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Ron Paul money bomb pulls in more than $1m

Contributions have been pouring into the Texas congressman's campaign since Valentine's Day.

Ron Paul is defying the notion that winning early GOP primaries is essential to continued fundraising success. The fiery Texas congressman who wants to abolish the US Federal Reserve and re-peg the dollar to the gold standard has yet to win a GOP primary or caucus - although votes are still outstanding in Maine - yet he continues to raise large amounts of cash and draw throngs of enthusiastic supporters.

Just how much dough is the Paul campaign pulling in?

Paul launched a money bomb - that term was popularized during Paul's last presidential run - on Valentine's Day, and has raised more than $1.2m since, according to the running count on his campaign site.

The Texas congressman is hoping for strong showings in Washington, where he has several stops planned, and the slew of states that vote on Super Tuesday. He also hopes for a turnaround in Maine. The Paul camp believes Romney's 194-vote edge in that state could vanish as caucus results are re-examined and outstanding communities vote this coming weekend.

Momentum in primaries is a funny animal, and with only three contests between now and the March 6 Super Tuesday contests, the game will largely be one of fundraising. Despite being a distant fourth in the delegate count, Paul's uncanny ability to raise money makes his campaign more viable than those of most other fourth-place candidates at this juncture would be.

And it makes the race to determine Obama's opponent all the more curious.

Although Paul's gold standard when it comes to fundraising - of late, anyways - has some befuddled as to how to characterize his standing, the waters could be more muddy. "As Maine goes, so goes the nation" does not appear to be witnessing a comeback in 2012.

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John Cheese's picture

@janker-doo-daa: All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter bout

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fuck off John

John Cheese's picture

@jankaas: finally, you effin idiot...

John Cheese's picture

^poo poo pee do!!

John Cheese's picture

@jank-goof: you're a turd, I can smell it...

Buckskins's picture

LMFAO @ John.

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12io34yu

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John Cheese's picture

@jank-poot: Break 'dis, shake 'dis, Mony, Mony.

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jankaas's picture

which bit of "fuck off" do you not understand John? i'll gladly explain.

and i see that your other half Beaviskins has commended you on your scatological witticisms. glad you've finally got some-one on your own level to 'debate' with.
or the 2 of you can just carry on posting about bottoms, pooh and your usual homoerotic obsessions.

have fun boys.

John Cheese's picture

^Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons

jankaas's picture

well done Ron Paul. you've managed to completely trolly sensible economic debate within the GOP.

surely no-one in the GOP administration would entertain returning to the Gold Standard, or abolishing the Fed? it's a total joke to think that these 2 items could ever become US policy.

this is a far cry of the GOP from the 1980's who would readily accept that inflation is not a monster to be feared. a huge leap backwards imho. plot seems lost.

jankaas's picture

off John fuck

John Cheese's picture

^ Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga. So we finish the 18th and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

John Cheese's picture

^you got no gameJank-poop. Have another drinky-poo & go to sleep codger...

John Cheese's picture

@janka-stool: Your feckless fecalith of fecund force flavors the flatulent ferocity of fervent
froth you put out.

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jankaas's picture

i see you still don't get it when i say "fuck off John".

how dumb are you?

and thanks for confirming your obsession with all things anal. very sexy i'm sure...i wonder how funny Beaviskins found your last couple of posts?

jankaas's picture

fuckoffjohn

gmac's picture

The USA is bankrupt, not a single thing can be done to stop the inevitable collapse.

Look at the real numbers.

John Cheese's picture

@jank-amateur: (you can do better..)Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Ta Ta

John Cheese's picture

@jank-sloot: go to sleep Willie Wonka..

John Cheese's picture

@jankers: guess you love tax cheat Timothy Geitner who is Secretary of Treasury..ha ha :-0

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John Cheese's picture

@jank-a-sloot: Do wah diddy diddy, dum diddy doo.

jankaas's picture

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jankaas's picture

John, it means that you should go and fuck off. now preferably. which means you should stop posting to me. that is the meaning of fuck off.

it's not all that difficult is it?

John Cheese's picture

@jankass: de doo doo doo, de daa daa daa, that's all I want to say to you..

Elvis's picture

I was a liberal who thought government is run by the best people who knew it all and cared for me, boy was I wrong.

Loosing my house in 2007 really woke me up and I started paying more attention and then I found Ron Paul. since then I've been a Ron Paul supporter and come to appreciate Austrian economics.

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^

not going to bother with your impotent wind-ups John, just pretend i'm not here there's a good chap.

John Cheese's picture

@jank-a-poop: Today is the 3 year anniversary of US $800 billion stimulus..Here's the CBO's analysis. They graded your leftie party with an "F" as in FAILURE:

The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. Moreover, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The official unemployment rate excludes those individuals who would like to work but have not searched for a job in the past four weeks as well as those who are working part-time but would prefer full-time work; if those people were counted among the unemployed, the unemployment rate in January 2012 would have been about 15 percent. Compounding the problem of high unemployment, the share of unemployed people looking for work for more than six months—referred to as the long-term unemployed—topped 40 percent in December 2009 for the first time since 1948, when such data began to be collected; it has remained above that level ever since.
Nin-com-poop...

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John, do fuck off already, there's a good boy.

John Cheese's picture

^crybaby leftie can't debate the issues- waah!

John Cheese's picture

^J’aurais tougours faim de toi.

John Cheese's picture

@jank-e-pee: Shmackta, shmackta, shmackta, I can’t give it away on 7th ave.

billy webster's picture

ron paul woul have waltzed in had he been 20 years younger. and if you want a measure of how much a candidate actually speaks for the people just pick the one the MSM are dead against. always works

viva ron paul

jankaas's picture

@John

fuck off

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@billy

"ron paul woul have waltzed in had he been 20 years younger"

this does raise 2 issues;
1) if Ron had run 20 years ago he would not have had much support, the GOP had a completely different stance regarding inflation and Federal involvement
2) even a younger Ron would not be able to have the Fed abolished or return to the Gold Standard.

not to say he is not a breath of fresh air, he has plenty of salient points about foreign policy, and is very able at putting the other candidates in their place. but ultimately that's all he brings; air

jankaas's picture

off fuck John

John Cheese's picture

@jank-a-sloot: I imagine the spittle dribbling off your gray beard as you thrash about in response, realizing you have been intellectually had once again...

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Hugh Markey's picture

Ron has the kind of 'shagged-out' face we oldies find looking back at us in the shaving mirror - every damn morning.
Shucks folks, Ron sure looks like a graduate from 'the old geezer' programme and looks old enough and weather-beaten enough to have been in the Texas Rangers.
Winston put Great Britain back on the gold standard and then reversed his decision when things went awry.
Nixon took the US off the gold standard and well was almost was impeached, then resigned.. Rotten luck. Selling guns to the Indians was a lot easier, dude.
If the US votes for an oldie we'll be hog-tied if'n it comes about.
Still, you never can tell where the GOP's hillbilly voters are concerned or where they will put their 'X' on the ballot paper. Gosh Dang it!

Old Timers

John Cheese's picture

^abra-cadabra...

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John Cheese's picture

@jankass: Ob la dee, ob la da, life goes on.

John Cheese's picture

@jankle-goober: I am the walru, G goo g’ joob.

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