Billionaire Peter Thiel and Revolution PAC?

[trey4sports]

I hate to say it, but it doesn't seem like they have anything in the bank right now, unless they are not telling us anything. Hence why they are asking for donations for the direct mail program

why wouldn't they use the direct mail program to drive donations? Not only that, but the super voter bomb is more than likely something outside of their main strategy and they want folks to directly fund it rather than taking money allocated for other projects. Besides Perry none of the other candidates/PAC's are blowing their warchest yet. that's not to say that RevPac has a ton of money but the fact that they are not spending huge money right now is not indicative of how much they have in the bank.

Well I think it would be expected with some of the big name supporters out there (John Mayer, Willie Nelson, Berry Manilow, Vince Vaughn, Chuck Norris, Peter Theil, Andy Beal) that they would be willing to donate, but it not seem like the case

Nelson and Manilow do not support Ron for president. Manilow sent out a press report after saying nice things about Ron, the he supports the president. Willie Nelson supports some liberty issues but he supported Kuccinich in '04 and has always leaned to the left. Chuck said one nice thing about Ron, but he has never endorsed him.

 

[ross11988]

Nelson and Manilow do not support Ron for president. Manilow sent out a press report after saying nice things about Ron, the he supports the president. Willie Nelson supports some liberty issues but he supported Kuccinich in '04 and has always leaned to the left. Chuck said one nice thing about Ron, but he has never endorsed him.

I never said they endorsed them, Im just saying they at the minimum they said nice things about the candidates and should at least send them money

 

[mport1]

Nice too see him finally jumping in

 

[The Gold Standard]

Now we need him to pump about $20 million into foreign policy and electability ads.

 

[Lord Xar]

I feel if Thiel gave RevolutionPAC 900k, it might go farther.

 

[mport1]

Now we need him to pump about $20 million into foreign policy and electability ads.

Yep, that is where the money is really needed. Not in places like Florida where as we can see there wasn't much a point.

 

[steph3n]

Yep, that is where the money is really needed. Not in places like Florida where as we can see there wasn't much a point.

Market testing!

 

[RPsupporterAtHeart]

Market testing!

That's exactly right!

Theil is worth well over 3 billion dollars now. Very libertarian, gay, anti-tax and corruption and a long time Ron supporter. Ron finally has the campaign and the following to really make a run of it and Theil probably recognizes with the state of the economy and the government that time may be running out and 3billion could be worth far less in the future.

Now of course I am completely just throwing out my opinion and have nothing to back it up. But he contributed 900k to a state absolutely everyone KNEW was a write-off. It did two things though. As stated above it gave great market testing in one of the worst possible Ron Paul markets. It also gave Ron a small voice in the state he couldn't otherwise afford.

Some people on these forums max out the contributions to Ron knowing full well it may take up every ounce of disposable income they have for MONTHS and then some. Probably averaging between %3 and %15 of their yearly salary. All just to give this man a chance. I don't believe for a second that man like Thiel who has been a Paul backer for years thinks any different.

In fact, he essentially could give a million dollar donations for every single state in the campaign and it would only result in %1.5 of his net worth. Something he would make back in interest alone.

I hope to whatever higher power there may be that this man is planning something even close to this. Everyone always joked about the billionaire backer. Well, he's here and he's contributing. Let's all hope he sees the value in donating just as much in comparison as so many other supporters do.