Hey look, Ron Paul got a bunch of money today:
Today, Nov. 5, marks not only Paul’s best fundraising haul in a single day —
approximately $3.75 million by 11 p.m. EST — but online observers say it’s also
the most money raised by a candidate on the Web in a single day. And the day’s
not over yet. “Damn. Wow. Um, that’s pretty awesome,” said a stunned Jerome
Armstrong who served as Howard Dean’s online strategist. Armstrong, the founder
of the popular blog MyDD, said Dean raised as much as $700,000 in one day toward
the end of the primary race. “But not a million,” Armstrong added. “What Paul is
doing — or what his supporters are doing — is really impressive.”
If I remember correctly they wanted his supporters to each donate one hundred bucks, which would make about 38,000 supporters donating.
I can feel Rudy, Fred and Mitt shaking in their boots already.
Sigh….
And this is quite interesting from Screw Loose Change:
Now it turns out that some of the money that Paul is raising may be coming from
overseas as well. Check out
this post at the Looser Forum:Unfortunately only Americans can donate due to election
laws.Unless you can find a Ron Paul supporter in the US, that you trust,
that you may want to “BUY” something from at a very inflated price.
😛Oliver links to this post over at the Ronulans
message board suggesting the same thing:I know you can’t donate to the campaign, but you can donate to
individual Americans. Money is always of concern and your meetup groups want to
help, we could sure use it. We need to do all kinds of advertising –
television/print/radio I’m pretty sure that if you wanted to, you could send
your money to a trusted American and ask THEM to donate to the campaign I’m
sure there are many ways that we could put your money to use that would help us
get Ron Paul’s campaign an asist.I’d be willing to be a collection point
(if you will) to distribute funds for various advertising projects, or to the
campaign if that is what you wanted. PM me if you are interested.
The Ron Paul campaign getting foreign donations? How come this doesn’t shock me?
But wait for it, within seconds of this post going up a PaulBot will be all over it claiming a conspiracy to keep RP down.
Keep the conspiracy quiet please. We wouldn’t want them to find out that this post was secretly written in the bowels of the Banking Conglomerate Headquarters. That would ruin everything.
And finally check out some of the comments to the above WaPo article on his fundraising:
I am a Republican and voted for Bush (sorry U.S.A.) but recently woke up
to the fact that our country is in danger of turning into a fascist
state, with global bankers pulling the puppet strings.
i voted for kerry last time in hopes that he would put and end to the bush
bulls**t, but as usual the do nothing dems did nothing. go ron paul you have my
vote any day over the neocon hillary
I said I would NEVER vote for a
Republican again – but I would vote for Mr. Paul before that “other”
Republican, Hillary Clinton.If not, I will support Edwards or Obama.
Go Ron Paul!
Pali, why don’t you just get chipped now so the government can track
you like cattle. Bahhh-bahhh, you’re as retarded as the others who will
vote for Romney or Clinton. Protest while you can! If Dr. Paul looses
this election no dissent will be tolerated. The North American Empire
will be one step closer to accomplishing their goals of destroying the
middle class.
Ron Paul does take the award for the weirdest supporters tho. I will give him that. Twoofers and neo-nazi’s. Militant anti-government nutjobs and those who think Hillary Clinton is a neo-con.
I’m telling ya, if I had not seen it myself I would have thought this was all a made up story but it sure makes this election entertaining.
UPDATE
Even more from the Ronulans message board:
A guy over in the UK bought some tshirts from me, and “inadvertently”
added $20 to the order. So whadya know, when it came time to contribute
again to Ron Paul, I had an extra $20 to spare. Go figure.
I’m taking donation from Foriegn Nationals at marchacrossamerica so far
we have had a great response…you just have to let them know you are
out there.
Here are a few things that I would suggest for foreigners who would
like to help with the campaign. Contact the organizers of RP Meetup
groups, maybe in a favorite American city of yours if you have one.
Student ones are even better, students are always broke! They are also
more likely than older supporters to plaster signs and stickers
everywhere. See if they would like to receive a box of stickers, signs,
etc. Order some merchandise and have it shipped to them.
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