Ron Paul himself says "money rich" and says "Dec 16th" will be big

True, I get grouchy at 11:30PM. I still have about 1 hours work to finish up before another work day.

That being said, I wish you would stop this dialogue. The campaign is doing the right thing getting $$ now. They are sending out many mailers here in SC. I received 1 but I spoke to 2 guys who like Huck who each received 2-3 mailers. They liked Dr Paul as the 2nd choice. Mailers cost money. The word needs to get out now.
They also did not know about Hucks record. We can leave this to Mitt and Rudy (and me and you) to educate the public on this.
This means the campaign is working hard and Ron Paul can take this state and NH and then Ron will be hard to stop. It is an uphill race and time is going fast.

My point is you have made your point 100 times now and that is enough.
If you don't want to contribute to educate Rudy, then don't. Contribute when you want.
This has nothing to do with limiting your free speech. You have to be a team player and team Ron Paul is doing very well so start talking positive about them! We need to encourage one another and not tear each other down.

I get the idea that December 16th is huge and turning into a world-wide event. I've signed up and I'm going to contribute on that day. And I understand that if it's covered as we all hope it is, it's worth millions in advertising. Although, I would also caution that the media might think they've already covered the story in November. So don't expect the scales to fall from their eyes. If all you can afford is to donate on that day, save it up for that day. That's fine. If you can afford more, that's even better.

But understand, it's a campaign. If you've run for office, you know how it is. You wake up in the morning thinking about money. You go to sleep at night thinking about the money. Every day. You're constantly asking for money. The campaign needs money today. They'll need money tomorrow. They'll need money on December 16th. And the 17th. And the 18th. And so on. Don't begrudge them asking. They have to ask. Often. Repeatedly.

No vendor prints brochures or letterhead or yard signs or bumper stickers, no mailing house mails brochures, no studio produces ads and no station runs ads on credit when dealing with a political campaign. A political campaign is not P&G or AB or any other consumer packaged goods company that advertises all year long and buys through an agency that has established credit. Printers and media don't send invoices out to the campaign at the end of the month. Anything a political campaign wants or needs to purchase, must be paid for at the time it's ordered, or at least delivered. If it's not in the account, they can't afford it. TV and radio stations aren't going to save the prime ad slots on a promise to pay. As it gets closer to the primaries, there will be fewer and fewer good media slots available.

Paid vs. unearned media. You buy the time, you can control the message. You can hope and pray the unearned media works to your advantage at the right time, but you can't count on it alone. A disaster could happen on that day and your story is off the schedule. Interviews canceled. Then what? You got the money, but the spots are gone. You better have a blitz of ads already bought and scheduled to run in prime viewing time and radio spots in the morning and evening drives up to and including voting day.

And I agree with you on several points.

1) The media did not spin Nov. 5th as a failure because it took them by surprise and they had not personally reported a $10m goal. This time is different, they have reported on a $10m goal and they ARE watching us. However, had they reported a record breaking day as a failure, they would have looked like loons.

That being said, as long as we outpace the 5th, they cannot spin it as a failure because we will once again have broken records. However, unless we completely toast the 5th, we won't get much more attention for it.

2) The TeaParty is VERY important.

However, that being said... And this has been said here before... Those who can donate now and then and want to both should. Those who would rather donate now, should. Those who want to wait until the TeaParty should. Their choice, not yours or mine. You have made your personal choice, so why keep pushing it?

Basically, what I am saying is drop it, while you make valid points, all I have seen you talk about is this for a while... :)

I almost miss the discussions on your backup plan... ;)

or......."Google Jonathan Bydlak", to paraphrase a popular Ron Paul campaign poster.

Well.....I DID.

My research indicates that Mr. Bydlak is a 24 year old, 2005 graduate of Princeton University with a degree in Economics. His senior thesis was "So You Want To Be A Rock Star? An Application of the Superstar Hypothesis to the Popular Music Market". Upon graduation he wen to work for a Wall Street hedge fund. He quit in August to join the Ron Paul campaign as a Campaign fund manager.

NOT a personal attack. BUT....is this person IN ANY WAY more qualified that you or I, or you, or you, or YOU! to determine the direction and spending of campaign funds raised?

QUESTION EVERYTHING!!!!!

"People you've got to take the lead, or you shall be lead....ASTRAY." - Ben Harper

TEA PARTY07 !!!!!

Ron Paul essentially says he has so much money he doesnt even know what to do with it now AND all but basically ENDORSED DEC 16TH...

What is wrong with you people that you trust *one person* who's job it is to get get get now.... vs even Ron Paul himself.

There are many professional people working for Dec 16th, Ron Paul has plenty for two week.... WE DID NOV 5TH not Mr. Badlyk or the campaign. We did it - the grass roots and even TODAY in the video Nov 5th is still being WOWED AND TALKED ABOUT....

Please think for yourself... here is the video of today reinforcing the things I am preaching about:
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=138...

I just dont get it... I really dont get it... Ron Paul himself has now stated on the news about how Dec 16th will exceed Nov 5th... he does everything short of saying I endorse Dec 16th because he cant, nor can his campaign.
Why do you people listen to the campaign FUND RAISER who wants to make himself look good, over Ron Paul himself?
Ron Paul says he is money rich right now and looking foreward to Dec 16th and yet you people keep wanting to derail the train with money bomb this day, money bomb that day... etc...

Even to this VERY DAY he is getting IMMENSE EXPOSURE AS TODAY over $4.32 million in one day and yet people want to jump on *one man* in the campaign's call to send monies now... CONSIDER... he gets it today or he gets it Dec 16th - Ron Paul still gets it!!!! Ron Paul himself said in the following video, they dont even know how to spend the extra money, they are still kicking it around, so what does 2 lousy weeks matter at this point VS AWESOME MEDIA DAY FOR DEC 16TH....

I cant believe you guys are even wanting to ignore or disregard Ron Paul's own words.... here is the video link again for any who may have missed it posted all over this website:
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=138

it will be a National embarassment for Ron Paul. Especially, since Nov. 5th was such a great success.

I can see the headlines now.

"Ron Paul supporters fail to come through this time." They will probably use it as proof that Ron Paul only has a few thousand supporters, this is why they couldn't muster up one hundred thousand pledges.

Just my opinion, but a Teaparty failure could be very damaging to Ron Paul, because it can be spun in so many negative ways by the MSM.

The Teaparty not only needs to raise the $10M, but also needs to show that there were 100,000 pledges in order to be a success and there are only 19 days left to accomplish this.

Or else the MSM will have a field day.

Currently there are just a little over 21,000 pledges on the Teaparty site.