Just when you thought we had said all there was to say about Ron Paul, I had to ask this:
What do you think of the Ron Paul Blimp and the campaign finance laws?
For those who don't know, I'll briefly summarize the history:
A bunch of RP cultists decided to start an effort separate from the campaign to support RP, and came up with the idea of a blimp. They decided to start a website and accept pledges. People pledged wildly, and they quickly met their goal and started trying to collect the pledges.
At that point, it occurred to someone that this is America, and you can't just do something like this without a platoon of lawyers, who were summoned (volunteers at first, and top rate ones). A PAC was formed. With that, people could donate $5,000, less whatever amount they had already contributed to the campaign.
Then the PAC went away, and a "commercial advertising company" was formed, called Liberty Political Advertising. It is NOT, repeat NOT in any way affiliated with the campaign. It's a private company, selling political advertising of Ron Paul via the blimp project. You can click a couple of buttons and buy ten weeks of blimp time for a million bucks. No campaign contribution limits apply. I mean, this is America, and if I have a million bucks laying around, I can hire a guy to go fly a blimp, can't I? The Ron Paul campaign never asked me to do it. They have nothing to do with this private transaction. It's no campaign contribution. Right?
What do you think of the Ron Paul Blimp and the campaign finance laws?
For those who don't know, I'll briefly summarize the history:
A bunch of RP cultists decided to start an effort separate from the campaign to support RP, and came up with the idea of a blimp. They decided to start a website and accept pledges. People pledged wildly, and they quickly met their goal and started trying to collect the pledges.
At that point, it occurred to someone that this is America, and you can't just do something like this without a platoon of lawyers, who were summoned (volunteers at first, and top rate ones). A PAC was formed. With that, people could donate $5,000, less whatever amount they had already contributed to the campaign.
Then the PAC went away, and a "commercial advertising company" was formed, called Liberty Political Advertising. It is NOT, repeat NOT in any way affiliated with the campaign. It's a private company, selling political advertising of Ron Paul via the blimp project. You can click a couple of buttons and buy ten weeks of blimp time for a million bucks. No campaign contribution limits apply. I mean, this is America, and if I have a million bucks laying around, I can hire a guy to go fly a blimp, can't I? The Ron Paul campaign never asked me to do it. They have nothing to do with this private transaction. It's no campaign contribution. Right?