Dear (ME),
We have not yet begun to fight.
Most of our opponents for the Republican nomination for President are long gone. Our grassroots campaign and message have kept us in the race, kept us winning delegates, and kept our fight for liberty moving forward.
I have one goal left, and it is one for which I will need your advice - and if you agree - your support.
I won't mince words. Without you behind me, there is no way I can take this fight all the way to the GOP Convention in August.
So I am asking today: WIll you fight with me all the way to the finish line?
I've enclosed and URGENT SUPPORT BALLOT, where you can give me your answer. I hope you will fill it out and send it back to me right away.
And if your answer is YES, fight to the very end, then I hope you will also include your most generous contribution today.
I always believe you should have the whole picture, as one of my most loyal supporters. So here it is: Our campaign will not have enough delegates to win the Republican nomination on the first ballot in August.
But - and this is very important - it is also very possible NO ONE will have enough delegates. And then the fun really begins.
There is no way to predict what will happen at that point. But I can tell you this - the GOP will have to hear our message. They will have to hear our voices. And they may well finally come to their senses and push our campaign over the top.
You see, people are waking up to our message of limited government, sound money, and a constitutional foreign policy. In fact, our views are now really mainstream among Republicans.
And in the past few years, our government has helped our cause by making it abundantly clear how right our views are.
We spent the past few years talking about an out-of-control Fed - well, you and I saw what happened with the bailouts and the doubling of our money supply.
I warned of our out-of-control government, with its 500 billion dollar deficits. Even I never imagined those would TRIPLE in just 2 years.
Our nation is now truly on a path that will cause the very destruction of our economy, our currency, and our way of life, if you and I don't act today.
The federal budget deficit is now over 1.5 trillion dollars per year. That was the ENTIRE BUDGET just 20 years ago.
Thanks to the same old tax-and-spend politicians - Big Government politicians of both parties - you and I have accumulated over 15 TRILLION dollars in debt - not counting future entitlement spending that's already "locked in."
The interest alone is over 33 billion dollars a month!
But instead of cutting spending, our so-called "leaders" are simply using the same old smoke and mirror tricks - whistling past the graveyard of our economy.
Like you, I understand that all the madness we're witnessing right now in Washington isn't just an attack on our economy.
I believe that if we fail to address our fiscal problems in the very near future, we will never recover as a nation.
This out-of-control debt isn't just an attack on our wallets - it's an attack on our liberties.
As we all know - when government grows, freedom shrinks.
I believe we need to return to the principles embedded in the United States Constitution.
That's why I want to continue to work to:
Stop the spread of socialist, Big Government health care;
Stop the growth of federal spending, restrictive regulations, and government interference in our lives;
Audit the Federal Reserve, which I believe will serve as an important first step toward finally ending the Fed once and for all;
Ensure the federal government returns to its constitutional limits by eliminating departments and agencies that are not authorized by the Constitution;
Ensure a new, more humble, constitutional foreign policy for our nation. We cannot be the world's policeman. We should not engage in "Nation-Building." We cannot afford trillion-dollar international boondoggles that cost us our lives, our fortunes, and our freedom;
Repeal Big Government schemes like the Patriot Act.
Fellow Patriot, these are all positions we can and will fight for at the Republican National Convention in August.
There is the potential that our campaign itself could prevail, and we could win a brokered convention.
But even if we do not, we can insist the Party itself adopt many of these positions as the official stances of the Party and candidates all across the country.
I can hardly tell you how important that would be - and how far our message will have come if either of these things happen.
So I am asking you to stand with me today. I am asking you to fight side by side with me for our message, our values, and our REVOLUTION.
It will take a lot more effort on my part and on the part of my staff and volunteers. And it will take at least 10 million more dollars in the next 90 days.
That is a huge undertaking. But I know I can count on you, my grassroots army, to make it happen.
Can you help our efforts move forward with your maximum possible contribution? I'd certainly appreciate it.
