When are Republicans going to start taking this guy seriously? On Monday, Ron Paul, the surging GOP candidate for president, raised over $4 million in a less than one-day period. The amazing amount of fund raising was largely Web-driven and coincided with the commemoration of Guy Fawkes Day. Fawkes was a British mercenary who was the model for the protagonist in the movie V for Vendetta.

“Paul backers motivated donors on the Internet with mashed-up clips of the film on the online video site YouTube as well as the Guy Fawkes Day refrain: ‘Remember, remember the 5th of November,’” the AP notes.

Paul’s one-day tally ranks as one of the largest amounts of money a candidate for president has ever raised in 24 hours.