PAUL NOT BEING CONSISTENT
Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine. He served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. Paul and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice. As an OBGYN, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies. Paul served in Congress during the late 70s and early 80s, but he gave up his seat to return to his medical practice in 1984. He decided to run for Congress again in 1997 and has been there every since. He has been a member of Congress a total of twenty years. He is known as “Dr. No” because of his principled stands on fiscal issues.
On November 5th in one day, Congressman Ron Paul, R-TX raised 4.2 million dollars for his Presidential campaign. Paul has now raised more than $7 million since Oct. 1, which is more than half his goal of $12 million by the end of the year. Paul said the additional income would help his campaign step up operations in key primary states. "We can buy unlimited TV in New Hampshire. We already had the 5 (million dollars) left over in the third quarter. So with this coming in, we can expand our purchases not only in New Hampshire, which is not expensive, but now South Carolina is more expensive. We'll be doing a lot more in Nevada and now the organizational work we need over in Iowa," he said. To put it in perspective, Paul has raised about the same amount of money as John McCain- most over the Internet. Who is giving Paul money? He has little support among GOP party regulars. Is Paul was getting the money from the Libertarians within the Republican Party? Not according to Eric Dondero, founder of the Libertarian Republican Caucus.
Dondero, who worked for Paul for six years, says that Paul is not a Libertarian Republican, but a sort of Populist left-winger. Dondero says, ”Since 9/11 Paul has become a complete nutcase conspiratorialist quasi-Anti-Semitic leftwing American-hating nutball.” It’s safe to say Dondero is not a Paul fan. In fact, Dondero has announced plans to run for Congress against his boss in 2008. Paul has been quoted as saying, “if Eric Dondero is the only thing I have to worry about, then I don’t have a lot to worry about. “ But back to the money- as blogger Mike McCarville likes to say, “in politics- follow the money.”
According to official campaign fund raising filings posted at http://opensecrets.org/, Ron Paul’s top donor is well known internet giant Google. Former VP Al Gore serves on the board of directors of this solidly Democrat Company. Google has a history of progressive political activism, both in the way they censor search results to bury conservative slanted stories, and in their campaign contributions. They give money most of the time to Democrats, with the exception of Ron Paul. Because Paul is opposed to the war in Iraq, Google gives him money.
Among Ron Paul’s top donor zip codes are of course parts of Texas, but also heavily liberal districts in Chicago (60614), San Francisco (94117), more than 80% of which supports Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer, and Los Angeles--Long Beach, which is his second largest donor area after Dallas.
What we have here is a candidate trying to win the Republican nomination by raising money from liberals across the political aisle. But even with all the money, his poll numbers among Republicans hasn’t moved.
Paul has very real popularity among the liberals because of his opposition to the war in Iraq. It is not likely he will be successful to get enough people to switch parties in order to win the Republican nomination. But he is doing a great job of validating the perspective of all the negative propaganda uttered by leftists against Bush, Republicans, the War on Terror and national security. He is also doing a great job of helping the left undermine the war on terror and that’s why he’s so popular among anti-war leftists, including the press. The New York Times did a flattering story on him Sunday. And worse of all, Paul threatens the integrity of the Republican nomination process itself by relying upon liberals and their money to win the Republican nomination.
Paul has principles and his voting record in Congress is one that most conservatives would be proud of. That’s why it’s so puzzling that Paul is willing to partner with liberals to further his anti-war, anti-Republican campaign for President. That’s not a principled stand and one that contradicts Paul’s track record in the House.
Paul will not win the nomination. He doesn’t have enough Republican activists in his camp to win, but he can distract. In 2008, when the GOP needs to be in lock step and have every person engaged, we don’t need this irritation- particularly from a man who has always stood on principle.
Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine. He served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. Paul and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice. As an OBGYN, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies. Paul served in Congress during the late 70s and early 80s, but he gave up his seat to return to his medical practice in 1984. He decided to run for Congress again in 1997 and has been there every since. He has been a member of Congress a total of twenty years. He is known as “Dr. No” because of his principled stands on fiscal issues.
On November 5th in one day, Congressman Ron Paul, R-TX raised 4.2 million dollars for his Presidential campaign. Paul has now raised more than $7 million since Oct. 1, which is more than half his goal of $12 million by the end of the year. Paul said the additional income would help his campaign step up operations in key primary states. "We can buy unlimited TV in New Hampshire. We already had the 5 (million dollars) left over in the third quarter. So with this coming in, we can expand our purchases not only in New Hampshire, which is not expensive, but now South Carolina is more expensive. We'll be doing a lot more in Nevada and now the organizational work we need over in Iowa," he said. To put it in perspective, Paul has raised about the same amount of money as John McCain- most over the Internet. Who is giving Paul money? He has little support among GOP party regulars. Is Paul was getting the money from the Libertarians within the Republican Party? Not according to Eric Dondero, founder of the Libertarian Republican Caucus.
Dondero, who worked for Paul for six years, says that Paul is not a Libertarian Republican, but a sort of Populist left-winger. Dondero says, ”Since 9/11 Paul has become a complete nutcase conspiratorialist quasi-Anti-Semitic leftwing American-hating nutball.” It’s safe to say Dondero is not a Paul fan. In fact, Dondero has announced plans to run for Congress against his boss in 2008. Paul has been quoted as saying, “if Eric Dondero is the only thing I have to worry about, then I don’t have a lot to worry about. “ But back to the money- as blogger Mike McCarville likes to say, “in politics- follow the money.”
According to official campaign fund raising filings posted at http://opensecrets.org/, Ron Paul’s top donor is well known internet giant Google. Former VP Al Gore serves on the board of directors of this solidly Democrat Company. Google has a history of progressive political activism, both in the way they censor search results to bury conservative slanted stories, and in their campaign contributions. They give money most of the time to Democrats, with the exception of Ron Paul. Because Paul is opposed to the war in Iraq, Google gives him money.
Among Ron Paul’s top donor zip codes are of course parts of Texas, but also heavily liberal districts in Chicago (60614), San Francisco (94117), more than 80% of which supports Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer, and Los Angeles--Long Beach, which is his second largest donor area after Dallas.
What we have here is a candidate trying to win the Republican nomination by raising money from liberals across the political aisle. But even with all the money, his poll numbers among Republicans hasn’t moved.
Paul has very real popularity among the liberals because of his opposition to the war in Iraq. It is not likely he will be successful to get enough people to switch parties in order to win the Republican nomination. But he is doing a great job of validating the perspective of all the negative propaganda uttered by leftists against Bush, Republicans, the War on Terror and national security. He is also doing a great job of helping the left undermine the war on terror and that’s why he’s so popular among anti-war leftists, including the press. The New York Times did a flattering story on him Sunday. And worse of all, Paul threatens the integrity of the Republican nomination process itself by relying upon liberals and their money to win the Republican nomination.
Paul has principles and his voting record in Congress is one that most conservatives would be proud of. That’s why it’s so puzzling that Paul is willing to partner with liberals to further his anti-war, anti-Republican campaign for President. That’s not a principled stand and one that contradicts Paul’s track record in the House.
Paul will not win the nomination. He doesn’t have enough Republican activists in his camp to win, but he can distract. In 2008, when the GOP needs to be in lock step and have every person engaged, we don’t need this irritation- particularly from a man who has always stood on principle.
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