Previous entry here.
The new dog, Cooper, was brought over tonight. We let the two of them romp around in the baement for about an hour getting to know each other. It seems to be going well. Chuck Norris has been mounted a few times. The new dog makes Chuck look small, and he’s a solid 80 pounds.
I’ll see if I can get some pictures tomorrow or something. Right now I’m kinda worn out. I’m getting over a slight flu, sneezing and coughing and the like.
It’s quite likely that this blog is going to morph into a Ron Paul endorsement fest pretty soon.
I will make no apologies for that: Of all the candidates running in the primaries, Democrat and Republican, Ron Paul is head and shoulders above everybody else when it comes to the 2nd amendment. That’s sort of my pet issue.
I know he’s a long shot in most folks minds. I expected his campaign to fizzle out in the exploratory phase. I really did. But it didn’t. He kept chugging along, momentum grew, and suddenly he’s so popular in the internet that nobody can run a poll without getting smashed with Ron Paul supporters.
While I took comfort in knowing that there were legions of people that liked the same guy I did I wrote it off: Internet fan boys do not win elections.
Then the fund raising drives started. Ron Paul was bringing in cash. Not huge amounts, but respectable amounts, and he wasn’t spending it all like a drunken sailor either. It was obvious that he was building up his war chest.
Then the Q3 results came out: Ron Paul got 5.6 million dollars in this last quarter. I believe that puts him in the #3 spot for Republicans with cash in hand to wage a campaign. Of that 5.6 million dollars guess how much was from corporate donations? It’s less than $7,000. The Ron Paul crowd isn’t just hitting every online poll they can find, they’re putting their money where their mouth is. Myself included.
The Ron Paul campaign isn’t just reaching out to Republicans that are unsatisfied, or disgusted, with the neoconservative movement. He’s reaching a portion of the population that never had an interest in politics before.
He’s different, and he’s just different enough that I think if he gets the Republican nomination he stands a good chance of winning the general election.