A Letter from Ron Paul to his Supporters

I share this which a friend shared with me based on my comments below.

When I started this campaign more than a year ago, I was a somewhat
reluctant candidate. I knew our message of freedom, peace, and prosperity
was the right one for our country, but frankly, I didn't know how many
people today would have ears to hear it.

Well, did I learn a lesson! Millions of Americans understand what ails our
country, and what is needed to fix it. So, with you at my side, I am in
this effort to win. Not only by building the ideas of liberty, but by
getting the nomination. Our opponents would call that nuts -- you know, the
advocates of more inflation, more spending, more taxes, more war. But let
me explain why they are, as usual, all wet.

For one thing, for the first time since 1952, we are headed towards a
brokered convention. Instead of a coronation of one of the establishment
candidates, the delegates, influenced by the people, will decide. And I am
afraid that this will take place in a time of heightened economic crisis.
That means even more Americans will be ready to hear our message. But it
also means I am really going to need your help.

One would never know this from the mainstream media, but we've only had a
few primaries and caucuses, and even after the extremely important date of
February 5th, we will still have more than half to go. And the Republican
nominee will not be decided by the popular vote among the "leading
candidates" in a few states also handpicked by the media. The nominee will
be decided by the delegates. So let me tell you a little about our
"under-the-radar" strategy to get those delegates.

On "Super Tuesday," February 5th, there will be 22 primaries and caucuses.
I have a hunch that we're going to do very well. But, of course, the media
and the rest of the establishment refuse to recognize that. It's the
attitude of the small child who covers his eyes to make something scary go
away. But we are not going away.

While the media focus on the couple of states they claim are important,
we're competing everywhere. And the reason that we're able to do that is
because of your grassroots support. You all are an asset that no other
campaign has: donors, and activists who want no special deals from the
government, just the Constitution.

We're competing very strongly in all the caucus states, and in all other
states where delegates are up for grabs. And we're going to keep picking up
delegates. Our strategy's already working.

And we're committed to winning states. I have little doubt that if we can
double our efforts in this coming week, we're going to grab many delegates
from other candidates. Then we'll start getting ready for the biggest
moment of all - the convention in September.

The path to the convention is twisty, however. When we were in Iowa, we got
10% of the vote. But no delegates were awarded that night. That's because
voters didn't directly choose national convention delegates; they selected
the county and state delegates who will make that decision. And if another
candidate like Mike Huckabee is no longer in the race at the time of the
state convention in June, his delegates are free to support whomever they
want. If we work extra hard, we can convert them into delegates for our
campaign!

A similar thing happened in Nevada. We won 14% of the straw poll vote that
the media reported on, but what they didn't tell you was that we may have
gotten up to a third of Nevada's delegates to their county conventions! I
always laughed when I heard some people say Nevada didn't matter. Nevada
chooses more delegates to the national convention than South Carolina.

So, while the media will focus on the results from Florida, and probably
take down the campaign of my friend Rudy in the process, those results are
less important to you and me. Let them fight in Florida while we bring our
message to Americans in other areas, like the economically hard-hit state
of Maine.

We want to win as many delegates to the Republican National Convention as
possible, even if other campaigns don't see some areas of the country as
"important. But in this work, I need your help. Help me get many, many
delegates to this historic convention, by these three methods.

1. Donate. Your generous contributions are essential if we're going to keep
going until September. We need, frankly $5 million by February 5 to run
more TV and radio ads in the Super Tuesday states. Your help means
everything: https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate.

2. Canvass. You can help us identify those who support our message in your
precinct. You can help us to convert others, too. After all, your neighbors
pay attention to you. I am going to visit as much of the country as I can,
but I need you as my partner in your area: https://voters.ronpaul2008.com.

3. ASK others to sign-up on our website. I meet so many people on the
campaign trail who don't even receive my letters! I've told my campaign to
make communication with you, the engine of all this, much better. But if
people don't sign up for my e-mails, that won't happen. If you could just
get one extra person to sign-up, that would be great. More would be
tremendous.

Help me by forwarding this e-mail to every other Ron Paul supporter you
know, and urging them to join our efforts! https://www.ronpaul2008.com/join
.

We've come so far, but now the fun is really starting! I have a feeling the
mainstream media will move from ignoring us to attacking us. But that will
be a sign of our success. Join me as we continue this great movement into
year two, and to a hot convention in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. We can do it!

Sincerely,

Ron

The homeschool family music video by Tim Hawkins

We have seen this several times over the last month and have enjoyed it very much. We hope you do too.

Hospitality Commands

Today, a young homeschooling father sent this link to me from The Guardian in the UK. I wondered what our response should have been.

The young man who sent it to me said: "Sometimes, I really wonder why anyone else who lives elsewhere in the world, (excepting Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, and other such countries) would risk visiting the U.S.? And why would otherwise intelligent Americans put up with this sort of thing?"

Another, also a homeschooling dad said: "When we delegate our job of our brother's keeper the charge Jesus Christ gave us himself to the state what do we expect. Whether believers in
Manhattan? Was this lady a part of the body of Jesus Christ? Is she contacted the church in Manhattan would they have helped? In this day of personal affluence and prosperity I wonder if we can even care for the sick. This was a country that loved their Lord and knew nobody could rule in his place. But now it seems there is a new Lord and people no longer believe in Jesus Christ as the King of Kings and Lord of lords. Now Jesus is your personal savior that you choose for your own personal peace and affluence. And now you have doctors for your health, the state for your welfare obligations to the poor, and the state also to be your parents and your children's parents, to be your very Lord."

I echo their thoughts and say: "whether they are part of the Body or not, they should be taken care of in a hospitable fashion. But not by the state. I'm thinking in a theonomic world, there would be church contacts at every hospital which would be able to step in and intervene in a situation like this. The strangers in our midst need to be treated with appropriate hospitality. This would speak more to an unbelieving world than many, many Billy Grahme type crusades and the like. How do we move more in that direction? Of course, if the church won't do it, the state will, and the more the state does outside of its biblically ordained sphere of duty, the more we lose our freedom.

If we won't be responsible, then we won't be free.

The State of the Republican Primary

I think this is a well reasoned article on the state of things. What that guy says about RP is true, but it is beside the point.

The country doesn't get it and the media doesn't want them too. Paul won't be selected for a running mate either. He has money but he either isn't using his $$ enough to get his message out, or maybe he is spending it but it's just not working. I know the polls have not been spot-on accurate, but they have been pretty well predictive as far as RP goes. The sad fact is that he isn't really challenging the front runners. And with each primary in which he gets no showing, he becomes more and more of an afterthought. I don't have much of an awareness of what his campaign is doing. But I have remember seeing an ad for him on tv (ok maybe once). Just You-Tube stuff.

I personally don't get these voters with their wait-to-the-last-minute-to-decide mentality. I have always selected within a few days. Debates are mostly tomfoolery anyway, so I pay little attention to them.

Of course now, I am becoming more and more undecided. Not in my primary vote; it's going to RP. But ultimately I am possibly going the way of a non-voter.

Thompson is gone. Huckabee, I maybe could hold my nose and vote for him. But he's as good as gone. He's looking more and more like a VP.

McCain is unstable in all his ways like my son Nathan said.

Romney is going to spend the US to Hades.

Having any of the Republicrats as pres. galls me.

No third party is making any waves. I guess they don't have the money.

I can't hold on to the Ron Paul optimism.

Except in this: The Lord reigns. May I be faithful in what he has given me to do.

Sam Lawlace's Ron Paul Video

Here is a video, made by an award winning young film maker. Sam was homeschooled and spent his senior year learning the craft of film making. Whether you like candidate Dr. Ron Paul or not, I think you'll love the film.