I see it as very important to take a look at the big picture.
In my view, our opposition comes from :
1) the oligarchy / eastern establishment / nwo. They want RP to fail and will do everything they can to bring that about.
2) Hillary. See point # 1. She's part of it. Remember the list of dead bodies surrounding the Clintons?
3) The other Republican candidates. Following are data from their FEC filings for the THIRD quarter, before stuff started moving at its present pace in RP's campaign or theirs. (The link points to RP's filing but everyone else's is available from there.)
In a nutshell,
in the third quarter
Mitt spent
$52 million
Rudy spent
$30 million
Fred spent
$5.6 million
Huck spent
$1.7 million
Ron Paul spent
$2.8 million.
Do you see what we're up against? And that was only the third quarter.
Plus all these other folks are being promoted by the MSM - while RP has a media blackout.
All the enthusiasm / sign waves / rallies can't overcome that weight unless there's also money for advertising.
Yes, those campaigns have more paid staff than RP's does, and probably they are doing a lot of the heavy lifting that RP volunteers do. But the difference in spending doesn't pay for
that many staff.
The letter from Jonathan Bydlak on Monday said that in October alone, $2.8 million was raised, but the campaign spent over $3.1 million. Do you see why more is needed?
http://www.fec.gov/DisclosureSearch...748&searchType=&searchSQLType=&searchKeyword=
Ron Paul
Contributions
Individual $8,191,285
PAC $10,799
Party $0
Candidate $0
Transfers-In $0
Disbursements $2,786,056
Cash On Hand $5,443,667
Mitt Romney
Contributions
Individual $43,703,533
PAC $296,300
Party $0
Candidate $17,413,736
Transfers-In $20,160
Disbursements $52,354,735
Cash On Hand $9,216,517
Rudy Giuliani
Contributions
Individual $44,293,657
PAC $263,392
Party $2,250
Candidate $0
Transfers-In $1,950,000
Disbursements $30,095,792
Cash On Hand $16,649,826
Fred Thompson
Contributions
Individual $12,612,568
PAC $105,425
Party $0
Candidate $0
Transfers-In $0
Disbursements $5,606,451
Cash On Hand $7,121,744
Mike Huckabee
Contributions
Individual $2,297,261
PAC $27,974
Party $15,500
Candidate $0
Transfers-In $0
Disbursements $1,692,112
Cash On Hand $651,301