TOADY is the MONEYBOMB!!! Ticker Starting Amount: $3,278,000

[thomas-in-ky]

Here are your transaction details:
Donation amount: $30.00
Payment type: CreditCard
Transaction date/time: 2010-06-28 22:39:50
Transaction ID: 9PB24296YT946572J

 

[libertybrewcity]

lol, it went down and then up? weird.. i guess nothing is perfect. ha

 

[economics102]

Perhaps it went down because the system figured out that Ben Bernanke and Jack Conway are, in fact, not recent donors to Rand Paul

 

[sailingaway]

Perhaps it went down because the system figured out that Ben Bernanke and Jack Conway are, in fact, not recent donors to Rand Paul

Say it isn't so!

 

[Gage]

Final total: $3,448,773

Total raised: $170,773

 

[sailingaway]

Final total: $3,448,773

Total raised: $170,773

Nice. Now we have to get more videos out there, as you did, to rally people accross the country, so there are more of us, next time.

 

[Justinjj1]

Money is money, but it does seem disappointing. Maybe he'll stop with the neocon, Sean Hannity-love fest stuff and start talking like his father if he wants to really raise some money.

 

[thomas-in-ky]

Nice. 5% of all the $ raised so far came in the last 24 hours... and this is a difficult time to raise $

 

[BamaFanNKy]

Money is money, but it does seem disappointing. Maybe he'll stop with the neocon, Sean Hannity-love fest stuff and start talking like his father if he wants to really raise some money.

Um. WTF are you talking about? Are you proposing to ignore interviews with people who have large audiences and just going on Alex Jones?

Are you also saying he should do the same game plan as Ron? Ron has NEVER won a statewide primary let alone general election.

 

[sailingaway]

Um. WTF are you talking about? Are you proposing to ignore interviews with people who have large audiences and just going on Alex Jones?

Are you also saying he should do the same game plan as Ron? Ron has NEVER won a statewide primary let alone general election.

BamaFan, I'm pretty sure Ron could have won in Nevada or Montana etc statewide if he'd wanted to move for it -- this year.

However, he never had the opportunity of enough people to vote with him on the important stuff enough to settle for a compromise in the House, until this year. He'd not have gotten enough 'in his direction'. However, I think his presidential campaign and the movement he fostered sure helped bring us to where Rand CAN get elected.

Don't worry about people who have different opinions. Me, I wouldn't go on threads of different candidates not running against one of my own just to take pot shots at them, but people differ.

And Justin, by pushing to discuss if we are doing our best to turn over the action in Afghanistan, and to force a discussion of whether our being there is still in our interests today, given the lives and the costs, and to fight to get rid of the Patriot Act, etc., Rand would be one of if not THE strongest voice for what YOU want in the Senate. I can't imagine why you can't get more excited about his candidacy.

 

[LFOD]

Excuse me.. "money BLAST"?? what the hell is up with that? It's a freaking money BOMB and calling it a "BLAST" sounds like a cave in to some wimpy focus-group BS to me. Sorry if the topic has been worked over already.

 

[sailingaway]

Excuse me.. "money BLAST"?? what the hell is up with that? It's a freaking money BOMB and calling it a "BLAST" sounds like a cave in to some wimpy focus-group BS to me. Sorry if the topic has been worked over already.

I absolutely agree with you and am happy to have someone other than me say it.

 

[libertybrewcity]

I absolutely agree with you and am happy to have someone other than me say it.

yea, i was a little disappointed with the moneyblast name, but who knows if that even affected any of the donations. maybe whoever thought of it thought that moneybombs were overused.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Money is money, but it does seem disappointing. Maybe he'll stop with the neocon, Sean Hannity-love fest stuff and start talking like his father if he wants to really raise some money.

Bull. It's basically the same total as the September 23rd one.

Yes. Talk exactly like Ron Paul. He got 6% of the vote in Kentucky in 2008; clearly everyone there loves him. Good grief, get real.

WHAS-11 TV just reported that the donation today was a "disappointing $90,000."
I wonder if they will correct it before they end the broadcast.

Sheesh. You figure a news station would be smart enough to do a (very) little research rather than just repeat what the untrustworthy AP said.

 

[messana]

Yeah....I really hope this $170,000+ tally is not including the McConnell fundraiser. Othewise this is not so encouraging...

How much were we hoping for?

 

[sailingaway]

"Yes. Talk exactly like Ron Paul. He got 6% of the vote in Kentucky in 2008; clearly everyone there loves him. Good grief, get real."



Hey it is one thing to defend Rand, another to bash Ron. they were voting on Ron in a primary against national favorites for a single position as PRESIDENT. That is different than voting for Senator. Many people's favorite for PRESIDENT isn't even from their own state.

However, I agree that Ron's position has been to wake people up and get people motivated to actually elect people to change things. Rand wants to get in and change things as much as he can. I wish people trashing him would think about exactly how much a single senator can do and whether or not Rand isn't going to be an outlier pushing the direction of the Senate, in any event, even if not as far an outlier as Ron would be. So long as he is further in the proper direction, his vote is going to be the right one. And without other votes being added to his, we aren't going to get further than that with one election, in any event.

 

[sailingaway]

How much were we hoping for?

Are we talking fantasies here, or 'hopes'?

I was 'hoping' we'd get more of the national movement behind this, since the Dems are ginning up across the country with THEIR activist organizations. However, people are engaged in other races locally, think of Rand as being 'better taken care of' than a lot of liberty candidates, and we need to let them know he needs help, with all the national attacks.

I'm going to have to figure out how to upload video to youtube, and take it off media. I know people who know how, but there have always been people in RP campaigns who could do it better, and who did. But as they (we) say, if you want it done....

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Hey it is one thing to defend Rand, another to bash Ron. they were voting on Ron in a primary against national favorites for a single position as PRESIDENT. That is different than voting for Senator. Many people's favorite for PRESIDENT isn't even from their own state.

I did no such thing. Ron Paul is far-and-away my favorite politician. But not so much so that I am blinded to the fact that he isn't electable in a statewide race. Indeed, Ron Paul is 0 for 101 in statewide races in his political career: lost statewide primary in 1984, all 50 states in 1988 and all 50 states again in 2008.

Look at how much Rand Paul has been smeared. It'd be ten-fold with Ron.

I support Ron Paul in 2012, but I don't think he can win.

 

[sailingaway]

I did no such thing. Ron Paul is far-and-away my favorite politician. But not so much so that I am blinded to the fact that he isn't electable in a statewide race. Indeed, Ron Paul is 0 for 101 in statewide races in his political career: lost statewide primary in 1984, all 50 states in 1988 and all 50 states again in 2008.

Look at how much Rand Paul has been smeared. It'd be ten-fold with Ron.

I support Ron Paul in 2012, but I don't think he can win.

I think you are wrong. I BET he could have won in Nevada, this year, instead of Sharon Angle. She was just the best running. We didn't have organization before, and he has a penchant for wanting to live in states less receptive to his message.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

I think you are wrong. I BET he could have won in Nevada, this year, instead of Sharon Angle. She was just the best running. We didn't have organization before, and he has a penchant for wanting to live in states less receptive to his message.

I like your optimism, but I just don't see it. If Ron Paul ever won the nomination for something like the U.S. Senate, Governor or President instead of a safe, gerrymandered House seat; it'd be non-stop:

"Ron Paul newsletters"
"Ron Paul has support of neo-nazi website"
"Ron Paul gave speech to John Birch society"
"Ron Paul has appeared multiple times on Alex Jones' show"
"Ron Paul opposes Civil Rights Act"
"Ron Paul voted against the Violence Against Women Act twice"
"Ron Paul is the only no vote on so-and-so"
"Ron Paul hates Israel"
"Ron Paul hates the poor"
"Ron Paul calls for new 9/11 investigation. Truther?"

And the echo chamber would go on and on and on....