Without him, GOP fund-raising would be far behind the Dems:
In the fourth fundraising quarter of 2007, Republicans finally outraised Democrats among individual donors but only based on the strength of Paul's donors.
Without Paul's $20 million raised from individuals, Republicans would have totaled $45 million for the period from October through December, compared with Democrats' $58 million.
Paul also set the standard among candidates in both parties last year for tapping into average Americans. He raised 61 percent of his funds from small-dollar donors, defined as those who gave $200 or less, compared to just 14 percent of Hillary Rodham Clinton's funds, 12 percent of Mitt Romney's funds and 8 percent of Rudy Giuliani's 2007 campaign funds.
After eight years of big-spending, nation-building, torturing, phone-tapping, and debt-acquiring, it doesn't surprise me that most small conservative donors would rather give to an old-style Taftite than to the new authoritarians.