Rand Paul money bomb today

Just a quick reminder of the Rand Paul "Give me Liberty" money bomb today, on the anniversary of Patrick Henry's famous quote. You can donate at Rand's website, or through this site, which looks well worth checking out:  http://www.winrandwin.com/

Please read the letter from Congressman Ron Paul regarding the money bomb  (posted on TPA on Saturday), and for background, my newest Nolan Chart article on the Rand Paul campaign, The Battle of Kentucky [http://www.nolanchart.com/article7526.html].

Ron Paul tells base: "We need you more than ever" on March 23

Subject: URGENT! Help Keep Rand on TV!!
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:32:24 -0400
From: Congressman Ron Paul
Reply-To: Congressman_Ron_Paul_hembt_lnenpm@cp20.com
To: [undisclosed recipients]

Congressman Ron Paul

Dear Friend,

My son Rand is running a great campaign in Kentucky. Through hard work and your support, he is winning! We have a real chance to send the most principled, limited government leader to the United States Senate in a generation.

But now, he needs you more than ever.

The big government establishment has turned on their fundraising machine to try and defeat Rand. According to media reports, Rand's challenger has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past several weeks. The sources? Disgusting! PAC's, special interests and the banking industry - all of whom are opening up their wallets for Rand's opponent.

Remember when AIG took billions of taxpayer bailout dollars not once, but twice? Well, I have it on good information that AIG's chief lobbyist just held a high dollar, big money fundraiser for Rand's rival. I am sure you can figure out why.

Rand has shrewdly purchased all the television airtime he needs from mid-April through his May 18th Primary. The commercials are produced, the voter data is being assembled and a tremendous turnout machine is being put in place.

Rand's career politician opponent is lashing out - he has turned on an attack machine of vicious distortions and outright lies. Rand is working hard to knock them back and fight for our principles.

But, Rand does not have enough money to stay on TV and fight off the establishments smear tactics over the next few weeks. Unless he gets a substantial infusion of cash, he will not be able to purchase airtime from March 24 through mid April. And with all of his opponent's lies and fear mongering, he needs your help to stay on Kentucky statewide television during this critical time.

On Tuesday, March 23, the grassroots have organized a Money Bomb for Rand. If we have a successful day, Rand will be able to purchase the airtime he needs for the next few weeks and fund the last several mail pieces he will need down the stretch. You can donate directly at Rand's website, www.RandPaul2010.com.

We need you more than ever. I dearly hope I can count on your support. We have a tremendous opportunity, and if we come together on March 23, I know we can win.

In Liberty,

Ron Paul

P.S. Please view this video Rand's team out together, and forward it to your friends and family. Every single person's contribution counts, and anything you can do to spread the message is greatly appreciated!

Pol. Adv. Paid for by Committee to Re-Elect Ron Paul * 1-800-RON-PAUL

The Modern Politician / Archibald Lampman

The Modern Politician

What manner of soul is his to whom high truth
Is but the plaything of a feverish hour,
A dangling ladder to the ghost of power!
Gone are the grandeurs of the world's iron youth,
When kings were mighty, being made by swords.
Now comes the transit age, the age of brass,
When clowns into the vacant empires pass,
Blinding the multitude with specious words.
To them faith, kinship, truth and verity,
Man's sacred rights and very holiest thing,
Are but the counters at a desperate play,
Flippant and reckless what the end may be,
So that they glitter, each his little day,
The little mimic of a vanished king.

--
Archibald Lampman
1900

Dick & Betsy DeVos endorse Justin Amash for Congress

Spokesman: Dick and Betsy DeVos endorse Justin Amash for Congress | MLive.com - Jim Harger:

February 12, 2010 - "GOP power couple Dick and Betsy DeVos have thrown their early support to State Rep. Justin Amash's quest to succeed retiring U.S. Rep. Vernon Ehlers, R-Grand Rapids.

"Amash, R-Cascade Township, announced his candidacy on Tuesday, one day before Ehlers announced he would retired at 17 years in the U.S. House.

"They enthusiastically support and endorse his candidacy and believe he has a strong record of standing up for smart but limited government," said a spokesman for the DeVoses....

"Amash, a 29-year-old legislator in his first term of office, would not have won the DeVos endorsement had Ehlers not announced his retirement, said their spokesman, Greg McNeilly.

"'They have known Vern pretty much all their lives,' said McNeilly, noting Betsy DeVos took a physics course from Ehlers while a student at Calvin College.

"Dick DeVos, son of Amway Corp. co-founder Rich DeVos, ran a largely self-funded campaign for governor as a Republican in 2006. Betsy DeVos is a former GOP National Committee member and state party chairwoman."

Read more: http://blog.mlive.com/talkingpolitics/2010/02/spokesman_dick_and_betsy_devos.html

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Rand Paul article tops 1,500 reads

This week, my Nolan Chart article on Rand Paul's Senate campaign in Kentucky, "Paul Surges to Lead in Senate Race," passed the 1,500-read mark for January. (It currently has 1,550.) That's the first time in more than a year that an article of mine has attracted that many readers in a month.

I'd like to thank the kind folks at Liberty Forest and The Daily Paul for helping the article find its readership.

Paul Surges to Lead in Senate Race
http://www.nolanchart.com/article7234.html

Medina's star rises in Texas

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Associated Press reported on Jan. 20: "After months of being largely dismissed in a race dominated by the state's two Republican heavyweights, Debra Medina is making her presence felt with an anti-establishment message that has evidently struck a chord among a segment of Republican voters.

"Buoyed by her performance against Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in last week's televised debate, the conservative activist has climbed to 12 percent in the latest Rasmussen Reports poll, up from 4 percent in November, a showing that prompted organizers to include her in a second debate Jan. 29."

Source:
(AP) Dave Montgomery, "Medina's star is rising in Texas GOP gubernatorial race", Politics AP, The Miami Herald, Jan. 20, 2010.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1435082.html

I am currently working on an article about the Medina campaign, and will blog the link when it is completed.
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Massachusetts election: Where was the left?

by George J. Dance

In the wake of Republican Scott Brown's upset election victory in Massachusetts for Ted Kennedy's former Senate seat, Toronto Star columnist and blogger David Olive asked a pertinent question: Where were the progressives? Tea Party activists were all over the state (from reports I've read), providing the cadre -- the "boots on the ground" -- instrumental in Brown's win. Where were their counterparts in Coakley's campaign?

Olive points out that the Obama's progressive troops have been "AWOL" for some time: 

Vander Heuvel ... should be admonishing fellow progressives. Where were they during the Tea Party mania of August, when the tide of public opinion began to turn decisively against change. Progressives embraced Obama, or change, or both. Yet when a gaggle of liberatarians [sic] with posters depicting their champion - yes, there [sic] one best chance in a generation for significant progressive change - showed up on the Mall or at the local rec centre, where was the army of progressives with their own signs, slogans and expressions of popular will? AWOL is where.

Just hours later, at the Huffington Post, Frank Schaeffer cranked up the rhetoric a notch, blaming the entire loss on "Lefty Obama-Haters."

It is probably unfair to blame loss of liberal or progressive support for the Democrats' Masschusetts defeat – others have been arguing that what hurt them most was loss of support among white working males and seniors – but it is fair to wonder what has been happening to the President's support on the left.

Here's a Nolan Chart article I recently published on the subject:

The Left abandons Obama
http://www.nolanchart.com/article7277.html