Ron Paul Set To Outraise Other GOP Candidates

Politico:

Ron Paul may not win his party's primary, but he is on track to capture another big title: top Republican fundraiser for the final quarter of the money-obsessed 2008 presidential primary.

In the first two months of the quarter that began Oct. 1, Paul already has raised more than $9.75 million, putting him easily within range to best the amount rival Mitt Romney received from donors during the entire third quarter.

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[Galvestonians for Dr. Ron Paul]

What we have now are isolationist policies. We do not trade with certain countries.
We hold them hostage using our trade policies as "ammo".
We must stop meddling in others affairs.
Our own is not cleaned up, how can we cast stones to others?
Mind our own business.
We are not the end all, be all!
We inject our rule of law on them, then when we commit a crime, we cry foul!
This is no way for a country to survive.
If we do not get some one like Ron Paul in this office this time, you can kiss it goodbye..

Dr. Paul would never go against the will of the people.
Even here in Galveston, If enough Democrats get together to bring farm aid or port funds and they want him to bring this pork, guess what he does?
He brings the bill, then votes against it and explains to his constituents why.
99% of the time, after his reasoning to them, they agree and trust him and go along, but not without feeling DUPED!
He saves us money and puts it in things like a hurricane fund for Galveston.
We have secured $60 million dollars in private loans to keep government functioning through the aftermath of a hurricane. With Dr. Pauls help next year in 2008 we will secure $100 million more.
We will wait for no federal help, nor will we even ask.
We will rebuild our own city and will not be told who is to do the work.
These rebuilders will be held to account by the citizens and local government of Galveston and we will oversee contract work gets finished and is done right.

Like the hurricane of 1900 when 10000 people parished.
The city was stricken...It had bodies everywhere. They ended up burning them because when they were buried at sea, there was such a vast amount they kept washing up on shore.
It was a brutal, yet educational time for Galveston.
The Catholic charities and the local government joined and created the biggest joint rebuilding mission in US history.

[gpr-2007]

Call me misguided, tell me I have no idea what is right for this country...

As a staunch GOP hating, environmentalist, whom, when in doubt, will choose whatever choice there is other than GOP, I am supporting Ron Paul...

His environmental stance sucks. His abortion stance sucks. His healthcare plan is marginal yet, regarding the real problems and the real issues we face, his stance is smack dead on. Smack Dead On with truth and honesty! The abortion issue, the environmental issues will improve dramatically just by taking care of the major issues of his platform that being fixing our foreign policy, fixing our monetary policy, restoring liberty, the Bill of Rights, and getting us out of a war that does nothing but maintain instability across the globe.

The information of this world in coming at you from every possible angle. Please, let go of a narrow perspective of the world and open up to all the angles, you will see things you didnt know were there... Lots and lots of things.

[godlessclif]

I hope Ron Paul can overcome the "wag the dog" advantage Hillary has for planting stories.

I will not support Hillary. If she is nominated
I wil not vote for her. If Hillary is elected I will work to have her impeached.

[Dendroica]

Think about it this way- a fringe candidate who hasn't even voted for a Republican for president, is the big money earner for the Republicans. And he's said, he won't support the party's candidate if it ain't him.

58 senate seats for the Democrats, 250 congressional seats, and the White House.

[leftLibertarian]

A little over a month for the NH primary and I'll be proudly voting for a True Son of Liberty Ron Paul.

[jaschrod]

If for no other reason, it sure would be nice to hear a politician speak that you could believe, but most people to not know the truth when they hear it. Most would rather be lied to than face the truth, pitiful. I personally will not vote for any other candidate, but RP, I will write in his name. Some say that is wasting my vote, I do not think so, because voting for any of the others would be stating that I agree with the same old direction these two parties have led us.

[GLOBALISATIONisBARBARISM]

If a tandem Ron Paul-Dennis Kucinich is not elected president in 2008, or at least boosted to such a degree as will make the appearance of a credible third-party-movement possible, if this last opportunity of 2008 is once more frittered away then good-bye USA, - perhaps good-bye civilization.

Sorrily, I am not overstating this. And, shamefully, HuffingtonPost continues to do little to highlight the real political divide: that between self-serving elites and that part of the common people who are still capable of sound thinking (not tv-brainwashed yet).

This article itself displays the usual tone of belittlement and condescending patting on the back which is an unerring sign of people not grasping the stakes.

Neither of the "popular" candidates, - from both parties -, has any qualification to lead the nations in such times of crisis as are before us. They are pathetic clowns.

America is on the verge of turning into a dictatorship or the battleground for chaotic civil war, or both, if the financial breakdown continues to be left undealt with and starts turning into the long-due economic turnaround of global (im)balances, capable of ushering in a real economic breakdown of the U.S. economy.

And the world stands on the verge of being plunged into a general war, if those forces as have led you full-speed into the economic disaster continue to hold sway once chaos spreads.

The Soviets, at least, when their system collapsed, had the decency to spare the world a nuclear controntation. If Americans are capable of the same level of civilized behavior remains to be seen.

If they allow the gamblers to continue leading Washington by their nose-rings, the party is over. Civilization WILL break down. But God forbid we'd wake up in time and change the holy pattern of shallow, irrelevant chatter on the "news" channels.

[Galvestonians for Dr. Ron Paul]

Open Letter to Qbear, Misanthrope2 and the others that feel the need to call Dr. Paul names and link him to groups he has no control over and smears.

I want all of you first to Remember Abraham Lincoln was a Republican Dark Horse candidate and I would ABSOLUTELY place Dr. Paul on this same page!

It is not the fault of the American people that your parties, either Republican or Democrat, have chosen to follow their leaders down a path of endless war and certain finacial doom.
It is very understandable that the politicians of both parties feel the need to attach themselves to these principles, and follow them to the end.
This is what politicians do
when they place all their eggs. One can expect that.
But why, Please tell me, do you feel the need to capitulate in your parties demise, even though both of their paths are DEAD WRONG and makes you wonder and have serious questions and doubts?
Have you not noticed the 06 election and the inaction?
Have you not noticed the mandate Democrats have given their party and the mandate the people have given this government in general, were not acted on let alone addressed?
Are you that easily led, that you would consider listening to your party leaders, even though you see millions of Americans waving their hands at you and showing you right to your face, YOURE WRONG about this man and he deserves a chance? You chose your party over an obvious majority of people?
Look at what the military says.
Look at what the straw polls say.
Look at the money he is raising from(according to KOS) is TOTAL grassroots support.

[Qbear]

Ron Paul Is Anti-Choice
http://current.com/items/86124901_ron_paul_is_anti_choice

"I've been seeing Ron Paul supporters all over progressive blogs, and they had a booth at the anti-war demo in L.A. on 10/27. Along with Paul's libertarian (dog-eat dog, law of the jungle capitalism) beliefs, he is staunchly against women's right to choose. When I confronted the supporters at the demo with this fact, one first tried to deny it, and some others tried to defend it. It seems that Paul is against government regulation in everything except women's right to control over their own bodies. But, of course, I was told that Paul supports the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for everyone, including the "unborn". Which amounts to the valuing of the liberties of embryos over the lives of women, since both lives are inextricably tied during pregnancy. At the end of the day, except for his opposition to the Iraq war, Paul is at least as bad as all the other right wing theocratic extremists who would send us back to the bad old days before Roe v Wade. "

[Qbear]

In 1981 a Republican congressman declared:
Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and therefore not entitled to the protection of the law. The State protects the "right" of some people to kill others, just as the courts protected the "property rights" of slave masters in their slaves. Moreover, by this method the State achieves a goal common to all totalitarian regimes: it sets us against each other, so that our energies are spent in the struggle between State-created classes, rather than in freeing all individuals from the State. Unlike Nazi Germany, which forcibly sent millions to the gas chambers (as well as forcing abortion and sterilization upon many more), the new regime has enlisted the assistance of millions of people to act as its agents in carrying out a program of mass murder.
Lest you think it's just a minor issue for him, consider the obscure fact that Paul has written not one but two books arguing for the necessity of a pro-life libertarianism: 1983's Abortion and Liberty and 1990's Challenge to Liberty: Coming to Grips with the Abortion Issue. And lest you think he has since changed his views on abortion, ponder what he's saying now. On June 4, 2003, speaking in the House of Representatives, Paul described "the rights of unborn people” as “the greatest moral issue of our time."

[Qbear]

Ron Paul’s unfortunate position on Federal hate crime legislation to protect gays and transgendered
May 12, 2007 8:39 am

Rep. Ron Paul has taking the most unfortunate stance in response to the legislation under consideration, which would extend Federal Hate Crime statutes to instances of hate motivated crimes that are perpetrated against gays and cross-gendered. Reverting to the less intellectually endowed Republican rhetoric - deviating from his more interesting and, often, more reasonable Libertarian slant - he contends that provisioning Federal authority for purposes ensuring the Constitutional Liberties of these historically persecuted groups - in fact - discriminates against those who wish
to discriminate - to extremes where crimes are committed - against these vulnerable identities in our society. Additionally, in the tradition of Liberalism, he contends that laws can only reference individuated agents in society; a monadic conception of of the composite of agents and agencies constituting humanity; a premise upon which Liberal juridical-politico discourse is built.

http://www.midwest-populistamerica.com/articles/ron-pauls-unfortunate-position-on-federal-hate-crime-legislation-to-protect-gays-and-transgendered/

[cognate]

With your help Ron Paul will clean up.

You know this country needs it like a breath of fresh air.

[leatherneck]

The last time I voted for a republican was tricky dick nixon, and never did I again vote republican, have to admit, if given a choice between Hillary Clinton whom I do not like, or Ron Paul, I would vote for Ron Paul..., but the catch here is the elite 2% who really run the republican party will never allow a Ron Paul too win nomination...., so it is funny the one candidate in republican running who could give any democrat a run for the independant voter, will never get the nomination...., the elite 2% prefer a ex-drag queen, Guiliani, with three adulterous affairs, questionable friends with corruption issues, a infamous flip flopper, pro-gun control, then anti gun control, pro-abortion, then anti-abortion, pro-illegal immigrant then anti-illegal immigrant..., and his nearest opponet another flip flopper, pro-abortion Mit Romney and then anti-abortion, etc.., etc.., list goes on, and the real joke is Huckabee the theology expert, practicing minister who dodged the question on what would Jesus do on death penalty, instead of answering he made a joke, dodged the question, pretended Jesus would have no issue/opinion, forgetting the famous parable of the adulteress who was condemned by religious experts Pharisees, as under gods law death by stoning..., republicans pay lip service too Jesus, God, give too the richest 2%, take from the poor, welfare mom/dad since they deserve their poverty, are shiftless, lazy, scum, but then they fit the blind biblical goat whom Jesus says he will not know on judgment day, for ignoring the poor, hungry, naked those sick and in prison..., pity the republicans, they truly have a fate worse than many...

[godlessclif]

The forces of tyranny are so big and powerful
Everyone know an ant can't
move a rubber tree plant;
But we got high hopes
we got high hopes
we got high apple pie in the sky hopes.

I tis so much easier to pick one of the two masters you want to rule your life an make you a slave.

Which will feed you better; which will whip you less. Which will keep things orderly. Which will keep you safer?

But leave the plantation; that's nuts.

[Wrong2bRight]

Ron Paul is a lunatic. He thinks that individualism is more important then working for the common good. The concept of personal property is only about ego and selfishness.