BRAVO Free-Market News Network!
Bravo! to the Free-Market News Network, for pointing out one of the positive stories about the Ron Paul campaign, which are just BEGGING to be reported!
Quoting:
Sources close to the Ron Paul (R-Tex) presidential campaign point out gleefully that in a single night Ron Paul took in more money -$102,000 - than the entire [Texas] GOP apparatus did with its convoluted “first ever” straw poll - $97,500.This $102,000 figure is referring only to ONE fund raising event of the night, and it does not include the torrents of donations constantly coming in to Ron Paul 2008 from all over the nation, twenty-four hours a day.
The positive article went on to point out how the GOP leadership in Texas–avowed Ron Paul detesters–had carefully designed the Texas Straw Poll to exclude Ron Paul voters, but that Ron Paul STILL came in THIRD!
Quoting:
“More and more, the tail is wagging the dog in this presidential campaign,” one source pointed out. “The Texas straw poll was structured so that you could only vote if you had been a former GOP delegate. Even rank and file GOP-ers couldn’t vote. The only reason for such a restrictive system is to ensure that Ron Paul didn’t win. Those eligible to vote are the most hawkish, most pro-military and big-government oriented ‘conservatives’ in Texas. They have as little understanding of Jeffersonian, small government republicanism as big government democrats.”Article quoted, is located at http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=48297
And this source concluded, “Ron Paul still did well, finishing in third place in a straw poll that was rigorously structured to make sure he would not win. But maybe the real vote can be seen by his fund-raising success. He out-raised the entire Texas GOP in a single night. He’s one of the hottest politicians in the country going into the upcoming debates on Fox.”
