Ron Paul's financial campaign reporting, the most honest ever?

[cheguevara]

:wow bravo Dr. Paul. Show them how it's done:

:toast



If his campaign expense reports are any indication, someone in the Obama administration should have put Ron Paul in charge of the $787 billion stimulus program.

The presidential candidate from Texas declares absolutely everything, ProPublica is reporting today with the kind of wide-eyed astonishment that can only come from covering the usual four flushers and scalawags in Washington D.C.

In its review of the spending of all of the candidates, $306 million in all through February, ProPublica found a general forthrightness and honesty. The Federal Election Commission requires candidates to report individual purchases of $200 or more.

With Paul they found 160 purchases of a dollar or less, 99 cents spent at a Conoco gas station, 22 cents at a FedEx. The $1.27 staffer meals, the $1.09 for office equipment at Dollar Tree, the $1 for event supplies at the Salvation Army chart a campaign that is awfully tight with a buck.

Paul evidently requires the same frugality and transparency from the political action committees supporting him. Endorse Liberty, ProPublica says, files all of its expenses within 48 hours of incurring them, including the 8 cents it reported shelling out for online advertising to Google.

“We take the trust our donors place in us very seriously and are deeply committed to transparency and accuracy in our reporting,” Jesse Benton, Paul’s campaign manager told ProPublica in an e-mail.

We are pretty sure the guy who takes his campaign funding this seriously, who thought having his own Secret Service detail was a form of welfare, would have passed on that stimulus job.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/6454/obama-attacks-mitt-romney-calls-gop-budget-plan-social-darwinism/category_list

[boutons_deux]

and he did so well in the 2012 primaries. IMPRESSIVE! America Loves Randian Paul.

[BlairForceDejuan]

America dun goof'd.

Once Again.

Always.

Forever.

[SA210]

and he did so well in the 2012 primaries. IMPRESSIVE! America Loves Randian Paul.

Why do we keep pretending like we all don't know the msm purposely ignores him? As if he's doing so bad after the fair shake he was given :lol He has never been given a fair shake. When the dialogue from the get go has always EXCLUDED him, how can you seriously bash him for his performance? That's ridiculous.

If they gave him the same publicity, things would be different. By the HUGE crowds he gets which are unheard of with the other Repub candidates...things would be very different if everything were reported fairly.

But you all already know this.

[Blake]

I would have thought SA210 would be sympathetic towards ignorers

[ChumpDumper]

How big was Paul's crowd in Florence, South Carolina?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Why do we keep pretending like we all don't know the msm purposely ignores him? As if he's doing so bad after the fair shake he was given :lol He has never been given a fair shake. When the dialogue from the get go has always EXCLUDED him, how can you seriously bash him for his performance? That's ridiculous.

If they gave him the same publicity, things would be different. By the HUGE crowds he gets which are unheard of with the other Repub candidates...things would be very different if everything were reported fairly.

But you all already know this.

its not the media that ignores him. Its the GOP. He has his own organization and is set up in all the counties and precincts around the country. Its a foregone conclusion that he will use that organization to run independent when he loses the primary.

If he does i will vote for him if only because he is third party. Him already having the organization in place to compete in national elections combined with a potential boost from federal party financing given enough of the electorate would reshape American politics even if he only came in at 10%.

You trumping him as an actual candidate to win now is laughable but its no joke what effect even a marginal success would have on politics in this country.

[JohnnyMarzetti]

It is not the MSM's fault Paul has nothing to run on and has no chance of EVER getting the GOP or any other party nomination. He sucked in the debates and if his ideas are so grand then voters would support him. He only himself to blame for his poor showing in this GOP nomination process.

[cheguevara]

It is not the MSM's fault Paul has nothing to run on and has no chance of EVER getting the GOP or any other party nomination.

it's been well catalogued and documented how the media purposefuly ignores Paul. Here is a small sample:

Tb5aGgQXhXo


He sucked in the debates and if his ideas are so grand then voters would support him. He only himself to blame for his poor showing in this GOP nomination process.

He is running for candidacy for the Grand Old Party. The party that still belongs to the warmongering neocons. it's not that he has bad ideas, it's that the ones who run the party pander to extremist, christian, gun toting warmongers.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

it's been well catalogued and documented how the media purposefuly ignores Paul. Here is a small sample:

Tb5aGgQXhXo



He is running for candidacy for the Grand Old Party. The party that still belongs to the warmongering neocons. it's not that he has bad ideas, it's that the ones who run the party pander to extremist, christian, gun toting warmongers.

You do understand that the Daily Show is MSM? I see more that Stewart points out that GOP mouthpieces are trying to ignore him. Paul just has too much of a base for them to exclude him and as I said its a foregone conclusion that he is going to run third party and siphon more votes due to his participation in the primaries.

[ChumpDumper]

You do understand that the Daily Show is MSM?:lol Don't get them started.

[cheguevara]

Daily Show is MSM

:lmao


I see more that Stewart points out that GOP mouthpieces are trying to ignore him. Paul just has too much of a base for them to exclude him and as I said its a foregone conclusion that he is going to run third party and siphon more votes due to his participation in the primaries.

GOP/Democratic mouthpieces ARE the MSM

[FuzzyLumpkins]

:lmao



GOP/Democratic mouthpieces ARE the MSM

You don't consider the Daily Show to be news commentary?

And while dumbing it down to equivalence might seem meaningful to you, it holds no truth for me. Stewart showed a bunch of GOP analysts from various networks. I guess its easier to brush that stroke extra broad.

WTF are you getting your news from video media anyway?

[Blake]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/us/politics/in-ron-pauls-campaign-strength-and-weakness.html?pagewanted=all

Here's a great mainstream media article about how he has been ignored

[vy65]

who cares?

[ChumpDumper]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/us/politics/in-ron-pauls-campaign-strength-and-weakness.html?pagewanted=all

Here's a great mainstream media article about how he has been ignoredThat's not mainstream media!

[cheguevara]

You don't consider the Daily Show to be news commentary?

It's a comedy show for entertainment purposes. Don't watch it but quite funny from what I seen BTW



And while dumbing it down to equivalence might seem meaningful to you, it holds no truth for me. Stewart showed a bunch of GOP analysts from various networks. I guess its easier to brush that stroke extra broad.


Watch again, not only GOP analysts there. Also newscasters from CNN/NBC/FOX(aka the MSM)

[ChumpDumper]

It's a comedy show for entertainment purposes. Don't watch it but quite funny from what I seen BTWThe subject of their entertainment is the news, upon which they comment.

On a basic cable channel.

Owned by Viacom.

[Blake]

It's a comedy show for entertainment purposes. Don't watch it but quite funny from what I seen BTW


Could almost say that about Fox news

[cheguevara]

The subject of their entertainment is the news, upon which they comment.

On a basic cable channel.


So anything news related on basic channel is MSM?

wow that newshour, what a bunch of MSM bullshit :lmao

[cheguevara]

Could almost say that about Fox news

agree :tu

[ChumpDumper]

So anything news related on basic channel is MSM?

wow that newshour, what a bunch of MSM bullshit :lmaoYou missed perhaps the most important qualifier.

That isn't a surprise.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

It's a comedy show for entertainment purposes. Don't watch it but quite funny from what I seen BTW



Watch again, not only GOP analysts there. Also newscasters from CNN/NBC/FOX(aka the MSM)

i am aware of that but i was unaware that a) other than one or two of those guys that they were not GOP commentators b) your hand picked three networks were all that comprised the MSM or c) that comedy and news were mutually exclusive. Are you familiar with what satire is?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

So anything news related on basic channel is MSM?

wow that newshour, what a bunch of MSM bullshit :lmao

Other than satire of the news what does the Daily Show do?

[JoeChalupa]

Paul is not going to run as a third party candidate.

[Drachen]

Paul is not going to run as a third party candidate.

Then he doesn't care about the country.
I'm not trying to be facetious. It would make me very sad if he didn't run as a third party candidate.

[boutons_deux]

MSM pays no attention to Randian Paul because he always has been and always will be a untelegenic loser who won't sell, or buy, the ads that MSM profits from.

He can't even get support as a heroic truth-telling underdog, because people want to be lied to.

[Blake]

Then he doesn't care about the country.
I'm not trying to be facetious. It would make me very sad if he didn't run as a third party candidate.

If he runs as a 3rd party candidate, wouldn't he be taking away some of the GOP votes?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I hope he runs third party. If he gets his party national funding then he has a shot to change our 2 party system to a 3 party system and that would have a more profound effect on this country than any single candidate winning.

[BlairForceDejuan]

Lord Ronald Paulson the Magnificent has my third party vote.

Nothing will come of it, just as nothing will come from electing either clown red/blue.