Ron Paul's Campaign For Liberty

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/

Dear Supporter,

These past 17 months have been among the most exciting and eventful of my life. Together you and I delivered a message of freedom the likes of which American politics had not seen in decades. I wasn’t sure the country was ready for it. But it was a message, I discovered, that many Americans had been waiting for a long time to hear.

I have been blessed with the most informed, well read, and enthusiastic supporters of any presidential campaign. Your extraordinary efforts in organizing and fundraising grabbed the attention of millions of Americans and shocked just about everyone in politics and the media. I still cannot get over all the fantastic work you did.

Something of great significance has just occurred in our country’s history.

With the primary season now over, the presidential campaign is at an end. But the larger campaign for freedom is just getting started. Therefore, I am happy to announce the official launch of the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty.

The work of the Campaign for Liberty will take many forms. We will educate our fellow Americans in freedom, sound money, non-interventionism, and free markets. We’ll have our own commentaries and videos on the news of the day. I’ll work with friends I respect to design materials for homeschoolers.

Politically, we’ll expand the great work of our precinct leader program. We’ll make our presence felt at every level of government, where just a few people with our level of enthusiasm can make a world of difference. We’ll keep an eye on Congress and lobby against legislation that threatens us. We’ll identify and support political candidates who champion our great ideas against the empty suits the party establishments offer the public.

We will be a permanent presence on the American political landscape. That I promise you. We’re not about to let all this good work die. To the contrary, with your help we’re going to make it grow – by leaps and bounds.

This is the most ambitious venture of my political career, and I think it can achieve great things. But I can’t do this alone. I need you to help me. I need your energy, your creativity, your ideas, and your dedication.

People frustrated with our political system often wonder what they can do. I have founded this organization to answer that question, to give people the opportunity to do something that really makes a difference in the fight for freedom. Please join me by becoming a member of the Campaign for Liberty. Our goal is 100,000 members by September. Can we reach it?

Our campaign netted 1.1 million votes in the primaries of a shrinking Republican Party. Millions more support us. I need you to help me reach them – and to keep making new converts to the cause. What a force we can be, if only we rise to the occasion.

Now what about the Republican Convention in St. Paul? Our delegates will attend, of course, and I expect our contingent to have a visible presence there. Without disruption, we will do whatever we can to influence the party and its platform, and return the GOP to its limited-government roots. This is very important.

This brings me to my second announcement. I invite you to join us at Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota on Tuesday, September 2nd, for a grand rally. We intend to draw over 11,000 people. We’ll have live music and entertainment, and special guests. I’ll address you all as well. A massive rally will generate still more interest in our ideas. And what a great time it will be.
Remember that it was Senator Robert Taft, who shared our views, who was called Mr. Republican. But we are not merely the Republican Party’s past. If the enthusiasm of young people for our campaign is any indication, we are also its future.

Right now I will need your patience and input as we develop our program and assemble just the right team of individuals. But it is my intention to launch the Campaign for Liberty in its full capacity at our rally in Minneapolis this September.
Over the past week we’ve learned that the Democratic presidential nominee, supposedly an antiwar candidate, is committed to the same rhetoric, the same propaganda, and the same aggressive intentions toward Iran as the Bush administration. As usual, the major parties refuse to offer Americans a real choice.

The Campaign for Liberty will lay the groundwork for a different America, the kind of America you and I, and millions of our fellow countrymen, want to inhabit.
“Dr. Paul cured my apathy,” a popular campaign sign read. Others said our campaign cured their cynicism. We have now reached a moment of great moral decision: will we let ourselves retreat into apathy and cynicism once again, or will we dig in for the long haul and fight all the harder? Will we retire from the scene quietly, or will we give the establishment the fight of its life?

“In the final analysis,” I wrote in my new book The Revolution: A Manifesto, “the last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of their dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them.”

The time has come to act on these words. May future generations look back on our work and say that these were men and women who, in a moment of great crisis, stood up to the politicians, the opinion-molders, and the establishment, and saved their country.

Join us, and be a part of it.

For liberty,

(Ron Paul) Remember that it was Senator Robert Taft, who shared our views, who was called Mr. Republican. But we are not merely the Republican Party’s past. If the enthusiasm of young people for our campaign is any indication, we are also its future.

For a politician, this guy's pretty damned good.

You know, Ziggy, I really don't think of him as a politician. He had a lengthy career as an OB/GYN. Politics is sort of like how he's spending his retirement.

I have mixed feelings about this. As long as he continued to campaign there was some tiny little glimmer of hope he would be our next President. I still believe he is the best candidate for President we have had in my lifetime and it brings me genuine sorrow to realize it is not going to happen.

Ron Paul is 72 years old. A lifelong athlete, he is in excellent physical condition. You can still see fire and intelligence in his eyes. I'm sure he'd still be up for the task in 4 years. I just don't see people electing a 76 y/o first term President. So a part of me wants to cry.

On the other hand, I am so proud to have been associated with this great man's campaign for the White House. I will continue to support him and will certainly join him in his "Campaign For Liberty".

While we will proudly unite under Ron Paul's coalition, many state and local groups have already been organizing for months to continue striving toward our common goals of peace, liberty, and prosperity. WV is one such state. I am so proud to be a founding member of the Classical Conservative Coalition. It has been a genuine honor to play my small role in his Presidential campaign and it will be an honor to provide whatever assistance I can in what will surely be Ron Paul's legacy.

Sam's gonna hand me my ass. I really am very emotional over this. It isn't very "Republican"" at all.

"Republican". I don't know that I care to be considered a republican anymore.

Sure OC, but what do party labels mean any more in the electorate? When I was in WVA, I was just as socially conservative on abortion and religion as I am now, but I was registered as a Democrat. In Illinois, I voted in the Republican primary. I hold no allegiance in either direction, and I am sure that, given a candidate with true integrity, you would vote for such a person regardless of their affiliation.

The RNC has long been unworthy of our support. Let them try to win us back. In the meantime, we can vote for those candidates of whatever party that show good ideas and integrity, and let the Republicrats go on without us.

I'll never fail to vote, Sheik. I predict my votes will get more eccentric over time...

SheikBen wrote:Sure OC, but what do party labels mean any more in the electorate? When I was in WVA, I was just as socially conservative on abortion and religion as I am now, but I was registered as a Democrat. In Illinois, I voted in the Republican primary. I hold no allegiance in either direction, and I am sure that, given a candidate with true integrity, you would vote for such a person regardless of their affiliation.

The RNC has long been unworthy of our support. Let them try to win us back. In the meantime, we can vote for those candidates of whatever party that show good ideas and integrity, and let the Republicrats go on without us.

The importance of party labels for me is ballot access. The RINO's and the neocon's, the Jay Rockefellers and Rudy Giulianis have hijacked the GOP and in doing so have stolen the ballot of those of us who seek a nation small on government and big on liberty, a country that leads the world by example instead of using military force and economic isolation, and a land where every human life is valued and respected instead of thought of as expendable products of conception.

ohio county wrote:I'll never fail to vote, Sheik. I predict my votes will get more eccentric over time...

So will we, with any luck

Stephanie wrote:

SheikBen wrote:Sure OC, but what do party labels mean any more in the electorate? When I was in WVA, I was just as socially conservative on abortion and religion as I am now, but I was registered as a Democrat. In Illinois, I voted in the Republican primary. I hold no allegiance in either direction, and I am sure that, given a candidate with true integrity, you would vote for such a person regardless of their affiliation.

The RNC has long been unworthy of our support. Let them try to win us back. In the meantime, we can vote for those candidates of whatever party that show good ideas and integrity, and let the Republicrats go on without us.

The importance of party labels for me is ballot access. The RINO's and the neocon's, the Jay Rockefellers and Rudy Giulianis have hijacked the GOP and in doing so have stolen the ballot of those of us who seek a nation small on government and big on liberty, a country that leads the world by example instead of using military force and economic isolation, and a land where every human life is valued and respected instead of thought of as expendable products of conception.

I reckon you mean Nelson Rockefeller, but your point is all the same dead on.

I don't mind using the GOP for ballot access, and I don't have any intentions of not voting in the Republican primaries. I just feel that people who think like OC, you and I (while of course with our differences) should treat the party the same way it has treated us. When it is useful, we should take advantage; when it fails, we should wash our hands of it and withhold our dollars and votes.

LOL I still think of Jay as a neocon. Can't get over the party affiliation thing with that guy.

I refuse to send money to the national or state GOP. I will not provide support of any kind for John McCain. I'm saving my meager donations for a couple of local candidates who share my values and for the Campaign for Liberty.

I don't know how I'm going to watch the returns this November. I'm down to the two options of defeated resignation or drunken stupor.

I'm still voting for Ron Paul.

Hey, how is Mary Catherine doing today? How is your family coping???

You must be wearing that Aveo out by now.

I have my mom's spare car right now. Gas jumped 20 cents yesterday. I was not amused. The miles at least are piling up on a car that needs highway miles.

Mary Catherine is doing very well, thanks. She has been off her ventilator for a couple of days and is being weaned off of her "happy juice." My sister in law is watching my older two energetic killer ninja llamas while we visit her today, and tomorrow we are all going to the minor league baseball game in Peoria.

I have to say quickly that she was stable or doing worse until Wednesday. On Wednesday morning my pastor and a couple from church came over and encouraged us greatly, and then we prayed. Wednesday she had drastic improvement. I realize that this can be viewed as coincidence, but I had to mention it as a believer.

Everyone at this hospital is fantastic. It is the most positive atmosphere I have felt in healthcare. The drive down is far but extraordinarily pleasant. The down side is that I had been working as a crop scout so whenever I see a corn field it still looks like work.......

That is truly wonderful news, Mike!