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Ron Paul Updates - #3

Here are some more updates on Ron Paul, his philosophy, campaign and other newsworthy items:

Here’s an except from the transcript, of Ron Paul’s reaction to ’s Christmas ad:

 

 

STEVE DOOCY: Mike Huckabee has started running an ad in Iowa, where you’re at right now, also in New Hampshire and South Carolina, and in the back, it’s a windowpane but it also looks a lot like a cross. Congressman, I’m just curious what you think?

RON PAUL: It reminds me of what Sinclair Lewis once said, he said ‘when Fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.’ I don’t know whether that’s a fair assessment or not, but you wonder about using a cross like he is the only Christian, or implying that subtly.

What’s new: Paul says he’ll be in race a while; Dems’ focus on ‘electability’

Paul says he’s definitely in the race at least through "Super Tuesday:", Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul said the more than $18 million his campaign has raised this quarter shows "we have the support, the momentum and the money." Paul said he’d stay in the race at least until Feb. 5, when two dozen states hold contests. “Nobody would understand if I faded out before Feb. 5,’ he said."

 

Ron Paul Picks Up Brothel Endorsement

 

READ ON…..there’s much more!

 

David Paul cheers on brother from Ottawa Co. home

 

Ron Paul has a book and it’s selling

No presidential campaign is complete without a new book detailing the candidate’s life and values Rep. Ron Paul, the Republican turned Libertarian turned Republican, is doing it a little differently. His new book is titled "A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce and Honest Friendship." If you want to catch up on virtually every speech the 72-year-old, 10-term Texas congressman has made since 1976 on not intervening in a dangerous world, this is the book for you.

 

According to a news release on Paul’s campaign website, sales of his book are soaring since his recent appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" The book, has recently gone from No. 594 to No. 114, the press release claims. Strangely, the used copies cost more than the new ones. “The book sales don’t lie," says Paul spokesman Jesse Benton. "Dr. Paul’s foreign policy of freedom is resonating strongly with Americans and gaining greater support each day.”

 

The Disciples of Ron Paul

 

How does a 72-year-old conservative Texas congressman become the hottest thing in online politics? Ask the techies, hippies, tax haters, and war protesters who believe that only Ron Paul can save America from itself.

 

Paul, a 72-year-old obstetrician from Lake Jackson, Texas, land of duck hunters, ranchers, and oilmen, has improbably become an Internet sensation. He counts more Facebook and MySpace supporters than any Republican; more Google searches, YouTube subscribers, and website hits than any presidential candidate; and more Meetup members than the front-runners of both parties combined. his November 5 Internet "Money Bomb" event pulled in $4 million from more than 35,000 individual donors, a single-day online-fundraising record in a primary.

 

"The campaign calls itself the Ron Paul Revolution," notes Republican Internet consultant David All. "And I don’t think that’s a far stretch."

Paul has been elected 10 times on the ticket and also ran as a Libertarian in the 1988 presidential election. The truth is, Paul’s revolution is a conservative one, by his own account and ironically more noteworthy for Democrats, who until now comfortably assumed that progressive bloggers and YouTubers would give them, and only them, an edge online. As it turns out, nobody has more Internet buzz than a pro-gun, pro-life, anti-tax, and anti-war Republican.

 

TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP – His presidential-hopeful brother just raised more money in a single day than John Kerry did after he won his Party’s nomination in 2004. David Paul calls it "mind-boggling." "It’s something that nobody expected," he…… "I know he didn’t." "He" is Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). His campaign raised $6.2 million Sunday - all online. It’s a sum so large even the candidate is asking questions.

"Do we have enough time to harness this momentum and all this money coming in?" Ron Paul said Monday. "Can we figure out the best way to spend the money in order to get the vote out?" Ron Paul’s campaign says the average donation was about $50. "He doesn’t have all the $2,300 donors that some of the other ones get. I haven’t sent him $2,000 yet," David Paul said, laughing.

The two grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ron Paul went to Texas to serve in the Air Force; David went to Ohio, then Michigan to be a pastor. David now works part-time at a Grand Rapids-are a Lutheran church. Ron Paul told his brother he never thought he’d still be in the race at this point. The donors have kept him in. So what has kept those donors reaching into their wallets and reaching out to the campaign? "I think less government really resonates with people," David Paul said. That small-government, Libertarian philosophy is at the center of Paul’s campaign, along with the connected issues of less spending and trade. The congressman’s campaign has also centered on Iraq. "I don’t think it’s a mismanaged war," Ron Paul said Monday. "I think it’s a war we shouldn’t have gone into. You can’t manage a bad war."

That unique combination of views has donors flocking, but in most polls Paul remains in the single digits. So can Ron Paul win? "I don’t think there’s anything that can’t happen," David Paul said. "This is a time in which I think there’s great change going to take place. More change than we can imagine, because I think there’s a real dissatisfaction with the way things are going." Ron Paul has told his brother more money, of course, gives him a better shot at the presidency.   Paul could finish first or second in the Republican fundraising race for the last three months of the year. But he finished fifth among Republicans during the first nine months of the year. Michigan native Mitt Romney raised $63 million to top that list.

Ron Paul Charges Huck Implies He’s The Only Christian

 


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