Should we have another Moneybomb, and if so, when?

[Lacrosseus]

There's already a site up for the New Year's Eve bomb. You don't have to participate, but I'm definitely donating. I was a first time donor for the Tea Party and you gotta give us newbies a chance!!

I would certainly not want to stop you from donating money on New Years' Eve or any other day..

But let me ask you this; what if the first quarter of '08 comes around and Dr. Paul only gets $20-30K in donations every day through the end of January and ends up with $1M in donations for the month. It is possible, he has a lot of $20 and $30K days this quarter. Even if we say that is a bit unlikely, and he gets double that on average -- $60K a day, this is less than $2 million.

Will the press use this to say his support is eroding because his donations are falling?

 

[walt]

NO, it is time to focus 100% on getting new voters involved and out to vote.

 

[mactaggart]

...what if the first quarter of '08 comes around and Dr. Paul only gets $20-30K in donations every day through the end of January and ends up with $1M in donations for the month. It is possible, he has a lot of $20 and $30K days this quarter. Even if we say that is a bit unlikely, and he gets double that on average -- $60K a day, this is less than $2 million.

Will the press use this to say his support is eroding because his donations are falling?

This is exactly what would happen. Each person here goes through a process where we're gung ho at first, we get to know the ropes a little bit, and then we start to run out of gas. The good news is that new people are coming in all the time to take our places, at that earlier, more energized point on the path, and re-energize those of us that are further along.

I like Freedom Day.

 

[pickfair]

I would certainly not want to stop you from donating money on New Years' Eve or any other day..

But let me ask you this; what if the first quarter of '08 comes around and Dr. Paul only gets $20-30K in donations every day through the end of January and ends up with $1M in donations for the month. It is possible, he has a lot of $20 and $30K days this quarter. Even if we say that is a bit unlikely, and he gets double that on average -- $60K a day, this is less than $2 million.

Will the press use this to say his support is eroding because his donations are falling?

You mean exhausting our resources?

I do not think it's likely because of the continual flocking of newly converted supporters, but just to be cautious I'm not saying let's go all in for New Year's Eve. I think it should be a mini-bomb... just getting people to donate the extra cash they can spare at the end of the year. I already know of others who have never donated before who are planning to give after witnessing the widget breaking, and I'm thinking there are probably more people like that out there.

 

[Oliver]

Forget new money-bombs and get
familiar with the charity bomb idea:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=57400

 

[AlexK]

We HAVE to break 20 million.

 

[pickfair]

Forget new money-bombs and get
familiar with the charity bomb idea:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=57400

Missed this. Great way to start off the new year, but I'd like to see RP finishing off with $20 this quarter... can we do both?

 

[Oliver]

We HAVE to break 20 million.

We will! - But not by whining or ruining ourselves:
The answer is this to get new support:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=57400

 

[FreeTraveler]

No..get out and vote/convert/talk and convince other voters. the campaign have what they need for commercials....give when you can...we own this whole freaking show!

+1

 

[AlexK]

I don't see how having another money bomb will prevent us from doing anything else. It can't hurt.

 

[Todd]

I agree with a new concept for raising money....but raising money and awareness are keys. We need to raise as much as possible before the end of the quarter for advertising and funding staffers.

 

[Revolutn]

The truth is between now and Super Teusday, which is Feb 5th...people are cash strapped AND...if you wait until Mid January or later....the campaign won't be able to actually effectively USE the monies raised in time for 2/5 advertising in reality.

Therefore we should simply be donating when and where possible between now and then IMHO.

Assuming we pull through Super Tuesday as a serious front running candidate, the campaign will badly need a cash injection to wage the 'rest' of the primary campaign.

Understand that the war now truly is from today till Feb 5, because something like 53, 54% of all the state primaries will have been had by 2/6.

This IS IT.
Do not wait for orders from Headquarters, rally to the sound of the guns!

We must go go go, now now now.

We win or loose this nomination (effectively) in the next 56 days!

There will be plenty of necessity for a Money Bomb style fund raising for post Super Tuesday or even General Election purposes.

Just my .02.

Rev

 

[fireinme]

We have dropped the bombs now we need the troops to go in and take the ground. We need foot soldiers. Now! Delegates. Now! Later on we might need some cash to take out some new enemies. I think we should use a steady stream of mini bombs to help with the groundwork.

Let us prove to the media that we have the largest armies of volunteers. ​

We have artillery now we need to show them we have infantry.

 

[jjockers]

Very interesting results.

As I write this, 75/150 (exactly 50%) are for no more moneybombs and 50% think we should have another one sometime in the future.

 

[kaleidoscope eyes]

let's get back to buying time for the blimp.

 

[RonPaulFTFW]

we need to:


1. Register to vote.
2. become delegates.
3. Register others to vote.
4. Get others to become delegates.
5. Help on the ground in Iowa/New Hamp.
6. Write letters.


We need to move off the internet and do the hard work.
None of this matters if we don't help out in the real world.

 

[justatrey]

Agree with others - we need to focus all energy on getting people registered and out to vote.

 

[Lacrosseus]

Missed this. Great way to start off the new year, but I'd like to see RP finishing off with $20 this quarter... can we do both?

I have seen increasing sentiment towards funding the grassroots projects because of the belief that the grassroots is more effective than the official campaign is.

For a number of reasons -- including that the official campaign is still asking supporters 'to make history tonight' at 10 AM Eastern the following day -- I can see why the sentiment is moving this way. They totally blew a FREE opportunity to promote their own candidate's success last night.

 

[Travis]

The last week of the month we should try and raise 1 Mil a day = 7mil for that week.

 

[mconder]

If we do have one, I think we need to find another special date. The historical dates really seem to capture the imagination and bring out the donations.