The Republican Party needs to get back to supporting what the people want – not just special interests.

The seeds are being sown, and will be reaped on election day. Then perhaps we will know mainstream media for what it truly is–a mouthpiece for big business and special interests in Washington.

ANOTHER INDEPENDENT VOTER, GRACE PAYTON
"NO COWARD"

FOR EXAMPLE: PAUL'S %
NEW HAMPSHIRE TAXPAYERS 65.3%
FREEDOM WORKS STRAW POLL 56.0%
STRAFFORD COUNTY N.H. 72.2%
WEST ALABAMA 81.2%
MANCHESTER, N.H. STRAW 65.0%
CWA NJ GOP STRAW POLL 77.0%
PORTLAND, OR STRAW POLL 67.0%
JEFFERSON COUNTY ALABAMA 57.8%
SPRINGFIELD,MO GOP CLUB 77.3%
VIRGINIA STRAW POLL 38.0%

I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANY MORE.
SOME OF YOU ARE GLAD THAT THE MEDIA
WON'T TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT
THE POLLS I JUST LISTED. BUT THERE
ARE MORE. I PROVED MY POINT.

Why are we always involved in everyone elses business ., why do presidents disobey the constitution that they are sworn in to protect .

Ron Paul is our next George Washington & he will bring the criminals who carried out 9-11-2001 & Oklahoma City . did you know that Larry Potts of the FBI was who carried out that event , just look up Terri Nichols declaration in which he states in a 51 page document , that the FBI was the ones who carried out the attack & that the bomb that he helped Tim McVeigh make couldn't blow up a bus ,, did you see the chunk in that building???

America ., . wake up people , this is not our government , the democrats & republicans are both the same party , puppets for the bilderberg group & the skull & bones secret organization that does whatever they wish to us , & the New World Order is making their move right now on planning to take out 80% of humanity ,. Google End Game , Alex Jones ,. They are trying to take away our liberty & they are planning to deal with us as we resist !!!!! We need to take back our nation , we are the people ., The gOVERNMENT IS WHO WE VOTE IN ((Unless it's rigged like it has been for so many years now)) ,,We need to stand up for all u believe in now & get rid of the corrupt,tyrannical evil people that are not against Al qaida & their enemy is not ISLAM or IRAN , IT ALL COMES DOWN TO YOU !!!! All the news you see on the wars & on politics is all staged unless they have to put Ron Paul on ,,WHEN THEY DO ,,They never let him speak & they stage the you tube questions & try to make him out to be a conspiracy nut , The conspiracy is the 392 loop holes in the 911 events . Open your eyes everyone , this is our generation , your kids generation & we need to make this country our country so our kids & grandkids can grow up & live a happy life & have privacy & have a 2nd amendment !! We have to face up to the enemy .. LOOK UP THE 7-7-05 BOMBINGS OF LONDON , How THE MILITARY had drills of the same buses & trains being bombed at the same time the attack was taking place ,, is that not coincidence ??/ The chances of that happenening ((as it always does with these attacks ,,there's always a DRILL going on )) ,,u see ,,they have to cover why they screwed up or why they didn't act accordingly , People , i don't know what to tell you ,, go to infowars.com & listen To Alex Jones , the man who predicted 9-11 & said who they would blame & what they would do .. Our economy is falling ,,our dollar is falling & the gas prices are rising although we have more oil now than ever in the history of the world , we attacked IRAQ in 1990 because oil was being overpumped & was .84cents a gallon !! We had no reason to go there, GH W.Bush said that the IRAQI's were taken babies out of incubators & killing them , we now know that was not true !!!! George Bush's brother Marvin was in charge of Securicom ,, the security firm that handles Dulles Airport in Dallas & Thw World Trade Center , The pentagon never showed a plane hitting their building ,,they showed a cartoon of a plane with fake smoke out the back in 5 chopped up & editied frames when they have 86 cameras + 3 others in gas stations ,hotels & DOT ,, why couldn't we see it ????

I mean , you people have to clean up your brainwashed minds , this government's enemy is us !!!!!!!

Ron Paul is the only candidate that will help save us & Bilderberg has secretly called out for removing him ,., what does that mean ??? Think of JFK & what they did to him to get in LBJ , so he would stage the Gulf of Tonkin & USS LIberty attack ,,we lost 58,000 lives after that crock of lies !!!!

There's so much evidence folks ,, i mean watch the towers fall in 9 seconds straight down ,, watch the WTC 7 bldg. fall ,,watch the BBC CLIP OF Jane Sandling reporting that it collapsed in a live broadcast with the bldg standing behind her , it's all scripted folks ,,Shwn Hannity ,. Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck , Anderson Cooper , They are all paid off by the corporation of destruction , they use liberty & freedom to keep us in check & now they are promoting torture & tasering & police state type government & martial law !!!!!!!!

RON PAUL IS OUR ONLY HOPE TO FORFILL OUR FOREFATHERS & WHAT THEY WARNED WE WOULD BE UP AGAINST IF WE IGNORED ,,WE DID & NOW WE HAVE BEEN PAYING FOR IT ::: UNTIL NOW !!!!!
jOHN IN USA

I agree, the federal government does stink. Where did I say that the current policy isn't flawed? You make it sound like it's Ron Pauls's way or the current way, which is far from the truth. I'm fully aware that we're headed for trouble and I think that the reactionary measures that some of you Ron Paul supporters would escalate those problems in the long term and would cause incredible economic havoc to a great deal of the nation. We should be backing up our money with collateral (gold, etc.) rather than devaluing the dollar. What you fail to realize is that for many years, we effectively did this without the measures that Ron Paul calls for. It would help if we didn't sell our fiscal value to China with the debt that we're in.

As for privatization and the waste in federal programs, have you noticed what we pay private companies for government contracts. Have you ever noticed what we pay them and the ridiculous markups?

Regarding this part -
"Most of the people that are currently working for the federal government would get picked up by the states, since they would raise your taxes to fund the programs that each state needs." – Did you miss the point that I was making about how the wide income differences between states and the effect that would have on programs that are currently federally funded? Do you really think that New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maryland should live in luxury because their average median household incomes for 2002-2004 were above $55K/year and West Virginia, Mississippi and Arkansas should live in relative poverty since their averages were under $35K/year? (http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/income04/statemhi.html) If we're going to have intelligence gathering, education, etc. all funded by states, I guess I should move across the river to get the best that America has to offer.

Larry never did announce the results, though. I wonder why? I went to the trouble of voting, and was waiting for the big reveal of the 'poll'.

What happened, Larry? Too scary for ya?

RonPaul 2008 – Hope for America!

Seriously, you people funded this nut? You broke a record for an isolationist? Give me a break!

You talk about 'witnessing the revolution' and 'speaking the truth', yet none of you see what his politics will do to our country. The pull-out from NAFTA and the WTO will effectively close our trade borders. The elimination of the IRS and Federal reserve will cause a plummet in our currency that will make the current recession look like a love-tap. And Gold, as you can see by viewing the correct source material, fluctuates even more than the dollar. Putting us on the gold standard would destroy us.

Oh, and pulling every troop home? What happens when the power vacumn in the middle east causes a severe shift in radicalism? What happens to our allies, what happens to us? Predict that with your crazed leader. And what happens when we can't even fund a military? Who will defend us then, and with what?

I truly grieve for the state of the internet when such a foolish man can garner such support. If you wish to donate so much, where were you for the homeless veterans? The genocide relief of Darfur? The victims of Katrina/Rita? Or the California Wildfires? Instead, you piss your money away on a man who would give you ruin in return. You cast your pearls before a swine.

The only relief I see is that you are too few in the polls to raise him to the numbers that McCain or Obama has. And I sincerely hope that you, these people entranced by this snake-oil salesman, can see past his lies and to the core of his being.

Do not be decieved! Think, people! Lest you drive us like lemmings to the cliff. Do not let the rights I and my brothers fight for go to waste, please.

WHO HOOOOO Ron Paul!

Someone mentioned he is against abortion, THAT IS NOT TRUE. He has the same posion as Thompson. Overturn Roe v Wade and let the states decide.

I am not a supporter for several reasons. He wants to do away with the CIA and let states handle that role.

Here is my question for any Paul supporter.

How the hell is the State of Arkansas supposed to acquire intelligence?

We need the CIA. He wants to do away with it. Along with the FDA, homeland securiy. Medicaid, gone. Medicare, adios.

This is why I do not like him.

Why do YOU like him?

By the way, $6.5MM given to govt would most likely build a bridge in Iraq, that we blew up 2 weeks ago. Yes, very good use of our money.

Save us Ron!!!!

Grow a pair and at least list your name when you splatter the true Americans. . . . . spineless liberal. . . . .

I wish the media could focus more on Ron Paul. He does make a lot of decent points about the failings of our government and foreign policy. I loved how he took on Rudy at the debate a few months ago about why we were attacked on 9/11. I also like a lot of his slogans, about keeping with the Constitution, not pandering to special interests, etc.

That said, there's no way I'd ever vote for him. I honestly think that if a lot of his supporters realized what would happen if we implemented all of his ideas, they'd be a little more wary of such extreme change all at once, too. I also think that most of his supporters don't realize that you don't have to be as extreme as Ron Paul to get rid of speical interest pandering, imperialism, etc. Someone commented that the 1 million federal jobs lost wouldn't happen all in one day, but how long do you think it'll take for the private sector to create 1 million new jobs? Or do you like homelessness, foreclosures, and bankruptcy? That'd do much more economic damage than the Federal Reserve is.

As for his states rights approach and mostly getting rid of most federal programs in favor of states taking over, go ahead, as long as you don't mind the big states having twice the living standards as the smaller ones. Imagine the standard of living in Connecticut or Jersey compared with South Dakota or Kentucky. It'd be like Wal-Mart competing with mom and pop stores, where everyone would leave the poorer states because the education systems would be underfunded, crime protection would be shorted, and on and on.

When is MSM going to wake up and smell the coffee? What are you media drones trying to pull anyway? Don't you realize how you, yourselves, would benefit from having Ron Paul as president? How the country would benefit? Do you even care about the people?

Maybe Ron Paul won't win – God Forbid – but Ron Paul has started something. He has awaken the people and they aren't going to take this anymore.

Sheepal, shake the wool out of your eyes and join the REVOLUTION! Take back America!

http://www.ronpaul2008.com
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org

Paul supports the Constitution. Period. I'm not sure what's nuts about that.

Typical that this huge story - Paul's second blockbuster day of donations already this quarter - gets buried.

You ever wonder why these polls don't show Ron Paul so high? Its because we have to raise $6 million to even get mentioned.

Two Factual Errors in Story:

- Campaign has raised over $18 million this quarter, not just over $16 million as reported

-It appears that John Kerry no longer holds the current record at $5.7 million, as reported. Rather, Ron Paul's $6 million one-day draw appears to break this record making Ron Paul the holder of the record.

Yeah, we know what'd it's like to have a loon running the country – like your fellow Texan from Crawford. (A real cowboy's boots have crap on the outside..............)

This article deserves more coverage! Bump it to the front page where it belongs. I'm looking right at you, CNN. Yes you. I'm looking right through the computer screen at the guy moderating this comment right now! Don't you see the support for Ron? I don't see this much support for other candidates. How many news comments are being garnered by Guiliani or Clinton? Ha.

Someone didn't get the memo. Ron Paul is a front running candidate and he will win.

But you're right, Ron Paul is a terrible politician, but he's a perfect example of a statesman.

You obviously know a lot about politics, I mean you support Mitt. So you're OK with being told exactly what you want to hear. For most of us, that just doesn't cut it anymore.

The Romney plug at the end doesn't belong, and the swipe at Paul's low digit numbers is a sham. How about putting him on the phone polling ballots! That would help.

One reason Ron Paul does not appeal to me (and most people, I think) is that his supporters come across as, well, people who wear tin foil on their heads.

And that is sad, too, because he has some interesting ideas. But the Ron Paul people scare away supporters. They don't WANT to be popular. They want to be in their own little private club. And they don't want anyone else to join.

You can't elect a President that way.

So on any blogsite they post things like RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL over and over again, and that just scares people away.

And I am sure they will flame the snot out of me here, which just goes to prove my point. How can a guy raise so much money and yet poll less than 1%?

It's his supporters. They scare me. They scare everyone. And they convey the message that he is a "fringe" candidate.

Posted By Robert Smith, Brunswick, Georgia : December 17, 2007 3:06 pm "
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So you're saying you vote by association instead of concrete principles? That's very pathetic.

Besides, the so-called tinfoil hat crowd is minimal. We are a cross-section of America, from all walks of life, all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, incomes, and lifestyles. I think you are making the classic mistake of unjustifiably painting us all with a broad brush. I suggest you don't worry so much about the supporters and focus on the man and his positions.

Besides, Bush had whackjob supporters too. We call them neocons. So does Hillary. We call them socialists.

Here's a bulletin to you rightwing trashtalkers – Ron Paul is a force to be reckoned with, like it or not. Get used to it. Or come election day '08 you'll really have something to cry about.