It sounds to me like you feel that you never got the credit you deserved? There were 38,000 patriots that donated that day and everyone of them was a hero. The reason I posted that article was because I was promoting 50 for flag day. I thought it would be cool to share my story. Hell I passed up a lot of media interviews like Alex Jones so forgive me for typing on a blog.

I am glad you are a part of the movement but if you think trying to tear me down makes you a better person it’s quite the contrary. This is a baseless slander why don’t you figure out what side of the movement your on?

In my article I explained it was an awesome grassroots from so many people. It was and is the evolution to our revolution, I get that. As Ron Paul says there is to many people to thank it’s the damn truth. I happen to be the lucky guy to think of the day and act on it and make a video. Is that an outrageous thing to say is that a false statement? It was 3 weeks until the day and We the People came together and made it happen. I have no shame…

My Thanks go to the OP Mr. Gallagher nice surprise to see this posted.

Best,

James

Man i just love your blog, keep the cool posts comin…..

This article comes across as sour grapes for Trevor getting all of the credit (which I agree he deserves none of) but then seeking credit for himself.

You miss the whole point of the campaign when you give credit to one individual for this. Every day people came up with ideas for how to deal with getting shut out of debates, people wrote articles to counter all the mis-information being spewed by the MSM, people set up charity donation drives. The grassroots was busy every single minute working on different ways to get Ron Paul elected.

But don’t you get it? It is the idea of liberty that was so successful not any one individual. The concept of freedom was what brought in the money, not some guy. You could hire this exact same person to repeat the performance for other politicians and it couldn’t get done. That is because it was not the idea of raising money on one particular day that brought in the money, it was the lust for liberty and freedom brought on by the starving and hopeless and disenfranchised.

Do you folks realize that many of the people that donated sold everything they had to give money to the Paul campaign? People maxed out credit cards for donations just on the hope that perhaps someone out there might bring them a little bit of liberty.

The people are dying out here. We are being crushed by inflation (my definition of inflation is an inflated money supply created by the FED that makes the dollars in your pocket worth less than they did before the extra currency was dumped into the market). People are losing homes, we have money that is virtually worthless. Even people with upper echelon jobs are being crushed. Attorneys are getting standard 3% raises when the real cost of inflation is around 13%. Doctors are getting out of schools owing so much money they will be stuck paying off the loans until they are 50 or more.

The country needed Ron Paul to have any chance to get on a track that will save them. Now they are stuck with three socialist war mongerers that will continue to bankrupt the country and destroy what little is left of the middle class.

It was the people that rose up and deserve the credit for the money bombs. The people that decided that raising money for this cause was more important than keeping their musical instruments, or their CD collections, or their college fund. The people decided that the only chance of hope, no matter how slim was worth the gamble of giving much more than they could afford. The people were reaching out for that glimmer of hope. That is why this little “trick” of raising money will not work with other candidates. That is why this “trick” was not “created” by any one person.

Most importantly, by taking credit for creating the “money bomb” the author diminishes the reason it was successful, and dilutes the meaning and the impact of the message. I would expect that from the MSM, a statist entity that has no idea what it is like to desire non-statism, but for a Ron Paul supporter and freedom seeker to do so, well, that is just plain sad.

That is why I am so disappointed. Apparently, some of us were in this to save our lives and freedoms and to give our country a chance for a future and others, well, they just wanted some accolades.

“And he doesn’t say word one about all those people who worked so hard to make November 5, 2007 a huge success.”

James wrote:

“His site built so much excitement and WAS AN AWSOME GRASSROOTS EFFORT FROM SO MANY PEOPLE.”

I think James addressed the efforts of the many in the above quote. Your whole tantrum was based on the fact that you didnt READ the story with an open mind. Shame on you.

A money bomb is only as successful as the people who executed all the work it took to make it work, and believe me, it took a lot of work.

You might as well take credit for thinking up the idea of getting a candidate money for his campaign. Yeah, great job, genius. Now, how the hell are you going to pull that off?

This is like that South Park episode. Step one: Steal underpants. Step Two: _______ Step Three: Profits!!!!

At least this is better than Trevor Lyman getting credit for doing anything. On a certain website, if you do a search for the issue you will see that many people offered to put together a website to help this thing get going, Trevor was just the first to do it.

No one person deserves credit for the money that Ron Paul raised in the months of November and December 2007. Not even Ron Paul. It was a joint effort and all of his supporters and lovers of liberty deserve the kudos, not some whiny little twit.

This is the thing that no one understood and they still don't. The Ron Paul phenomenon was truly a revolution. There was no top down management. There were hundreds and then thousands and then tens of thousands of people willing to devote their lives to help the cause and gather others to join the force, but no one person can take credit for anything. That is why the other campaigns could not duplicate the money bombs no matter how hard they tried. They did not have what Ron Paul had: loyal and devoted supporters by the tens of thousands.

Oh sure, there were some people who worked harder than others, but I give a lot more credit to the folks who spent 90 hours a week spreading the word about the money bomb than the guy who thought of the idea. And he doesn't say word one about all those people who worked so hard to make November 5, 2007 a huge success. Shame on him.