When I get those emails, the ones from him, and I hear his optimism and his patience, and I think about all those years he has spent speaking to an ignorant and sniggering audience on the House floor, I realize that he has already won. We have already won. This campaign has laid bare the biases of the establishment media, shown the emperor in all his nakedness, exposed lots of folks to the true concept of freedom, brought difficult but important issues into the public discourse, and united a virtual community of thoughtful liberty-lovers.