day, the big media cannot help but notice.
Paul, having appeared recently on NBC’s highly popular Jay Leno Show, also recently received considerable national coverage on NBC’s Nightly News, in Associated Press articles and in other big media outlets, print and broadcast —some before but mostly after Nov. 5.While many still call him a “dark horse” and a “long shot,” his viability is getting harder and harder to ignore. Another money bomb could truly make Paul a force to reckon with.
Michael Cornfield, a political scientist who studies Internet campaigning, was quoted by the neo-conservative Washington Times as saying, “That’s going to be big. If you do something once, that gets everyone’s attention. If you do something twice, you’ve got a movement.”
The Times, in a Nov. 19 piece online, acknowledged the upcoming fund-raising day: “When some [Paul] supporters called for a mass-donation day on Nov. 5, the British Guy Fawkes holiday, taking their lead from the “V for Vendetta” movie, the campaign was fine with standing back and watching the money roll in—more than $4 million in one day. Supporters have vowed to try to top that figure with Tea Party ‘07, timed for Dec. 16, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.”
This reporter, speaking in Dallas at the Peace, Justice & Freedom Conference cosponsored by AFP and Freedom Law School, said “The [Paul] campaign shows what happens when people hear unfiltered facts and logic, some for the first time. Let me clarify: By running on the Republican ticket and therefore getting a platform he otherwise would not have, Paul is something akin to a freelance news commentator. After all, he’s one of the few congressmen who writes a column. So, he already is an established commentator.
“But something’s vastly different now, and for the better. Having set an all-time primary fundraising record of $4.2 million on Nov. 5, Paul has become a big-money candidate who has been on Jay Leno and other high profile media outlets; thus, we now have a ‘constitutional commentator’who’s allowed to say what regular news commentators are not allowed to say—and he is saying it to millions of people. So the Paul campaign—which is uniting a growing mass of people under the Constitution—is a perfect example of what happens when large numbers of people finally get to hear information that is normally restricted....
“But the real kicker is that these millions of people, for the first time ever, are hearing ‘heretical’ things like abolish the privately owned and controlled Federal Reserve. Abolish the income tax. Stop intervention in other people’s wars around the globe. We can conclude fairly safely that the American people would react in a similar manner to a steady diet of unfiltered news if and when enough of them are allowed to hear it and read it.”
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