Ron Paul 1st With Military Donations, “more than 25 percent” of All Contributions
We got this in an email. The reference is Newsmax.com.
According to the FEC, the top 10 candidates in contributions from military members last quarter are:
- Ron Paul: $27,009
- Barack Obama: $18,891
- John McCain: $17,919
- Fred Thompson: $15,225
- Hillary Clinton: $10,855
- Mike Huckabee: $5,900
- Mitt Romney: $4,060
- Rudy Giuliani: $3,000
- John Edwards: $1,245
- Joe Biden: $1,175
- In the heat of the recent CNN/YouTube debate, GOP candidate Ron Paul was accused of failing to support America’s troops in harm’s way. He delivered a cutting response:
“I raise more money from military people… than anyone here,” Paul spat back at Sen. John McCain, who had taken issue with Paul’s calls for troop withdrawal.
Newsmax examined Paul’s claim, and our research indicates he’s right. In fact, Ron Paul continues to outpace all candidates — Republican and Democrat — by a wide margin when it comes to contributions from active duty and reserve members of the U.S. military.
According to the most recent campaign records compiled by the Federal Elections Commission, Paul raised nearly $27,009 from military members between July 15 and October 15. That’s an 8 percent jump from his military haul of $24,965 the previous quarter, and represents more than 25 percent of the contributions made by America’s warriors.
Democrat Barack Obama was a distant second with $18,891 in contributions from military folks last quarter. McCain, a Vietnam war veteran and former prisoner of war, took in $17,919 from America’s soldiers, sailors and airmen.
(editor: emphasis mine)
From MilitaryForPaul.com:
Ron Paul is the only military veteran frontrunner running for President - Democrat or Republican - besides John McCain. He didn’t obtain draft deferments like many others did at the time. He proudly served his country in the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard.
Dr. Paul’s medical training was interrupted when he was drafted during the Cuban Missile Crisis into the United States Air Force. He served as a flight surgeon out of Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, from 1963 to 1965, attending to the ear, nose and throat problems of pilots. He remained in the military during the early years of the Vietnam War. Paul’s active duty service took him to countries such as South Korea, Iran, Ethiopia and Turkey. He then served in the Air National Guard from 1965 to 1968 while completing his medical residency in Pittsburgh. He achieved rank of captain during his service in the Air Force.
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I bet the gap would widen even farther if military retirees were included. That way my donations would count too!
Sad that some of Paul’s stances are considered extreme, and others are so poorly reported and taken out of context. Of all the candidates, he seems the most ‘in touch’ with reality. Our service men and women appreciate this.
Saying Ron Paul is in touch with reality is like saying Dr. Seuss was a non-fiction writer.
Find the direct quote below:
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders’ political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. Certainly the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government’s hostility to religion. The establishment clause of the First Amendment was simply intended to forbid the creation of an official state church like the Church of England, not to drive religion out of public life.
The Founding Fathers envisioned a robustly Christian yet religiously tolerant America, with churches serving as vital institutions that would eclipse the state in importance. Throughout our nation’s history, churches have done what no government can ever do, namely teach morality and civility. Moral and civil individuals are largely governed by their own sense of right and wrong, and hence have little need for external government. This is the real reason the collectivist Left hates religion: Churches as institutions compete with the state for the people’s allegiance, and many devout people put their faith in God before their faith in the state. Knowing this, the secularists wage an ongoing war against religion, chipping away bit by bit at our nation’s Christian heritage. Christmas itself may soon be a casualty of that war.
Is that reality? I think not, and please explain how this is out of context?