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Paul Tops $4 Million Today
Sunday, December 16th, 2007Pretty amazing stuff. Especially impressive to do this on a Sunday, when web traffic tends to lag.
MORE: A new one-day record. And closing in on $6 million!
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Seriously, whoever thought he was gonna bring in this kind of dough.
I did. And apparently, 30,000 + people from across the United States did also.
So how does this advance individual rights? It’s nice that several thousand people donated money to a career politician, but it’s not going to save a single person from the abuses perpetuated every day by the state.
Nonsense, Skip. You have kids on college campuses all over the country talking about constitutionalism, war powers, and the benefits of limited government and federalism. And these aren’t College Republicans, who are mostly contemptuous of Paul. They’re liberals, independents, and political neophytes.
Paul’s generating discussion all over the Internet, too. Check the Reddit and Digg boards. Paul’s on the front page every day.
No, he won’t get elected. And he’s far from perfect. But people who were attracted to Paul because of his position on the war are getting exposure to libertarian ideas who never would have been exposed to them before.
That’s a god thing.
Geez… WON’T get elected? Even George Stephanopoulos gives him more credit than that now.
At any rate, it looks like he pulled in well over 6 million today.
“No, he won’t get elected.”
Exactly why I stopped supporting CATO. You have become disillusioned with the system. You’re so careful to appear “realistic” and afraid to be labeled as fringe that you distance yourself from the one man speaking from his heart. Why wouldn’t you wait until after Iowa & New Hampshire to say something like this anyway? This defeatist attitude goes against everything you seem to stand for Radley. Have high hopes, continue to be optimistic…and don’t let the Old Media dictate your feelings.
Failure to take into account factors beyond one’s simplistic ideology is precisely why the Bush administration has our country’s foreign policy FUBAR.
Understanding the reality that Paul will not get elected, while enjoying the publicity that he and his ideas have received is hardly “selling out.”
“You have kids on college campuses all over the country talking about constitutionalism, war powers, and the benefits of limited government and federalism.”
Right, they’re talking. Let’s see them actually get off their lazy asses and do something.
“Check the Reddit and Digg boards. Paul’s on the front page every day.”
And if “libertarianism = Ron Paul,” that would be a great thing. All I see is a career politician building a clique of personality around him. It’s not going to help anyone whose actually being harmed by the state, however.
And unlike Radley, I think Paul can win. I certainly wouldn’t predict the outcome of an election before it happens.
Hows a guy who is opposed to the doctrine of incorporation considered a libertarian? Does the fact that so many people who call themselves libertarian support this guy mean that most so called libertarians don’t really care about civil liberties after all and are really just fiscal conservatives? Are those college students talking about how the end of a federally protected right to freedom of speech is one of the benefits of federalism? Or is everyone so excited to have finally found a candidate who shares their beleif system that they’ve been too busy to notice that this candidate doesn’t share their beleif system at all?