Billionaire Peter Thiel and Revolution PAC?

[ds21089]

Alright, so I wrote a letter because I felt like it. I suppose I'll post it here. Feel free to write your own, revise this one, provide crticism etc.


Dear Mr. Thiel:
We the signatories of this letter write to humbly request your financial support for Ron Paul, and the political action committee created to support him known as Revolution PAC. We understand that you endorsed Dr. Paul in the 2008 election, and that you have given financial support to causes supporting Liberty in the past such as the Seasteading Institute. Our respect for you and your accomplishments is great, and we thought that in light of your political beliefs you might have a desire to assist the cause to see Ron Paul elected president of the United States of America. I understand that his chances of being elected don’t look spectacular, and you may view it as a waste of money, but he is polling better now than he ever has, and I think you’ll agree that something special is happening in our country at the moment. The cause of Liberty looks brighter now than it has in a good while, and people are beginning to see its value. Even if Dr. Paul fails to win, he is bringing unprecedented attention to beliefs and values that have for too long gone unspoken of in this country. Increasingly, as much as many Republicans do not want to admit, the political dialogue is becoming centered on Ron Paul and his beliefs. In the midst of the economic crisis our nation is undergoing, the cause of Liberty must be pushed, else another ideology could capture the hearts and minds of the people. For these reasons we beg your support.
In Liberty,
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I'd scratch that. No need for any negativity in the letter. Make it more inspiring like "he's catching on like never before because the country is coming his way. Everything he predicted has come true and he's the only one who can restore America. We have an incredibly strong grassroots effort to help spread the message; however in these tough times, extra money is hard to come across. We humbly ask of you to consider donating to the one man who can fix this country." I'd throw that in there somewhere instead.

 

[erowe1]

I'd scratch that. No need for any negativity in the letter. Make it more inspiring like "he's catching on like never before because the country is coming his way. Everything he predicted has come true and he's the only one who can restore America. We have an incredibly strong grassroots effort to help spread the message; however in these tough times, extra money is hard to come across. We humbly ask of you to consider donating to the one man who can fix this country." I'd throw that in there somewhere instead.

Agreed. Thiel has donated to him before, so you don't have to convince him it's worth doing.

Instead, say something like, "Ron Paul's chances of shaping the GOP and even getting elected president have never been better."

 

[sailingaway]

#1; he can't chose the folks, it isn't his organization.

#2, I wouldn't want him to. He hand picked the folks to run C4L, and his campaigns, they have been a disaster. YAL was organically grown, they have been amazing. Hopefully the Revolution PAC can be operated in the same way YAL has been.

Ron pushed YAL, and gave them his lists, actually, because he had faith in the guy who founded it and proved himself, as head of Students for Ron Paul.

As a practical matter people have to have faith in whomever runs it, in order to donate big money to it. Their resume will be important.

 

[sailingaway]

I'd scratch that. No need for any negativity in the letter. Make it more inspiring like "he's catching on like never before because the country is coming his way. Everything he predicted has come true and he's the only one who can restore America. We have an incredibly strong grassroots effort to help spread the message; however in these tough times, extra money is hard to come across. We humbly ask of you to consider donating to the one man who can fix this country." I'd throw that in there somewhere instead.

And add poll numbers.

 

[mport1]

I'd scratch that. No need for any negativity in the letter. Make it more inspiring like "he's catching on like never before because the country is coming his way. Everything he predicted has come true and he's the only one who can restore America. We have an incredibly strong grassroots effort to help spread the message; however in these tough times, extra money is hard to come across. We humbly ask of you to consider donating to the one man who can fix this country." I'd throw that in there somewhere instead.

Agreed. I think that is a pretty good template to start with though.

 

[Byrgen]

Agreed. Thiel has donated to him before, so you don't have to convince him it's worth doing.

Instead, say something like, "Ron Paul's chances of shaping the GOP and even getting elected president have never been better."

I like that better as well, thanks for the feedback.

 

[mport1]

Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands - Link today on Drudge

 

[speciallyblend]

#1; he can't chose the folks, it isn't his organization.

#2, I wouldn't want him to. He hand picked the folks to run C4L, and his campaigns, they have been a disaster. YAL was organically grown, they have been amazing. Hopefully the Revolution PAC can be operated in the same way YAL has been.

totally disagree that cfl is a disaster!!

 

[speciallyblend]

Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands - Link today on Drudge

saw this on yahoo. to much for me to afford!! any rich folks need a grower? foods and stuff.

 

[angelatc]

This thread has gone a couple of different ways, but I think we could probably get the letter / petition hosted at RevPac.....

 

[dannno]

Alright, so I wrote a letter because I felt like it. I suppose I'll post it here. Feel free to write your own, revise this one, provide crticism etc.


Dear Mr. Thiel:
We the signatories of this letter write to humbly request your financial support for Ron Paul, and the political action committee created to support him known as Revolution PAC. We understand that you endorsed Dr. Paul in the 2008 election, and that you have given financial support to causes supporting Liberty in the past such as the Seasteading Institute. Our respect for you and your accomplishments is great, and we thought that in light of your political beliefs you might have a desire to assist the cause to see Ron Paul elected president of the United States of America. We understand that the media's general portrayal of his chances to win are not spectacular, but he is polling better now than he ever has. Not to mention he recently almost tied to win the Ames Straw Poll. I think you’ll agree that something special is happening in our country at the moment. The cause of Liberty looks brighter now than it has in a good while, and people are beginning to see its value. Even if Dr. Paul fails to win, he is bringing unprecedented attention to beliefs and values that have for too long gone unspoken of in this country. Increasingly, as much as many Republicans do not want to admit, the political dialogue is becoming centered on Ron Paul and his beliefs. In the midst of the economic crisis our nation is undergoing, the cause of Liberty must be pushed, else another ideology could capture the hearts and minds of the people. For these reasons we beg your support.
In Liberty,
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I made some improvements (in the red section)

 

[Deborah K]

I think you guys are so awesome!

 

[Canderson]

how can we go about getting someone with connections to run the superpac

 

[trey4sports]

how can we go about getting someone with connections to run the superpac

we can't.

It is the product of those who own it. You nor I, have any say in the matter.

 

[trey4sports]

How? Well first they need to clear out nearly the entire board of advisors or leadership currently on the PAC. The point of the PAC is to bring in large donors from people who have maxed out with the campaign. Unless the PAC is run by people embedded in donor networks or large cap business communities, the PAC has no hope. They will continue to play kids games with a billboard or two here and there and a back page ad in some newspaper.

How can we expect anyone to trust millions or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to people who's accomplishments are running a failed magazine or a low-trafficked liberty website. It might be easy for us to trust them because we've met them or followed them for the past few years, but most of us aren't the ones considering donating millions of dollars. The PAC needs some major restructuring if it wants to play with the big kids or even make even a small dent in the Republican primary.

The liberty movement just isn't big enough yet. We don't have any folks in donor networks, not so far as I can see.

 

[tremendoustie]

I think the board is outstanding. I trust Tom woods' completely, perhaps more than anyone else in the liberty movement.

 

[SkarnkaiLW]

In addition to Thiel, we might want to try and get Jim Rogers, and maybe Rick Santelli? Not sure about the latter, but would add a LOT of Tea Party cred I think

 

[trey4sports]

In addition to Thiel, we might want to try and get Jim Rogers, and maybe Rick Santelli? Not sure about the latter, but would add a LOT of Tea Party cred I think

I would bet that 70% + in the tea party have no clue who Rick Santelli is

 

[mport1]

It would be great to get some of the other wealthy conservatives/libertarians behind a PAC as well.

 

[Sjmfury]

Declaration of Liberty

List the Letter as "Declaration of Liberty" similar in that it is presented the same way as the Declaration of Independence.

"You now have a chance in your life to re-write history, to restore America back to its former glory, change the course of history, and lead us to a greater tomorrow. Ron Paul 2012."

Push our Grass roots.

~Sjmfury~