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[Music] John Tate: Right now is when the rubber meets the road.  Hello, I'm John Tate, campaign manager for the Ron Paul presidential campaign, and I have an absolutely critical message for you today. 

Voters will begin selecting the next Republican nominee for president in just a few short weeks.  But the most important day of our campaign yet will be the December 16 Tea Party money bomb, and Ron Paul and I are counting on your generous support.

As you may remember, Ron Paul's first Tea Party money bomb took place in 2007 and during that one day, Ron Paul supporters made jaws drop across the country by raising over $6 million for the campaign.  I believe it was that money bomb, four years ago, that really kick started the Ron Paul revolution into high gear, and this December 16 Tea Party money bomb is our opportunity to take another gigantic leap forward. 

With your help, Ron Paul has a real shot at being one of the two or three candidates left to fight for the nomination after Iowa and New Hampshire.  This has been our strategy all along.  But for that to happen Ron Paul must finish in the top three in both states.

The great news is that's a goal well within reach according to recent polls.

Last month, Dr. Paul and our entire campaign team outlined an aggressive mail and media plan that we felt would propel this campaign well into the top tier in the early stages.  It worked.  In fact several polls have shown us within striking distance of first in Iowa.  So this campaign is continuing to work feverishly for a very strong finish for Dr. Paul in Iowa and New Hampshire.  But that's far from the end of the road.  As soon as Iowa and New Hampshire are out of the way, other expensive primaries will follow right on their heels.

Over the past 30 days, this campaign has run three different statewide ads in the early states, sent out over a million pieces of voter mail, and contacted hundreds of thousands of voters through our phone and ground network.  With your help and support, we've put together a very aggressive, very professional campaign that compliments Ron Paul's longstanding message and advances our shared cause of liberty.

But we need to raise 3-4 million during the December 16 Tea Party money bomb to continue to run ads and send out mail. 

So will you help Ron Paul succeed by pledging to donate on December 16?  It's absolutely critical that you do.  You see, there is a cold hard fact I need you to understand.  Ron Paul cannot make it to the top without your immediate help in the largest fundraising drive we've undertaken so far.

Unlike his establishment opponents, Ron Paul can't hit up Wall Street banks or fat cats for big checks, nor would he want to.

But that means Ron Paul is depending on you for every ounce of his success.

Over the next 30 days we will need to unleash our largest wave of ads and voter contact of the campaign to date.  There are also hundreds of young liberty lovers who have decided to spend their Christmas break campaigning for Dr. Paul in Iowa and New Hampshire.  We have a weapon no other campaign possesses—true grassroots support and people willing to work day and night until these elections are won.

But we must pay for this effort and the final round of ads and targeted voter contact in Iowa and New Hampshire, and then another wave in South Carolina and Florida. The total cost for our plan is almost $4 million.  Ron Paul is counting on your most generous support during the December 16 Tea Party money bomb to help him make it to the top.

So please visit our website at www.ronpaul2012.com and pledge to donate on December 16.  Remember the next few weeks may well decide the GOP nomination for 2012.   Our campaign has a great strategy to propel Ron Paul to victory, including hard-hitting TV ads, web, phone, mail and in person contact, but we must raise an addition $3-4 million in order to make sure it succeeds.  And I hope you agree, we've come way too far to strike out now.  So please do all you can by going to www.ronpaul2012.com and pledging to donate as much as you are able to on December 16.  And if you would, please call at least three of your friends and family and urge them to contribute to this critical money bomb as well. 

In this December 16 Tea Party money bomb is our opportunity to catapult Ron Paul to victory so please do all you can.  Together we can win this thing and restore America now.

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Notes: Somewhat repetitive, but that is the formula for fundraising.  Also note that the Tea Party did not exist in 2007.

Copyright © 2011 Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action.