jdmyprez_deo_vindice
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This letter will be leaving in the mail today and is addressed to the GOP national headquarters.
Dear GOP,
You probably do not remember me but I am the heart and soul of your party. No, not the heart and soul you have now but the one you have tried your best to ignore. I am, by most accounts, a young man being of 32 years of age. I married early to my highschool sweetheart, struggled to pay my way through college, worked jobs that made me miserable, had 3 children and started a small business. I am one of the fortunate few who loves what he does for a living and one of the things I love is that it permits me the time to research and study other areas of interest for me. I especially enjoy history, science, economics and of course, our national pastime, baseball.
You may be wondering why I am writing you a letter telling you little details about myself. Well, I guess I will come to it. You have done everything you can to push me and my family out of your tent. You have lied to me, about me and about the leaders I have placed my trust into. You have abandoned me when I needed men and women with a backbone to stand strong in the face of adversity. You have laughed in my face and pushed me in the mud while trying to convince me it was for my own good. It is a wicked game you have played but I, along with millions of others, refuse to play it anymore.
I come from a strong Republican tradition. Growing up, I watched as my Father served on the campaign committees for local, state and national candidates. I watched him stand with pride as Ronald Reagan was sworn in for his second term in office. I remember him being recalled to active duty during the Gulf War and how he said he was "proud to serve under George Bush". I distinctly remember his outrage when Bob Dole lost his bid for election and I was anxious as could be when I turned 18 and was able to register to vote. I proudly checked the box that said "Republican" and began working towards GOP causes in my local area. I voted with pride in my first Presidential election when I helped to vote George W. Bush into office. I loved when he discussed the notion of a humble foreign policy and how America's role in foreign affairs was to be found primarily through diplomacy and not through nation building. I squealed with delight when he spoke of reduced taxation and a return to true fiscal conservatism. I knew he was not the perfect candidate by any means but of course he was the Republican nominee so I was proud to support him.
By the time of his reelection campaign, many things had changed. Of course 9/11 happened which opened the door for intrusive domestic policy such as the Patriot Act and a absolutely disastrous foreign policy that we still feel the effects of today. Of course, I felt it was both my patriotic duty as an American and my honorable duty as a Republican to pull the lever for him again. I held my nose to do it mind you but I fell for the old mantra that a vote for a third party is a wasted vote and I felt he was better than John Kerry so again you got my vote.
The four years between Bush and the McCain campaign were a time of great awakening for me. You see, I started to really become disgusted and what is worse (for you guys at least) is I started to independently put the pieces of the puzzle together to find out why I felt this way because I knew something was certainly amiss. It was during this time that I started pouring back over my voluminous library of history books and started noticing a pattern. I began seeing terms such as "Federal Reserve" and "central banking". In restrospect, I guess you could call my discovery of the economic shenanigans that have plagued this country to be my first moral, philosophic and push to activism domino to fall. Of course, as you folks are keenly aware, this "domino" of sorts is not exactly free standing. When one discovers the hijacking of our monetary system they quickly discover how it is attached to so many other of our nations ill's. Much like a chain reaction, when that first domino in my mind tipped the other quickly followed suit.
It was around this time of great awakening and exhaustive research that I discovered a fiery little Congressman from Texas with a high pitched voice and awkwardly fitting suits. Now, much to my great shame I have to admit that I still had a little bit of hope. Surely, I was not the only one who had discovered this stuff and I was greatly relieved to learn that this little Congressman from Texas had been speaking of these dangers for quite some time. Why in the world was I not familiar with this guy before now? Certainly he must be considered a great leader within the party and this would reaffirm my dwindling faith in the established power behind the Grand Ole Party. Much to my dismay, what I found out about this Congressman killed what was left of my trust in the GOP. I found that instead of having this man be a beacon of party principle and instead of having him handle a position of great responsibility, he was instead shunned. Not only was he shunned but he was mocked, ridiculed and generally held with a derision that was generally reserved for foreign dictators who dared to challenge American authority and the ideas of American exceptionalism. I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that you know I am speaking of Congressman Ron Paul of Texas.
While the party certainly treated him as a red headed step child, I was still delighted to learn that he had very recently announced his plan to seek the Presidency of the United States. Boy, did I ever think he stood the chance of an ice cube in hell. I figured he would speak at a straw poll or two and after polling at less than 1% he would drop out and forever be just a mere footnote in history books. For awhile, it appeared I was correct. I remember placing some ad's saying I was having a meeting for supporters of Congressman Paul and I was so disheartened when, counting myself, only two people showed up and I am pretty sure the other guy was just there because he collected campaign buttons and figured I had some. I came home that night dejected to say the least. I figured I would try one more time and went in search of other supporters on the internet. It was not long before I found some small groups of supporters and in time I decided upon which one I wanted to call my online grassroots home.
In the early days it was just a bunch of nerds behind their keyboards talking amongst themselves but slowly I began noticing there were a lot more people in the conversations. After that first debate in 07, oh boy did things just explode into a fury but it was no longer just people on their computers. Stuff was being done out there in the real world as well. People were gathering to wave homemade signs or to canvass neighborhoods or to make phone calls. We were finding where the media was going to be and forming armies to stand behind the cameras so we could get our candidates name out there. It was not that we were bored but rather it was our only option. The GOP acted as though Ron Paul did not exist and that his supporters consisted of just a "few guys in their parents basement". Of course the media did not hesitate to smear us but usually they just did their best to ignore Dr. Paul and of course ignore us. We organized en masse for events and I began working and forming great friendships with people I never would have imagined in a million years that I would find common ground or even friendship with. You see, the Republican Party had done their best to mold me into a typical Republican voter and as part of this mind molding you taught me to fear anyone who was different. I was now suddenly surrounded by people from all walks of life. People from all economic backgrounds and people who represented a variety of religous and moral beliefs. Yes, there were even a few minorities *gasp* in the mix and I was having the time of my life. I learned that freedom was not just something I held sacred inside of myself but this sacred idea was popular among all of my fellow man and if we could all sit down together and agree that we were all lovers of liberty, we could find so much else in common that would bind us as allies and friends.
2007 and 2008 were brutal times. I remember standing outside at 2 a.m. in blizzard conditions so I could pass out literature to people on the night shift in a local industrial park (those factories no longer exist by the way thanks in great part to the economic policies you endorse so heartily). I remember arriving in Washington D.C. at 4 a.m. for the annual March For LIfe where I met up with organizers and filled my backpack with thousands of flyers, cards and pamphlets that gave information on Dr. Paul. The crowd noticed he was the only candidate who cared enough about this issue to come off the campaign trail and personally address the crowd and I am proud to say I picked up probably hundreds of supporters that day. By that evening I was frozen to the point I could not feel my extremities . I even found out my truck had been stolen and while I stood there in the freezing cold outside of that metro station I gave away what few pieces of literature I had left and the entire way home after my Wife picked me up, I could not even talk about the pain I was in from walking and holding up signs in below freezing temps for roughly 18 hours straight without even a break for food or drink or to even sit down. I could not even talk about the truck that had been stolen. All I could do was smile and talk about how good it felt to be on the front lines of, what by now had been named, the "liberty movement". My poor Wife thought I was nuts but that enthusiasm and dedication caught on and soon enough she was joining me. The enthusiasm spread to my children and my mother and my friends and neighbors. They took a bit longer than me but they soon realized what I had by now come to realize. Ron Paul was the real deal. He was not lying to us, pandering to us, promising us anything other than the freedom to provide for ourselves without government intrusion. He did not want to run our lives and he knew he had no authority to run the world. What a breath of fresh air.
Still, times were tough. The uphill battle seemed to never end. We began the moneybombs and raised millions in a single day but that money could not buy fair media coverage. We ouraised everyone else with the military but still the establishment within your own party told everyone we were anti military. We even started running "liberty candidates" or "Ron Paul Republicans" around the country and the GOP pretended like we did not exist. But the hope for a restored Republic does something to a man. It makes him tenacious. It makes him clamp onto his values like a bulldog on the heel of an intruder and it leads to a resolve to never quit and never surrender no matter what the odds against you are. So as that campaign came to a close we started the Tea Party. Our men and women formed groups around the country and went out in public to give speeches about the growing tyranny in our country. By this point, Ron Paul was our figurehead but this had grown far beyond being simply about a man and his candidacy. We resented the treatment we were given by you and by the media and as a consequence, the "Ron Paul problem" you face today is in part due to your own creation. Did you really think that people imbued by the brushfires of liberty would suddenly be content to return to their homes and mindlessly follow the party line? Did you really think that insulting us and totally ignoring what you did not wish to hear would make us sit down and return to silence?
This brings us to the late election cycle. Of course, you know how we grew and you know how much of a thorn in your side we have been. I see no reason to go into details of what I did and how I became even more active. I see no purpose in detailing the collective works of our little "revolution" to you since it is fresh in your memory. I know it is fresh in your memory because I watched the proceedings of the Republican National Convention. I saw the fear in your eyes and the desperation with which you are clinging to power. I saw, first hand the despotic tactics used to quell dissent of what you know is a growing force against the evils you stand for. We are no longer just a legion of young men and women without political experience. You have awakened a whole army of my countrymen who are rising in resistance to all that you stand for. We have knowledge, passion and perseverance on our side. We come from all across the country and from all backgrounds. We are your sons and daughters, your grandchildren, your neighbors, your employees and your bosses .I see them in my local liberty group here in MD (that I was a founding member of by the way). I see the passion and the resolve in their eyes. Even if I wanted to stop them from spreading the knowledge I could not. They are learning more every day and standing united against YOU. These men and women are NOT going away anytime soon because they were reminded that freedom is theirs for the taking and freedom they shall have.
I estimate that we control somewhere around 10% of the GOP electorate. That is 10% who stand against your propping up of central banks. 10% who stand against your bailouts. 10% who are rising against your continual erosion of civil liberties and your continual building of the police state. This is the 10% who shall not tolerate your perpetual wars of aggression or your other forms of a disastrous foreign policy. We are the 10% who demand a restoration of our Republic. We are the 10% who insist on a drastic reduction in the size of our federal government and we are the 10% who shall revolt against your neoconservative/Fabian Socialist hijacking of OUR party. You may wonder why I am so intent on making sure you understand we are 10%. You see, 10% is historically a tipping point. 10% is what is needed for that irate, tireless minority to really begin fanning the flames of freedom in their hearts and minds of their fellow countrymen.
I am proud to say that my Wife and I have removed our children from the indoctrination centers you laughingly call "public education". You guys sure have embraced the Department of Education which I find funny since Reagan, the man you basically worship, based his platform in part on the elimination of this Department. No longer will my children be subjected to your forcefed lies. My children are learning real history, science, literature, economics and a whole host of other things. For now, you are dealing with just us but the next generation of diehard activists are being raised now. My Wife and I will also NOT be voting for Mitt Romney. If we wanted to vote for Obama we would have voted for him the first time so we see no reason to now vote for his clone. If there is one thing I can commend you all for it would be in staying consistent to your policies leading to American destruction. Without that, I might still be asleep. So in closing, I would like you to understand that a husband, father, small business owner and dedicated activist IS the heart and soul of the GOP and while you could once lose me at your convenience and pretend I did not exist, you cannot do it anymore. In fact, this heart and soul is self aware and realizes the body has a cancer and I will fight this cancer with my last full measure of devotion. My compatriots and I are not going away and will not be silenced. You had your chance to listen and work with us but now we are taking over.
