Another Ron Paul Surge
David Weigel | November 5, 2007, 11:21am
Here's a screencap of Ron Paul's campaign site around midnight this morning.
Here's a screencap from five minutes ago.
In about 11 hours Paul has raised $1.6 million. That surge is part of a mass
November 5th fundraiser dreamed up by grassroots Paul supporters: "Remember, remember, the fifth of November" by raising $5 million in one day for Paul. The campaign had fallen well short of its $4 million goal for October, raising some doubt whether it could raise $12 million by December 31. If the donors merely keep up their pace today, they'll get the campaign halfway to that goal with 55 days left. By comparison, Howard Dean blew away the rest of the Democrats in the final quarter of 2003 by raising
$15 million. That was after three months as the frontrunner, the endorsement of Al Gore, etc.
Even if you don't like Paul, you have to gasp at what's happening in the GOP race. There are three phenomenons running in tandem: Paul's fundraising, Huckabee's cash-strapped poll surge, and McCain's running-on-fumes poll comeback. Anybody working for the Rudy-Fred-Mitt power trio has to wonder why the Republican base is so hungry for these other choices. (Also, more reason to ignore the campaign finance reformers who whine about big money trumping ideas and good people in politics.)
UPDATE 4:01: Right now Paul's reporting $5.45 million, meaning he's 1)doubled his fourth quarter fundraising in one day and 2)already surpassed his entire fundraising total from the third quarter. I'm pretty sure Paul's broken the record for one-day fundraising in a primary campaign. (Mitt Romney raised $2.5 million in hard dollars at one January event, then inflated the total with $4 million of pledges. Since his donations have fallen off in successive quarters I don't know if all those pledges were fulfilled.)
Eric Dondero | November 5, 2007, 2:37pm | #
Cesar, how old are you?
I'm 44. In my 44 years on this planet there has not been a single event more powerful, more devastating, more explosive literally in the United States of America, than 9/11.
Our Nation is 230 years old.
I would challenge you to find a single event in our Nation's history more important than 9/11.
Yes, Pearl Harbor, and the invasion of Normandy come awfully close. Perhaps Pearl Harbor does equal 9/11. I admit one could make that argument.
But in our lifetimes, (and I'm assuming here that you're in your 30s or 40s), NOTHING EQUALS THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001. And perhaps NOTHING ELSE EVER WILL.
For you to say that Rudy Giuliani talks about 9/11 "too much" is downright insulting and a great offense to anyone and everyone who is a loyal citizen of this great country.
If anything, WE DON'T TALK ABOUT 9/11 NEARLY ENOUGH!!
There's been a grand total of 2 major Hollywood movies made about 9/11: Flight 92, and the one about the Fireman in the Twin Towers starring Nicolas Cage.
How many movies were made about WWII?? Hundreds???
When is the last time you remember ANY News outlet showing the jets flying into the Twin Towers? Maybe Discovery Channel or the History Channel late at night on one of their specials. But that's about it.
Are American schoolchildren today taught about what happened on 9/11?
Hell No!!! It's all been blotted out by the liberal media.
Thank God, WE FINALLY HAVE A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WHO IS WILLING TO TALK ABOUT THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11.
I say for that reason alone, Giuliani more so than anyone, deserves to be the next President of the United States.
Oh yeah, plum forgot. Ron Paul talks about 9/11 too. Especially when he wants to blame America for the attacks.
