Peter Schiff - "I'm almost tapped out of cash!!, I need your help!"

[GoatsGoneWild]

Goats, some people already made up their minds that Schiff has no hope no matter what evidence you show them. There is also a group that resents that he is rich. However, I believe the naysayers are the minority.

Naysayers might be in the minority, but there are certainly a ton of completely apathetic people.

I can understand the enthusiasm for Rand because of his lead on the polls and high probability of winning the general if he beats Grayson. However, I don't understand the apathy regarding Schiff and this idea that the liberty movement would better benefit by funding state office candidates or less known and resonating federal office candidates like Lawson.

Peter Schiff is witty, sharp, and charismatic. He has the brains to win people over to Austrian views on issues at odds with conventional (Keynesian and progressive) logic.

He is the man that we need in the Senate. His chances might not be too strong right now but I feel that the effort would be worth more than funding state candidates or people like Lawson.

 

[No1ButPaul08]

http://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary.php?cycle=2010&id=CTS2

According to this, Schiff threw in $550,000 of his own money. He had $1 million on hand as of the March report date. How did he burn $1 million and not go up but 5% in the polls?

This shows your pretty much clueless about Schiff's campaign and the race in CT. First of all, Schiff rose 5% in the polls before running any ads, tv or radio. The last poll came out March 17th, right before Schiff started with his radio ad. He wrote an email after his first ad buy requesting donations March 25th. The FEC report was through March 31, showing that ad buy. Pretty hard to rise in the polls when there hasn't been a poll, don't you think?

If what he is saying is true, he has spent almost $3 million and hasn't cracked 11% in the Republican Primary.

Wrong again. You have no idea what Schiff is polling right now, after his first ad buy. How would he have spent $3 million when he had $2.5 million total with 500k cash on hand?

 

[low preference guy]

TCE is a long-time Schiff basher. He is clueless even about points Schiff made in the video that opened this thread.

 

[TCE]

Edited. I will not be posting on this thread again.

 

[No1ButPaul08]

Please click the link before you toss out numbers. He had $2.549 million when the reports were due. He has gotten more money since then, since a month has passed. It is fair to say that he has close to $3 million right now, and if he doesn't, he will surely be close after May 1.

Wrong again. He's raised around $40,000 this month, nothing close to the 500k you're assuming. Just because he might get close to 3 million (raised not spent) on May 1 just change the fact you were wrong about Peter having spent $3million already. Who is the one tossing out numbers again?

 

[Che]

lol, he's talkin like a true investor.

 

[dannno]

I dont believe you. You are just like everyone else on the Internet, lying.

That sounds like a challenge

 

[Anti Federalist]

There is also a group that resents that he is rich. However, I believe the naysayers are the minority.

How about non-existent.

C'mon, nobody resents him or "hates" him because he's rich.

Pete made one, very mild remark that set this whole thing off and all that remark amounted to was a vague "off putting" at multi millionaires having to scrounge money for campaigns from people like himself.

People that would like to help but have been unable to do much, due to being a marked man by the state and never being able to hold a decent job again in his life.

We talk about about the loss of freedom, pcosmar is living it every day.

It's disingenuous to make a leap from that one single comment to the idea that there is a whole group here that "resents" his wealth.

 

[low preference guy]

I don't recall exact names, but this not the first time I hear people complaining about Schiff's money. But I'm not sure if it was RPF or Daily Paul, so I'll concede the point that I haven't seen "a group".

However, I stand behind the statement that saying that Schiff "sets my teeth wrong" sounds resentful.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I don't recall exact names, but this not the first time I hear people complaining about Schiff's money. But I'm not sure if it was RPF or Daily Paul, so I'll concede the point that I haven't seen "a group".

I'll say I've never seen it, but that's not to say it's not out there.

I'm only just speaking of this thread.

I hope his May Day bomb is a huge success.

 

[dannno]

Rand Paul has the liberty movement backing him.

Peter Schiff has the liberty movement, but he also has a lot of clients who have money and random people who he has picked up from his video blogs and such.

When Peter sends out an email asking for money, you have to keep in mind that there are a lot of people on his contact list who do actually have an income or money they could give. It's possible that a lot of them have maxed out, but I dunno I hope we can pull it together for him on May 1 cause we have been focusing a lot on Rand, which is also good.. and we need them both.. but Schiff might be able to articulate gravity of the problem to other Senators a bit better, and he has that credibility of talking about the problem for so long.

On the other hand Rand's primary is coming up first, so I'd say that is reasonable justification for a strong focus from the liberty movement on his campaign right now.

 

[qwerty]

Now this is getting very funny, few forum members are starting to tell Peter how to run his campaign. OMG.

I think he and his staff and the local people know little bit better how to win the state.

This is getting funny...

But this only makes me want to work more for Schiff, i want to show you that you are DEAD wrong!

 

[qwerty]

SPREAD THIS VIDEO AROUND!!!!

 

[qwerty]

Bump!

 

[qwerty]

Facebook this video.

It´s free!

 

[Keller1967]

It seems that many here are just like the ones they are saying they are not.

You know the "horse-race"-type people. "you just have to pick the winner and go with that"

This is about principles and fighting for those principles when it´s needed!

It wasn't too long ago when pre-emptive war was the hot topic and people were "going to far with purity tests", of course they needed comprimise and donate anyways!

Now the tables have turned and the money bomb gods dictate that you actually should donate for the sake of principles to a losing candidate. Oh my!

Seems to me the only common principle is send your $ to the popular rich guy.

It's like lord of the flies around here.

 

[NerveShocker]

What's with the money-bomb ticker? I can hardly read that tiny thing and is it only 32 pledges? ;/
Let's step it up Peter will match all donations he is obviously dedicated to this.

 

[qwerty]

It wasn't too long ago when pre-emptive war was the hot topic and people were "going to far with purity tests", of course they needed comprimise and donate anyways!

Now the tables have turned and the money bomb gods dictate that you actually should donate for the sake of principles to a losing candidate. Oh my!

Seems to me the only common principle is send your $ to the popular rich guy.

It's like lord of the flies around here.

This is getting very funny.

I think Peter Schiff respects the constitution but he´s also for self-defense.

Do you know what constitution says about war ?

PS. i just wonder what his opponents think about war...

 

[qwerty]

What's with the money-bomb ticker? I can hardly read that tiny thing and is it only 32 pledges? ;/

I think it´s that one.

Nowdays people don´t want to give their e-mails so they won´t pledge

 

[Stary Hickory]

I am going to donate I hope others do the same.