http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyQLduiFMFTNmeUdgpf5cMvLi6awD8SNSIJG0

Shattering previous records in the history of the U.S.

Less than Hillary and Obama, but considering his fan base is less than 5% of the GOP, it's very impressive. He more than doubled his total money. I even gave 25$ and I never give money to these sorts of things.

It's a lost cause, but what the heck? It's not like there are any other candidates worth voting for.

Ron Paul is ****ing amazing. Paul for president.

Damn. That would buy a lot of drugs.

My theory is internet users (due to their personalities) are more likely to like Ron Paul than the general population, hence his popularity here.

It's true you can fool some of the people all the time

Never heard of Guy Fawkes day. Maybe I should do something crazy with fire right now.

How can you not have heard of Guy Fawkes day. I'm not even English and I've heard of it. It's kind of like the English 4th of July at least as far as fire works go.

Guy Fawkes day is a state issue vote Ron Paul '08

Hopefully this will help Ron Paul get more mainstream media attention.

I gave $100.

Well if it helped Ron Paul (that amazing guy) raised 3.5 million USD, I must celebrate too.

Since when was the Fifth of November known as Guy Fawkes day? I thought it was Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night

The donations have broken ~$4.1 million. He started with about $2.77 million this morning.

The counter as of now: http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

Vote Ron Paul so we can return to the glory days where the market just fixed everything! :



...wait a minute...

Or we can ignore you for spouting random, unsupported bull****?

Spare me.

Actually it would have given enough time, it's just a matter of how much time. World War II finally brought our GDP up with massive deficit spending, but it's debatable weather massive deficit spending would have necessarily been the best course of action. Deficit spending on business investments to improve infrastructure and production capabilities, which was sort of indirectly done through world war II probably would have done it, but again, that sort of thing is only a good idea during a depression. If you try that during a recession you'll probably end up screwing things up more than you help them.

I think Ron should be president of the Internet.

Did anyone know around this time in the primaries some elections ago, Bill Clinton was only at 4% in the polls? I think this is really promising. I just check the Ron Paul's website, he's almost at 7 million. Wow.

Are you suggesting the great depression was caused by the free market? I'll side with the guys who think the Fed intentionally caused it before I'll side with you.

Just broke $7 million overall. ~$4.23 today million today.

Ron Paul is awesome.

Yep. Kerry was also at something like seventh place in the Democratic polls not long before their primaries four years ago.

Jesus, Hes gonna get dozens of millions by the 31st.

Clinton was a bit of a fluke, though. He never received the majority of votes in either race. Paul is more like Howard Dean. Lots of geeky internet fanboys.

I don't see the resemblance in either.

Bull. The Great Depression was more of the govt's fault, but not intentional. The rapid rise of deficit spending, banking regulations, and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. So it s the exact OPPOSITE of a free market, the government control, which caused the depression. Pick up a history book on your way out.



I don't know if I'd go that far. Paul still has a lot of support from other demographics, just his internet following outshines any other candidate. Ron Paul stands out because of his integrity, values, and positions, I don't know if I can put Howard Dean in that same light.

Ron Paul I think stands out for one another reason too. He's the only candidate that uses historic facts and quotes from the founding fathers to back up what he says. He basically says, "take a look at history" which is what we should do. Of course the only thing people ever learn from history is that people DON'T learn from history. Of course history will teach us, but people refuse to listen. I remember Bill Orielly got mad at Paul in an interview and said "don't give me a history lesson". That the kind of mentality that causes ignorance. It's easy to compare are military to the Roman Empire, spread so thinly, and then suddenly collapsing because of this. Let's up history doesn't repeat itself... of course sadly we learn that it usually does.

ron paul would make a great president of the internet but I don't think I want him running this country.

then it would stop being funny

Mystic0 would be so proud of you guys right now.

I'm sad that such a noble visionary is no longer with us.

Pouring one out for my banned homie~~

Crazy stuff! This press made me finally get around to donating, too. I hope the "feedback" continues and that Mr. Paul reaches his $12 million goal.

Wow the depression caused by the government? Some people need to go back to school.

I think Ron Paul is a bit too extreme in the current times, but I still can't believe anyone would consider government at fault for the economic crash of the world.

I wouldn't mind Obama or Paul, but sad to say, Hilary is going to be our next president. Well, your next president. I still promise to move to Canada during a term held by Clinton.

I've never liked Bill Clinton because he was such a dishonest weasel, and he on the other side of the isle as far as my politics go, but I'd much rather have him than any of the Front runner GOP or Democrat candidates.

Obama is smart but he seems lees honest and more socialist than I'd like.

I was going to type, "Well, there's a lot of time between now and the election," but then I remembered that the more time passes, the more people will be surprised into voting for Clinton by the fact that she's not actually a total *****.

America: Canada's Mexico?

nah, Canada is still America's mini-Mexico

I dunno, Mexico is the country south of you where you go to get cheap gas, booze, and fireworks.

I'd say that pretty much describes America from the perspective of a Canadian. :p

He's unfortunately not running, so I can't be Gore 2008.

Go Obama!

You need to go back to school and actually learn about the Great Depression, not just accept the bull**** the public school system was forcing you in history class (and if you went to a private school, the your history teacher was most likely a Democrat/liberal). The Federal Reserve Board's failure to use open market operations effectively plus the terrible terrible New Deal policies of your glorious FDR plunged America further into the depression. That's all I'm going to say, because I've typed up this argument so many times. I'll leave you to go research and learn the truth about FDR, the New Deal, the Federal Reserve Board.

Anyways, back on topic, this is certainly impressive. I just somewhat fear the day when everyone feels like they wasted their money when he isn't even the GOP candidate (I hope that's not the case, but I have a feeling that's the way it will be).

Firstly at the time of the Depression, Capital had much more influence and control over government than the post-WWII period, so to say "well the government is at fault" just by this is a little silly.

Secondly, the administration of Hoover had the official policy of "rugged individualism" and was very pro-capitalistic in nature. Even FDR wasn't pro-socialist by any means as certain people would like to paint him (usually those people are just ignorant of what socialism is as they attribute any governmental action as socialistic)

I love how you simply say that I must do research on the subject when it should be common knowledge to anyone who knows anything about Capitalism that if it is "left off of its leash" that it is very instable and creates things like the Great Depression (which was only the worst in a series of depressions as a result of the market by the way).

As for the New Deal, this wasn't some socialistic measure as I said before but was actually meant to preserve the market and protect it from socialist "threats" (this was around the time that the Socialist party was at its all time high in popularity).

But as you said this may be a little off topic, so if you'd like to discuss this in another thread, I would be more than happy to.

And I suppose your fallacious arguments are just brilliant? Meh.