Ron Paul’s $4M Day
I know it’s been a couple days, so everyone probably already saw this in the news, but Ron Paul succeeded in collecting over $4M on November 5th (Guy Fawkes Day). This organic grassroots effort (average donation was $103), which the campaign didn’t even know about at first, resulted in the largest single day haul of any Republican in history, and is behind only Hillary and Obama for most money raised in a single day.
Didn’t hit the $10M goal, but hey, that was a pretty tall order. Congressman Paul has now (as of 11/8/07 at 3:30 ET) raised $7.68M of his 4th quarter goal of $12M. Yes, his fund raising ability is certainly blowing some minds around the country. But his ability to raise money is nothing more than a function of the fervor and dedication of his supporters–people who are tired of a powerful, intrusive government that sends kids to die in wars of aggression, confiscates large portions of our income, prints money out of thin air, looks down its gargantuan nose at the concept of civil liberties, and regulates every aspect of our lives, businesses, and transactions with others. Ron Paul is the only person outside of the Libertarian Party (which is sadly kept off the ballot in many states) that appears to offer a way out of the oppression that Republicans and Democrats have created over the past century.
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