Charles Gibson, the ABC World News Tonight anchorman, quizzed the Republican candidates about their changeable politics on Saturday night. After asking about their principles, he then interrupted former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani when he tried to put himself in the tradition of Ronald Reagan. Here’s an excerpt from the ABC News transcript: GIBSON: [...]
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Fergus Cullen, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, has decided to pull out of the partnership with Fox News’ Republican forum Sunday night. The reason is because the network opted to exclude Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul from the televised event. Cullen tried to convince Fox News to open the forum to all of [...]
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Posted in Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Dennis Kucinich, Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Gravel, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani on Jan 4th, 2008 No Comments »
ABC News and WMUR-TV have set the line-ups for Saturday night’s back-to-back debates. Only four of the six Democrats in the race will be on stage, and only six of the seven Republicans, because of a qualifier which has been challenged by both Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley and Republican Fergus Cullen as unfair and [...]
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Posted in Ron Paul on Dec 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Despite Ron Paul’s record-breaking fundraising days, his campaign estimates he’ll need to raise about $23 million more in order to have a chance at being named the Republican nominee. “Victory can be ours,” campaign chairman Kent Snyder said. “But we must triple our efforts and triple the amount of money raised right away.” The money [...]
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Posted in Ron Paul on Dec 20th, 2007 No Comments »
A group of grassroots supporters flying a blimp up the East Coast to help spread Ron Paul‘s name across the skies, apparently didn’t think about New England’s unpredictable weather. Katharine Memole, spokeswoman for the blimp, said the blimp will definitely be in New York City tomorrow, and may make it to the airport in Bridgeport, [...]
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Posted in Ron Paul on Dec 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Ron Paul set another fundraising record yesterday, raising $6 million. In November, Paul’s campaign tried to break John Kerry’s $5.7 million goal in 24 hours, but failed. So they changed the timeframe to win the 16-hour goal with $2.7 million raised in online contributions. By dinnertime Sunday, 30,000 people had donated to the campaign and [...]
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Posted in Ron Paul on Dec 10th, 2007 No Comments »
The Libertarian National Committee adopted a resolution on Sunday urging Republican Ron Paul to seek the Libertarian Party’s nomination. If Paul does not win the Republican nomination, the Libertarian National Committee wants him to seek its party’s nomination. Paul, who has a devoted following in New Hampshire, is a member of the Libertarian Party, according [...]
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Posted in Ron Paul on Nov 28th, 2007 No Comments »
According to the men’s magazine GQ, yes. Ron Paul was called the “Dark Horse of the Year” in the December issue that hit newsstands yesterday. It’s the magazine’s 12th annual Men of the Year issue. Paul was selected from a group of 38 entertainers, athletes, politicians and other icons. He was the only 2008 presidential [...]
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Posted in Ron Paul on Nov 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul set a new record when his campaign raised more than $2.7 million in online contributions in 16 hours. It is the largest single-day online primary fundraising effort in election history, according to his campaign. Overall, the campaign raised $4.3 million in a 24-hour period, and thought that was also a [...]
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Posted in Ron Paul on Oct 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Ron Paul has taken the strongest stand against the Iraq War of any Republican in the primary. In 30 years, Paul voted one time only to authorize use of U.S. military force, and that was to send troops into Afghanistan after Sept. 11, according to his son, Dr. Rand Paul. But his dad wasn’t always [...]
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