WE’RE ALL MONEY BOMBERS NOW!
I do not intend to ever solicit money for candidates on this blog. But I was amused at the latest establishment adoption of Ron Paul’s strategy: The money bomb. Thanks to Redstate.com, there is an exhortation to support the latest money bomb for Marco Rubio. Senator Jim DeMint is doing a $100,000 money bomb for today, February 10 to ironically remember the first anniversary of a “stimulus hug” between Governor Crist of Florida and President Obama. (It’s ironic that redstate.com banned Ron Paul comments in the 2008 primary!)
Of course the origin of the money bomb is from the Ron Paul campaign. Trevor Lyman, the little-known musician and promoter shocked the political world with the November 5, 2007 money bomb that raised over 4.3 million dollars for Cong. Paul (the date came from a minor holiday in Great Britain used in a political thriller, “V for Vendetta”) and followed up that with a bigger haul of just over 6 million dollars on December 16, 2007. Here’s another great article about Lyman from the Los Angeles Times. He had never even voted before! A common slogan was “Dr. Paul cured my apathy!” Talk about curing apathy with results! Trevor Lyman is still involved in politics raising money for liberty-minded candidates. One of his latest ideas is teabombs.com. Here’s the site. Keep in mind that people did not rally for Ron Paul because he’s a great speaker, photogenic, charismatic but the strength of his ideas.
(I have to tell you, Trevor Lyman is a hero of mine. he’s that rare thing in national politics: the ordinary guy or gal who changes the way things are done. I once corresponded with him and got an email back! I didn’t wash my laptop for a week!)
Be encouraged, fellow libertarians! (BTW, did you see that Debra Medina is now up to 24%? If she makes the runoff, she’ll have beaten an incumbent United States Senator! No mean feat.)
