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Ron Paul More Military Donations: All Republicans Combined

pressmediawire.com — ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – According to newly released FEC reports, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has received more military donations than the other three remaining Republican candidates combined.

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  • floatingorb, on 02/04/2008, -4/+10I guess those guys in the alledged "bury brigade" will be flamming the troops when they bury this. In a way it would be stiffling their voices, as they are voting with cash (like so many here at home (yes I know lots of military are 'here at home'). You can bet it is personal cash too, not from halliburton--like here the big money comes from the corporations and PAC's. I don't think they (brigade) will mind though--they want never ending war and don't give a ***** about the troops and the DU they are breathing.
    http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Soldiers_support ...
  • Genevera, on 02/04/2008, -2/+16"Just come home."

    I can't remember which debate Paul said that in, but it was that statement that really swayed me to support him. The troops are questioning why they're even there, morale is low, they don't want to be there anymore. Let them come now. Not in a year or more, not in 100 years. Right now.
    • alittleroy101, on 02/04/2008, -1/+2It takes time to have an orderly and safe retreat. We can't just pack up our guns, go down to the bus stop and wait for the next ride to America. Our guys will get slaughtered, and also, all of those Iraqis who risked their asses to help us will be executed along with their families. This is how more terrorists are created, we cannot abandon those Iraqi civilians that have helped our soldiers. So the question becomes, what do we do with them and how do we protect them?
      • floatingorb, on 02/05/2008, -0/+3Build permanent bases (check) and stay there forever?
    • floatingorb, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2Genevera, I think you will appreciate this clip:
      http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Banned_RP_Video
      but, "just come home" quote is in this clip. It comes from abc-youtube debate:
      http://youtube.com/watch?v=AFfdB5OzlyQ
      It's about mid-way of the clip. This clip is "uplifting."
      • Genevera, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1Thank you so much! I really enjoyed both videos. The clips from Kennedy and MLK in the first one were a brilliant contrast.
    • floatingorb, on 02/05/2008, -0/+2here is a link to the "just come home" quote if you want to Digg it::::
      http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Ron_Paul_When_in ...
  • yatzr, on 02/04/2008, -2/+6gee, I thought the troops were saying "Let us win". Isn't that what you said, McCain? It doesn't look like that's what they're saying to me...but then again, I can do math.
  • Frnnkdlxx, on 02/04/2008, -3/+10Ron Paul is starting to sound more and more like the perfect Republican frontrunner. The only excluded Top Tier candidate. HA!
  • LordSkywalker, on 02/04/2008, -1/+8I'm not military, but I definitely donated and will continue to do so. The brokered convention is going to be crazy.
  • suzywang3000, on 02/04/2008, -1/+1only in America...
  • Lyk4n, on 02/04/2008, -5/+1I'm in the military and I voted for Obama. Paul's ties to racist organizations and previous comments are far too numerous for me to ignore. I'm white, but am engaged to a black woman who is currently serving at my same base, she's working her ass off for American citizenship (currently Dominican). Paul is also vehemently Christian, I'm an atheist, so much so that he doesn't accept the theory of evolution.
    http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2003/tst122903.ht ...
    I want the Constitution to be strong again. I think Sen. Obama is the only Democrat who can do that.
    • alvinrod, on 02/04/2008, -2/+5Allegations which have been debunked numerous times. If you actually took the time to look into something you'd probably have found this out, but I suppose it's so much easier to make uninformed accusations than to show any degree of intelligence. You'd also realize that Obama is Christian, just like Ron Paul. Whether or not he believes in evolution, I really don't care.

      You're just being hypocritical and pimping your own candidate.
      • Lyk4n, on 02/04/2008, -2/+3I know full and well that Obama is a Christian, but he is certainly not as venomous towards us non-believers as Ron Paul is. You can (and will) digg me down, but I haven't actually said I think Paul is a racist, he may not be, I'm just saying that is a fairly strong connection. Also, I do care that my President understands the basic levels of science, he makes decisions on my behalf about them when policy comes up.
        • alittleroy101, on 02/04/2008, -2/+2Listen, we're not going to convince these wingnuts of anything, so save your energy. I can't agree with you more about the basic science part of that too.
        • floatingorb, on 02/05/2008, -1/+1Lord, I hate this digg system to edit comments...I see that counter counting down and my head just explodes. I wanted to add that Bush (little shrub) is a crackhead, Clinton to, and ask "what did he do for anyone?". And I wanted to add that I could effectively argue (if i'm not in gitmo tommorow for saying this!) that his father 'George Herbert Walker Bush (aka george shreff jr.)' is the most lucrative heroin dealer in the world (that's why there are still POW's in Laos). Just because they use their products doesn't mean they will let the bottom line slip by decriminalizing it (giving it away). Why am I so hot on the drugwar thing with you? Because it is the "actions" that matter about "racism" as much as what someone believes (IMO). Who is in jail disproportionately? There is no hope in Obama.
        • floatingorb, on 02/05/2008, -1/+2"THEORY" of evolution. You said it brother! Paul is the only candidate who would not shove his beliefs down your throat and you slight him for a THEORY that he does not subscribe to?
          I have my own "theory". Let me predicate it: Geneticists tell me that I am 99% ardvark. Implies common design. Now I am pretty shure that I am not an aardvark (lacks the opposed thumbs to operate this keyboard). OK I recognize that I can be made out of most of the building blocks of an aardvark and not be an aardvark. This is intuitive to me as a (onetime) computer programmer. By that, I mean that when I generate a peice of code I don't start from scratch everytime...I reach into that borland c++ library and grab all the little subroutines. My poker program may not look like my radio accoustic sounding system analyzer BUT I made both of them. Now is this common design or common designer? That is my "THEORY". I won't try to tell you that it was God, or Carl Sagan's ("...Starstuff, the ash of stellar alchemy, had emerged into concienceness..."), or shapeshifting reptoids. Do you know what "theory" means? Why it is never worded as the "LAW of evolution?"
          Here is some carl sagan just for you:
          "conscience emerges":
          http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-492674855 ...
          starstuff:
          http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-492674855 ...
          Sagan discusses nuclear war:
          http://digg.com/world_news/Carl_Sagan_discusses_nu ...

          Watch them please. And feel the RAGE at the obsenity of the loss after all that 'evolution'. Now who's finger do you want on the button? Just a little to think about ain't it?
        • floatingorb, on 02/05/2008, -1/+1You care about the Constitution and think Sen Obama is the only one that will make it all better? It's what Paul supporters are angry about. The message is not getting out. Ron Paul is the only one talking about the Constitution. He is a "Constitutionalist". A true conservative (that word used to mean 'one who takes a conservative reading of the constitution'). He is not a "neo-con" (new conservative--Nazi) They just throw the constitution out: "Stop throwing the constitution in my face. It's just a god damned piece of paper!"...{GW Bush discusing patriot act with white house lawyer Harriet Meirs} Clinton, Obama, Mccain are these same nazis--all love that same act. They want to make you a terrorist for talking about the constitution.
        • Sep11insidejob, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1***** I am an atheist and I think that because Ron Paul allows the decisions to be made on the local level, whatever his beliefs are is irrelevant when it comes to religion, etc.

          Yes, I think it would be a bonus if he were non-religions IMO, but hey, he's the only one that believes that the federal reserve is ripping everyone off.
      • floatingorb, on 02/05/2008, -1/+1Can't confirm it was Harriet Miers that Bush was talking to about the "gd peice of paper". But some "white house aid". sorry.
    • floatingorb, on 02/05/2008, -1/+1Moses had a black wife (nephrite woman). I've got no problem with that kind of thing. But Obama?:::
      http://youtube.com/watch?v=sVeFVtcdSYY&feature=rel ... (don't watch this one first)
      (yet to be debunked.) I've noticed on these forums that people of "ethnicity" think that because Obama is a crackhead that he will relax drug laws. I think they will be let down. RP has said one of his first acts in office will be to pardon non-violent drug offenders (immediate release) and do away with the federal side of "drug war".
      Before I get 'flammed over this comment', watch this and then tell me he is racist.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8S8N2OG7sU
  • phillidor, on 02/05/2008, -1/+4I am a veteran of the Air Force and I continue to serve in the Air National Guard. In addition, I am a senior economics major in college. In my opinion, Ron Paul has the right view on foreign policy and an equally good view on economic policy. Learn more about Austrian Business Cycle Theory and the Austrian School of Economics at www.mises.org. He also has the best record supporting the Constitution which I have sworn to defend and uphold. Ron Paul 2008!
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