The Latest Ron Paul Fraud
by James W. Harris
Advocates for Self-Government
Newspapers and TV shows have been buzzing with reports that libertarian
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul raised over 4 million dollars in
just 24 hours, on November 5.
If true, that would be the largest amount of money any Republican presidential
candidate this year has raised in a single day. In fact, that's remarkably
close to the most successful presidential fundraising day ever in American
history: John Kerry's $5.7 million -- and that happened only after Kerry
accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, not in the days before the
primaries.
But of course this cannot be true. It has to be some kind of trick.
After all, every savvy political observer knows that Ron Paul has just a
handful of fanatical supporters.
When he started winning virtually all of the online polls, it was clear this
was the work of just a few pro-Paul nuts, with computers and far too much time
on their hands, endlessly spamming the polls.
When Technorati, which ranks popularity in the blogosphere, announced that "Ron
Paul" was the number one Internet search term, that was obviously just more
spam trickery by the miniscule but diabolically active Paul cult. When Ron
Paul's YouTube channel reached over 30,000 subscribers last month -- far more
than any other presidential candidate, and making him his channel the 39th most
popular YouTube channel of all time -- it was just more of the same.
When he won almost every phone-in poll after each nationally-televised debate,
once again it was clear to all right-thinking observers that it had to be the
same few Ron Paul fanatics, dialing over and over again, somehow getting past
blockers the networks put in place to make that impossible.
When he started winning or scoring high in numerous local GOP straw polls, it
was obviously just the same tiny crew, now frantically traveling state to state
and using false IDs to make it appear Paul had lots of supporters. No doubt
this same handful are the ones who greet Ron Paul, cheering and waving signs,
wherever he goes.
The more than 1,000 Ron Paul meet-up groups, in over 800 cities, who have put
on over 12,000 events so far... just more trickery and manipulation by this
small but determined band.
Ditto for the countless thousands of handmade Ron Paul signs that have
seemingly popped up spontaneously across the country. The tiny Paul cabal
probably does it while they're racing across the country to keep up with Paul's
campaign appearances.
I frankly haven't figured out yet how this small group of isolated loners and
fringe crazies, as they're often described, has managed to fool everyone into
believing they raised over four million dollars in one day. But it obviously
must be just another trick.
Because, if it's not a trick, it would mean that Ron Paul -- and his
libertarian message of peace, civil liberties, economic freedom and limited
government -- has far greater support than much of the media has ever imagined.
And that couldn't be true.
Could it? |
