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$35 Million For A Plausible Run
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If Ron Paul commited to third party run, I'd help nominate Palin. The republican party is still full of war lust, so I'm not encouraged by the thoughts of them nominating RP. He has better appeal in a general election, much better than Palin. Obama, Palin, RP three way race would be good for us.
You haven't read much about Sarah's rise to power against the establishment in Alaska, have you?
That's the only shot Ron Paul has, other than maybe being lucky enough for Sarah Palin to choose him as VP, in my eyes.
Needs to be an independent run too, not LP, too much baggage with LP.
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You haven't read much about Sarah's rise to power against the establishment in Alaska, have you?
I'm aware of that and I could care less. That has nothing to do with 2008 where she was McCain's hand picked running mate or 2010 where she's been a right wing media darling. Using your logic Barack Obama is "anti establishment". In his first election to the Illinois state senate he was asked to fill in for the incumbent who wanted to run for something else, but then she lost that primary and asked him to drop out. He didn't. In 2008 Hillary Clinton was the clear "establishment" pick. Obama was most likely being groomed to be VP. But he ended up beating Hillary. Sarah is NOT the anti establishment candidate. She is 100% in step with the neocon international interventionism platform.
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There is no way Ron Paul would sacrifice his principles to be VP for someone so uninformed that she still thinks Saddam Huessein was behind 9/11 and supported the TARP bailout because it was about "jobs and cutting taxes and healthcare". And if he did I (and many others) would lose all respect for him.
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...and the warchest should be used to fund high-quality commercials.
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I guess I'm the lone pessimist here. We are still running an educational campaign and it is next to impossible to win the GOP nomination non-the-less the general campaign talking about ending the income tax, withdrawing troops from around the world, privatizing social security and other similar ideas.
Realistically, with a LOT more money than the other candidates we can double our numbers from last year
Realistically, with a LOT more money than the other candidates we can double our numbers from last year
I'd like to think the education campaigns have been making progress. The way I look at it, Ron Paul was at less than 1% when the first meetups got active in CT. Six months later he recieved 4.15% in the primary. Two and a half years later, Peter Schiff got 22.7%. Clearly not enough to win an election yet, but who knows where we'll be in another year and a half.
One key point will be to get him a couple million very early on. That would discourage some other potential candidates from entering the race and possibly diverting early resources.
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that's a good way of looking at it. Definitely agree on the money issue as well.
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