Billionaire Peter Thiel and Revolution PAC?

[trey4sports]

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~

Welcome to the board!

 

[SkarnkaiLW]

Another recommendation, remember hearing about him on Mises I think. Yeah he is a Banker but.... read his profile. CEO of BB&T

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Allison_IV

And Steve Forbes as well. I suppose, since he is now onboard with Auditing the FED

 

[economics102]

FYI, Peter Thiel also maxed out donations to Ron Paul in 2008 -- to both his presidential and congressional campaigns -- and also maxed out to Rand Paul's campaign

 

[RonPaul101.com]

We should all write him for support, showing that Dr Paul has much more support this year than back in 2007...

 

[LibertyEsq]

We should all write him for support, showing that Dr Paul has much more support this year than back in 2007...

Do we have an e-mail or anything? I consider myself a decent writer and I'm a new Paul supporter for 2012, so I'd be willing to write...

 

[parocks]

How... I have no idea. But, instead of having someone like this simply donate money... he is exactly the type of guy we need running a Super PAC. Someone with the contacts to get really big donations and is used to handling that amount of money.

Rather than have him donate money to RPAC... I think the best result would be to have him setup a new Super PAC... call his buddies for contributions... and hire some people to run the thing. Maybe then we would have a chance to compete against the other Super PACS.

Agree with this.

If we knew who are richest potential donors were, we really should custom tailor whatever superpac we give them to their interests. I don't really know Peter Thiel. What he thinks his money should be spent on. But I would think that if Peter Thiel wanted to spend a lot of money, a team should form around what he wants to do. If making TV commercials was his interest, the TV commercial people would be on a Peter Thiel team. There should be people looking around, trying to fit teams of people with the high dollar donors.

 

[Deborah K]

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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Bumpity

 

[AuH2O]

Something like this could be an excellent lead generation/list building technique for the Super PAC.

 

[dusman]

These letters are actually really valuable to a SuperPAC, be it RevPac or any other established. I think we should take this a little further and create an almost cookie-cutter letter. Why just focus on 1 person, when we could essentially do the same thing for dozens or hundreds of other potential donors? That's just my thought, but seeing thousands of "petitioners" signing these might inspire many to take the leap.

If I were a millionaire/billionaire.. I think I'd be quite humbled that such a group made the effort to reach out to lonely ole me.

EDIT: Not to suggest that we shouldn't outright personalize every letter. It would be nice to build a plan around this to target donors.

 

[mport1]

I wanted to bump this so we can try to contact him about supporting the Super Voter Bomb. I've found one contact form here, but there may be some better way to contact him.

 

[Lord Xar]

I wanted to bump this so we can try to contact him about supporting the Super Voter Bomb. I've found one contact form here, but there may be some other way to contact him.

Maybe we can send him some info or link to the "plan" so he can feel comfortable getting on board. I mean, 100k is pocket change to him, but yeah - lets try to get him on board.

 

[Karsten]

I think his stated position is that he would donate a lot of money if Ron Paul were to get the nomination. Which, to me, is backwards. The hard part is getting the nomination, and that's where the money needs to be for. After that, everything else will be a piece of cake since we do so well with independents.

 

[mport1]

I think his stated position is that he would donate a lot of money if Ron Paul were to get the nomination. Which, to me, is backwards. The hard part is getting the nomination, and that's where the money needs to be for. After that, everything else will be a piece of cake since we do so well with independents.

Hm, well if we can find out the best way to contact him and nicely ask him for his support, maybe he will change his opinion. I've contacted him through here - http://www.independent.org/aboutus/emailform.asp?id=456 There must be a better way to reach him though.

 

[lucent]

I think his stated position is that he would donate a lot of money if Ron Paul were to get the nomination. Which, to me, is backwards. The hard part is getting the nomination, and that's where the money needs to be for. After that, everything else will be a piece of cake since we do so well with independents.

Is $170k a lot of money to him?

 

[Karsten]

It's worth a shot! I think it's a shame that RevPac has done so poorly because it has such great potential and the money all goes to advertising (the revpac ad was better than any official campaign ad i've seen), whereas for the official campaign it goes towards a lot of other expenses too.

 

[Karsten]

Is $170k a lot of money to him?

You'll have to go ask him

 

[lucent]

You'll have to go ask him

The idea of having as much money as he has is mind boggling.

 

[JohnGalt23g]

Is $170k a lot of money to him?

Sounds like a lot of money.

 

[Tod]

Oh, man, this is AWESOME!

 

[mport1]

Is $170k a lot of money to him?

No. He is worth about $1.5. That is .01% of his net worth. When Facebook goes public, I think he will be getting a massive boost to his fortune as well.