Dear Dr. Paul,
I've been following your campaign for a while, and I've watched some of your speeches and appearances via YouTube and other such avenues.
Dr. Paul, frankly, even though I feel like you are the only candidate up there who is truly qualified for the job, who actually deserves it, it is becoming more and more apparent that the other side has won or is about to.
The corruption in the media has effectively suppressed your message. They have marginalized your message in the eyes and ears of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Average and there are still more people that don't even know what you represent than there are supporting you.
Corrupt politicians, 'newscasters' who are motivated by corporate memos rather than a search for truth, and an apathetic public that has already lost hope that anything will ever change has blunted your battlecry of "Freedom."
I have told people that I meet about your campaign. I believe I have opened some eyes, but not enough.
Can I do more? Yes.
Can I do enough to ensure your victory? No.
Have you yourself done everything you can, Mr. Paul?
I have watched you outsmart them. I have watched you outclass them. I have watched you take what they throw at you in stride. I have watched you turn the other cheek time and time again. I admire your patience.
But the time for turning the other cheek is past, Dr. Paul. It is time to get angry. It is time to stand up for yourself. For us. For this country. We your supporters are definitely angry.
We stand on the brink of watching this most important of positions become filled with just another puppet of the military industrial complex.
We watch as our national wealth gets emptied into a few already-overfull pockets.
We watch as high-treason goes unpunished.
It is time to get mad. Ghandi may not have lost his temper. But Ghandi was not an American. Pacifism is not a concept that is wholly accepted by America, nor should it be. If we were a nation of pacifists we would not need the right to bear arms. We have that right so that we can fight, in bloody battle if need be, the tyranny that is so easily seen in our so called leaders.
But now we are here behind you Ron. Now we are ready to fight. And you keep turning the other cheek. You are not standing alone in congress, one voice against the many. You do not have to be so passive agressive anymore, regular agression is what is needed here. It is our passivity that has our government enboldened to take our freedoms away. If they thought for a minute that a million American citizens would be coming over the hill with shotguns and homemade bombs to lynch the whole lot of them, they might act a little differently. If they thought that we would stand up and hold an Article V Convention and re-write our laws ourselves, they might take their oaths a little more seriously, and treat it less like a cash cow.
But they don't believe that will ever happen. They believe that we will continue to wave signs and chant and be a nuisance. And they will continue to ignore us.
And they believe that is as far as it will ever ever go.
But they're wrong.
It is time to stand up and tell them you have had enough of being marginalized. Because until you do, people will continue to believe them when they call you a crazy old kook. When the other candidates are sitting there with their smarmy smiles that turn my stomach... when they laugh inwardly at how they get all the attention even though they're as crooked as cooked spaghetti, while the real McCoy sits right beside them and is not recognized for the solid true hope that he represents, that is when you need to get angry. Right then.
While bad foreign policy got us into the mess we're in, and proper foreign policy will eventually get us out of it, people need to know that you have what it takes to deal with another terrorist attack, should one occur. You have shown everyone that you have brains and morals. But now they need to see the steel beneath.
Just look at the damage that has been done to our wonderful nation by the corruption that is present in ALL THREE BRANCHES of government. And think forward to the damage that will be done by your opponents should you fail.
Stand up Dr Paul. Get angry. Stop smiling. You have to show the American people that you not only have the brains and the ideals neccessary, but you have the will to command, and the self respect to punch someone in the mouth if they disrespect you. Equal respect for everyone means you must respect yourself just as much as you do anyone else.
If you do not get angry, if you do not denounce the media directly for how you have been treated, if you do not do this, you can not truly say that you did everything that you could.
Dr. Paul, I hope and pray that you will win. Even though in the short term, some of your policies will make my life much harder for my family. Income Tax time is a time that people like me look forward to. Earned Income Credit and the fact that my wife and I have a child means that I get back a couple thousand dollars more than I put in. If you are elected, you propose to make the IRS go away, and in conjunction, that yearly tax check will go away as well. But losing that yearly windfall is worth it to see something done about the rampant corruption in Washington.
I have not been able to afford to contribute monetarily. My bills are behind right now as it is. But your victory is in my thoughts, wishes, and prayers.
We the people are pissed off, Dr. Paul, to put it mildly. As our representative, shouldn't you be as well?
Your opponents are dirty lying scum who deserve to be taken to task for who they really represent. I hope and pray that next time you are at a debate, you come out of your corner swinging!
The problem as I see it is that you do not appeal to the mob mind, the inner part of us that loves to watch domestic disputes on daytime TV and scream "Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!" Your ideas and ideals are impeccable, but that does not endear you to all the ordinary Joes and Mikes and Bob's that will gather around today to watch a grueling Superbowl Sunday. And in order to get in that Oval Office you MUST appeal to these people. As much as I hate him, Rudy Gulliani knows how to portray a commanding presence. Like when he tried to rebut your comments about the cause of 9/11. Of course he was wrong, but he showed strength there, and the mob noticed. They noticed enough to take a better look at Rudy, which subsequently left them dissatisfied. But if they take a closer look at you, Dr. Paul, they will not go away dissatisfied. Instead they will become a supporter.
Perhaps THAT is where Mitt and John's smarmy smiles were coming from as you sat in the Reagan Library and denounced their pitiful contrivances of foreign policy and economic security. They knew that as you sat there speaking sound and fruitful truths about what is going on and what needs to happen, that the eyes and ears of the general public are glazing over. They know that the common man doesn't understand economics or the finer points of diplomacy. They know who their audience is, whereas when you began this you had no idea who your audience would turn out to be. They know that the mob mentality does not understand your words. The mob doesn't have the vocabulary for it. The mob is just slightly impressed with your "smartness" but not enough to vote for you over a scrapper like McCain. Or a pretty boy like Mittens.
What about Mittens? Yes, Romney is funding his own campaign. But why? President's salary isn't all that much in comparison to a business shark like Mitt. Obviosly he has some plan to get his money back. How do you think he intends to do this? By milking this country for every dime he can squeeze out of it. Its just simple ROI. Return On Investment. Romney is smart. He's worked it out. Call him out on it. Ask him how he plans on getting his money back. Ask him to detail how he got his fortune in the first place, by tearing apart companies and throwing them to the wolves. By laying off and firing people wholesale. You do not need to sling mud, you only have to shine a light on the mud he is already covered in.
McCain seems like he genuinely believes what he is saying, but he is just so far off from reality that while I think I could get to like his character, if he were to go all the way we'd just get another term of a president who feels he doesn't need to listen to anyone else, including congress or the American people. He would use the powers that the Bush Administration have gathered up and he would rule this country with an iron fist, and a deaf ear. Because McCain knows best, or at least he believes he does. Ask McCain if he will continue President Bush's habit of sequestering protesters out of his sight and ignoring his opposition. Ask McCain how he will deal with dissent. Ask McCain how he will keep himself from breaking Bush's all time record of low approval ratings as he bankrupts our country to fight a war that even our troops think is pointless.
On the subject of your congressional bid, I would like to say that while I understand the logic in running your congressional campaign concurrently, it feels like you are hedging your bets. And while I would rather have you in congress than to not have your voice in Washington at all, it just deadens my spirit to think that you yourself have accepted that you will not win, but that you just go on so as not to disappoint us by quitting early.
Say it ain't so. Please. Give this everything you've got.
Get angry.
Get loud.
Get noticed.
God bless you Ron Paul,
Jeff Smith,
Registered Republican
Russell Springs KY
I've been following your campaign for a while, and I've watched some of your speeches and appearances via YouTube and other such avenues.
Dr. Paul, frankly, even though I feel like you are the only candidate up there who is truly qualified for the job, who actually deserves it, it is becoming more and more apparent that the other side has won or is about to.
The corruption in the media has effectively suppressed your message. They have marginalized your message in the eyes and ears of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Average and there are still more people that don't even know what you represent than there are supporting you.
Corrupt politicians, 'newscasters' who are motivated by corporate memos rather than a search for truth, and an apathetic public that has already lost hope that anything will ever change has blunted your battlecry of "Freedom."
I have told people that I meet about your campaign. I believe I have opened some eyes, but not enough.
Can I do more? Yes.
Can I do enough to ensure your victory? No.
Have you yourself done everything you can, Mr. Paul?
I have watched you outsmart them. I have watched you outclass them. I have watched you take what they throw at you in stride. I have watched you turn the other cheek time and time again. I admire your patience.
But the time for turning the other cheek is past, Dr. Paul. It is time to get angry. It is time to stand up for yourself. For us. For this country. We your supporters are definitely angry.
We stand on the brink of watching this most important of positions become filled with just another puppet of the military industrial complex.
We watch as our national wealth gets emptied into a few already-overfull pockets.
We watch as high-treason goes unpunished.
It is time to get mad. Ghandi may not have lost his temper. But Ghandi was not an American. Pacifism is not a concept that is wholly accepted by America, nor should it be. If we were a nation of pacifists we would not need the right to bear arms. We have that right so that we can fight, in bloody battle if need be, the tyranny that is so easily seen in our so called leaders.
But now we are here behind you Ron. Now we are ready to fight. And you keep turning the other cheek. You are not standing alone in congress, one voice against the many. You do not have to be so passive agressive anymore, regular agression is what is needed here. It is our passivity that has our government enboldened to take our freedoms away. If they thought for a minute that a million American citizens would be coming over the hill with shotguns and homemade bombs to lynch the whole lot of them, they might act a little differently. If they thought that we would stand up and hold an Article V Convention and re-write our laws ourselves, they might take their oaths a little more seriously, and treat it less like a cash cow.
But they don't believe that will ever happen. They believe that we will continue to wave signs and chant and be a nuisance. And they will continue to ignore us.
And they believe that is as far as it will ever ever go.
But they're wrong.
It is time to stand up and tell them you have had enough of being marginalized. Because until you do, people will continue to believe them when they call you a crazy old kook. When the other candidates are sitting there with their smarmy smiles that turn my stomach... when they laugh inwardly at how they get all the attention even though they're as crooked as cooked spaghetti, while the real McCoy sits right beside them and is not recognized for the solid true hope that he represents, that is when you need to get angry. Right then.
While bad foreign policy got us into the mess we're in, and proper foreign policy will eventually get us out of it, people need to know that you have what it takes to deal with another terrorist attack, should one occur. You have shown everyone that you have brains and morals. But now they need to see the steel beneath.
Just look at the damage that has been done to our wonderful nation by the corruption that is present in ALL THREE BRANCHES of government. And think forward to the damage that will be done by your opponents should you fail.
Stand up Dr Paul. Get angry. Stop smiling. You have to show the American people that you not only have the brains and the ideals neccessary, but you have the will to command, and the self respect to punch someone in the mouth if they disrespect you. Equal respect for everyone means you must respect yourself just as much as you do anyone else.
If you do not get angry, if you do not denounce the media directly for how you have been treated, if you do not do this, you can not truly say that you did everything that you could.
Dr. Paul, I hope and pray that you will win. Even though in the short term, some of your policies will make my life much harder for my family. Income Tax time is a time that people like me look forward to. Earned Income Credit and the fact that my wife and I have a child means that I get back a couple thousand dollars more than I put in. If you are elected, you propose to make the IRS go away, and in conjunction, that yearly tax check will go away as well. But losing that yearly windfall is worth it to see something done about the rampant corruption in Washington.
I have not been able to afford to contribute monetarily. My bills are behind right now as it is. But your victory is in my thoughts, wishes, and prayers.
We the people are pissed off, Dr. Paul, to put it mildly. As our representative, shouldn't you be as well?
Your opponents are dirty lying scum who deserve to be taken to task for who they really represent. I hope and pray that next time you are at a debate, you come out of your corner swinging!
The problem as I see it is that you do not appeal to the mob mind, the inner part of us that loves to watch domestic disputes on daytime TV and scream "Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!" Your ideas and ideals are impeccable, but that does not endear you to all the ordinary Joes and Mikes and Bob's that will gather around today to watch a grueling Superbowl Sunday. And in order to get in that Oval Office you MUST appeal to these people. As much as I hate him, Rudy Gulliani knows how to portray a commanding presence. Like when he tried to rebut your comments about the cause of 9/11. Of course he was wrong, but he showed strength there, and the mob noticed. They noticed enough to take a better look at Rudy, which subsequently left them dissatisfied. But if they take a closer look at you, Dr. Paul, they will not go away dissatisfied. Instead they will become a supporter.
Perhaps THAT is where Mitt and John's smarmy smiles were coming from as you sat in the Reagan Library and denounced their pitiful contrivances of foreign policy and economic security. They knew that as you sat there speaking sound and fruitful truths about what is going on and what needs to happen, that the eyes and ears of the general public are glazing over. They know that the common man doesn't understand economics or the finer points of diplomacy. They know who their audience is, whereas when you began this you had no idea who your audience would turn out to be. They know that the mob mentality does not understand your words. The mob doesn't have the vocabulary for it. The mob is just slightly impressed with your "smartness" but not enough to vote for you over a scrapper like McCain. Or a pretty boy like Mittens.
What about Mittens? Yes, Romney is funding his own campaign. But why? President's salary isn't all that much in comparison to a business shark like Mitt. Obviosly he has some plan to get his money back. How do you think he intends to do this? By milking this country for every dime he can squeeze out of it. Its just simple ROI. Return On Investment. Romney is smart. He's worked it out. Call him out on it. Ask him how he plans on getting his money back. Ask him to detail how he got his fortune in the first place, by tearing apart companies and throwing them to the wolves. By laying off and firing people wholesale. You do not need to sling mud, you only have to shine a light on the mud he is already covered in.
McCain seems like he genuinely believes what he is saying, but he is just so far off from reality that while I think I could get to like his character, if he were to go all the way we'd just get another term of a president who feels he doesn't need to listen to anyone else, including congress or the American people. He would use the powers that the Bush Administration have gathered up and he would rule this country with an iron fist, and a deaf ear. Because McCain knows best, or at least he believes he does. Ask McCain if he will continue President Bush's habit of sequestering protesters out of his sight and ignoring his opposition. Ask McCain how he will deal with dissent. Ask McCain how he will keep himself from breaking Bush's all time record of low approval ratings as he bankrupts our country to fight a war that even our troops think is pointless.
On the subject of your congressional bid, I would like to say that while I understand the logic in running your congressional campaign concurrently, it feels like you are hedging your bets. And while I would rather have you in congress than to not have your voice in Washington at all, it just deadens my spirit to think that you yourself have accepted that you will not win, but that you just go on so as not to disappoint us by quitting early.
Say it ain't so. Please. Give this everything you've got.
Get angry.
Get loud.
Get noticed.
God bless you Ron Paul,
Jeff Smith,
Registered Republican
Russell Springs KY
