{"id":28233,"date":"2012-01-07T10:27:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T14:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28233"},"modified":"2012-01-07T10:31:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T14:31:36","slug":"on-military-donors-supporting-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28233","title":{"rendered":"On military donors supporting Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all heard Ron Paul say the other day, while introducing Corporal Jesse Thorsen<\/a> to the crowd in Iowa, that he receives more monetary donations from service members than any other candidate. Yesterday, an old friend from a previous forum, where I was banned, asked me if this is true. In fact, ROS asked me the same question a few months back. I knew it was true, because it happened back in 2008<\/a>, too, when Paul got 99 donations totaling $45,500 – that’s about $460 per donor. According to Open Secrets<\/a>, Paul’s military contributors have donated almost a six-figure amount;<\/p>\n

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I remember when I looked at who specifically was donating to Ron Paul from the military, his largest donor was some POG in California who had never deployed, and actually had got out of the National Guard the year before to help run a Ron Paul campaign office near San Francisco. But he had identified himself as an employee of the military on his donor form.<\/p>\n

Paul has raised over $12 million<\/a> last year, so less than a hundred grand is almost meaningless. Who among us had money that we were willing to spend on a political campaign while we were on active duty? I suspect that that since this whole debate depends on the donor to identify his\/her occupation, there’s an opportunity for dishonesty…but we know that the Ron Paul supporters are as honest as the day is long. <\/p>\n

Of course, that’s sarcasm. They can’t even be honest with themselves. They always manipulate anything they can in their favor – even in Drudge’s exit poll of the Iowa caucus on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

So, at this point, Ron Paul can say truthfully that he receives more in donations from the military than any other candidate, but we can also remain skeptical, thanks, as always, to his lunatic supporters who split their time between trolling blogs and spraying their yards with vinegar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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