Ron Paul Money Bomb Raises Over Half a Million in First Hour

Kurt Nimmo
TruthNews
December 15, 2007

Beating all expectations, as of midnight EST, December 15, the Ron Paul campaign raised nearly $12 million during its “Boston Tea Party” fund raiser organized by Trevor Lyman. Remarkably, in a 20 minute period earlier this evening, donations exceeded $250,000, a truly astronomical achievement for a candidate the corporate media consistently ranks as “second tier” and hardly worthy of mention. At the present rate, it is entirely possible the Ron Paul campaign will raise over $20 million by the end of the quarter ending on December 31.

“Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has a very good shot at topping 20 million for the quarter. In fact it could happen by the weekend,” Larry Fester wrote for USA Daily on December 13. “Paul may raise between 8-10 million dollars this Sunday making it by far the largest single fund raising day in presidential history. Ron Paul has already raised 11.4 million dollars this quarter.” In fact, as of Saturday, he has surpassed this predicted milestone.

“Considering that Hillary Clinton raised about 22 million in the third quarter Sunday should make it painfully obvious how good Paul’s odds are of winning the GOP nomination.”

“While the bookmakers say it is odds on that Ron Paul will break his own record for online donations in one day, the extremely short odds they give on the $10 million barrier being broken are very encouraging for the campaign,” Steve Watson wrote on December 13. “Betting odds on how much money Ron Paul’s campaign will raise in one day this Sunday suggest that bookies believe the Congressman could easily break the $10 million mark and stun his constant detractors by raising close to $20 million in the fourth quarter.”

Back on November 5th, Dr. Paul’s grassroots campaign raised over $4.3, bringing the total to an appreciable $6 million, destroying John Kerry’s all time record. “Money that pulls in money. It’s like cold fusion for campaign finance. The question: Can this reaction sustain itself for more than a day?” asked Tim Dickenson on November 6, the day after Paul’s fantastic numbers made it impossible for the corporate media to ignore his success.

It will certainly be interesting to see how the corporate media attempts to spin Ron Paul’s record-breaking numbers.

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  2. Louie on December 16th, 2007

    First, I want to thank Alex Jones for all his hard work
    Second, I want to thank all the patriots for donating today and giving us a chance for freedom

    Last and certainly not least

    THANK YOU RON PAUL

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  4. Allen Hacker on December 16th, 2007

    Hi Kurt,

    Please edit your opening line:

    “Beating all expectations, as of midnight EST, December 15, the Ron Paul campaign raised nearly $12 million during its “Boston Tea Party” fund raiser …”

    This is not true as written and probably isn’t even what you meant to say.

    The BTP didn’t begin until midnight, and you are writing about money raised before midnight. So that “nearly 12 million” is not from the BTP at all.

    You should also clarify that by “midnight” you mean the end of the day on the 15th, rather than the more accurate meaning of midnight as 12AM the following date.

    I suggest:

    ‘Beating all expectations, as of midnight EST, the evening of December 15, the Ron Paul campaign had already raised nearly all of its quarterly goal of $12 million, and that’s before the “Boston Tea Party” fund raiser …’

    (You don’t need to approve and post this message, I don’t need to correct you in public, I just want you to be accurate.

    Thanks!

    -0-

  5. Scott Webb on December 16th, 2007

    Nice to see the American people waking up and putting their support behind Ron :)

  6. vernon hill on December 16th, 2007

    Spend it as quickly as possible. It’s becoming more worthless every day.

  7. Mindy Maucelli on December 16th, 2007

    Go Ron Paul!
    I knew you could do it!
    I donated TWICE, before midnight, then AFTER midnight..
    Just to make sure I got to be part of this!
    We’re depending on you!
    *smiles* Mindy

  8. Justin Spigelman on December 16th, 2007

    Not a single mention of this on any of the big 3 news outlets(CNN, MSNBC, FOX). The fact that the elite are attempting to choose our leaders for us is quite obvious now.

  9. Steven on December 16th, 2007

    Will all the praying folk please pray for the protection of Congressman Ron Paul and his family, and that he will be propelled to the White House in spite of the globalists’ evil agenda. Dr. Paul just may be God’s man for such a time as this!

  10. Daniel on December 16th, 2007

    Ron Paul is running strong. Consider that he reached 11% in a new South Carolina poll released yesterday!

  11. The Presidential Candidates on December 16th, 2007

    Everyone who has already contributed to Ron Paul should try to contribute an additional $17.76!!!

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  13. James McDonough on December 16th, 2007

    We have all the odds against us. Rapid primary season. Mass media promotion of only Huckelberry hound, and O’Sama O’bama O’mama. Almost a complete MSM blackout of what is the Ron Paul story. This is it for us in the USA. The sound to General Quarters should be ringing in all Patrioits ears now. We need to fully collar our Co-workers into this rally. We have to make them see, that this is the time to put all our votes into one basket. I know it is hard to spend money now, but if not now when? Whatever party insider wins this election, we will be forever doomed. Save taking to the streets in a Romanian solution with many casualties. The last year should have been enough save for the most asleep of us in America. The day after the last election, when many of us switched to give the Democrat’s the majority, they started talking about the 2008 election without doing anything about the problems we put them in power to do! To top it off, we almost had the immigration thrown down our throats by voting out Republicans that were against it. We now have seen Congress has ceased to listen to the people in both parties. We can only now go for the top slot, to Repeal, and Veto present, and comming executive orders, and bills. We need Ron Paul. We need him bad or its the end of this United States. We must go for it all now.

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  15. Gery on December 16th, 2007

    Hi, you all, I am not even American but I donated! The RP revolution is spreading all over the globe as a phenomenon that has never happened in history that we know of…not?
    We even have our Strasbourg Tea Party…
    http://europe4ronpaul.blogspot.com/

    Take care you all from a Belgium living Ibiza Spain,Gery

  16. michael mc devitt on December 16th, 2007

    Anyone else wondering if this will finally be a wake up call to the Democratic Majority in Congress that the American people are angry, very angry, at the way things are going?
    What we need now is an anti-incumbent movement to “throw the bums out”. That would be a wake up call to both parties!!

  17. Jerry Martin on December 16th, 2007

    I have been furious about the lack of coverage the news media has refused to give to Paul, Hunter and Tancredo.
    Instead, giving generous amounts of coverage to the amnesty sucking liberals.
    This is news coverage at it’s worse.
    It’s who they want, not us.
    The news media can kiss my royal A$$.

  18. Richard Parrish on December 17th, 2007

    GOD BLESS YOU RON PAUL

  19. Todd Conard on December 17th, 2007

    My 3 year old was with my wife at Wendy’s yesterday when he saw a familiar face sitting at a table next to them…he leaned over to my wife and said, “Mommy, is that Ron Paul?” It wasn’t Ron…but I sure was proud of my boy for being more aware of Ron Paul than most politically apathetic adults…we need an alert citizenry who scrutinizes it’s government and will elect the man with the best ideas who is true to this nation and it’s constitution…that man is Ron Paul!

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  21. Eric W. on December 17th, 2007

    The money bomb was a HUGE success and now he will be on Glenn Beck this Tuesday and Meet The Press on Sunday.
    Great work patriots!! We still have alot of work to do, so lets rachet it up and get this man in office.
    We will settle for nothing less.

  22. Jon on December 17th, 2007

    Ron Paul, God Bless Him but danger to him is very real from sources inside the intelligence community, which is very suggestive that people from the highest levels of the U.S.government are considering an assassiantion attempt against Congressman Ron Paul because they are threatened by his burgeoning popularity from the REAL polls and not the obvious corporate media controled news.

    The Ron Paul phenomenon has galvanzied an entire nation, the people who discovered the potential plot and it’s protagonists are terrified at the consequences of what such an action will be because of the difficulty in judging just how severly the general public will react.

    The term removed is used in reference to Congressman Ron Paul, a direct euphemism for assassinattion.
    Remember what happened to John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennnedy, they wanted to end the Vietnam War and the money machine fueled by the corporatist of our U.S corporate controled government, further more it has been highly suggested that maybe he too, John F Kennedy wanted to get rid of the Federal Reserve and hold them, that non-government non- federal agency accounatble to the American people.

    Please people, call Congressman Ron Pauls Headquarters office asking he take much more security measures for I fear for his safety from what I have read from article by Joseph Watson from Prison Planet.com.
    Also, have them have a good many poll monitors in both Iowa and New Hampshire and perhaps elsewhere, though I fear the electornic voting machines which are unconstitutional will be rigged.
    We who lead the fight to restore the Constitution before it’s to late must act with raised voices till the powers that be can no longer obfuscate the truth, for the truth shall set you free.

    Their next game plan, is to create many obstacles to legal honest Americans from rights to the 1st and 2nd amendments, it’s deceptively called the Home-
    Grown Terrorism Prevention Act and the Violent Radicalization and the Veterans Disarnament Bill as it’s called hidden under the bill called the Childrens Safe Act, bill No?
    Incidently, the GTPA loosely termed language was supposeldy spearheaded by the Rand Corporation which has ties to the military industrial complex and so called Democratic Senator Jane Harmon who sponsored the bill and it overwhelmingly passed the House and is now in the Senate and is expected to pass if “We the People” do not call and express our outrage like we did with the 3 times tried shamnesty bill for illegal aliens that was defeated thanks to everyone who called the much sullied Whorehouse of Corporate America of Congress and demanded capitol NO! to any and all forms of amensty for illegal aliens and to build once and for all a full border fence, which now as it stands has at the last minute without explanation been stripped, the 3 billion funding approved last year for OUR border security but not Iraq’s or the oil companies.
    Maybe I should contact Iraq and ask them since we are helping them with their border, maybe they could help us with ours, for apparently from Mr.Bush and company, it’s a job they do not want or intend to do, namely protecting the United States of America’s sovergeinty.
    We the people, should export Congress to Mexico like they are doing with all our U.S jobs and importation of cheap labor and cheap goods from China, perhaps then we could create and get a Congress that works for and by the people and not for themselves and their pocket books.

    Again, I repeat from the aformentioned, contact Congressmen Ron Pauls office, show your support and tell the staff you are concerned for his safety or personal welfare, due to the surging of his support by we the people.
    Also, call Congressmens Ron Paul and state Senators and mention your opposition to the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, sponsored by Demoncrat Jane Harmon, for the bill is very lossely defined and could even be construed to attack Ron Paul supporters, the bill is obviously not designed to attack real terrorists but “We the People” who have a right to the constitutionly protected first and second amendments.

    Lastly, El Presidente of Mexico has changed a last minute policy and now will allow 10 carriers as opposed to three of NAFTA trucks to roam all U.S highways and will now allow 55 trucks to enadanger U.S citizens safety and all our U.S roads, so much for the so called “war on terror” look no further than the whitehouse.
    The aforementioned can be read from Public Citizen, the independent public watch dog groups website.

    For all who read this thanks for reading and thanks for getting involved.

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  24. Wayne Fontana on February 18th, 2008

    I believe that once America is free again, the rest of the world will demand the same conditions.

    I am the same Wayne Fontana who was #1 on your pop charts in 1965, while your government was bombing the shit out of Vietnam and trying to steel their oil. BTAOJL before the assasination of John Lennon.

    I too have tried to change things in the UK and have been placed in Short Sharp Shock Centres (5 times and finally Nottingham Prison for six months for trying to tell the truth to the once Great Britain.

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