Ron Paul Raises $6M In 24 Hours

Campaign's "Money Bomb" Raises Money On The 234th Anniversary Of The Boston Tea Party

(AP)  Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul's supporters raised over $6 million Sunday to boost the 10-term Texas congressman's campaign for the White House.

Called a "Money Bomb," the goal was to raise as much money as possible on the Internet in one day. The campaign's previous fundraiser brought in $4.2 million.

At midnight EST, donations were over $6 million, according to the campaign Web site. Those donations are processed credit card receipts, said Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton. Benton said the median donation is about $50 in the fundraiser, which was the idea of Paul supporters who are not officially connected to the campaign.

Trevor Lyman, a Paul supporter who is traveling the country following the Ron Paul blimp, said the date of the fundraiser coincides with the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

The Ron Paul blimp is an aerial billboard emblazoned on one side with "Who is Ron Paul? Google Ron Paul." The other side reads "Ron Paul Revolution." The blimp, another grass-roots effort, was in Chester, S.C., on Sunday, and organizers hope to get it to New Hampshire before the Jan. 8 primary there.

[l8c6]

Crazy country. We just go from bad to worse. This guy is a corporate libertarian. He will put global corporations ahead of the average U.S. citizen. In other words he supports privatized governments (corporations). He advocates for private global corporations to regulate the internet marketing this tyranny in the name of "free market" instead of allowing the voice and participation of the people who used to choose their leadership till the supreme court and global corporate lobbyists began choosing who and how the puppets run the faux democracy.

[l8c6]

I guess that federal reserve money that Ron Paul is critical of does work.

Money at the bottom line is God almighty.

[l8c6]

So these folks allude to the Boston tea party. British empire controlling the people of the new world as old world privatized wealth did to maintain it''s power through corporate charters, militia and economics.


Note, the colonists did not turn their lives over to private corporations. They instead established a government, a representative democracy.

For decades the right winger multinational private corporate libertarians have been attacking the representative government through a slick sleazy marketing scheme riddled with grand labels such as "free market" "freedom" "privatization".

The failure of people to see how the corporate charters are the actual threat to free society, not a government that effectively represents the people of the United States will bring not new world order, but old world order. Puffed up or emaciated right wingers has brought this country down. Putting another in officer will be the nail in the coffin.

[thirty3na3rd]

Congratulations to the Paul campaign. Or, to be more accurate, the over 100,000 donors who have contributed to his campaign this quarter. I''m sorry that l8c6 is so cynical about the prospects of a president who would actually preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution as per his oath of office. I think that hurling the spurious "corporate interests" accusation is a tactic that just about every politician does in a state of desperation, regardless of political party. Apparently the legitimacy of ron Paul''s governing philosophy is starting to resonate with the American public and is starting to make the celebrity candidates a bit nervous.

[bob040-2009]

Important facts.
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against the Iraq war.


CHECK THIS OUT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yuzMYIXhTE

[l8c6]

Deregulation through the lobbying of corporate libertarians has allowed multinational corporate wealth to move into unchartered waters like pirates, consolidating wealth and stepping on communities for the gain of a succinct minority of global elite corporate shareholders. Ron Paul calls this subtle takeover of communities and nations "free market". He and his right winger friends call the opposite "socialism".

The fact is there are rules and regulations currently present and right wingers maintain them but these regulations work to restrain common citizens while "freedoms" are granted corporations and those who are at the head of them though many of the CEOs of them too find themselves consumed by still another corporation in the form of a hostile takeover.

Eventually there will be one corporation and the shareholders will appoint the CEO the king directly accountable to the largest shareholder. For fundamentalist christians this is 666. Their preacher men have led many of them astray. Wolves dressed in 3 piece suits.

[gauka-2009]

If you really believe Ron Paul would advocate against the voice and participation of the people, you have not heard a word Dr. Paul has said. No one else on the campaign trail so strongly advocates for Americans to be able to fulfill the rights given to us in the Constitution and allow citizens to destroy the faux democracy that is currently in place.

Before making such glaringly false accusations, do your own homework on Dr. Paul. When you discover what he really stands for, you may just find yourself part of the revolution.

[l8c6]

He has never voted to raise congressional pay.

In other words only wealthy politicians or politicians accountable to the wealthy who fund and support them can afford to be a congressman.

[l8c6]

What does Ron Paul voting against net neutrality mean to anyone?

[l8c6]

To dismiss the threat multinational corporations are having on democracies representative of the common interests of the majority of humanity is based either on ignorance or a shifty unscrupulous cover-up of special profiteering interests at the expense of most of humanity. Corporate libertarians advocate for more human rights for their corporate entities than they do for human lives to the benefit of shareholders disconnected from the actual carnage these corporations are causing around the world.

Chevron in Argentina, the latest cover-up of note. If an individual did to poor villagers in Argentina what this oil company has done such person would be rightly identified a sociopath.

[l8c6]

Can someone tell me....

What does Ron Paul voting against net neutrality mean to anyone?

[l8c6]

If Ron Paul does not take taxpayer money to be congressman it means he''s bought and paid for by private interests. The people of the United States must pay for their representative democracy through participation and funding. As the NEO CON economist Milton Friedman entitled a book, "There ain''t no free lunch". Freedom isn''t free.

Ron Paul is loyal to his funding source. Through the disguise that tricks the foolish, he presents as the good guy who doesn''t take the peoples tax money. Well he''s taking money from a source and he represents that source''s interests not the collective good of U.S. citizens.

[l8c6]

Ron Paul is America''''s ONLY chance of survival. He will return us to the Constitution, Rule of Law, eliminate the Illegal IRS and FED Air Money Banking System

That "air"money has worked well for Ron Paul and his private constituency.

[rexorooter]

18c8
In which one of your dreams did the colonists set up a representative democracy?

"""Note, the colonists did not turn their lives over to private corporations. They instead established a government, a representative democracy."""

Maybe you should bone up on history before spouting off. Read the federalist paper #10. Long live the Republic! Have you ever said the pledge of allegiance?
"And to the republic for which it stands"

[l8c6]

Ron Paul voted against net neutrality.

What does that mean?

Anyone care to address the implications of that one?

[l8c6]

18c8
In which one of your dreams did the colonists set up a representative democracy?

"""Note, the colonists did not turn their lives over to private corporations. They instead established a government, a representative democracy."""

Maybe you should bone up on history before spouting off. Read the federalist paper #10. Long live the Republic! Have you ever said the pledge of allegiance?
"And to the republic for which it stands"

Posted by rexorooter


So what are we then? A board game of monopoly coming to an end? Right Wingers and bible thumpers are bringing us back to old world tyranny at a rapid rate through their allegiance to the almighty dollar, capitalism and corporate tyranny.

[rexorooter]

Hey babbles 18c0
I asked you a question about you dreams?
Which source talks about your colonists and their democracy?

[jowand]

Try and Execute the Bush/Cheney Crime Cartel and all their Corporate Minions.
Death to Tyrants and Fascists!!!
Power to the American People!!!
Ron Paul for President!!!
Posted by veteran71 at 09:18 AM : Dec 17, 2007

You are spouting Leninism, if you are talking Ron Paulisms he is as looney as you.

[l8c6]

Democracy:

A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

Republic:

A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.


Right wingers like to distract with plays on words or talking points attempting to cover truth with a smoke screen.


Where the rubber hits the road is where it counts and Ron Paul and corporate libertarians are death to the common interests of the majority of the human race on this planet.

[gauka-2009]

**Ron Paul is loyal to his funding source.**

YES!!! Dr. Paul IS loyal to his funding source -- individual American citizens who support our constitution and returning to the type of government our founding fathers instituted.

[l8c6]

Hey babbles 18c0
I asked you a question about you dreams?
Which source talks about your colonists and their democracy?

Posted by rexorooter

Your attempt to denigrate, belittle and dismiss the voice of a fellow american is representative of the bullying of right wing fascism since Reagan and the ensuing extremist right wing media that pounded the air waves with the out of control abuses of Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and a battery of others.

[l8c6]

**Ron Paul is loyal to his funding source.**

YES!!! Dr. Paul IS loyal to his funding source -- individual American citizens who support our constitution and returning to the type of government our founding fathers instituted.

Posted by gauka

Yes, and with your money he voted against net neutrality and not one person in here. Not one cult member has the talking points to address the implications of this action.

[rexorooter]

What we are is a capialist republic where "we the people" are the most powerful governing entity. Followed by local government by the will of the people. Then comes the individual "state" government. And last is the federal government which is placed in a territory called DC and only deal with three things. 1-Import/Export/Excise taxes 2-coining of money in gold and silver 3-foreign wars against the collective states. We were not set up to be a bunch of corporate "U.S. Citizens" who bow to universal commercial code law. When you become a senator or congressman you give up your Soverign States Rights and become a "U.S. Citizen". It is a shame we are all influence by the revisionist history taught in public schools. Very sad.

PS Why is there that little box on government forms that asks you, "Are you a U.S. Citizen? Seems redundant, doesn''t it. Maybe you should look into the real meaning behind that little box before you put a check in it.

[l8c6]

Ron Paul is against net neutrality which dismisses we the people from having a say through our elected representatives to set limits on private corporations regulating the speed and flow and substance of content.

Ron Paul is a corporatist, a global one, many are led astray by the same right wing rhetoric that led to the current mess.

Ron Paul has been there right alongside, nursing off the party that hosted the neo cons and it''s big rise with bullying arrogant big talk rhetoric starting with Reagan.

[l8c6]

"When Corporations Rule the World" David C. Korten

Just how powerful are we the people to unbridled consolidating private wealth?

[l8c6]

Someone will rule. Government in some manner is inevitable. A child is born in the midst of a governing body, parents of some sort.

The U.S. citizen "corporation" as referred to when functioning effectively allows for one vote for every man and woman who is a member or citizen.

Global corporations allow one vote for every share owned. The more shares owned by select special interests the more those special interests rule. This is where free market deregulation is taking the U.S. Look how the so called "american" corporations behave in foreign nations? The less regulation the more ruthless and disregarding of the people they behave. It''s been the local governments that have brought what protections have existed but these are failing against private corporations incessant pressure and hostile takeovers and bribing of government leadership. Multinational corporate "america" plays on the prejudices of the people with slogans of patriotism but in reality does not respect national boundaries.

[videogeek1]

The problem isn''t that we rely on the free market too much, it''s that we don''t allow it to function as it should. When Washington is given the power to dictate the rules of the game, the corporations will seek to curry favor from legislators, or worse - seek to crush competition through regulation. Net Neutrality is only an issue as far as there exists local cable and telephone company monopolies. Open up to MORE competition, then when one corporation seeks to limit their user''s network access, those users will be able to make their voices heard by switching to the provider with the most open access. The free market in it''s truest form gives the individual the greatest voice. Do some reading... Ron Paul''s heroes are Mises and Hayek, two men who would never mistake our current system of corporate favoritism for true capitalism.

[neoconrcrazy]

this guy is gaining traction .....

good time for an outsider

wish him luck!

[l8c6]

The problem isn''''t that we rely on the free market too much, it''''s that we don''''t allow it to function as it should. When Washington is given the power to dictate the rules of the game, the corporations will seek to curry favor from legislators, or worse --Posted by videogeek1



We the people should be lobbying our legislators. Corporate lobbyists should be disallowed from gaining such access to Washington which gives corporate concerns more rights and representation than collective citizen concerns


Ever hear of deregulation? It''s been happening over the past 2.5 decades starting with the rise of the neo con movement. The lobbyists are in Washington to buy the politicians because the government has been weakened by right wingers who have increased their access to Washington. Someday the corporations won''t need Washington D.C. at all. They will become the government consolidating and merging into smaller numbers with no accountability to humanity that was meant to be served by them.

Corporations are morphing into entities that demand to have their interests served whether or not at the expense of human beings. More at the expense since there are far more losers than winners in a world of private corporate tyranny and eventual loss to all of humanity.

[l8c6]

this guy is gaining traction .....

good time for an outsider

wish him luck!


Posted by neoconRcrazy


OUTSIDER? How do you figure? He''s been in Washington a mighty long time there bud denying the need for a tax payer salary cause he''s bought by big money interests.

The rhetoric flows. He''s against net neutrality and not one person in here can address the implications of this.

[danitexas]

Bought by big money interests???

Are you kidding me? Have you even researched Ron Paul? Lobbyists don''t even knock on his door.

Might want to fact check before you post.

[clestes-2009]

You go Ron!! You are the ONLY candidate that actually knows ANYTHING about the Constitution, except maybe John Edwards, and best of all, neither of you owes big business anything.

It is time to put someone in the whitehouse who is NOT beholden to the Israeli lobby, defense contractors, big oil or anyone else EXCEPT the American people!!

[videogeek1]

"The lobbyists are in Washington to buy the politicians because the government has been weakened"

I''m sorry, but I''m completely missing your logic. If the government is weakened, what purpose would corporate lobbying serve? Government should be powerless to assist in corporate hegemony. Let business live or die according to the will of the consumer.

[antoniof123]

If this were the 2000 elections it would make a difference to me but now the Republican party as wasted its best and they have nothing left.

[king77shaw]

does Ron Paul support a new 9/11 investigation? he should, because of footage like this;

here%u2019s an independent photographer who shot close up footage of the Pentagon on 9/11 %u2013 watch it and hear what he has to say %u2013 then ask yourself %u201Cwhere%u2019s the plane?%u201D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYWIT9TSJPE

more damning Pentagon evidence here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAwtmun_aj8&feature=related

and here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=869bO4jI1po&feature=related

[l8c6]

"The lobbyists are in Washington to buy the politicians because the government has been weakened"

I''''m sorry, but I''''m completely missing your logic. If the government is weakened, what purpose would corporate lobbying serve? Government should be powerless to assist in corporate hegemony. Let business live or die according to the will of the consumer.

Posted by videogeek1

Government is weakened by having corporate insiders in high office and lobbying those who are not corporate insiders. I said weakened not obliterated. When the corporate lobbyists are no longer present of their own will you''ll know your government has been obliterated.

I think you''re faith in consumerism is a common distortion that superficially sounds logical but is far from it. Besides, how sick that living is perceived to be built around the market place and consumerism in our material planned obsolescent wasteful system. I mean, someone needs to put down their coffee and recognize how perverse that really is.

[unity3111]

dont listen to these people spewing lies about Ron Paul and net neutrality, these people are very confused. Listen to Ron Paul oppose Net neutrality because this bill would have regulated the internet, not kept it neutral as the title may have you think. do research people, its not hard...http://youtube.com/watch?v=5Mz9pDGHBTo

[l8c6]

Consumers buy goods from an available system. It has changed through the ages. People used to shop from one farmer to the next. They might do the same more today if that option existed to a larger degree than it does. Consolidation of corporate wealth does not offer the consumer choice. That is a myth to think that we are offered choices and a functioning free for large corporate wealth generates competition. A board game of monopoly destroys competition in the end. Choices perceived by the populace are often a marketed myth. Shopping malls today are filled with a variety of specialty stores. Behind the facade of what appears to be several competitors are 2 or 3 large companies.

[l8c6]

dont listen to these people spewing lies about Ron Paul and net neutrality, these people are very confused. Listen to Ron Paul oppose Net neutrality because this bill would have regulated the internet, not kept it neutral as the title may have you think. do research people, its not hard...http://youtube.com/watch?v=5Mz9pD
GHBTo

Posted by unity3111

Removing citizen limits on private corporations who are determining the speed and flow of the internet means they will advance their private causes and do as has happened to the airwaves...flood the media with right wing fascism in the form of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and a battery of demons unleashed. The web will be destroyed by a foolish citizenry that does not recognize that global corporations do not hold the common good of the citizenry in mind. The bottom line is a ruthless quest to increase the bottom line of profit through snake oil marketing scams. An intellectual dishonesty has become part of a growing culture of corruption. Minds have been perverted by the ideology of business idolatry.

[l8c6]

The possibility of regulations designed to mandate the neutrality of the Internet has been subject to fierce debate in various forums. Since the early 2000s, advocates of net neutrality rules have warned of the danger that broadband providers will use their power over the "last mile" to block applications they oppose, and also to discriminate between content providers (e.g. websites, services, protocols), particularly competitors. Neutrality proponents also claim that telecom companies seek to impose the tiered service model more for the purpose of profiting from their control of the pipeline rather than for any demand for their content or services.[4]

[l8c6]

Advocates offer three principal definitions of Network Neutrality:
Absolute Non-Discrimination: Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu: "Network neutrality is best defined as a network design principle. The idea is that a maximally useful public information network aspires to treat all content, sites, and platforms equally."[2]
Cardozo Law School professor Susan Crawford: insists that a neutral Internet must forward packets on a first-come, first served basis, without regard for Quality of Service considerations.

[l8c6]

Network neutrality regulations are opposed by free market advocacy groups as well as minority advocacy groups such as the National Black Chamber of Commerce and LULAC, which receive financial support from telecommunications companies. The Communications Workers of America, the largest union representing installers and maintainers of telecommunications infrastructure, opposes the regulations.

Advocates of "non-neutrality" regulation (or allowance) point to advantages with respect to rationing what perhaps will be scarce bandwidth. Indeed, the topic was opened because of what may be a substantial increase in bandwidth consumption as multi-media uses of the Internet expand. Carriers want content providers who support bandwidth-intensive multi-media Internet traffic to pay the carriers a premium to support further network investments.
A Wall Street Journal op-ed described the amount of data produced globally in exabytes, calling the potential bandwidth crunch the "exaflood" [14].
At times Internet traffic has already caused Internet services to fail (see congestion collapse and slashdot effect). In such cases, high latency connections result in interruption of services. An environment in which a content provider can provide a guaranteed quality of service to all customers could allow independent content providers to compete with traditional content providers in areas such as television and music broadcast, telephony, and video on demand.

[l8c6]

It''s all about controlling the content by private special interests.

[cfin5]

Posted by johnny343sc at 11:07 AM : Dec 17, 2007---------------Nah, I say that it is the RNC that left (split) the voters with their deceit. Same way the DNC is treating their constituents. Ron''s the only answer to that problem with the voting record to prove it. Doesn''t matter whose vote it splits as the rest are the same,......CFR heel clickers they are indeed!

[vptimmy-2009]

It would be nice to see the mainstream media to do their own twist on this story besides using the ap template. Someone needs to grow a spine.

[vptimmy-2009]

It would be nice to see the mainstream media to do their own twist on this story besides using the ap template. Someone needs to grow a spine.

[gunownerdan]

Dr. Ron Paul is the only candidate with a rock-solid record of protecting the Constitution.

[cfin5]

*****VIRUS ALERT!!!*****......If you guys receive an e-mail that says MERRY CHRISTMAS do not open it! Even if it is sent by someone you know. Confirmed by SNOPES. Microsoft is saying that it is the worst one ever. It WILL burn your hard drive. Opens up with an "open log fire".......I''''m not an expert on this stuff, but a fella that I know is sent this warning to me and I believe him. Be careful!!!

[v0ila]

lest we forget the Ron Paul actually broke the record for most money raised in one day, previously John Kerry held the record with 5.7 mil, now RON PAUL OWNS THE RECORD!

Thats right, a grass roots organization, a man who was told he doesn''t stand a chance, now holds the record for most money raised for his campaign in one day. =)

[userid5678]

CBS - Thank you for the coverage of Ron Paul and his trailblazing campaign. I look forward to future Ron Paul articles on CBSnews.com and on CBS broadcasts.