This December is perfect timing. Most candidates will be starting their exploratory committee around January of 2011. But if Ron Paul can announce his in December of 2010 he gets a lot of benefit from it.
He gets the outcome of this moneybomb which will have people talking throughout the holidays about Ron Paul as the Republican Party candidate and will let people know that Ron Paul owns the Tea Parties.
Also, if his more affluent donors can max out in 2010, the ticker flips back in 2011 so they can max out again that year. That's why instead of having just a moneybomb pledge site, I added the feature of showing how much you plan on donating. Those who can donate $2,400 will be able to show that and give more incentive to everyone else to rally behind the moneybomb with the higher figures.
If it comes down to it and Ron Paul doesn't announce in time for the moneybomb, we will have figured out by then how best to get the money to him. Either through CFL, or his congressional campaign, or whichever...but I believe that he wouldn't let an opportunity like this pass him by and will be compelled to announce.
Either way, we are the grassroots. We are powerful because we don't have to follow the campaign rules set up to strangle the candidates. We can start the campaign right here and right now. There's no reason to wait for an announcement. Ron Paul 2012 has begun!