Stop Telling Me How Much Money Ron Paul Raised: Instead, Tell Me What He’s *Doing* With It
By Daniel Miessler on November 30th, 2007: Tagged as America | Politics | Ron Paul
Today alone there are like five stories about how Paul is outpacing the other candidates in terms of donations. Add that to the 4.2 million dollar day a while back and that’s pretty impressive.
But I’m not impressed.
We don’t need Paul to raise a lot of money. We need him to spend that money. We need to get his numbers up, and in order to do that he needs to be heard. So don’t tell me about what he’s raised. Tell me what he’s done with it.
If the CNN YouTube debate is any indication we are at a serious disadvantage due to bias. We need to be taking action immediately rather than rejoicing in the size of our coffers.:
I have heard whole entire political shows dedicated to nothing but who raised how much moeny and what that means for their campaign. That seems, to me, to be the least interesting/important topic in electorial politics.
Comment by Maxo — 12/1/2007 @ 3:11 pm
I always enjoy your blog, forgive me if I’m inspired to spout off a bit in the spirit of discusion.
While I admire Paul’s apparent honesty and sincerity. He seems to be advocating a form of government for the United States that would best function in an idealized 19th century.
He seems to advocate a system based on Private Contract Law. That’s not going to work in our global world, unless you get everyone to play that way, and that’s just not going to happen in my lifetime.
Our populace is not educated enough for that. The majority of the world is not educated enough for that either.
Education, participation and laws that restrict commercialism would be a start. Human nature runs counter to those directions too.
Some form of feudalism seems hardwired in, whether we work in the field, castle or corporate office building.
Government isn’t the system, it’s just a small part of it.
Comment by Chris — 12/1/2007 @ 3:47 pm
I was just wondering, what happens to all the money post-campaign? Does it go to charity? His pocket?
Comment by jakedahn — 12/1/2007 @ 9:11 pm
@Chris
I think you very well may be right, but I think his intentions and honesty outweigh the potential downsides of a fully implemented Ron Paul philosophy. The fact of the matter is that most of these things would not reach maturity before he (and others) figured out that a hybrid approach would have to due while America re-educates itself.
But in the meantime progress would be made in amounts that other candidates would not likely be able to attain.
Comment by Daniel Miessler — 12/2/2007 @ 5:03 pm