Ted Cruz raised from small donors over $4 million after announcing his presidential campaign. Rand raised only $2 million. And a Cruz-related PAC has announced a raise of $31 million.
There has been no word from Rand's secret weapon money raiser Jesse Benton, who is heading a Rand-related PAC, about any PAC money raised by him.
But one indication of Benton's early success may be a filing which appears to show that Rand plans to loan money to his own campaign. The declaration only shows that Rand looks like he is ready to put money into his Senate campaign, but this money can be moved around from one camapign to the other (the senate to the presidential) to a large degree, and there may be technical reasons for filing a declaration for the Senate campaign at this time.
This, btw, is another way that Rand differs from his father. Ron Paul has always held the belief that he would never loan money to his own campaigns. He felt that if the money couldn't be raised, it was an indication that the time wasn't right, or the candidate wasn't right.
Rex Rand can not fathom that he is not the essential philosopher king who will controls the fascist tentacles of this avaricious state.
ReplyDelete"Ron Paul has always held the belief that he would never loan money to his own campaigns. "
ReplyDeleteHa! He knew the futility of his campaigns because he never meant to win. Anyway, what does that mean, "loan money to his own campaigns"? If he spends his own money campaigning, it's a loan? Who would pay him back?
"He felt that if the money couldn't be raised, it was an indication that the time wasn't right, or the candidate wasn't right."
Or, that nobody was buying the con. Consider, Ron got a lot of money from people who thought the time was right and the candidate was right. He used campaign "experts" from the same pool of grubby GOP RF'ers that any other GOP politician would use to run a campaign. They wasted and/or stole the money, and Ron stopped campaigning before any of his rivals did.
Maybe the time was right, but the candidate wasn't, or maybe Ron's big teaching moment ended up teaching us to forget about electoral politics, and not to trust any career politician from either party. That's what Ron is, BTW, a career GOP politician.